From the “They Eat Their Own” department, Surber notes that Josh Marshall is accusing Maureen Dowd of plagiarism
[Marshall] posted on Thursday: “More and more the timeline is raising the question of why, if the torture was to prevent terrorist attacks, it seemed to happen mainly during the period when we were looking for what was essentially political information to justify the invasion of Iraq.”[Dowd] published today: “More and more the timeline is raising the question of why, if the torture was to prevent terrorist attacks, it seemed to happen mainly during the period when the Bush crowd was looking for what was essentially political information to justify the invasion of Iraq.”
Surber:
Whoa, wait. You are not allowed to do this? D’oh!
Silly question, Don. They have a Code of Ethics that excuses these things.
This does answer the title to her book, “Are Men Necessary?” Yes. Someone has to write her columns…
Ow. Snap.
I see this leading to a Maureen Dowd/Mary Mapes/Nancy Pelosi tour; maybe call it “See The Oppression Of the Patriarcy?!?”
NYTimes columnist steals from nutroots Talking Points Memo. Makes sense.
Now remind us, you flashing peevish clowns, which is the side mindlessly parroting Talking Points again? The veil has slipped from the liberal echo chamber quite completely these last 3 months.
This is pathetic. Not the plagiarism but the attempt to make ‘enhanced interrogations’ about the Iraq War. Polls show that a majority of Americans support ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ if they save lives. Marshall & Dowd want to change that by linking ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ to an unpopular war.
What a weaselly phrase:“More and more the timeline is raising the question of why, if the torture was to prevent terrorist attacks, it seemed to happen mainly during the period when the Bush crowd was looking for what was essentially political information to justify the invasion of Iraq.”
The “timeline is raising the question of why”?
“Seemed”? “Essentially”?
There is absolutely no evidence that “enhanced interrogation techniques” were used to get information that would justify the Iraq War. There was little opposition to HJR 114 in October 2002. The majority of democrats in the senate voted for the Iraq War, including both people on the democratic presidential ticket in 2004 & our current secretary of state.
Marshall has manufactured a talking point of thin air. When democrats are questioned about the ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ saving lives by news people or their constituents, they are supposed to respond with this shibai.
Flash must be avoiding SITD out of embarrassment.
I wondered Dowd was a bit. “There is no way a single writer could come up with such crap.”
I was somehow right… it takes two writers to come up with the crap that falls under the colmun header of Maureen Dowd.
I’ve just been over to the huffpo & tpm. They are pushing the idea that the enhanced interrogations were used to justify the Iraq War very, very hard. The idea seems to be to create as much buzz as possible. Their are now dozens of articles that mention enhanced interrogations only in the context of justifying the Iraq War, and not in the context of 9/11.
Still funny:
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/04/one-afternoon-in-a-secret-corner-of-the-internet.html
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