Michael Moore a plagiarist? I’m shocked, shocked.
He could now join the ranks of Doris Kearns Goodwin and Stephen Ambrose, except that unlike him, they actually plagiarized things worth reading.
And the notion that he’s being accused by a San Francisco activist of stealing her material? That’s rich. Since when does such a person care for such bourgeois notions as intellectual (or for that matter, any private) property?
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Now I’m a war criminal, too.
Cavuto just did an interview with Ashrawi, in which instead of weeping with her about how awful the Israelis were, he actually asked her questions, and challenged her, and didn’t let her spin away (though as usual, she spent a lot of time filibustering). After that NPR schmoozefest yesterday, it was quite refreshing. Catch it on the repeat tonight, if you’re up that late.
Fellow blogger Jackson Murphy (who I have to get around to permalinking one of these days) has a nice piece in Enter Stage Right about the demise of Oprah’s book club.
My summary. Oprah’s book picks, like her show, were about feeling. Successful book clubs post 911, like Andrew Sullivan’s, will be about thinking.
Crack ABC commentator Buck Wolf unveils more dirt about Bert. And Ernie. It’s not just Osama any more.
Check out this piece by Krauthammer. It explains, using the example of the tinder-box of Lebanon, why there will never be a “land for peace” with the Palestinians on the West Bank, at least not until we’ve lanced the infection of terrorism there. Depressing, but accurate.
Listening to Bush speak out against cloning spurred me to sign the petition here. This is the first issue on which I think that I would have preferred Gore.
I’m seeing some reports from people on the ground in Florida that a story’s going to break tomorrow that Juan Gonzales (remember, Elian’s poppa?) requested asylum three times from Janet “Roast the Waco Kids” Reno while he was holed up in the Cuban embassy in DC, and was repeatedly denied.
The implications for both the integrity of the INS during the Clinton administration, and Janet’s gubernatorial bid, are immense.
[Wednesday morning update]
While it isn’t direct confirmation of the original rumor, the Miami Herald is reporting that INS was considering granting asylum to Elian, because there was some evidence that Poppa had requested it for himself. The real news, though, is that Doris Meissner ordered the relevant memo destroyed the day after it was written, and furthermore, ordered that no more written communications on the subject occur.
I wonder if Ms. Meissner’s phone logs are available, and if they’ll show any calls from the White House?
According to this piece from the Jerusalem Post, the stories about Israelis not allowing ambulances through is bogus. It’s the Palestinians who are preventing it, for propaganda purposes.
Now admittedly, this is an Israeli newspaper, but the Palestinians have admitted to, indeed rejoiced in, the deaths of murder-bombers. Why should we not think that they’d unflinchingly use already-dead bodies to advance their cause?
According to this piece from the Jerusalem Post, the stories about Israelis not allowing ambulances through is bogus. It’s the Palestinians who are preventing it, for propaganda purposes.
Now admittedly, this is an Israeli newspaper, but the Palestinians have admitted to, indeed rejoiced in, the deaths of murder-bombers. Why should we not think that they’d unflinchingly use already-dead bodies to advance their cause?