All the News That's Fit to Steal

Did Maureen Dowd of the New York Times plagiarize? You decide.

from Talking Points Memo

"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."

from Maureen Dowd

"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."

My guess, of course, is plagiarism.

The difference is TPM used "we" and Dowd used "the Bush crowd" otherwise - verbatim ripoff.

Maureen was only doing what all good Bush bashers do - substitute the word "Bush" for any other word in a negative comment and NYT readership goes up 60%.
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