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The following comes from my nationally-syndicated column, which was posted yesterday at 3:37 East Coast time:
The following is excerpted from Maureeen Dowd's column in The New York Times:
Deadline at the Times is 5 pm, right?
A poll says that 67 percent of Americans don't understand Obama's healthcare plan. I'm one of them...
The collapse of ObamaCare is rooted in the problem described by the cognitive linguist George Lakoff: liberals do a crappy job of communicating to the public.
Speaking of which: what is/was this mysterious "public option"?
On the left, The Nation magazine says it's "designed around not making people change their healthcare if they like what they have." OK, so that's what it's not. What is it? "Instead, there will be rules that insurance companies have to follow to provide better care, and a health insurance exchange, including a public option, for people who don't have employer-provided care."
A public option is a public option is a public option. How helpful.
The following is excerpted from Maureeen Dowd's column in The New York Times:
After keeping his great powers of persuasion and elucidation under wraps all summer, the president at long last comes forward to explain his health care plan to an utterly confused and increasingly skeptical and wary public.
He should have done this speech back in June and conjured up a better glossary. You can’t combat a scintillating term like “death panels” with a somnambulant one like “public option.”
Deadline at the Times is 5 pm, right?
posted by Ted Rall at
9:33 AM
12 Comments:
Wow!
That's the third time this year, Ted! It's so fun keeping score!
Once again, I'll ask you to explain this one...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/opinion/23rich.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucru/thegunsofaugust
Not that I really care. Or I didn't at first. But now you're just begging the question.
Ted, write a letter to the Times and Tell them she seems to have copied your idea Very Very closely.
If you don't make waves yourself, or hire somebody to do it for you, you can't do well.
I mailed a letter to the Financial Times on the "Hello Kitty" thing. You'll feel better if you send a letter to the Times, and maybe CC it to other news papers. Maybe the WaPo, other remaining NYC newspapers and whoever you think is appropriate.
Sincerely
Y_S
Pakistan
No offense Ted, but other liberals share that same opinion too, but that doesn't mean they are copying off of you.
Wow, it's not like people can agree with you and also write their opinion on something. Also, it is VERY unlikely that she wrote this because it happens to be a topic of national importance. Nah... it's obviously a ploy to steal your idea with no credit made to you. If you had written about Mayan hunting tactics, I'm positive she would have said the same exact thing. WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP DOING THIS TO YOU!?
Honestly Mr. Rall, I think you're a pretty smart guy with interesting things to say. But why do you have to be so petty? As a political commentator, your stars are going to cross with someone else once in a while. It isn't a plot, it means *gasp*, you agree.
I read this a few times. Your claim is she plagiarized you? She stole your idea? I don't see any plagiarism (that's Joe Biden's territory) and don't other libs share the same ideas as you?
it's funny how in a world where people who are wrong so often get paid so much, Ted is so often right, or onto something, that other authors duplicate his findings and/or copy them.
I wonder why Ted still thinks deadtree media is still relevant, especially the established punditry.
Because it's the only punditry that pays. And, not coincidentally, the only punditry that people in power pay attention to.
I don't think Maureen Dowd is much of a liberal. She certainly isn't a political commentator - not one of any substance, that is. Maureen Dowd is little more than a glorified gossip columnist. That she is employed by The New York Times is a poor reflection on either the newspaper industry as a whole or the judgement of the editorial board at the Times. Either way, I found her columns somewhat amusing when she was bashing Bush, but ceased to waste my time skimming them when she jumped on the "let's fellate Obama" bandwagon.
More like 100% don't understand Obama's healthcare plan, but 33% have deluded themselves into thinking they do.
well.. it's like I knew!
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