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Took The Words Right Out Of…

May 18, 2009

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The New York Times‘s Maureen Dowd didn’t intend to include in her column* yesterday, unattributed, a passage written by TPM’s Josh Marshall, she was just making a point a wise friend made to her over the phone. Michael Calderone has the details.

(The similarities were apparently discovered by a TPM blogger — who, perhaps, knows all of Marshall’s Written Words by heart?)

*A correction now appears at column’s end.

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Liz Cox Barrett is a writer at CJR.