Et tu*, Ms. Dowd? Maureen Dowd, the love-her-or-hate-her op-ed columnist for the New York Times, scored one for the hate-her team on Saturday when she got caught in an act of apparent plagiarism.
In her weekend column, Dowd sought to highlight the irony of the Republicans holding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's feet to the fire for not opposing Republican policies on torture aggressively enough.
A 43-word paragraph used in that weekend column had already appeared in a column written by Josh Marshall on the political website Talking Points Memo.
This was not the first time Maureen Dowd has been accused of plagiarism. Other instances are in the report at the link below.
It’s especially ironic that Ms. Dowd fumbled in this area. Back in 1987, she caught then Presidential-hopeful Joe Biden borrowing heavily from a British politician's speech.
As the title of this posting says, What goes around comes around for NYT columnist.
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*Et tu, Brute were the last words of the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar meaning “And you, Brutus?” Probably not historically correct but used by Shakespeare in the play, Julius Caesar. The Latin phrase is generally used today to indicate the height of betrayal.
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