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We’ve finally found the writer who puts the “foot” in football stupidity. It is Max Boot. We recently brushed off<\/a> his ill-researched Wall Street Journal<\/em> essay, “In Defense of Football,” on the grounds that it would be a waste of bandwidth.<\/p>\n

But as a Blog of Record, we are duty-bound to inform you that a plagiarism controversy has erupted inside the conservative community over the provenance of Boot’s 2,000 poorly chosen words. Politico has the story of the rejection by WSJ<\/em> of freelance journalist Daniel Flynn’s article “In Defense of Football” — quickly followed, as fourth down follows third, by the newspaper’s soliciting of Boot to write a piece under the same (admittedly hackneyed) headline.<\/p>\n

See “Plagiarism or coincidence? Writer, Wall Street Journal square off,” http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/08\/daniel-flynn-wall-street-journal-plagiarism-95865.html#ixzz2crLRYvY2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Boot is a think-tank expert whose special expertise is being wrong about America’s benevolently imperial wars. The Journal<\/em> editor who solicited Boot noted that he has a “football obsession.” Perhaps what he most loves about football is that it is such a faithful metaphor for America’s benevolently imperial wars.<\/p>\n

Anyway, let me hold the principals’ coats while they duel amongst themselves over originality, credit, and filthy lucre (the newspaper paid Boot $4,000 after he accepted the assurance of sports editor Sam Walker that “This thing will write itself!”).<\/p>\n

Irv Muchnick<\/em>
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