Fareed Zakaria Busted for Plagiarism Once More

American Thinker ^ | August 23, 2014 | Jack Cashill

[Steelfish]

August 24, 2014 Fareed Zakaria Busted for Plagiarism Once More By Jack Cashill

First, I will acknowledge up front that this is a revised version of an earlier American Thinker article, which in itself was a revised version of an earlier American Thinker article, which in itself was an update of the information contained in my book, Deconstructing Obama. But when a Harvard worthy gets busted for literary fraud anew, I feel compelled to update the scorecard. The man on the hot seat once again is Fareed Zakaria. Born to a Muslim family in Mumbai, the fifty year-old Harvard Ph.D. insinuated himself into the Democratic-media complex with impressive speed and, it seems, guile. At the age of twenty-eight, he became managing editor of Foreign Affairs, and from there he put one major media notch on his belt after another -- Newsweek, Time, Washington Post, CNN, the Atlantic Monthly.

The Zakaria story interested me in no small part because Harvard Law's own Barack Obama, whose literary misadventures I have chronicled at length, is a Zakaria fan. In a famous photo, the president was seen holding a copy of Zakaria's 2011 book, The Post-American World. The affection seems to be reciprocal. A May 29 op-ed by Zakaria in the Washington Post was titled, incredibly enough, “Obama’s disciplined leadership is right for today.” Neither of the two fanboys has had a very good summer. Kudos here to the bloggers at Our Bad Media for outing Zakaria. Those with a keen interest can check out their detective work in full, but I will provide just a taste. Consider these three passages in the 2011 The Post-American World, lifted without any attribution to the real author, Fawas Gerges, writing in the October 2007 edition of The Christian Science Monitor.

[Political Junkie Too]

The link goes to some other story. Please fix.

-PJ

[BlueNgold]

Bad link..?

[iowamark]

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/08/fareed_zakaria_busted_for_plagiarism_once_more.html

[Rabin]

Bad link, very good post, thanks.

Rab

[T-Bird45]

Sounds like it might be interesting to dig up his Harvard doctoral dissertation and take it through a vetting process. It’s a rare plagiarizer that is not a serial plagiarizer.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Steelfish.

Born to a Muslim family in Mumbai, the fifty year-old Harvard Ph.D. insinuated himself into the Democratic-media complex with impressive speed and, it seems, guile. At the age of twenty-eight, he became managing editor of Foreign Affairs, and from there he put one major media notch on his belt after another -- Newsweek, Time, Washington Post, CNN, the Atlantic Monthly. The Zakaria story interested me in no small part because Harvard Law's own Barack Obama, whose literary misadventures I have chronicled at length, is a Zakaria fan. In a famous photo, the president was seen holding a copy of Zakaria's 2011 book, The Post-American World.

[gusopol3]

I hate to edit Cashill, of all people, but I always thought it was “what manner, “ not “ what matter.”

[gusopol3]

For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.—James 1:24

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.—I John 3:1

[GOPJ]

thanks

[GOPJ]

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