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Oct 13, 2005

DISCLAIMER: The following post contains hearsay, hyperbole, and one falsifiable factual statement. Please read the post "My Mistake" for clarification.



The Red&Black's conservative columnist, Clark Stallings, has always been an irritating twerp. His poorly written, backward views have been a mainstay of the otherwise sparse Opinions page, but this Monday I was surprised to find myself reading his entire article twice. His argument was clear and even interesting to read, if not necessarily accurate or convincing.

In a possibly related story, Clark Stallings has been fired for plagiarizing Neal Boortz.

What I can't figure out is how he expected to get away with it at the University of Georgia.
Nick ::: 12:12 PM ::: 7 comments

7 Comments:

He DID? That's hilarious. I can't stand that kid's columns.

By  Amy, at 1:03 PM  

Yeah! The only reason I know about it is because I was there when it happened. And people were saying, "you know he's going to blame this on liberal media bias," and other people were saying, "let him. it's not like he's ever going to see print ever again."

By  Nick, at 12:41 AM  

Hahahaha nice. I loved the little correction about it in Friday's paper. Nice.

By  Amy, at 5:25 PM  

What did the correction say? I missed that paper-- im a fair-weather reader, i suppose.

By  Anonymous, at 4:36 PM  

RETRACTION:

The Clark Stallings column, "Hillary Clinton snubs the person," which appeared in Tuesday's edition of The Red & Black, compared quotes by Adolf Hitler, Nikita Krushchev, Benito Mussolini, and Ayn Rand to a quote by Hillary Clinton.
These quotes were used in a similar way in a column written in 2002 by Neal Boortz.
Stallings, who is not an employee of The Red & Black, said he did not get the idea for his work from the column. He said he remembered the quotes, then used Neal Boortz's Web site, www.boortz.com, where the quotes also appear, as a reference.
After reviewing the incident, The Red & Black has suspended Stallings from making submissions.

By  Amy, at 7:55 PM  

Hahahahaha! I'm sure he "remembered" the same five quotes as Boortz a couple of days later. And of course when he was fact-checking the quotes, Boortz's site was the first place he looked, because god knows that makes sense.

By  Nick, at 8:51 AM  

Notice that he wasn't fired as he's written several subsequent columns. In cases of actual plagiarism at the Red and Black, the writers have been fired. You clearly aren't familiar with the entire situation. Oooh...shutdown.

By  Anonymous, at 9:41 PM  

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