 It's a lot to talk about in the context of, in the context of the president of Harvard, Claudine Gay's resignation. We've talked a little bit about this, but I'm inspired today by TGIF, TGIF is the Friday publication of the Free Press. This is Barry Weiss' project called the Free Press. I'm going to use it extensively today, so before you accuse me of plagiarism, I'm admitting that I'm going to read to you passages out of TGIF. Generally, TGIF is written by Nellie Bowles, who is married to Barry Weiss, and Nellie is a really good writer, and so I highly recommend TGIF. She's really funny. I highly recommend the Free Press, Barry Weiss' publication. In particular, I love their Friday summary of the news. It's funny, it's entertaining, and it's usually right on. I don't agree with everything, but it's usually right on. Anyway, they've dedicated a lot of space here to Claudine Gay's resignation that happened this week, earlier this week. We've talked about it already, but it's worth summarizing and emphasizing certain points. Gay has written an op-ed for the New York Times, where she's trying to justify her actions. She never apologizes for anything. Her plagiarism is just a witch hunt, and the whole thing with the testimony in front of the House Committee, she fell into a prosecutional trap, and the trap, she fell into it innocently, and of course, she says in the op-ed, I'm against violence against Jews, of course, I'm against a genocidal chance, and I would have protected Jews. Of course, this is a president of a university who did not say anything after October 7th, did not condemn what Hamas had done. She was very quick to condemn the killing of George Floyd, or Harvard was anyway, she wasn't the president at the time, and support for BLS, but God forbid you say anything about the slaughter, rape, and torture of people on October 7th. In particular, she was very slow in responding, and really weak and slow in responding, to the 30 plus 33, I think it was, student organizations that on October 8th already expressed support for Hamas, what they did on October 7th. But she's innocent, and of course, she is not in support of Jewish genocide, and of course, she would defend Jewish students, and of course, all of this is a witch hunt against her, basically motivated by racial animus. She is just the first black to be president of the university, she's the second woman, I think that's right, to be president of the university, and that's why they went after. It's all racism and sexism. Now, what she doesn't tell you is the extent of a plagiarism, which has been well documented in the press, and you can find it all over the place, but this woman basically copy pasted whole paragraphs, even her acknowledgements, there's a section of acknowledgement that's a copy paste job. Now, I wouldn't fire anybody for that, but that shows you how absurd what she did. Over half of her publications have substantial plagiarism in it. Now, suddenly, plagiarism is not a big deal. Suddenly, plagiarism is just what's it called, this is associate press, one of our deliverers of news, they had this headline. Harvard president's resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges, plagiarism. It's a weapon. Really? I mean, plagiarism is something you kick a student out of a class for, sometimes kick him out of the university for, certainly give him an F for. Now, somebody misquotes or somebody misreferences or somebody a sentence here, a sentence there, okay. We're talking about a whole paragraphs verbatim with no reference. There's an accusation of plagiarism against a, what's his name, the hedge fund guy who went after Harvard. His wife is now accused of plagiarism. What is her plagiarism? There's a paragraph there, which she references the source of, it's verbatim, but she forgot in the publication to put quote marks around it. But she references where she got the text exactly from, not something Claudine Gay does when she plagiarists. And now Bill Ackerman, Ackerman's wife. And now it's the same thing. And if you're going to go after plagiarism, I mean, no shame, no shame. What Claudine Gay did is inexcusable in terms of the plagiarism. It is unprofessional. It is a travesty from foreign academic. To do something like this, she should have lost her job. Now here, she lost her job as president. She maintains a $900,000 a year salary. Let me say that again, $900,000 a year salary. Just so you know, where your tuition payments and your tax money to pay for student loans or their money ultimately goes, oh, those of you who are giving money to endowments to your mamata, $900,000, she will continue as a faculty member. A faculty member who half of her publications on which she got tenure plagiarized, have significant plagiarism in there. Nobody cares. Nobody cares. Nate Silver, I think he tweeted this. He says, pretty worried. And this is Nate Silver, who's a leftist, sent a left, right? Nate Silver writes, pretty worried about this new chrono weapon that can force you to go back as many as 27 years in time and commit plagiarism. A conservative weapon against colleges, plagiarism. You either commit plagiarism or you don't. And plagiarism has been a sin in academia, if you will. Forever. It's not new. It wasn't discovered in order to apply to Claudine Gaye. It's been applied to many, many people over many, many years, and it certainly applies to students and it certainly applied to students at Harvard, where she was president. Tzvika, thank you. $100. Wow. That's amazing. That's a sticker for Tzvika. Silvanos, thank you. And Roosevelt, thank you. Thank you to all the stickers. Really, really appreciate that. Still about, yep. All right. Let's see. And then Ibrahim Kendi. You know, you remember Ibrahim Kendi, the guy who had this massive center devoted to his anti-racist ideas and who the money for the center somehow got used somewhere, somehow. I mean, you know, and all kinds of stuff that nobody quite understands and knows, and they produced really nothing anyway. He is convinced that the ouster of Gaye is all the work of a racist mob, racist mob, right? Now, note that this racist mob also went after the president of the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Pennsylvania president resigned way before Claudine Gaye, and the University of Pennsylvania president didn't commit plagiarism. She was supposed to resign just for her response to the October 7th and a response to the hewing in front of Congress. That was enough to get her basically fired. Claudine Gaye, that wouldn't have got her fired, it appears. What got her fired is that plus a heavy dose of plagiarism. Now, note that in a kind of rational world in which media was actually doing its work, the plagiarism would have actually come from the media. That is, the media would have discovered it and brought it to the fore. That's what the media does, right? Supposed to do search and find corruption in the background. So, the media, the media is defending Claudine Gaye. The media is the one that claims that plagiarism is a right-wing conspiracy. The real hero here, the person who actually did the work who actually figured all this out and revealed the truth about Claudine Gaye. It's not a media person per se, but somebody who works for the Manhattan Institute and intellectual works of the Manhattan Institute Institute and has a Twitter account, Chris Rufo. Chris Rufo is the guy who actually did this and publicized it and made a big deal and really pushed us. Rufo, as Rufo puts it, quote, the funniest outcome of the Claudine Gaye saga is all the academics coming out in defense of plagiarism and all of the journalists coming out against journalism. Tell with facts. Tell with digging. Tell with discovering what's really going on. Tell with plagiarism. What matters is that Gaye was black and a woman and the president of Harvard, and that supersedes everything, right? She's the oppressed. And the oppressed allowed to commit plagiarism. The oppressed allowed to say really stupid things in front of Congress. The oppressed allowed to support other oppressed, Hamas. It's no surprise that the president of University of Pennsylvania was fired. She's white, and therefore, by definition, an oppressor. Oh, not huge oppressor, right? Because she's also a woman, so she gets some oppressed credit. But Gaye is both a woman and black. Now, if she was gay, I mean, gay gay, then I mean, there's no way she could have been fired, right? Because she would have been at the most oppressed, you could be, I guess, or maybe trans would have been even better than that. You're seeing, I mean, what's happened over the last few months, I mean, really over the last few years, but you're really seeing it intensely over the last few months, is the complete corruption of the far left and the real manifestation of what intersectionality really means and how it plays out. We've been talking about this a lot, right? We've been talking about this idea that if you're part of the intersectional oppressed category, then you can pretty much do anything, including murder, rape, pillage, torture, and you can get away with it. And if you're part of the oppressor class, it doesn't matter what you do. It doesn't matter how much you grovel, you're always guilty. You're always guilty, even if you're the one being raped, pillaged, and murdered. You're always the guilty one. Matt Egan on CNN said, quote, we should note, this is often a TGIF from fp.com, we should note that Claudine Gay has not been accused of stealing anyone's ideas in any of her writings. She's been accused of, sort of, more like copying other people's writings without attribution. Sort of copying other people's ideas without attribution. What is that? And that's sort of, we don't consider that a crime. That's not a bad thing. You tell that to students. You tell that to other academics who actually do this honestly and do their work properly. It's just, the left is falling over one another in order to find ways to justify her, to justify her behavior and to excuse it.