If newspapers don't want to be dispossessed by dirty hippie bloggers, perhaps they should teach their columnists about plagiarism

MoDo gets busted:

Can't wait to hear what the explanation for this is.

Text from Josh Marshall's TPM post on Thurs.:

Text from the Dowd 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.

Kinda weird, hunh ...

I guess that the problem was that Google somehow went into the future and grabbed the page from the Dowd column and magically transported it back in time to the Marshall post and ... and ...

Hmm.

I'm sure that there must be an explanation for how this happened out there somewhere.

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UPDATE:  Here is Dowd's response:

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, in an email to Huffington Post, admits that a paragraph in her Sunday column was lifted from Talking Points Memo editor Josh Marshall's blog last Thursday.

Dowd claims that she never read his blog last week but was told the line by a friend of hers. In a follow-up email, she forwarded her desire to apologize to Marshall, writing that had she known, she would have gladly credited Marshall.

Lots more here, here, and here.