Jesse Jackson: Conservative?

James Joyner · Tuesday, February 22, 2005 · 3 Comments

Paul at Wizbang notes that this Chicago Sun-Times op-ed by Jesse Jackson is suspiciously like this TownHall piece by Michael Barone.

Obviously, it’s a mistake in attribution by CST. One wonders, though, who’s more chagrined: Barone or Jackson?

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PoliBlog: Politics is the Master Science says:

Tuesday, February 22, 2005 at 11:22

Amusing
I have to agree with Paul this is funny.

James Joyner also comments.

Clearly someone at the Sun-Times got sloppy. I wonder if it went out like that in the print edition?

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Paul says:

Tuesday, February 22, 2005 at 11:46

As one of the commenters at wizbang put it.. Usually it is the guy who GETS plagiarized who is upset.

Ya gotta think Barone got a big laugh out of it.

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Myopic Zeal says:

Tuesday, February 22, 2005 at 13:32

Jesse Jackson, or Michael Barone?
Jesse Jackson has been credited with writing this op-ed in the Chicago Sun-Times: Partial Recounts a Totally Bad Idea. Oddly enough, it seems to be quite the same as this piece in Town Hall by Michael Barone entiteld 2000 Changed Everything.

OTB wo…

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