A Victory For Diversity

One fact in the Jayson Blair story has been carefully avoided by all the anti-affirmative action scowlers. The front-page story which led to Blair's downfall was plagiarized from Macarena Hernandez, a Mexican-American reporter who was a participant in the same New York Times fellowship program at the same time as Blair.

That's right. Blair stole his story from a highly-qualified non-white reporter who was also a purported "preference beneficiary." He didn't bother stealing the unoriginal ramblings of a bitter, coasting hack or the daily drivel of a pompous ass who hasn't reported a story in his life and couldn't catch a liar right under his own nose.

The moral of the story is obvious: The Times should re-hire Ms. Hernandez immediately. And ignore the flatulent old haters who aren't qualified to fill her job.