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...political satirist, Franken has appeared on countless talk shows and is a regular guest on ABC’s “Politically Incorrect.” And at his own Class Day in 1973, the young comedian delivered the Ivy Speech, traditionally a humorous speech by a student, before playwright Arthur Miller delivered the keynote address...
...simplify this conflict as one between races—between two populations of different skin tones—is factually incorrect and historically inaccurate. Any op-ed that begins with this sort of characterization should not be published...
...Yeah,” responds Sugar, “But they’re all crammed in to the same house.” The audience at the law school was divided in laughter and gasps. Bert Sugar is definitely not a racist, but the comment was politically incorrect. But it was also once politically incorrect for Cassius Clay to change his name to Muhammad Ali and embrace the Nation of Islam. Boxing people aren’t always out to please you, but more often than not, they’ll entertain...
...this were one accidental case of incorrect citation, the situation may warrant a different response. But as Goodwin herself has recognized, the unattributed use of sources goes far beyond borrowing isolated phrases from Lynne McTaggart’s Kathleen Kennedy: Her Life and Times, as Goodwin originally claimed, but rather involved many more uncited works...
...Daniel Pearl's case, that assumption proved tragically incorrect. Thursday the Wall Street Journal confirmed that Pearl had indeed been killed by his captors. All journalists will mourn him as a courageous colleague whose story has reminded us that the pursuit of truth is sometimes no protection in a dangerous world...