The Worst Article Of All Time Du Jour: Charlie Warzel: "Plagiarism is the Next 'Fake News'"

This is so hilariously leftastic that I may not be able to resist the urge to go through it in detail.

Plagiarism is bad because the right might weaponize it! Oxman? Plagiarism! Gay? Well, yes, she violated "Harvard's strict standards"...but the case is "nuanced." "Fake news"? Originally coined by the good guys...but then Trump started using it [scowl]. Left: good, of course. The right? Filled with "hyper-partisan ideologues and politicians"...

   This dude even deploys one of my favorite lefty tropes: he trots out the "alternative facts" canard while tut-tutting about disinformation... As I've pointed out many times: (a) Trump didn't say it, Conway did; (b) What she meant was very clear: that Trump et. al. were looking at different evidence than the Parks Service was. She clearly did not mean that We live in different realities. This is almost a reflex on the left now: taking anything Trump (or, in this case, his spokeswoman) says, put the stupidest and worst possible interpretation on it, then repeat it over and over again until it becomes part of the left's disinformational background (see also: inject bleach, All Mexicans are rapists.) Now, Conway was bullshitting. There's really no other important information to look at. But that's a very different matter.

   Which reminds me to remind you: 

"Fake news": ha ha so stupid. Trump, am I right? Propaganda against Our Noble Media.

"Disinformation": a high holy word for a high holy cause. Progressive. [salutes]