Dan Abrams Calls Out Left-Leaning Media’s ‘Blatant Double Standard’ Ignoring Claudine Gay’s Plagiarism

Dan Abrams hit back at left-wing criticism over former Harvard president Claudine Gay’s resignation over plagiarism charges, calling it a “blatant double standard.”

During Thursday’s edition of NewsNation’s Dan Abrams Live, Abrams (who is the owner of Mediaite) ripped into pundits and commentators on CNN and MSNBC, calling Gay’s scandal racist while trying to gloss over the fact that she “clearly” committed plagiarism:

It’s, I guess, not a big surprise that the left-leaning outlets would rush to defend a powerful woman of color being forced out of a high-profile job. But the degree to which those outlets have carried water for Claudine Gay by blaming it on racism, attacking her critics and by sugarcoating, even flat-out denying the violations she clearly committed has just been sort of hard to believe.

Abrams then played a montage from MSNBC and CNN of commentators attempting to minimize her infractions. He also made it clear that he had said publicly that he did not think she should have been fired for her testimony to Congress on campus anti-Semitism in December:

Yeah, her testimony was lame, but to fire her for that felt like cancel culture, something I’m very much opposed to. But with regard to these plagiarism charges and Gay’s subsequent resignation, for the left-leaning media to immediately cry “racism” and to just totally look past her offenses is a blatant double standard.

He also pointed out that the other targeted university presidents were white, which throws water on the argument that conservative critics were only going after Gay because of her race.

But that’s beside the point: Gay resigned over charges of plagiarism, not her testimony, and there were several examples, at least 50 occurrences, of her taking text from others without properly citing them. This, even by Harvard’s own definition, is plagiarism:

“Plagiarism is defined as the act of intentionally or unintentionally submitting work that was written by somebody else.” It doesn’t get much clearer than that. There’s no hedging. There’s no mention of true plagiarism. It’s plagiarism. And in the academic world, it’s a really big deal.

Watch the video above via NewsNation on YouTube.