[American Quilter]

It provided context for the accusations and refuted the ones he cited. I'm sympathetic, especially considering what he's gone through at the hands of the liberal attack machine, but Michelle Malkin provides evidence of plagiarism that appears convincing.

As builder said, we conservatives do hold ourselves and our bretheren to a higher standard (actually, the libs have no standards at all--consider their reactions to Doris Kearns Goodwin and Stephen Ambrose), so if both sides of the story are presented correctly here, his past wrongs have come back to haunt him.

[summer]

Well, why didn't Michelle blog to him and ask him? Or, why doesn't she blog to him now and ask him? He has his own site (not at the Wapo).

The Wapo still could have done a better job vetting, too; and conservatives could have talked to him first, whether they are right or not.

I think he wrote a good essay here. It is not a case of Jayson Blair, like:

Yes, I plagiarized, and by the way, I'm a coke addict, too. Sorry, readers!

It's not looking like that at all.

[summer]

if both sides of the story are presented correctly here, his past wrongs have come back to haunt him.

Yeah, but there issues of others' involvement, and issues of control by others that he's bringing up here. So, I'm not sure it is accurate to charactize all that happened as "his" past wrongs. It sounds like some other people made mistakes and so on, and so on, and, things pile up, as we all know.