Corzine Walks, Zakaria Gets His CNN and Time Jobs Back

Dog bites man. Corzine walks away from a massive, in many cases crushing, destruction of the wealth of his depositors (not his investors, his depositors), and the Justice Department clears him.

The sun rises in the East. Plagiarist Fareed Zakaria gets his gigs back with Time and CNN after publishing other people's work under his own name.

The stealing of depositors funds from the bank down the street would have resulted in the local bank president going to the sheriff, begging to be arrested for his own protection. He would not have a house to return to, in any case, it having already been burned to the ground by his customers.

But Corzine is OneOfUs, sez Mr. Holder. Nothing to see here, move on. Let all those ruined farmers recover their lost wealth via civil litigation. They'll get a dime on the dollar eventually. After all, those guys aren't going to vote for us, anyway.

Let's just move on, nothing to see here.

Since Mr. Zakaria is a champion of All Things Progressive, well--boys will be boys. Even if they are 48 years of age. Old enough to know better, still too leftist to care. After all, he was presenting a passionate case for one of our pet projects, gun control. Completely understandable mistake by one of our GoodOldBoys. He's OneOfUs, after all. Let's not look too hard, lest we allll come under scrutiny.

Let's just move on, nothing to see here.

This blatant plagiarism, which is what it is--not a 'mistake'--, would have resulted in Mr. Zakaria's failure in classes and perhaps dismissal from any number of universities that insist their 20-year-olds actually do their own work, and write their own words. As the father of one of those kids who lives with this risk, OS objects.

Close your eyes and imagine if the offender were of a much more conservative shade of opinion, and had plagiarized someone else's words.  One can smell the tar being heated even now, as the deliveries of feathers are being signed for in every mainstream media outlet in the nation.

The Double Standard lives, be it a thief of ideas, such as Zakaria, or a negligent destroyer of the wealth of depositors, such as Jon Corzine.

Boys, after all, will be boys...Good Old Boys...One Of Us...

Welcome to the Nixon Administration Redux. Heaven help us all.