Precisely because Rush Limbaugh on 600 radio stations and Paul Harvey on 1,200 radio stations have recounted these stories, they have become information in the public domain. Jacoby was merely adding detail and luster to general knowledge that is so publicly familiar as to be beyond plagiarism. Were I to make a reference to Adam and Eve here without mentioning the Book of Genesis, nobody would conclude that I had come close to plagiarizing the Bible. That just won't do. Among the reasons why liberals hate capitalism and a free press is that they know in a free competition of ideas they will lose.
People vote with their feet to flee Marxist societies and to come to the United States.
The real sin of Jeff Jacoby is that in the journalistic desert of Boston Globe conformist leftism, he was a green oasis of truth and mental stimulation. In this case the green ketchup was nourishing and the red unnatural. When Jacoby's superior insights became the main meal readers came to the Globe for, instead of being merely bait to lure readers into swallowing the Globe 's usual red stuff, Jacoby had to be removed. In purging him, the Globe hinted that his sin verged on one of the worst in journalism, plagiarism, thereby making it less likely than any other newspaper or syndicate might hire him. The one kind of diversity not permitted is diversity of political view or values.