The excellent Times Watch (one of the New York Times’ least favorite web sites because they do such a good job helping expose the left-wing farce that is the Times, daily) caught this one:
Great Minds Think Alike, and So Do Times Legal Reporters
Charlie Savage on Justice Stevens, April 9:
Justice Stevens’s plainspoken style has characterized the last years of his tenure. In cases involving prisoners held without charge at the American naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and the mentally retarded on death row, his version of American justice propelled by common sense and moral clarity commanded a majority.
Savage’s colleague, Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak, said much the same thing in a January 26 tribute to Stevens:
In cases involving prisoners held without charge at Guantánamo Bay and the mentally retarded on death row, his version of American justice was propelled by common sense and moral clarity, and it commanded a majority.
There’s no indication in the bylines that Liptak or Savage contributed to each other’s pieces.
I noticed a similar trend in amazingly similar left-wing groupthink a week or two ago, in a “reader comment” I made to another reader comment in my own blog post. My post was about a recent, ridiculous, left-wing opinion column on the CBC.ca site from the un-great mind of Neil MacDonald (un-great CBC reporter and even worse left-wing political opinion columnist). The other commenter said it sounded just like a New York Times piece he’d just read, and he was right! I found a still closer semblance to yet another New York Times piece:
Actually the Neil MacDonald quote [in my blog entry] I posted is amazingly similar to a paragraph in a column posted on Friday March 26, 2010 in the New York Times by Rich-like columnist Charles Blow, who wrote:
“…Even the optics must be irritating. A woman (Nancy Pelosi) pushed the health care bill through the House. The bill’s most visible and vocal proponents included a gay man (Barney Frank) and a Jew (Anthony Weiner). And the black man in the White House signed the bill into law. It’s enough to make a good old boy go crazy….”
Compare that to the MacDonald (March 29) column quote.
Neil MacDonald:
“…They are, after all, mostly older, white, evangelicals from the heartland and the American South. And they just watched a bill they hated pushed through by a woman (House Speaker Nancy Pelosi), vocally supported by prominent Jews (Sen. Chuck Schumer, Rep. Anthony Weiner), with the help of a powerful gay legislator (Barney Frank), and finally signed by a black president whose middle name is Hussein.”
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Real original thought from the left, huh?
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