Before we get to Harvard president Claudine Gay resigning from Harvard -- not because of the plagiarism accusations but because some of the people accusing her were white and mean about it -- keep this tweet from Nate Silver in the back of your mind. Nate is the pollster Leftists were obsessed with in 2020 to assure them Biden was going to win. Silver thinks the Left, like those in the media, ignoring reality because it would mean conservatives were right about something isn't a good long-term strategy.

Gay resigned as Harvard president on Tuesday. She survived refusing to denounce antisemitism and the first batch of plagiarism accusations. But after another batch or two of plagiarism accusations, she stepped down. Of course, she didn't address the plagiarism accusations. That would require admitting she did something wrong, and Barack Obama told her not to do that.

The real villains in the story, according to the Associated Press, are those evil conservatives who weaponized Gay's plagiarism against her.

When it comes to the "conservatives pounce" or "Republicans seize" genre of journalisming, this is some quality work.

The plagiarism allegations came not from her academic peers but her political foes, led by conservatives who sought to oust Gay and put her career under intense scrutiny in hopes of finding a fatal flaw.

In Gay’s case, many academics were troubled with how the plagiarism came to light: as part of a coordinated campaign to discredit Gay and force her from office, in part because of her involvement in efforts for racial justice on campus.

The campaign against Gay and other Ivy League presidents has become part of a broader right-wing effort to remake higher education, which has often been seen as a bastion of liberalism.

Riiiight. The "campaign" against Gay. When the Associated Press does it, they are doing a journalism. When the Washington Free Beacon does it, it's a political campaign. "Academics" -- aka bitterly partisan progressive twats -- weren't concerned about the antisemitism or the plagiarism. They were concerned that the wrong people reported on it and might have a point.

Bad people, like Christopher Rufo. Keep in mind that this is a NEWS article and not an opinion piece, because these bars are inspired:

Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist who helped orchestrate the effort, celebrated her departure as a win in his campaign against elite institutions of higher education. On X, formerly Twitter, he wrote “SCALPED,” as if Gay was a trophy of violence, invoking a gruesome practice taken up by white colonists who sought to eradicate Native Americans.

Let's set aside that the native Americans were the ones known for scalping, collecting a "scalp" is a common expression that has been commonly used since *checks calendar* native Americans were known for scalping. Rufo didn't invent the expression. But AP needed to find another excuse to imply raaaaaaaacism.

Again, this was a NEWS article. Not an opinion piece.

It's never the bad thing the Leftist does. It's always the conservative reaction. Journalismers like at the Associated Press keep finding ways to get more and more ridiculous about it.

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