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We steal from Atrios just like MoDo stole from Josh Marshall. The Josh Marshall post:

More and more the timeline is raising the question of why, if the torture was to prevent terrorist attacks, it seemed to happen mainly during the period when we were looking for what was essentially political information to justify the invasion of Iraq.

The Maureen Dowd column (which now correctly attributes to Marshall):

More and more the timeline is raising the question of why, if the torture was to prevent terrorist attacks, it seemed to happen mainly during the period when the Bush crowd was looking for what was essentially political information to justify the invasion of Iraq.

TheJoshuablog at TPM Marcus Baram at HuffPo

Allah Pundit

Dday

Mark Hemingway and Greg Pollowitz at The Corner

Greg Mitchell at Editor and Publisher:

By early evening, Dowd had admitted wrongdoing, in an email to Huffington Post, and said she wanted to apologize to Marshall. She also said that the Times would issue a correction tomorrow — and the copy was changed in her column to attribute the line of thought to Marshall. She seemed to be suggesting, however, that she had merely heard the line of argument from a friend, who did not attribute it to Marshall. This wouldn’t explain, however, why the rather lengthy sentence, a full paragraph, matched Marshall’s writing virtually word for word.

Atrios X 3:

Calling for the ethics panel

A deep thought

Ha Ha

UPDATE: Jane Hamsher

Spencer Ackerman

UPDATE #2:

Aaron Gardner at Redstate via Ed Driscoll

Bloggasm via Driscoll. Marshall isn’t commenting.

UPDATE #3: Steve Benen

Michael Calderone in Politico

Jennifer Rubin in Commentary, who writes:

Granted she isn’t known for eye-popping originality of thought — or unique insights — but this is a new low, even for her.

A tweet from Michael Goldfarb.

Tbogg

Digby

UPDATE #4: Jazz Shaw at Moderate Voice:

What Ms. Dowd has going for her here is the million monkeys theory. Eventually, they would produce a copy of Hamlet, right? But for that to apply, we need to believe that Maureen’s “friend” read this idea at Talking Points Memo, was impressed enough to remember it, spouted it back to her during a discussion, where it rooted in the columnist’s mind, and she then typed it out for he column. Do me a quick favor. Without scrolling back up the page, pick up a pen and a piece of scrap paper and try to write down either version of the sentence I quoted for you above. See how close you get.

Charles Johnson at LGF

Instapundit

UPDATE #6: Because of  a snafu that I’m too lazy to fix, the updates will be out of order.

Glenn Greenwald

Megan McArdle

Mark Liberman at Language Log

UPDATE #7: Steve Benen and DougJ on Allah Pundit’s response.

UPDATE #8: Josh Marshall has a statement up on TPM Mothership. In total:

I generally think we’re too quick to pull the trigger with charges of plagiarism. I haven’t said anything about this because I really didn’t think I had anything to add. Whatever the mechanics of how it happened, I never thought it was intentional. Dowd and the Times quickly corrected it, which I appreciated. And for me, that’s pretty much the end of it.

UPDATE #9: Clark Hoyt, NYT Public Editor

UPDATE #10: Andrew Ferguson in the Weekly Standard

UPDATE #5: Jack Shafer in Slate defends MoDo, to a point. Not that she didn’t plagiarize, but that she’s “taking her lumps.”

Bad, Dowd, bad—deserving of hard time in a pillory! Still, that said, Dowd has done several things accused plagiarists rarely do when apprehended, and for that, I commend her. For example:

1. She responded promptly to the charge of plagiarism when confronted by the Huffington Post and Politico. (Many plagiarists go into hiding or deny getting material from other sources.)
2. She and her paper quickly amended her column and published a correction (although the correction is a little soft for my taste).
3. Her explanation of how the plagiarism happened seems plausible—if a tad incomplete.
4. She’s not yet used the explanation as an excuse, nor has she said it’s “time to move on.”
5. She’s not yet protested that her lifting wasn’t plagiarism.

She’s taking her lumps and not whining about it.

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