Currently Rand Paul consistently polls in the top two potential candidates for the GOP nomination in 2016, so the fact that he is this incredibly lazy. and disrespectful of intellectual property, is big news.
Is it wrong that I can hardly wait for 2016 to arrive?
Because I have a feeling that if you thought the GOP lineup in 2012 was ridiculous that you haven't seen ANYTHING yet.
All I could think of was Bugs Bunny, shaking his head and walking away from Elmer Fudd, saying to the "camera": "What a maroon!"
ReplyDeleteYES! So very appropriate!
DeleteI have no doubt that Rand will get away with this because, you know, all that wiki stuff is just libtard crap..
ReplyDeleteOh, and check out this FUTURE WENDY DAVIS !! She's only 12 years old, and listen to this speech blasting the Governor of North Carolina..
http://freakoutnation.com/2013/10/30/12-year-old-girl-slams-north-carolina-governor-on-voting-rights/
Rand is so incredibly not-ready-for-primetime. It is his bloviated ego and Freudian desire to redeem his doomed fathers' name that propels him. He is completely incompetent.
ReplyDeleteTrue story: About 18 years ago when I was following MLBaseball a lot more than I am now, I was a fan of one particular club, and knew the background of one player well enough to write a biography of his career. It was posted on a fanzine website for that baseball team with my permission.
ReplyDeleteTo my surprise, other fan sites and eventually even Wikipedia cribbed most if not all of my biography even though there was a copyright on the fanzine site for any published material there.
(shrug)
I didn't see any point at all in complaining. The dissemination of my biography was better than no one being interested in it at all, because until it was cribbed, no one else had written anything biographical on this particular player, who today is looked at more kindly than when he was playing for the team.
Was the player Roger Clemens or Nolan Ryan? Darryl Strawberry? Cal Ripken Jr/Sr? Ken Griffey, Jr/Sr? Bobby & Barry Bonds?
DeleteJust curious, or as "some say", *nosy*. I used to love sports until learning the back-office business side eroded most of my "fan-ness". It's rather nostalgic to me now. I guess after investing untold hours into the sport, I can't let it go altogether.
You have to understand that speech writers cost big bucks. Rand Paul is trying to save his pennies for the big push in 2016, although frankly anything he has to say, about anything, is pretty much a steaming pile of el toro poo-poo.
ReplyDeleteRand Paul is a fraud on many levels. He says he is Board Certified. I think if his patients knew who certified him (father and friends), they might think twice about letting him near their eyes.
ReplyDeleteMuch like the same way Sarah Palin Word-Saladed Gingrich's speech "Republicans Need to Relearn Lessons of the Reagan Revolution" which appeared in the Union Leader, November 1, 2005 - in introducing Michael Reagan in Anchorage some years ago before she quit the hard work of governin.
ReplyDeleteThinking Leaders these people are not.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/palin-plagiarizes-gingric_b_212228.html
I could watch this all day, and still laugh. I may have called him "Ron" in an earlier post, I always get the two mixed up, but there's enough wackiness for the both of them on the net.
ReplyDeleteRachel's about to air now, and there was a blip about his kind of replying on his plagiarism. Can't wait to see what she uncovers this time!!
Makes me wonder how he learned to steal other's work and claim it as his? He's got the face that attracts college professors to look very carefully at his work. Probably wears a pocket protector and a james bond decoder ring!
Maybe Paul should quit reviewing movies and offer some original solutions of his own. And stealing the movie descriptions from Wikipedia is stealing, not a good thing.
ReplyDeleteThe only way this isn't plagiarism is if Rand Paul is the author of the Wikipedia article which does not seem likely ....
ReplyDeleteMost of Paul's constituents don't know what plagiarism is. They can't look it up either because they can't spell it. So they probably won't care.
ReplyDeleteIf it's on the internet, and if it's wikipedia and anyone can read it, then it's not stealing. It's just borrowing and repeating.
ReplyDeleteBWAHAHAHAHA... OF COURSE he does not want to/cannot respond to these allegations - the responses are not to be found in Wikipedia!
ReplyDeleteImagine how his "insightful" comments may have been received had he referenced the source and started them with, "And I quote..." No plagiarism in that. He also would have sounded damn silly standing there reading all that instead of talking about "his" ideas. That's what a leader does, and what a wanna-be leader should do.
ReplyDeleteBut that's just the small potatoes side dish at this faux pas feast.
The 800 lb. Galt in the room in this is that he STOLE the work of another. That's a curb stomping. Big time.
What an asshole.