Did the Richmond Times Dispatch Plagiarize Larry Kudlow?

[VA Voter]

Was it plagiarism or mearly repackaging Kudlow's original work without proper attribution?

We report, you decide.

Larry Kudlow column from 8/30/2007, 'The Big Easy's Billion Dollar Boondoggle':

"Perhaps all this money should've been directly deposited in the bank accounts of the 300,000 people living in New Orleans. All divvied up, that $127 billion would come to $425,000 per person! After thanking Uncle Sam for their sudden windfall, residents could head to Southern California and buy homes that are now on sale thanks to the sub-prime mortgage crisis and bid up the sagging house prices in the state."

Link: http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/LawrenceKudlow/2007/08/30/the_big_easys_billion_dollar_boondoggle

Richmond Times Dispatch Editorial from 8/31?2007, 'In Brief':

"Today's Staggering Stat: If the federal government had simply divvied up the $127 billion it has spent so far on rebuilding New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina hit two years ago, each of the city's residents would have had $425,000 cash in hand with which to buy a house and start life over somewhere else."

Link:

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/opinion/editorials.html

[misterrob]

Looks like it to me...

[VA_Gentleman]

Disappointing in my home town.

[VA Voter]

A link to this post has been sent to the Richmond (Va) Times Dispatch.

[VA Voter]

A link to this post has been sent to Larry Kudlow.

[misterrob]

The guy who works down the hall from me calls it the Richmond Times Despair.

[AnAmericanMother]

My mother in law, who lives in Richmond, calls it the Times-Disgrace.

[misterrob]

The odd thing is that their OP-Ed pages are not too bad and the editorials are fairly down the middle which makes them far to the right of the Washington Post.

Richmond is a million or so population in the metro area and you would expect that they could do better in terms of their staff but I guess not.

[shove_it]

Larry Kudlow is the smartest man in most any room he chooses to enter.

[VA Voter]

“Mearly” in the first sentence should have been spelled “merely”.

[AnAmericanMother]

Look, I live in the home of the Atlanta Urinal-Constipation, possibly the worst rag masquerading as a major metro daily in the entire universe . . . . it may not be as hard left as some of the West Coast papers, but it is without a doubt the worst-reporting, worst-edited and worst-written paper ever. Our high school paper was better.

I really enjoy reading the T-D when we visit my mother in law (who is a very nice lady). Good to read a decent paper for a change!

[misterrob]

Except for Hillary Clinton...

[VA Voter]

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