Monica Crowley and the Limits of Trump's Dismissal of the Press
The pundit was forced to decline a White House appointment after revelations that a book and a dissertation were rife with plagiarized passages.
There are few pithier ways to broach the strange story of the rise and fall of Monica Crowley’s career in the White House than the title of her 2012 book, What the (Bleep) Just Happened?
Here is what the bleep just happened: Crowley was , from a variety of sources, in dozens of cases in that book. A few days later, she was for plagiarizing in her 2000 Ph.D. dissertation at Columbia University. A few days after that, CNN’s KFile, which found the original thefts, that the dissertation pilfering was even more extensive. And on Monday, Crowley she would not take a job on the National Security Council in the Trump administration.
