The Washington Times said Tuesday that it had independently reviewed Mr. Paul’s columns and op-eds and published a correction to his Sept. 20 column in which the senator had failed to attribute a passage that first appeared in The Week.
The newspaper and the senator mutually agreed to end his weekly column, which has appeared each Friday since the summer.
“We expect our columnists to submit original work and to properly attribute material, and we appreciate that the senator and his staff have taken responsibility for an oversight in one column,” Times Editor John Solomon said.
“We also appreciate the original insights he has shared with our readers over the last few months and look forward to future contributions from Sen. Paul and any other members of Congress who take the time to help educate our readers,” Mr. Solomon said.
This article also claims that Paul took "personal responsibility" for the plagiarism however THIS is how he supposedly did it:
Mr. Paul took personal responsibility for the oversights, which he and aides said were caused by staff providing him background materials that were not properly footnoted.
So the staff did it?
It seems to me that either the Washington Post or Rand Paul do not really understand the consept of personal responsibility.
Bottom line the guy is a habitual plagiarist and there is NO reason to trust him on any of this, or excuse his behaviors and being the fault of overzealous staff members.
You need to clarify your title and blog post re: Washington Times vs. Washington Post.
ReplyDeleteFootnoted? You cite your sources, period. Footnotes aren't used anymore. In-text citations are used with a works cited page at the end of an essay or whatever writing is done.
ReplyDeleteI think you meant Washington Times in the title, not Washington Post :)
ReplyDeleteand "concept," not "consent"?
DeleteHe has screwed his career royally. He'll never be nominated to run for POTUS...cannot be trusted...now a proven liar and fraud!
ReplyDeleteHe did it to himself!
Nah, he is a repub. so all will be forgiven. Look at all the "disgraced" gop who run for office. Gingrich, Cuchinelli, Guilliani, now Tom DeLay will be next to run, since he narrowly escaped prison. Rand Paul is a joke, he ran on his Daddy's coattails, much like W. Imagine the President never taking responsibility for anything, he takes responsibility for EVERYTHING, including Benghazzi.
DeleteWorse? I believe it was the Moonies' conservative Wash. Times that kicked him off their pages. Next, he'll be threatening to a duel.
ReplyDeleteHe would love to "take the country back" to the days of duelling!! Back when women knew their place!!
DeleteWashington Times, not Post. My beloved Post would not have ever had him as a columnist.
ReplyDeleteYep, you guys are right it was the Washington Times, not the Post.
ReplyDeleteHurried post, no excuses.
What ever happened to integrity?? Hmmmm?
ReplyDeleteA successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the rocks others have thrown at him. See I said rocks ,not bricks . I didn't plager what you said anywy. PR
ReplyDelete"“We also appreciate the original insights he has shared with our readers..."
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Bwahahaha.
“We also appreciate the original insights he has shared with our readers, few and far between though they may have been..." There, fixed it for you, Times.
So we've got the next entry on our list of items that underscore why the Randlet should not be anywhere near a seat of power:
ReplyDeletePoor leadership. Whether his throwing staff under the bus is legitimate criticism of their incompetence or just a cheap weasel excuse to avoid personal blame, HE was directly in charge of them and therefore responsible for their performance as well as the quality of the end product they produced.
If he can't even direct a tiny staff effectively to produce a weekly fluff column for a newspaper, should he really be allowed anywhere near the controls of a world superpower?
Nah, get him one of those mega boxes of Lego's and a haircut. He'll be okay. Remember, Sarah Palin's got his back.
DeleteHe is beyond disgusting with his blowing smoke to cover for his flat out cheating, stealing and lying.
ReplyDeleteRand Paul Responds to Accusations of Plagiarism With Impassioned Speech
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chez-pazienza/rand-paul-plagiarism-satire_b_4226256.html
Rand Paul On Plagiarism Claims: 'It Annoys The Hell Out Of Me'
ReplyDeleteSen. Rand Paul lashed out at the media Wednesday for its coverage of the plagiarism allegations that have rocked the Kentucky Republican over the last week.
A day after announcing plans to amend the approval process for speeches and op-eds under his name, Paul told National Review he was so frustrated with the negative press that he would have failed reporters if he were their journalism teacher.
"What makes me mad about the whole thing is that I believe there is a difference between errors of omission and errors of intention," Paul said in an interview with National Review's Robert Costa. "We aren’t perfect and we have made errors of omission, but we never intended to mislead anybody."
"I’m being criticized for not having proper attribution, and yet they are able to write stuff that if I were their journalism teacher in college, I would fail them," he added.
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow revealed last week that Paul, a likely candidate for president in 2016, had lifted material from the Wikipedia page for the 1997 film "Gattaca" while stumping for former Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli. Buzzfeed reported the following day that Paul had also borrowed from the Wikipedia page of "Stand and Deliver" for a previous speech on immigration.
Paul initially rejected the plagiarism charges and likened them to "attacks coming from haters." He later said the claims were "insulting" and challenged his accusers to a duel if they kept up the reports.
Paul didn't apologize and pledge fixes until Tuesday, a day after Buzzfeed reported that an op-ed he wrote on drug sentencing for The Washington Times was copied nearly verbatim from an op-ed published by Dan Stewart in The Week.
The Washington Times announced later Tuesday that the newspaper and Paul had "mutually agreed" to end his weekly column.
The Kentucky senator told The New York Times he would begin adding footnotes and citations to his material so people would leave him "the hell alone."
Yet, citations and footnotes wouldn't necessarily resolve the issue, as it is still plagiarism when source material is lifted directly and isn't paraphrased, footnotes or not.
And the remorse didn't appear to last long, as Paul continued to play the victim in his comments to National Review Wednesday.
"It annoys the hell out of me," Paul said. "I feel like if I could just go to detention after school for a couple days, then everything would be okay. But do I have to be in detention for the rest of my career?"
One thing Paul neglected to mention for all his threats to school the journalists covering the plagiarism allegations: most teachers would fail their students for plagiarizing.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/06/rand-paul-plagiarism_n_4226249.html
No surprise that Rand Paul blames the media (no reason for him to look in the mirror and see the real reason for his problems; he only talks the talk of personal responsibility, but never seems to walk the walk, by taking personal responsibility.) He states..."he would have failed reporters if he were their journalism teacher...."
ReplyDeleteTPM reached out to a real journalism professor who happens to be a journalism professor at Baylor University, Paul's alma mater.
"Having now read both the provided texts of the speeches and columns of Sen. Paul in question, as well as the original materials, I believe that Sen. Paul's comment 'if I were their journalism teacher in college, I would fail them' is inappropriate and misguided," Robert Darden, associate professor at Baylor University's Journalism, Public Relations and New Media school in Texas, told TPM.
Darden doesn't buy Paul''s view. From TPM:
"It appears that the Senator from Kentucky is choosing to attack the messenger rather than specifically address what appears to be an unambiguous case of plagiarism," he said in an email. "Had one of my Journalism students made the same mistakes, I would fail them for each individual assignment and refer the case to the appropriate university office that deals with honor code violations."
If getting caught plagiarizing makes him issue duel challenges, dig himself into a deeper and deeper hole, and get pouty about a week's worth of bad coverage that he somehow thinks means it's going toDog him for the "rest of his career"*, can you imagine how he'd react if he got caught doing something that was actually consequential?
ReplyDelete*(Although his handling of this may make this a self-fulfilling prophecy after all.)
ReplyDeleteI've got news for you Mr. Rand Paul. (or should i call you aquabuddha?)
If you'd plagiarized like that in freshman English 3 separate times you would have ben expelled from college, and we needn't try to imagine you being an instructor where you can let your unruly, immature, insecure, power hungry quest for vengeance cover up for your dishonesty. What you've shown you would do, given the power, is another nail in the coffin for your career political goal. (you know, the one where you bash career politicians for a living....) Oh the hypocrisy runs strong in this bozo.
It's the dang medias fault all the time! To quote Reverend Sharpton,
ReplyDelete"He's the one with the blueberry all over his face"
What a pedantic assclown the plagiarist is, wonder if he's been properly potty trained yet??
No, but it's his staff's fault that he peed on the wall. They pointed him in the wrong direction. I hope you're not going to point out when he pees in this britches for the rest of his political career. Poor little fella. he's got that thick skin, bald head, and still spine like his fangirl, Sarah.
DeleteAnother one of Sarah Palin's endorsees fails. Sarah Palin should stop offering endorsements, her flaky endorsements are KILLING the Republican Tealiban.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure this is a saving face thing.
ReplyDeleteI'll bet they went back and reviewed every piece he wrote and found plagiarism in each one. They're cutting him loose but keeping it quiet. Probably to cover up their own carelessness in allowing Paul to get away with plagiarism for so long.
Off to ghostwriter's heaven...
ReplyDeleteRand Paul's Column Moves To Breitbart After Plagiarism Stir