A couple more plagiarism examples discovered:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57611411/more-plagiarism-accusations-against-sen-rand-paul/
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Thursday, November 7, 2013
The unlimited entertainment value of our junior senator
In some ways I hate to pick on Rand Paul, but he's such a great and deserving target. The evolving plagiarism blow up is so fitting for him. He has few, if any, original thoughts, most ideas seem to be from his dad and Ayn Rand (his current namesake?) and the fact that he has wholesale copied so much without attribution to the original authors perhaps should be expected.
But as surprising as the amount of plagiarism is his response to being outed. He hints that he wants to fight Rachael Maddow in a duel, calls people that call him out "haters and hacks" and offers that he would have flunked the people who uncovered the lifted portions of speeches and writings if he was their journalism professor. But for what?
When you copy someone else's work you attribute it. Rand acts like its some kind of revelation, but its not at all. In a writing, you double indent and single space to show the reader that you are quoting other's work, and in a speech you would say something like, "I'd like to read a portion from a recent article by....." and at the end you say something like, "end of quote."
I don't know if his indignation is sincere, and, if so, he's a total moron, or if he just wants to shoot the messenger, in which case he's a hot headed Little Lord Fauntleroy. I just love his sense of outrage! Oh, my honor has been insulted!
I read somewhere recently where plagiarism is a blend of theft, fraud and subterfuge. Several character defects all rolled into one.
Anyway, he's sure to provide much more entertainment in the future.
Here's a NYT article on the story:
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/rand-pauls-plagiarism/?ref=opinion
But as surprising as the amount of plagiarism is his response to being outed. He hints that he wants to fight Rachael Maddow in a duel, calls people that call him out "haters and hacks" and offers that he would have flunked the people who uncovered the lifted portions of speeches and writings if he was their journalism professor. But for what?
When you copy someone else's work you attribute it. Rand acts like its some kind of revelation, but its not at all. In a writing, you double indent and single space to show the reader that you are quoting other's work, and in a speech you would say something like, "I'd like to read a portion from a recent article by....." and at the end you say something like, "end of quote."
I don't know if his indignation is sincere, and, if so, he's a total moron, or if he just wants to shoot the messenger, in which case he's a hot headed Little Lord Fauntleroy. I just love his sense of outrage! Oh, my honor has been insulted!
I read somewhere recently where plagiarism is a blend of theft, fraud and subterfuge. Several character defects all rolled into one.
Anyway, he's sure to provide much more entertainment in the future.
Here's a NYT article on the story:
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/rand-pauls-plagiarism/?ref=opinion
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