WATCH: CNN's Hot Take on Claudine Gay's Harvard Resignation Was Something Else

We wrote earlier about how Boston Mayor Michelle Wu (D) had conveniently been absolved of wrongdoing by Massachusetts' woke Attorney General Andrea Campbell (D), who declared just before the Christmas holiday that Wu's controversial "Electeds of Color" holiday party didn't run afoul of public accommodation laws “since it was not open to the public.”

Though it may seem strange, even as Harvard President Claudine Gay is expected to resign over the plagiarism scandal that has rocked her and the Ivy League university for a month now, she, too, is enjoying some of that Democrat privilege as we speak thanks to her apologists in academia and the mainstream press, the latter of which was exemplified in a bizarre CNN report on her resignation that raised some eyebrows.

“Now, we should note that Claudine Gay has not been accused of stealing anyone’s ideas in any of her writings,” CNN business reporter Matt Egan proclaimed during one segment. “She’s been accused of sort of more like copying other people's writings without attribution. So it’s been more sloppy attribution than stealing anyone’s ideas.”

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Bonkers explanation from CNN reporter Matt Egan on the Harvard plagiarism scandal:

"We should note that Claudine Gay has not been accused of stealing anyone's ideas in any of her writings. She has been accused of sort of more like copying other peoples writings without… pic.twitter.com/ONArO75NLE
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) January 2, 2024

I mean, there is a word for "copying other people's writings without attribution" and last I checked, that word was "plagiarism." And how does the Merriam-Webster dictionary specifically define plagiarism?

: to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source
: to commit literary theft : present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source

Paging Matt Egan, please call your office using the white courtesy phone.

This is of course not the first time the media has rushed to Gay's defense in the midst of the plagiarism allegations as well as criticism over her December Congressional testimony where she said calls for genocide against Jews had to be reviewed "in context" before determining whether the language violated Harvard's hate speech rules.

For instance, NBC News "disinformation" reporter Ben Collins recently huffed over what he suggested in so many words was a manufactured scandal, blaming his colleagues in the press for allegedly falling for a conservative narrative because to him the bigger issue was conservatives exposing Gay more so than Gay's actual actions.

"If you're a mainstream outlet and you're being gamed this easily by a guy [leading CRT critic Christopher Rufo] who is laying out his playbook days or months in advance," he tweeted, "maybe the problem isn't the right-wing grifters."

"Maybe the problem is you," Collins went on to write.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Collins at this difficult time.

As for Gay, though she's resigning which is no doubt a disappointment and embarrassment for her, look for her to be even more lovingly embraced by the same types of people who treated Stacey Abrams with reverence even though she fit their description of a dangerous election denier to a "t."

Like I said earlier, Democrat privilege is a thing. We don't have to like it, but it must be acknowledged and called out for how rotten it is.