by Smitty
Not only did Fareed Zakaria beclown himself by stealing other’s work in a gun grabber article for Time, but Rames Ponnuru notes that when FZ acts as an intellectual burglar, Fareed thugs the contents trash can:
Fareed Zakaria has tried to make “The Case for Gun Control” in Time. The results are not pretty. Virtually every argument he makes misrepresents the underlying data.
After a lead that cites the Sikh-temple shooting, the Aurora massacre, and the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others, Zakaria trots out the usual international comparisons: “The gun-homicide rate per capita in the U.S. is 30 times that of Britain and Australia, 10 times that of India and four times that of Switzerland. When confronted with such a large deviation, a scholar would ask, Does America have some potential cause for this that is also off the chart? I doubt that anyone seriously thinks we have 30 times as many crazy people as Britain or Australia. But we do have many, many more guns.”
RTWT. Meanwhile, I got just a teeny bit sarcastic on Twitter:
Fareed Zakaria c’nned from CNN. MST3K denies negotiations to have FZ host a revival. Joel Hodgson: “Dude’s way too scary, even for cable.”
— Chris Smith (@smitty_one_each) August 10, 2012
Fareed Zakaria c’nned from CNN, announces plan to grow dreads & collaborate with Snoop + some Cupertino, CA buds as “Snoop Mountain Lion”.
— Chris Smith (@smitty_one_each) August 10, 2012
Fareed Zakaria c’nned from CNN, announces WWWF career as “F the Zappah”. Trying to coax Sanjay Gupta into wrestling match, tights.
— Chris Smith (@smitty_one_each) August 10, 2012
Fareed Zakaria c’nned from CNN, announces new career as Climate Scientist. Al Gore quoted as saying: “Aw, mann.”
— Chris Smith (@smitty_one_each) August 10, 2012
Fareed Zakaria c’nned from CNN, announces hair metal band: Crüe Mötley.
— Chris Smith (@smitty_one_each) August 10, 2012
Update: more at Outside the Beltway
If Schadenfreude was sugar, diabetics better beware about this story!
OMG, so it’s true. And plagiarism – who would ever have guessed? Zakaria’s stuff is usually so inane as to be beyond suspicion. Who was the dumbass that stood up and said, “Hey, I wrote that!”?
Un-freakin’-believable the guy has to STEAL to be that stupid. I imbibe copious amounts of alcohol trying to experience what it’s like, but all I can lose is coherence, time, and years off my life.
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If Ryan is not the pick tomorrow, what Adjoran described will be me in about a week.
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