I figured Rand Paul would reply with something like, "My supporters are so backlogged with novel-length blog posts about various conspiracy theories they'll never get around to verifying the originality of my writing anyway."
By the way, there hasn't been much attention paid to the spectacle of a high-profile "Libertarian" stumping for Ken Cuccinelli, who wants to restore a ban on oral and anal sex.
Most Tea Party "Libertarians" are in fact American Taliban. Why don't they publicly embrace their counterparts in the Middle East, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and Africa?
(Not that I think much of "traditional" Libertarians, either.)
His college papers would probably make interesting reading considering internet source checking wasn't available to professors then. Somebody check his thesis, please!
Obama used the same excuse as Rand Paul when he was caught plagiarizing a Deval Patrick speech during the primary vs. Clinton, you know, that he should have used an attribution. Like Mr. Constant, the Clintons didn't want to let it go, but seriously, if that didn't matter, why does this? I'm no fan of Rand Paul, but fair is fair. I also remember hearing that there was pretty good evidence that the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. got the Dr. in his name by plagiarizing his dissertation. Regardless, It doesn't change my opinion of King and still believe MLK is deserving of his legacy. (even if cheating makes MLK a bad xtian)
My comment itself, @16, or the right wing's fervent desire to undo all the gains made by women in the last 100 years? (Or before: "[Nevada] Republican Assemblyman Jim Wheeler... said that he'd vote to reinstate slavery if that's what his constituents wanted him to do.")
There is something seriously wrong with this man. He wants to be a senator but he doesn't want anyone to scrutinize his behavior. Nutbag doesn't fall far from the tree!
I'm a left-wing guy and even I don't give a shit about this faux-outrage 'scandal.'
Just...don't...care...
Nobody outside of MSNBC and the SLOG gives a shit, either. If my lefty brethren had any sense, they'd be pimping Rand Paul for his run at the brass ring.
The more right-wing wackos the better I say. I'll buy more popcorn.
@ 20, plagiarism sank a likely-to-be-nominated GOP candidate here in Colorado in 2010. It was more serious (the guy had been paid $3M to be a think tank fellow, and all he showed for it was one 40 page paper on water policy that was largely cribbed from some decades-old book), but don't underestimate the potential for damage.
@20 - the NYTimes put it on the front page of the website today, it seems like it's more than just the way-lefties making noise about it.
Mostly I'm just amused that he doesn't seem to understand what plagiarism is. His solution is to add more footnotes if it will get people to "leave [him] the hell alone." His earlier excuses made it sound like he thought people were accusing him of plagiarizing the movie scripts, not the wikipedia pages describing them. Even sillier, some staff spokesperson told the NYTimes that a lack of quotation marks on the lifted passages was merely a typesetting error.
Maybe Rand Paul doesn't understand the difference between original work and plagiarism because he literally writes none of this stuff himself. His excuse today was that he's usually busy when he gets the speeches and op-eds for approval, so the plagiarism slips by. He has no idea what's being published under his name.
2016 Biden vs. Paul
Battle of the Xeroxers!
Most Tea Party "Libertarians" are in fact American Taliban. Why don't they publicly embrace their counterparts in the Middle East, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and Africa?
(Not that I think much of "traditional" Libertarians, either.)
this is a kind of crazy I usually assume only exists on YouTube or local news comments.
Just...don't...care...
Nobody outside of MSNBC and the SLOG gives a shit, either. If my lefty brethren had any sense, they'd be pimping Rand Paul for his run at the brass ring.
The more right-wing wackos the better I say. I'll buy more popcorn.
Mostly I'm just amused that he doesn't seem to understand what plagiarism is. His solution is to add more footnotes if it will get people to "leave [him] the hell alone." His earlier excuses made it sound like he thought people were accusing him of plagiarizing the movie scripts, not the wikipedia pages describing them. Even sillier, some staff spokesperson told the NYTimes that a lack of quotation marks on the lifted passages was merely a typesetting error.
Maybe Rand Paul doesn't understand the difference between original work and plagiarism because he literally writes none of this stuff himself. His excuse today was that he's usually busy when he gets the speeches and op-eds for approval, so the plagiarism slips by. He has no idea what's being published under his name.