Senator Rand Paul Plagiarized from Wikipedia
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MachZer0
Caught Between Barack and a Hard Place
Have to laugh since nobody can produce the attribution. We now have four sources all using the same review but only one of them, a conservative oddly enough, is being held accountable. REminds me of the transparency promised by Obama. He's so transparent, we can see right through him, just like we can see right through Maddow's allegations
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RedDead1981
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There is an original source with author, date and time. You can produce that information, you have had ample time to produce that information. If you are going to claim Wikipedia plagiarized, you have the means to do so. There is an edit history page with annotations, citations and a record of changes. Everything is dated, so there is a timeline. So again, produce the evidence to substantiate your claim.
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Thank you for all the updates you've provided in this thread.
I wonder why those defending Rand Paul have made no comments on any of these new stories?
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It was a speech writer!
Rand Paul has a speech writer write his op-ed columns?
Sure, why not? I don't mind if the politicians don't actually write their speeches, and I am sure Rand Paul tells them the content he wants to discuss. Shoot, I really have no issue with his plagiarism because it was probably his staff. My issue is Paul's idiotic way he handled this story by deflecting, denying then wanting to have a duel! He is just like Sara Palin (somebody else mentioned this?) by getting all defensive and attacking others instead of admitting mistakes and moving on. It is obvious that he has thin skin.
I could not imagine how he would handle the Presidency with such thin skin.
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I think you can blame staff for speeches, but op-eds should be your own work. Nonetheless, I agree, it's not the plagiarism that's the big issue, it's the immediate denial/lying of wrongdoing. He has backpedalled only because more plagiarism was uncovered. At best this shows that Senator Paul is not an honest man, which is pretty much the status quo.
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trunks2k
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Just so we're all on the same page here. Mach, you don't seem to grasp that the bold portion above is something that others don't believe you have demonstrated.
My understanding is this: You claim that Wikipedia's summaries of Gattaca and Stand By Me are plagiarized from IMDB and have no attributions. Someone else posted the summaries from both sources and concluded that the summaries are different from each other and there's nothing to indicate plagiarism. You keep asking for the annotation of the summary on Wikipedia, but others are saying that we shouldn't expect one because they don't seem to be plagiarized. You have not demonstrated that what is on Wikipedia is plagiarized from another source.
Not that even IF whatever is on Wikipedia is plagiarized is any excuse for Paul plagiarizing.
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trunks2k
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Yeah, like speeches, it wouldn't surprise me if politicians have ghost writers for op-eds. They tell the writer the gist of what they want to say, then look it over to make sure it's acceptable.
This. The issue isn't so much that his speech/op-ed plagiarized. The issue is more his poor reaction to it being pointed out. Heck he could have even said "Yep, this seems to be plagiarized. And you know what? It was accidental and I'll do better to avoid it in the future. But why the heck am I the target of such a minor complaint <blah blah blah>"
I could have accepted that defense.
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You suspect Wikipedia plagiarized, if not you suspect IMDb plagiarized. Both pages, have an edit history showing when the page and specific edits were created. You can look at that edit history and its annotations to determine which source came written first, and if attributions were made at the time of edits.
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Then it is settled, Wikipedia is the original source and Rand Paul plagiarized the website. And you can determine which one is the original by reviewing the edit history of both pages.When I suspect that IMDB is the original, that in no way is a claim that wikipedia plagiarized
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Paul Blasts MSNBC, AP: 'If I Were Their Journalism Teacher In College, I Would Fail Them'
More of the same from Rand Paul.
More of the same from Rand Paul.
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