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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Media Ignores Warren Plagiarizing, Went Nuts Over Claims of Scott Brown’s
May 19, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
Michael Patrick Leahy detailed yet another twist to Elizabeth “Faux-
Cahontis” Warren’s tale of fake American Indian claims. Apparently in 1984
Warren supplied several “old family recipes” to the “Pow Wow Chow
cookbook,” edited by her cousin. Turns out these “family recipes” where
just lifted from various cookbooks and newspaper articles of the era. She
appears to have plagiarized them.
Will the media note that Warren plagiarized recipes from other cookbooks,
claimed they were “family recipes,” and then signed them “Elizabeth
Warren – Cherokee”? Probably not, but the Old Media went ga ga when they
thought her opponent, Senator Scott Brown, plagiarized something.
For Warren’s part, Leahy notes that several of her “family recipes” were
copied word-for-word from a New York Times News service piece published in
1979. Boston-based talk show host Howie Carr also found that several of her
recipes appear to have been plagiarized. (Here, here, and here)
But recall the flap in October of 2011 when it was discovered that Brown’s
website seemed to have a passage about ideals he was raised with that
mirrored a similar passage from ex-Senator Elizabeth Dole’s website.
The explanation from Brown’s office was that they took the infrastructure
of Dole’s website and plugged into it their own info when they created
Brown’s site but that the section in question was merely transferred
without undergoing any rewrite. It was an error by staffers, not plagiarism
per se, they said.
Still, the old media went wild to report Brown’s apparent plagiarism. To
name just a few, The Atlantic covered it, as did National Journal, the
Associated Press did, so did all the networks and cablers. Web-based
reporters also pumped the story. There were stories from Yahoo News and
Huffington Post. Naturally all the far left websites such as Firedoglake and
Daily Kos gleefully reported the story, too.
Thus far, Warren has offered no explanations at all for her word-for-word
lifting of other recipes for her cousin’s cookbook project. Not
surprisingly, the Old Media is silent about Warren’s newest shenanigans. I
guess charges of plagiarism from a well-connected liberal aren’t as
interesting as a mistake on a website made by a Republican’s staffers. |
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