Today, NPR announced that the National Organization of Women were holding a demonstration in support of Roe vs Wade in front of the Supreme Court. No mention of any other demonstrations whatsoever. But, hey, no decent people oppose Roe, do they? Then here’s the Boston Globe on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s lifting whole passages of another person’s work and passing it off as her own (with some discreet footnotes):
“Goodwin, 59, a Concord resident, was reacting to an article in The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine, detailing portions of her book that bore strong similarities to sentences in three previous books: not only McTaggart’s 1983 volume, but also Hank Searls’s 1969 book, ”The Lost Prince: Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy,” and Rose Kennedy’s 1974 autobiography, ”Times to Remember.””
So the Standard is conservative (boo-hiss) but Goodwin is just a Concord resident, and not – gasp – a liberal. Keep those double-standards coming.
THE REAL BRITAIN: Don’t buy the elite London hype that the Brits think Guantanamo is a concentration camp. The biggest talk-show host in Britain is an admirably centrist fellow called Jimmy Young. He’s on one of the biggest national radio networks, Radio 2, and was a staple in my household growing up. He held a telephone poll today on whether the camp was illegitimate. I know, it’s not scientific. But he got 32,000 calls. 92 percent backed the U.S. Just remember: the Guardian is the paper the media elites read. It has influence, like NPR or the New York Times. But it’s not indicative of the real mood in the country.
MARK STEYN ON A CERTAIN COLUMNIST: “The man who sneers at the malign influence of Enron money on Republican politicians — or, as he calls them “the people Enron put in the White House” — has received more money from Enron than any member of the House of Representatives. If he were in the Senate, where 71 of 100 members have been endowed with Enron moolah, he would rank in that crowded field as the third biggest beneficiary of the company’s generosity. And, whereas the pols’ Enron take was stretched out over several election cycles, Professor Krugman got his nice, clean 50,000 in one year. Yet, while he takes it as read that Enron’s cheques to Dub and Dick and Senator Sleazebag and Congressman Forsale were in return for something, in his case, he assures us, it was a big fat cheque for … nothing. So that’s OK.” – from today’s column in the National Post. Steyn gets it. He’s done more homework and finds Krugman recently lambasting Enron in Businessweek for being “more akin to Goldman Sachs than to Consolidated Edison.” But of course it was Krugman (while on the take from Enron) who actually celebrated that fact in 1999: “It’s sort of like the difference between your father’s bank, which took money from its regular depositors and lent it out to its regular customers, and Goldman Sachs…” Amazing how $50,000 can affect some people’s judgment.
The Dish 