More proof that original thought tends to elude the right wing

[CatWoman]

Other Conservatives Got Away with Plagiarism

When I pointed out, not too long ago, that whole portions of a column I wrote were flat-out ripped off by Jerome Corsi, co-author of the best-selling Swift Boat veterans book against John Kerry, his WorldNetDaily.com editor, Joseph Farah, refused to do a damn thing (but add a tiny link to my column--Big Deal).

Some conservatives told me to "take one for the team." Huh? I don't think so. (Since then, I've been told by several conservative writers that this is not the first time that WND and/or Farah have condoned--and engaged in--plagiarism.) Since Corsi has a Ph.D. and has written more than one book, how much of those are also plagiarized. People don't become plagiarists in their old age.

Then, there's Monica Crowley, formerly of FOX News Channel, now on MSNBC, and with a radio show on WABC in New York. She's the white, blonde Jayson Blair in a skirt. But unlike the loud calls for his firing by conservatives everywhere, there is not even a peep from conservatives about thief Monica Crowley. (Details of her blatant plagiarism are here and here.)

For an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Crowley lifted whole passages about President Nixon from a Paul Johnson article in Commentary. She never admitted to it. She's banned from the Wall Street Journal because of it. But that's the only damage.

Even though she's written two books on Nixon and a Ph.D. thesis--both of which have raised lots of questions as to their veracity and whether she plagiarized those, too--conservatives continue to embrace peroxide plagiarist Crowley. (And she continues to snootily insist on being referred to as "Dr." Monica Crowley. Whatever.)

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2006/03/other_conservat.html#comments

[TomInTib]

1. How could anyone question the judgement of "Dr." Corsi?

[yellowcanine]

2. That SOB is wearing a confederate battle flag pin next to the U.S. flag.

How do these wingnuts keep getting away with that shit?

[Ron Mexico]

3. I find most of their thought original, actually.

Only Republicans can insist that gun laws won't reduce gun crime, but abortion laws would reduce abortion.

[BR_Parkway]

5. Blink. Blink.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

4. We on the left have our hall of shame

as well...my fellow U of Delaware alum Joe Biden and the infamous Mr. Ward Churchill.

Plagiarism is stealing.