Advice for Dowd
Maureen Dowd, who has noted how bloggers are parasitic beings that leech off of print, was caught plagiarizing Josh Marshall from TPM. It's so mystifying how anyone would try to get away with that in the Internet age you almost want to believe her cockamamie story.
Dowd should learn from editorial cartoonists. Don't copy cartoons exactly--just the ideas. So if your brain isn't working one day and notice some other guys drawing a ball player with steroid needles coming out of his butt labeled "stimulus," you can swipe their idea. But only the lowest form of pond scum would actually trace it--you find a new composition and make the thievery your own.
And don't worry, Ms. Dowd. You can still win Pulitzers this way as well.
Dowd should learn from editorial cartoonists. Don't copy cartoons exactly--just the ideas. So if your brain isn't working one day and notice some other guys drawing a ball player with steroid needles coming out of his butt labeled "stimulus," you can swipe their idea. But only the lowest form of pond scum would actually trace it--you find a new composition and make the thievery your own.
And don't worry, Ms. Dowd. You can still win Pulitzers this way as well.
posted by Matt Bors at
4:36 PM
2 Comments:
One'a da t'ings that always drives me nuts -- n v t s nuts -- about the righties is their unwillingness to admit culpability for their own upfuckeries, even when they are caught red-handed in the cookie jar full of paint, so to speak.
Too bad we have lefties doing the same.
Warren, I'm not sure this is quite the same as, say, Larry "Wide Stance" Craig and his denial of bathroom toe-tapping. I mean, whatever you think of Dowd, she'd have to be crazy to knowingly rip a whole passage off of TPM. If she copied from her friend, that's also wrong. But I find it hard to believe she was willfully going after Josh's cookies. Now, Larry Craig knew *exactly* what cookies he was after!
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