Just before Mitt Romney’s pick of Wisc. Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate, CNN commentator Fareed Zakaria got himself in a spot o’ trouble when it was discovered that he had plagiarized a piece he wrote for TIME magazine.
***3rd Update: CNN has suspended Zakaria indefinitely, and say he plagiarized the same article in a CNN blog post: We have reviewed Fareed Zakaria’s TIME column, for which he has apologized. He wrote a shorter blog post on CNN.com on
Writing for Time magazine, Fareed Zakaria has made a solid argument for public sector pension reform. He makes no bones about who is at fault in what he labels “the single biggest threat to the U.S.’s fiscal health.” [O]n the
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria to Boxing Champ Manny Pacquiao: “You know, there are reports, your Forbes magazine, other places say you make tens maybe more millions of dollars, $40 million one year. Philippines is a very poor country. Do you think
On Sunday, former Clinton chief of staff Erskine Bowles of “Bowles-Simpson Commission” fame said he is not interested in becoming Barack Obama’s Treasury secretary. When asked about his name being among those on a short-list of possible appointees, Mr. Bowles
The number of liberal commencement speakers at America’s top colleges dwarfs the number of conservative speakers. The ratio, 7-1 this year, has never been higher, according to Young America’s Foundation (YAF), which made a list of speakers invited to the
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria used to have some interesting things to say about democracy and economics. But in the Barack Obama era, he has become little more than a political hack, twisting facts and spinning news in the hope of benefiting
On Fareed Zakaria’s CNN show George Soros says he is “pretty sure” a President Mitt Romney would seek to pass a stimulus.
Fareed Zakaria does a pretty good job explaining the global monetary crisis and proposes that the only solution to the debt problems plaguing the EU is to allow China a larger role in the global political sphere. He compares the
Donald Rumsfeld also complained about the Obama Administration’s inability to even discuss radical Islamist terrorism and Fareed Zakaria interrupts him and says “But, he did kill Osama.”
Imagine my surprise when, during Fareed Zakaria’s monologue on how the tea party is “extreme” and unyielding, a familiar sight flashed onto the screen, a backdrop for his critical opinion of the tea party movement: my costumed husband and his
From Accuracy in Media‘s Michael Watson: On his TV show “Fareed Zakaria GPS” (transcript here) from Sunday, June 19, 2011, journalist Fareed Zakaria of CNN and Time magazine stated that “we could use the ideas of social media that were
From Fareed Zakaria on CNN:
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria was on Charlie Rose recently and made the claim that America has become “antiquated” and the system our founding documents created is “dysfunctional.” Zakaria begins by adopting the epic straw man of an arrogant American who thinks
Recently, CNN host Fareed Zakaria admitted to having regular advice sessions with President Obama.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has ranked Yale University as among the worst violators of free speech on U.S. campuses. Alum Michael Rubin, writing at Commentary, provides examples: In 2009, Yale College Dean Mary Miller censored the
With faced with a reasoned, logical argument, Mr. Maher’s only answer as to why the voting public voted for conservative Republicans is “They were confused.”
Remembering that CNN’s president, Jon Klein, has touted its down-the-middle coverage and claims it is situated in the “center” of American politics, on a recent episode of Fareed Zakaria GPS, host Zakaria tried to claim that Lebanon’s terror group Hezbollah
For most non-Teutons the idea of German rock is not very appealing. The fatherland of Bach and Beethoven may well have produced many interesting experimental groups (Kraftwerk, Einstürzende Neubauten etc) but on a global, top 40 level it’s an entirely
