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Zakaria Busted for Plagiarism Once More |
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©Jack Cashill First, I will acknowledge up front that this is a revised version of an earlier American Thinker article, which in itself was a revised version of an earlier American Thinker article, which in itself was an update of the information contained in my book, Deconstructing Obama. But when a Harvard worthy gets busted for literary fraud anew, I feel compelled to update the scorecard. The man on the hot seat once again is Fareed Zakaria. Born to a Muslim family in Mumbai, the fifty year-old Harvard Ph.D. insinuated himself into the Democratic-media complex with impressive speed and, it seems, guile. At the age of twenty-eight, he became managing editor of Foreign Affairs, and from there he put one major media notch on his belt after another—Newsweek, Time, Washington Post, CNN, the Atlantic Monthly. The Zakaria story interested me in no small part because Harvard Law's own Barack Obama, whose literary misadventures I have chronicled at length, is a Zakaria fan. In a famous photo , the president was seen holding a copy of Zakaria's 2011 book, The Post-American World. The affection seems to be reciprocal. A May 29 op-ed by Zakaria in the Washington Post was titled, incredibly enough, “Obama’s disciplined leadership is right for today.” Neither of the two fanboys has had a very good summer. Kudos here to the bloggers at Our Bad Media for outing Zakaria. Those with a keen interest can check out their detective work in full, but I will provide just a taste. Consider these three passages in the 2011 The Post-American World, lifted without any attribution to the real author, Fawas Gerges, writing in the October 2007 edition of The Christian Science Monitor.
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What makes this revelation even more problematic for Zakaria is that when Our Bad Media pointed to some other examples of Zakaria’s plagiarism earlier this week, he responded huffily to Politico, “ Two anonymous bloggers today have alleged that there are 11 cases in my writing where I have cited a statistic that also appeared somewhere else. These are all facts, not someone else’s writing or opinions or expressions.” The bloggers called this denial a flat-out lie. “What our investigation works to show is not that Zakaria forgot to cite simple statistics in his pieces, but rather that he lifted extensively from the work of others.”
In 2012, Zakaria got caught lifting a passage on gun control from an article by historian Jill Lepore published in April 2012 in the New Yorker. Like other notable Harvard progressives busted for plagiarism—Doris Kearns Goodwin, Charles Ogletree, Laurence Tribe—Zakaria escaped with a slap on the wrist. He may not be so fortunate this time, no matter what matter of insanity he writes about Obama. Webmaster's Note: Jack Cashill's Book-TV presentation of "Deconstructing Obama" can be viewed at http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/298382-1 |
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Editor's note: For a more complete account of this phenomenon, read Jack Cashill's amazing book, "Hoodwinked: How Intellectual Hucksters Have Hijacked American Culture.
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