{"id":4794,"date":"2009-05-18T07:48:21","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T12:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4794"},"modified":"2009-05-18T07:48:21","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T12:48:21","slug":"say-it-aint-so-mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4794","title":{"rendered":"Say It Aint&#8217; So, Mo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the &#8220;They Eat Their Own&#8221; department, Surber notes that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dailymail.com\/donsurber\/2009\/05\/17\/too-internet-savvy\/\">Josh Marshall is accusing Maureen Dowd of plagiarism<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Marshall] posted on Thursday: \u201cMore 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.\u201d[Dowd] published today: \u201cMore 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.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Surber:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whoa, wait. You are not allowed to do this? D\u2019oh!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Silly question, Don.\u00a0 They have a Code of Ethics that excuses these things.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This does answer the title to her book, \u201cAre Men Necessary?\u201d Yes. Someone has to write her columns\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ow. Snap.<\/p>\n<p>I see this leading to a Maureen Dowd\/Mary Mapes\/Nancy Pelosi tour; maybe call it &#8220;See The Oppression Of the Patriarcy?!?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the &#8220;They Eat Their Own&#8221; department, Surber notes that Josh Marshall is accusing Maureen Dowd of plagiarism [Marshall] posted on Thursday: \u201cMore 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}