Progressives are doing everything they can to deflect from the real reason why former Harvard president Claudine Gay resigned. They're all excusing her plagiarism, either ignoring it or saying she was just "sloppy" or even claiming that the plagiarism scandal was "ginned up" from nothing. Gay got caught and was exposed. That's the story.

Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali is looking forward to right-wing academics being caught plagiarizing so he can watch conservative media "ignore it, deflect, and laugh at the gullibility of the mainstream media." Yes, progressives are also angry with newspapers like the New York Times falling into Christopher Rufo's "well-executed" trap and reporting on it when there are so many more important things to be writing about than "internal politicking" at Harvard.

So strange that Ali has no mirrors in his home.

We'll see Neil Gorsuch and raise Ali the current president of the United States.

Ali isn't calling for Biden to resign. So strange.

It sounds like Ali wishes everyone had ignored Gay's plagiarism and deflected, just as he's doing right here.