NY Times' Maureen Dowd Plagiarizes TPM's Josh Marshall

By GottaLaff

UPDATE: My pal at BuzzFlash, Mark Karlin e-mailed me with the following:

similar phrasing in one line can coincidentally occur.

if marshall post something accusing down of plagiarism then it's a news story, or if there had been several lifted passages

people seemingly write the same passages as buzzflash all the time, but unless it's a pattern i don't say anything

i don't think anyone has accused maureen dowd of being a regular plagiarist. she's too smart to intentionally lift from someone as prominent as marshall.

And so I shall semi-retract the implication of the TPM post below. We'll do a wait-and-see on this one.

This can't end well for MoDo:

Maureen Dowd in today's NY Times:

"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."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/opinion/17dowd.html?_r=1

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TPM's Josh Marshall on Thurs:

"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."

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/05/bubbling.php

All Dowd did was change "we were" to "the Bush crowd was".