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Jonah Goldberg Plagiarizes My Political MacGuffin Insight Without AttributionHere's Jonah Goldberg, plagiarizing me, stating that The Wall has become the MacGuffin of Trump's life-movie: The border wall is now a MacGuffin, and that’s the problem. This is what I wrote in 2013, in a piece which has been referenced many times in conservative media, including, I'm pretty sure, by people at NRO, making the case that the media only cared about Obamacare as the McGuffin of Obama's movie: In a movie or book, "The MacGuffin" is the thing the hero wants. Does "Jonah's" article seem to be making the same point I did, which, by the way, was original when I made it? (But not when he made it.) Does he seem to be using the same language? Even the same examples? Yeah, because he didn't write this piece. He merely remembered it. This is plagiarism, and yeah, Jonah Goldberg read my article. Do I have to do a twitter search to find him referencing it? I'd like an acknowledgement from NRO. Update: Looks like someone at NRO is willing to link the article Jonah stole from the "show notes" from his podcast, but Goldberg himself refuses to link it the article he writes. Is he going to claim it's only partial plagiarism because sources were acknowledged elsewhere? Pro-Tip, Jonah: "But I don't like him anymore" is not, in fact, a license to plagiarize people. "I don' wanna acknowledge him, he criticizes me!" is not a free pass to steal ideas and wording from someone and deny the most basic attribution. But tell me about #MuhPrinciples, Jonah. Given that I'm the real author of this NRO piece, I think I'm going to have to demand the standard NR freelance article rate as payment, as well as a prominent "Adapted from an original piece by Ace of Spades" credit. And I'm not kidding. This is plagiarism, straight-up. Pay me. I'm not serving as an unacknowledged, uncompensated ghostwriter for cucks. Someone Ran That Search... and found this: QUOTE: About three years ago, the eponymous "Ace" from the legendary Ace of Spades HQ blog wrote a brilliant little essay on "The MacGuffinization of American politics." A three-year old acknowledgement doesn't count as far as acknowledging the new borrowing of the idea, Jonah. It's not a perpetual license. I'm pretty sure NR's legal department can verify this. I'm sure your syndicator, the Tribune Group, has a legal department that can verify this as well. By the Way: Jonah stole the MacGuffin idea on Special Report this week, too. Was it yesterday? The day before? So he cribbed it on FoxNews, too. I didn't say anything about it publicly because I granted him the Extemporaneous Speech latitude. You can't cite every source in extemporaneous speech. (Actually, I try to, and I even cite sources when chatting with friends, not wanting to take a lick of credit that isn't my original insight, but I'll grant that not everyone is as much of a stickler about it as I am.) But this is written. This is an article he's apparently selling/syndicating through the Tribune group. He had time to edit this, reflect on this. Think about whether he'd properly sourced all ideas or quotes he'd... borrowed from others. And he decided to not even note the idea that the central idea of his whole article -- which he's getting paid for a lot more than I got paid for my original post -- came from someone else. Extemporaneous speech, I give you a pass. A written article that you edited and then went through over another editor's desk? No. There is no free pass for deliberate, well-reflected plagiarism. | Recent Comments
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