I actually watched MSNBC quite a lot yesterday and saw this story covered by Al Sharpton, Chris Matthews, and Chris Hayes. But of course it was Rachel's response that I was the most interested in, and of course it was great.
However it must be pointed out that Rand Paul's problem on this subject is certainly NOT simply being driven by one cable news network. If you do a quick Google search of "Rand Paul and plagiarism" you can certainly see that for yourself.
However possibly even more damaging than the fact his plagiarism is sop wide spread and consistent, is his response to having been found out.
You see he is not simply labeling it a partisan attack and loading his dueling pistols, he is also pulling a Sarah Palin and scrubbing the evidence from the internet:
Several transcripts of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s speeches have disappeared from his website. The change was noticed after reports by BuzzFeed, Politico, and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that said the senator had plagiarized in several of his speeches. BuzzFeed also recently reported that Paul plagiarized pages of his book from The Heritage Foundation and from a Cato Institute scholar.
"Plagiarism? What plagiarism?"
You know I NEVER thought Rand Paul had a legitimate chance to win the GOP nomination for president, but if you wanted to know when his very last chance died, it would be right about now.
Cleaning up the internet as a source and removing all the damning evidence is an old Palin trick, but one that is being used increasingly. Once upon a time you could be hung by your own words. Unless everyone learns to cache everything, the evidence can and will be erased time and again.
ReplyDeleteCan they really believe there are not copies of their stuff out there? Idiots!!!!
DeleteHis book has plagiarisms in it too. Everyone who bought a copy of Rand's book-- attention, attention-- return those books to Rand, immediately.
DeleteAnother Tea Party empty suit...
DeleteEven the dueling comment isn't original:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/05/1252984/-Cheers-and-Jeers-Tuesday?showAll=yes
I am afraid and concerned that the bar has been set pretty low and I see no end .The bar continues to slip. Evidenced by Rand Paul / Others and the obvious bombastic behavior and blatant lack of accountability,immaturity and Superflous Rhetoric.
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DeleteOh please. You KNOW those idiots can't understand english. At least, not educated english!
"Bombastic"? "Accountability"? "Immaturity"? "Superfluous Rhetoric"? Good god! They can't even PRONOUNCE those words, let alone understand them!
Oops he did it again! http://www.forwardprogressives.com/he-did-it-again-rand-paul-caught-plagiarizing-word-for-word-in-washington-times-op-ed/
ReplyDeleteRachel spanked him royally on tonight's program over this.
DeleteHe screwed himself even further by following the lead of the idiot Sarah Palin! They both have forgotten, or hope, that people didn't retain copies of their crap. NOTHING can be totally erased!
ReplyDeleteHe would never have gotten the nomination anyway!
Not only that, but taking a page (pun intended) out of the GOP handbook -- when caught red-handed, name call like a schoolyard bully!
DeleteIt's the GOTP way!
Run, Baldy, RUN ! ! !
ReplyDelete(That was directed to whomever you think it was.)
HAHAHAHA. Indeed!
DeleteI always wondered how this scrubbing works if you don’t have McCain’s henchmen?
ReplyDeleteI thought book editors were supposed to check for stuff like plagiarism.
ReplyDeleteDeleting website content is useless. You can search tons of deleted or altered web pages on the Wayback Machine at archive.org It's a good way to check what's been changed over time.
Exactly... plus NSA probably has a copy.
DeletePublishers don't have editors that do that any more. Many authors rely on friends to proofread for them to correct spelling and grammar.
DeleteAnd "If it's in a Rand Paul speech, someone else said it first"
DeleteRemember, Rand Paul couldn't pass the certification requirement of the medical boards so he created his own medical board which-- surprise-- certified him. Once a cheater, always a cheater.
ReplyDeleteEn garde. I love it! Rachel's awesome, and I'm pretty sure she just won the duel.
ReplyDeleteIt is lame beyond belief to have movie plots as the foundation for political aspirations. I can just imagine the apology from Rand Paul over this: "With God as my witness I'll never plagiarize again. If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill, with God as my witness I'll never plagiarize again.".... fade out with the Tara theme as Rand shakes his fist at a chilly sunset...... (the ragged dress is optional)
ReplyDeleteSadly, the conclusion that this kind of thing will ruin his chances of getting votes, is incorrect.
ReplyDeleteI've noticed a Facebook posting several times, attributed to Mark Twain, to the effect that its much harder to fool someone, than it is to get that person to accept that he WAS fooled.
So, for those poor souls who sucked into Rand Paul's stolen line of bullshit, they are most likely stuck there forever...calling this expose of him, just another liberal media pack of lies.
And, by the way: just where IS this "liberal media???" I see a liberal slant on a few MSNBC shows, but that's about IT.
needs to pray more to aqua budha
ReplyDeleteWhat next? Is he going to buy back every copy of his book and burn them?
ReplyDeleteRachel, in her own inimitable style, slays the follicly challenged one before he gets his toy sword out of it's sheath. She spanked him again on tonight's show, but not as succinctly as this. MSNBC knew what they were doing when they hired Dr Maddow.
ReplyDelete"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."
ReplyDeletehttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/5/washington-times-ends-sen-rand-paul-column-amid-pl/
Mr Paul takes responsibility for the oopsies- "The staff did it!!" The Times fired his ass.