NYTimes' Maureen Dowd Steals from Blogger

Feeling dowdy lately

Here is the original piece:

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.

Here is Dowd’s plagiarized piece:

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.

According to the the nytipicker she sent them an email saying this:

josh is right. I didn’t read his blog last week, and didn’t have any idea he had made that point until you informed me just now.
i was talking to a friend of mine Friday about what I was writing who suggested I make this point, expressing it in a cogent — and I assumed spontaneous — way and I wanted to weave the idea into my column.
but, clearly, my friend must have read josh marshall without mentioning that to me.
we’re fixing it on the web, to give josh credit, and will include a note, as well as a formal correction tomorrow.

Only an idiot would believe that explanation!  And to think she won a Pulitzer.  Obviously not for writing like that!

Will she snarkily blame Dick Cheney or possibly the CIA next..?

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