skippy the bush kangaroo: maureen dowd - my sweet lord, she's so fine!

Sunday, May 17, 2009

maureen dowd - my sweet lord, she's so fine!

gee, modo didn't mean to plagiarize josh marshall! in fact, she never even read his blog! it was just a coincidence that she copied, word for word, an entire paragraph from him!

honest!!

apparently maureen dowd just had this phrase running round her brain while she wrote her new nytimes column:

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.

sure, why not? it's so catchy, and it rolls right off the tongue! we believe ya, mo!

it's like george harrison or michale bolton...they accidentally stole someone else's song, just because it was running thru their head! it's not like it was on purpose or anything!

who among us hasn't heard a phrase as simple and ingratiating as "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" and repeated it themselves w/o realizing it didn't come from their own creativity?

why, we can see how you'd be saying "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" over and over again, because it sounds so lyrical, until you finally have it ingrained into your consciousness. who wouldn't think they thought it up themselves?

the big problem with all of this is, 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. don't you agree?

oh wait! we just did it ourselves! we accidentally thought we wrote that! we mean, it's sooooooo natural to say!

it's got a beat, and you can dance to it! come on, everybody now!

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! 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! 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!!

we get ya, mo! we're on yourside!

posted by skippy at 5:35 PM |

5 Comments:

I have to say, skippy, 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. But then it seems kind of obvious that the purpose of torture is false confession.

Anyhow, 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. My Sweet Lord.

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Mahakal / מהכאל, 6:32 PM PDT

I'd say it tastes great and is less filling but that sound familiar, too.

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tata, 7:09 PM PDT

Maureen Dowd is just a graduate of the Doris Kearns Goodwin School of Sloppy Notetaking. She forgets which brilliant ideas are hers and which aren't.

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Mo MoDo, 9:54 PM PDT

Um, was that an excuse for plagiarism? As a professional writer, I protest, sir. Who steals my purse steals trash, but she who filches my good lines takes that which...is mine, damn it! A thief is a thief whether she steals your wallet or your paragraph.

(Apologies to William Shakespeare...more for not remembering the entire bit by heart than for paraphrasing him...and I won't bother to look that bit up since I have some writing to do.)

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DBK, 7:38 AM PDT

Hahahahaha!

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Mad Kane, 4:16 PM PDT

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