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Q. What’s the Difference Between
Lesbianism and Plagiarism?

Posted on | May 10, 2010 | 29 Comments

A. Nobody ever downloaded a hot plagiarism video.

Nor could lesbianism hurt Elena Kagan’s chances of being confirmed to the Supreme Court, whereas her role in a Harvard plagiarism scandal might be big trouble:

As Dean of Harvard Law School in 2004 and 2005 she treated two liberal law professors with kid gloves when they were busted for plagiarism. Her chicanery was so blatant that even a leftist academic said she should be fired for her “whitewash.”
Kagan’s essential absolution of both professors has been virtually unnoticed . . .
But the way she handled professors Larry Tribe and Charles Ogletree, when they both were caught swiping the words of others, seems to violate basic principles of fairness.
She let the professors off easy for the kind of offense that for which any Harvard undergraduate or law school would have been suspended if not expelled. . . .
As the [2004] controversy [over Ogletree’s plagiarism] festered, Harvard Law School professor Larry Tribe, a party line liberal, came to Ogletree’s defense. Tribe told the Boston Globe that Ogletree is someone who “because he often says yes to them many people all over the country who ask for help on all kinds of things, he has extended himself even farther than someone with all the energy can safely do.”
Tribe vouching for Ogletree’s character quickly sounded like Eliot Spitzer vouching for your monogamy.
A law professor who read about Tribe’s defense tipped off The Weekly Standard that Tribe’s 1985 book, God Save This Honourable Court, had purloined quite a bit from University of Virgina emeritus professor Henry Abraham’s acclaimed 1974 book, Justice and Presidents. . . .
In a lengthy article for his blog, Massachusetts School of Law Dean Lawrence Velvel said Kagan and Summers should have been axed for their “whitewash.”
He cited example after example of how Kagan and Tribe essentially offered excuses for the very actions they purported to condemn.

Evan Gahr has much more where that came from.

UPDATE: White House bristles at mention of Kagan’s sexuality:

“I’m just not going to get into somebody who is doing what that person was doing on CBS’s website. This is about who she is going to be as a justice,” Gibbs said.

“That person” is Ben Domenech, who might have something relevant to say about liberals and double standards.

UPDATE II: Why do right-wingers keep bringing up Kagan’s sexuality? You know, all those horrible, hateful, homophobes like Andrew Sullivan.

UPDATE III: Also sounding like a right-winger, Jane Hamsher:

“Accepting Kagan just because people like Obama is wrong. That’s appropriate for American Idol, not the Supreme Court. Nobody knows what she stands for but him. It’s just a cult of personality with Obama. This is the Supreme Court.”

Jane, you’re this close to a real breakthrough. I think we can help you. There’s this TV show that comes on at 5 p.m. Eastern on Fox News . . .

Category: Scandal, Supreme Court

Comments

29 Responses to “Q. What’s the Difference Between
Lesbianism and Plagiarism?”

  1. Joe
    May 10th, 2010 @ 10:41 pm

    Plagerism? Isn’t that when you do it with someone without kissing?

  2. Joe
    May 10th, 2010 @ 5:41 pm

    Plagerism? Isn’t that when you do it with someone without kissing?

  3. Joe
    May 10th, 2010 @ 10:42 pm

    Oh, and without asking them or even saying thanks afterward.

  4. Joe
    May 10th, 2010 @ 5:42 pm

    Oh, and without asking them or even saying thanks afterward.

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  6. proof
    May 10th, 2010 @ 11:33 pm

    Don’t judge! It’s a beautiful thing when two plagiars come together!

  7. proof
    May 10th, 2010 @ 6:33 pm

    Don’t judge! It’s a beautiful thing when two plagiars come together!

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  9. Joe
    May 10th, 2010 @ 11:51 pm

    Plagiarists, don’t ask, don’t tell! The love that dare not say its name…

  10. Joe
    May 10th, 2010 @ 6:51 pm

    Plagiarists, don’t ask, don’t tell! The love that dare not say its name…

  11. Joe
    May 10th, 2010 @ 11:53 pm

    Can Elena sort the M&Ms like Harriot could? Because level of attention to detail is rather awesome.

  12. Joe
    May 10th, 2010 @ 6:53 pm

    Can Elena sort the M&Ms like Harriot could? Because level of attention to detail is rather awesome.

  13. Noel
    May 11th, 2010 @ 12:10 am

    Q. What’s the Difference Between
    Lesbianism and Plagiarism?

    A: You can plagiarize by yourself.
    A: Plagiarism is still a crime.
    A: Hollywood celebrities are still ashamed to plagiarize.
    A: When two plagiarizers walk into a room, most men don’t care.
    A: Not even Joe Biden was in Joe Biden’s wildest dream.
    A: The difference between Amazons and Amazon.com

  14. Noel
    May 10th, 2010 @ 7:10 pm

    Q. What’s the Difference Between
    Lesbianism and Plagiarism?

    A: You can plagiarize by yourself.
    A: Plagiarism is still a crime.
    A: Hollywood celebrities are still ashamed to plagiarize.
    A: When two plagiarizers walk into a room, most men don’t care.
    A: Not even Joe Biden was in Joe Biden’s wildest dream.
    A: The difference between Amazons and Amazon.com

  15. Robert Stacy McCain
    May 11th, 2010 @ 12:15 am

    Noel
    May 10th, 2010 @ 07 10

    Rimshot!

  16. Robert Stacy McCain
    May 10th, 2010 @ 7:15 pm

    Noel
    May 10th, 2010 @ 07 10

    Rimshot!

  17. Terry
    May 11th, 2010 @ 12:55 am

    “What the…. that’s it? That’s it! Einhorn is Finkle, Finkle is Einhorn…, Einhorn is a man! Oh my God, Einhorn is man… guh.. uhhhhhh!”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2LjwM3B688&NR=1

  18. Terry
    May 10th, 2010 @ 7:55 pm

    “What the…. that’s it? That’s it! Einhorn is Finkle, Finkle is Einhorn…, Einhorn is a man! Oh my God, Einhorn is man… guh.. uhhhhhh!”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2LjwM3B688&NR=1

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    May 10th, 2010 @ 8:50 pm

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  20. KG
    May 11th, 2010 @ 1:53 am

    You know what the punishment is for students caught plagiarizing? That’s right, F for the class and possibly expulsion.

    Professors? Naaaahhh.

  21. KG
    May 10th, 2010 @ 8:53 pm

    You know what the punishment is for students caught plagiarizing? That’s right, F for the class and possibly expulsion.

    Professors? Naaaahhh.

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  23. Lewis Sckolnick
    May 11th, 2010 @ 9:43 pm

    http://www.theotherkagan.com

  24. Lewis Sckolnick
    May 11th, 2010 @ 4:43 pm

    http://www.theotherkagan.com

  25. Ellie Light
    May 11th, 2010 @ 11:07 pm

    Imagine Kagan is the lovechild of Hildabeast and Janet Reno.

  26. Ellie Light
    May 11th, 2010 @ 6:07 pm

    Imagine Kagan is the lovechild of Hildabeast and Janet Reno.

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