(5/25, 4:30 p.m. update: Thanks to law professor Glenn Reynolds for promoting this post yesterday with a tweet and, this morning, with a link, bringing thousands of additional readers to this blog just in the last 24 hours. Thanks also for the mention on LewRockwell.com, with this clever summary of the Professor Tribe’s student ghostwriting operation: “It Takes a Tribe.” (end update)
If you pay attention only to liberal-slanted mass media outlets, you’d assume the answer is easy.
Surely Professor Laurence H. Tribe of the prestigious Harvard Law School must be a much more careful scholar than Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke, who has recently been branded, in what we view as a political hit job, as a “plagiarist” — not just by CNN (which made the initial charge), but also by the Washington Post, USA Today, NY Daily News, ABC, and Slate, among other mass-media outlets.
But he’s not. Sheriff Clarke, a part-time scholar, is vastly more careful (not to mention honest) than Professor Tribe. Continue reading Professor Tribe vs. Sheriff Clarke: Who’s the more careful scholar?