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Conason! Blumenthal! Jody Rosen! They've All Been Plagiarized by The Bulletin

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:50:04 -0400

The Slate music critic Jody Rosen has a simple question: "In purely statistical terms, do the articles in the Montgomery County Bulletin amount to the greatest plagiarism scandal in the annals of American journalism?"

You might ask: The Bulletin? What's that? Also, why is Jody Rosen participating in media reporting?

Well, the story begins like this: Mr. Rosen was tipped a few weeks ago by a reader that a Jimmy Buffett profile he wrote in...

In Today's Observer

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 06:38:40 -0400

Joe Conason says Fox and the Bush administration can't handle Bill Clinton's dose of truthiness, and Steve Kornacki looks at the impact of the former president's publicity blitz on Hillary, Gore and the rest of the 2008 contenders. Jason Horowitz writes about Al Gore's sleeper cells of presidential donors and operatives, still waiting for the call. Niall Stanage says that John Bolton deserves an up-or-down vote in the Senate even if his UN colleagues find his...

Letters

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:00:00 -0400

Standing Up to a Stand-Up Guy

To the Editor: I like Joe Conason because I think he’s a stand-up guy. He has been an ardent defender of President Clinton and his administration’s accomplishments. So it is with regret that I conclude that he has gotten Joe Lieberman all wrong in his July 17 column [“Lieberman Misses Point of Opponents”]. Senator Lieberman has a proven track record of taking on big business—just...

Letters

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:00:00 -0400

Standing Up to a Stand-Up Guy To the Editor: I like Joe Conason because I think he’s a stand-up guy. He has been an ardent defender of President Clinton and his administration’s accomplishments. So it is with regret that I conclude that he has gotten Joe Lieberman all wrong in his July 17 column [“Lieberman Misses Point of Opponents”]. Senator Lieberman has a proven track record of taking on big business—just ask the oil...

Letters

Sun, 04 Jun 2006 20:00:00 -0400

If I Can Make It There … To the Editor The allegedly influential people who were razzle-dazzled by Senator John McCain’s not-so-secret Regency Hotel pep talk [“Senator McCain Worked Blue on New York Stage,” Jason Horowitz, May 29] might want to pay attention to the rowdy crowd who booed and heckled him at the New School graduation ceremonies. The very last thing this country needs is another polarizing President who is incapable of forging...

In Today's Observer

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:40:11 -0400

Jason Horowitz writes about Mike Bloomberg's relationship with the Hasidim. Nicholas Von Hoffman writes about the right to privacy. And Joe Conason writes about the Murdoch...

In Today's Observer: President Mike?

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:49:05 -0500

In The Observer's political pages,I take a look at who's trying to start a Bloomberg '08 buzz, and why, and entertain the notion semi-seriously for a few paragraphs. (Um, Happy Birthday, Mr. Mayor?) Also, E.J. Kessler is underwhelmed by Pat Manning and Joe Conason writes on Dick Cheney. Elsewhere in the paper, Jason Horowitz looks into the Met's antiquities problems and Matt Schuerman finds a controversy on Brooklyn's Fulton...

In Today's Observer

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 02:51:10 -0500

I profile David Paterson, and find a certain sloppiness with the truth. Joe Conason doesn't buy Bush's tough new talk on oil. Chris Lehmann says the GOP is over. And Jason Horowitz strays from the City Hal beat to take a Christian singles cruise. Of...

In Today's Observer

Wed, 19 Oct 2005 05:15:00 -0400

Jess Bruder and I argue that Hillary's current campaign is of a piece with her run for President, noting that observers find it hard to imagine her spending the kind of money she set out to raise in New York alone. Tom Scocca and his crew delve into the Miller crisis at the Times. And here's Joe Conason's take. Nicholas Von Hoffman writes that a Miers appointment might not be the worst thing for...

Looking Backwards At a Frivolous Time

Sun, 27 Jun 2004 20:00:00 -0400

A producer called me a while back asking if I wanted to be interviewed for The Hunting of the President , the new film on Bill Clinton based on the best-selling book by Gene Lyons and The Observer 's Joe Conason. I believe Mr. Conason respects my earnestness-while disagreeing with all of my opinions (even as I respect his, with the same reservations)-sufficiently not to have made me appear any worse than I actually...

The Wait's Over At D.M.V. Office

Sun, 07 Dec 2003 19:00:00 -0500

On the great scale of seriously dreaded events, a visit to the Department of Motor Vehicles office has long ranked somewhere between a week-long cruise with the in-laws and a shopping trip to Fairway on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

Even jury duty, with its high-minded civic ideal of sitting in judgment of your fellow Americans, seems less onerous. It's no accident that Patty and Selma Bouvier, Marge Simpson's short-tempered, chain-smoking spinster sisters, work at the...

Cool Kids in Charge of Political Debate

Sun, 30 Jul 2000 20:00:00 -0400

In a sense, the Hillary haters quoted in my colleague Joe Conason's column last week have it right. It really doesn't matter whether or not Hillary Rodham threw in the word "Jew" to break up a string of two expletives. It doesn't matter because the incident is alleged to have happened 26 expletive years ago. Lots of people say and do dumb things in their youth (although I don't believe for a minute that...