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(Minneapolis) Star Tribune editorials under scrutiny (For Plagiarism)
Pioneer Press (St. Paul) ^ | 1 December 2006 | Patrick Condon

Posted on 12/01/2006 8:09:22 AM PST by shrinkermd

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Plagiarism after thirty years of crafting liberal opinions he ran out of invective and had to steal someone elses's.
1 posted on 12/01/2006 8:09:24 AM PST by shrinkermd
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To: shrinkermd; abb; Milhous

Here's a little sign of trouble in Minneapolis.


2 posted on 12/01/2006 8:11:24 AM PST by Miss Marple (Lord, thank you for Mozart Lover's son's safe return, and look after Jemian's son, please!)
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To: shrinkermd

Powerline blog has been all over this: http://powerlineblog.com/archives/016072.php


3 posted on 12/01/2006 8:11:47 AM PST by Keith in Iowa (Liberals: People whose relationship to reality appears to be somewhat tenuous.)
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To: shrinkermd

I do not think he stole-

HE WAS GIVEN HIS TALKING POINTS!

either from the DNC or the nyslimes

This paper will exonerate him- it is Bush's fault.


4 posted on 12/01/2006 8:15:06 AM PST by mj1234
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To: shrinkermd

Who's to say he just started? The Red Star said they're only researching the past year. Plagiarism is an old crime that only rose to prominence when forensic tools (the innernet) improved to the point that the average Joe could be Ace Detective.


5 posted on 12/01/2006 8:16:31 AM PST by randog (What the...?!)
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To: mj1234

I have always known that most liberals have never had an original thought. Further proof of the left's intellectual laziness...


6 posted on 12/01/2006 8:17:18 AM PST by Russ
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I don't know - liberal opinion is so empty and vacant it's very possible that this guy isn't really committing plagarism and just echoing tired liberal themes and rhetoric.


7 posted on 12/01/2006 8:23:45 AM PST by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
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To: shrinkermd

Is using the writings of others in the same commune really plagerism?


8 posted on 12/01/2006 8:25:16 AM PST by Loyal Buckeye
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To: Russ

Give a Liberal a thought and he'll repeat it mindlessly all day. Teach a Liberal to think for himself and he'll vote Republican for the rest of his life.


9 posted on 12/01/2006 8:25:21 AM PST by Ouderkirk (America won't win another war until the 1960's flower children are pushing up petunias.)
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To: Tzimisce

like, blah,blah "tax cuts for the rich"
blah,blah, "blood for oil" ,"Bush's war", ect ,etc ?

reminds me of Rush's "gravitas" montage and similar ones...


10 posted on 12/01/2006 8:27:31 AM PST by Rakkasan1 ((Illegal immigrants are just undocumented friends you haven't met yet!))
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To: shrinkermd

Kudos to the guys at Powerline. This finally got some main stream traction.


11 posted on 12/01/2006 8:38:58 AM PST by Bahbah (Regev, Goldwasser and Shalit, we are praying for you)
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To: randog

I don't know that it qualifies as plagerism, but the Dallas Morning News' national news articles are all re-hashes of the New York Times' stuff.


12 posted on 12/01/2006 8:44:28 AM PST by altura
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To: shrinkermd

Demagogues all work from the same talking points - don't see how this is so different from the typical NY Slimes editorial.


13 posted on 12/01/2006 8:47:53 AM PST by Enchante (America-haters and Terrorists Around the World Embrace Chamberlain Democrats)
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To: shrinkermd
Yeah. The part where he wrote about the dictatorship of the proletariat, state ownership of the means of production, and the upcoming massacre of the bourgeoisie was straight Marx.
14 posted on 12/01/2006 8:48:46 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: mj1234

"HE WAS GIVEN HIS TALKING POINTS!"

My thoughts exactly. I have seen this "plagarism" in lots of places.


15 posted on 12/01/2006 9:05:10 AM PST by L98Fiero (The media as a self-licking ice-cream cone)
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To: shrinkermd

Check out the related thread about Columbia Univ. journalism students cheating on an "ethics in journalism" exam.


16 posted on 12/01/2006 9:38:55 AM PST by Malesherbes
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To: Russ
I have always known that most liberals have never had an original thought.

A flock of incurious dense parrots.
17 posted on 12/01/2006 9:39:28 AM PST by Milhous (Twixt truth and madness lies but a sliver of a stream.)
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To: altura

Ditto the NBC, CBS, ABC nightly nooze.


18 posted on 12/01/2006 9:41:42 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: shrinkermd
Anybody who reads this rag should already know the paper is a rewashing of the DNC talking points anyway. If they had an original thought, it would qualify as a miracle!
19 posted on 12/01/2006 9:42:20 AM PST by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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20 posted on 12/01/2006 9:49:12 AM PST by MplsSteve
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