PLAGIARIZING IN ADVANCE: THE RUDY TUESDAY DEPT.

A local publication called "The Advocate" with a reputation of having a very direct, shall we say non-conservative view, is the most recent victim of our repeated habit at the Faux of plagiarizing in advance. This time, it involved our repeated description of a former NYC mayor who had one "good day" from his political point of view, anyway, namely, Tuesday, 9/11/2001, and has used and re-used and morphed his moment into an entire political platform. And, as he faced each new day, we came to call Mr. Rudy Guiliani, "Rudy Tuesday". And so . . . when "The Advocate" in their recent issue, referring to the upcoming primaries, led with the headline "Rudy Tuesday", we knew they had us. We've specialized in "anticipating" ideas in other columns but we're OK with “nicking” them on names as well.