Quite frankly, I’m shocked...Walsh clearly lifted much of his final paper from other sources, so there is no doubt he’s guilty of plagiarism. But Walsh also has a (D) behind his name, and that’s normally enough to get the offending politician off without permanent career damage (see Joe Biden).
Yet Walsh is getting the full media treatment; line-by-line analysis of his plagiarism and an ambush interview outside his office. The Senator must be wondering what he did to piss off the NYT and why the DSCC isn’t coming to his rescue.
One more thought: the NYT doesn’t troll the library at Carlisle, reviewing papers from past Army War College classes. It would be interesting to know who tipped the Times on Walsh’s plagiarism and why the paper decided to go ahead with an infrequent expose of a feckless Democratic pol.
The good news is that as I recall he was running behind in his reelection bid in any case.
Because it's summer time in a mid-term election year. The LIVs are on whatever type of vacation they can put together in this economy and/or tending to the kids out of school and not really paying attention to the news.
Running mud on a few low profile dems now will give the msm the fig leaf of objectivity when they start running their slam pieces on high profile republicans in September and October. Conservative accusations of bias will be dodged with, "Remember last summer when we ran those stories on Walsh?"
Maybe he’s a conservative Democrat? If there are any, they’d be in the MT/WY area.
Brilliant analysis.
There are enough counter-balancing elements for the NYT to go after him: Able-Bodied White Male Veteran Senator. Too many perqs for the (D) to offset. They know that guy can’t possibly be down for the struggle.