I was pretty discouraged yesterday to read a news flash at TPM regarding an accusation of plagiarism against Elizabeth Warren over at the National Review Online. I followed the link, and sure enough, there was a piece by Katrina Trinko. It laid out the offending passages from Warren's book All Your Worth, written with her daughter Amelia Warren Tyagi, and the corresponding passages from Getting on the Money Track, published in October 2005. I read the matching passages with a sinking heart: there was little doubt that plagiarism had occurred, and I began to despair of Warren's candidacy surviving the blow.
As it turns out, plagiarism had occurred, but Warren was the victim, not the perpetrator. The hardback version of Warren's book was published in March, 2005. The National Review article was taken down (you can see the smoking remnants here) and the TPM story has been updated. Talk about schaudenfreude – from despair to chortling vindication in one news cycle! May all the attacks on Elizabeth Warren come to such a happy conclusion.