Toobin watch

After Kathleen Parker noted the same thing I noted over at the Corner, Jeffrey Toobin shot Kathryn Jean Lopez an email apologizing to Labash and the Standard for his discourtesy. Good for him. Though, you know, he might want to send The Weekly Standard an apology and NOT NR. But whatever.

The full email:

I just saw Kathleen Parker’s post about my New Yorker piece about Roger Stone and Matt Labash’s earlier articles about him in The Weekly Standard. As I read Parker, the gist of the complaint against me is not plagiarism (because there was none), but discourtesy — that is, it would have been appropriate for me to offer a hat-tip or shout-out to Matt’s work. On balance, I think Parker is right; I should have acknowledged Matt’s articles, which I did read and enjoyed a great deal. So let me take this opportunity to apologize to Matt and The Weekly Standard.