First let me say that selecting the right forum for this topic was not easy. This thread fits in Media, in Education, and in Law & Justice. I settled on media because the public knows Fareed Zakaria as a journalist. Everybody with half of a brain also knows what Fareed Zakaria was before he got caught committing plagiarism. Mark Levin had him pegged in June 2011. If you listen to the audio you will learn Fareed Zakaria’s true mission in life ain’t unbiased reporting: I personally remember Zakaria from ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos (2002–2007). Before my wife signed us up for cable TV against my wishes, I often channeled surfed the Sunday morning talk shows, and watched the NewsHour on PBS. That was enough “news” to keep me busy cutting up liberals. Whenever Zakaria started talking on ABC I was out of there. Looking back I now realize that he taught me how to delete Bob Beckel, Juan Williams, Alan Colmes, and the rest of those libs who wear out the batteries in my remote control. I have not seen Zakaria since Cable TV was installed; about two or so years ago. In fact, I watch fewer TV talkies now than I watched before Cable. It was Zakaria and the others that made me so sick of what was coming into my home on TV, I now watch TV news with skepticism fueled by contempt. I’ve learned that most of them are big-government propagandists no matter how clever they are at hiding it. Will Zakaria be dumped from all of his liberal perches? Probably not. Will Zakaria lose respect among his peers in journalism? or in the academy? Absolutely not. And why should he lose respect? He did nothing to offend his own kind. NOTE: You can bet that Joe Biden, himself an admitted plagiarist, will put out the word for all good Democrats to support Zakaria in his hour of need. Finally, I would like to know how many tax dollars Zakaria was paid in his lifetime? I know he once had a show on PBS. My point: It would be nice to know how many of the unnamed Leftists Mark Levin refers to in his analysis of Fareed Zakaria are paid tax dollars to tear down America? I’m not curious about the ones who hold actual government jobs like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Hussein, Joe Biden, and most of the Democrats in Washington. They are out in the open for all to see. I’m interested in the ones who are paid tax dollars one way or another to promote the destruction of the US Constitution as Levin defined it.
Disagree. I think Fareed Zakaria was a free thinker until about 2007. He then started selling his opinions for cash. Sell your soul and there is a price to pay. Like I said on another thread, there must be something else going on here. Liberal thinkers tend to overlook every crime in the book other than questioning Obama.
To dudeman: He was always a member of liberal establishments; Yale, Harvard, and media. His income, his entire career, was possible because of his liberalism. I’m willing to wager that he is more surprised than anyone over this plagiarism thing. After all, he only lifted a few words from a liberal publication. It’s not like he plagiarized something from the National Review. To dudeman: I’m not sure if liberal thinkers is the same as liberals? In any event liberals are forced to defend Hussein, but they never questioned him. Parenthetically, up until Bill Clinton came along some Americans treated presidents like they were kings, others thought presidents were popes, while most Americans saw through the greatest political lie of all: A person who rises to the top of a sewer is not a sewer rat. The sad fact is that it matters not if the rat came from the federal government or from a governorship. After becoming president he is not magically transformed into a defender of liberty more patriotic than the Founding Fathers. Clinton, and now Hussein, deserve credit for one thing. Thanks to those two sewer rats naive Americans are beginning to see that no loyal American will ever again become president. The system simply won’t allow it.
Zakaria's personal positions are his business and not mine. In my opinion, Zakaria was somewhat rational and separated his personal opinions from his journalistic interviews prior to joining CNN. After CNN, he basically became a spokesman for the Democratic party. I still like to listen to George Stephanopoulos interviews when the top brass doesn't interfere and make him play nice. He's probably a total leftist loon in life, however, he is universally pretty harsh as an interviewer regardless of political party unless he is constrained.
It's odd, watching the conservatives claim that devoted neocon and loyal spokesman-for-the-global-elite, Fareed Zakaria, is actually a liberal. Now, being a liberal, I will still go to bat for the unjustly accused, even for a neocon like Fareed. He got a bum rap. Everyone copies a little, and they almost never attribute. Easier to simply rearrange the words a bit. Fareed was just the one who got caught. He took responsibility, apologized, got punished. Good enough, for a misdemeanor level journalistic crime. It's what happened afterwards which is the problem, all the other journalists suddenly wringing their hands and saying how awful it is that Zakaria did the same thing they do every day.
