Writer Plagiarized in Rand Paul Op-Ed: ‘I’m Rather Flattered’

[libertarian101]

This non issue controversy invented by Zionist madcow will be dead in no time. The reason Rand always gets unfair beat up by liberals in comment section no matter how much he agrees with them is because he is running for president, if this were Mike Lee nobody will care. Rand should just laugh the incident off and move on even though his team must look back to all his past works and footnote them if they are not footnoted before the hacks do it now or around election time.


Until Monday, the list of British people plagiarized by U.S. senators stood at one — Neil Kinnock, the former Labour Party leader whose 1987 speech to his party was copied without attribution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden_presidential_campaign,_1988#Kinnock_cont roversy) by then-Sen. Joe Biden during that year's Democratic presidential primaries. Biden withdrew from the race shortly afterwards.This week, I joined Kinnock on that short list. BuzzFeed's Andrew Kaczyinski reported (http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/sections-of-rand-pauls-op-ed-on-drug-sentencing-plagiarized) that two paragraphs from my article (http://theweek.com/article/index/249578/rethinking-) on mandatory sentencing laws appeared verbatim in a Washington Times op-ed (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/20/paul-the-devastating-effect-of-a-drug-war-weapon/?page=all) authored by Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky. The news came as Paul had been accused of swiping bits of speeches and books (http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/rand-paul-has-given-speeches-plagarized-from-wikipedia-befor) from various sources, including Wikipedia. Paul, apparently "shaken (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/us/politics/after-plagiarism-charges-paul-announces-office-restructuring.html?_r=0)" by the new accusations, has since restructured his office (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/us/politics/after-plagiarism-charges-paul-announces-office-restructuring.html?_r=0). More : http://theweek.com/article/index/252335/i-was-plagiarized-by-rand-paul-and-i-dont-care

[AlexAmore]

This is something heartless big government zombies don't understand. When you are fighting with all you've got for a cause such as abolishing mandatory minimums, you don't care if a big shot politician uses your work to spread the message without footnotes. Why? Because it's about the message, the cause, not the person. There is no ego in fighting for liberty.

I bet I could plagiarize all day from this forum, post it on my Facebook to further the cause and nobody would blink an eye if they found out.

[torchbearer]

This is something heartless big government zombies don't understand. When you are fighting with all you've got for a cause such as abolishing mandatory minimums, you don't care if a big shot politician uses your work to spread the message without footnotes. Why? Because it's about the message, the cause, not the person. There is no ego in fighting for liberty.

I bet I could plagiarize all day from this forum, post it on my Facebook to further the cause and nobody would blink an eye if they found out.

it would be a compliment.

[Rudeman]

Yea, I'd take as a compliment as well.

[philipped]

Shit, I lowkey do it already. Thanks to the people in the Rand section of RPF.

[dannno]

I admit, I've taken a couple good comments from the forum and used them to spruce up a google away message or something.

I was pretty sure whoever wrote them wouldn't mind.

If somebody has used any of my posts for anything like that, also fine.

[torchbearer]

I admit, I've taken a couple good comments from the forum and used them to spruce up a google away message or something.

I was pretty sure whoever wrote them wouldn't mind.

If somebody has used any of my posts for anything like that, also fine.


well, with permission, i've used a forum members post as a letter to the editor that got published in the paper.

[jkr]

http://floppingaces.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/what-difference-does-it-make-hillary.jpghttp://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/4b/8a/fe/4b8afe77c65eea7a732c857dde5f7ef3.jpghttp://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/36/88/77/368877603fc8a6f25bdec54f26e76402.jpghttp://www.theglobaldispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Rand-Paul-I-will-speak-Filibuster-Facebook-photo.jpg

WHAT
INDEED?

[WD-NY]

22 comments and only one not written by a hyper-partisan obamabot troll who couldn't care less that the article Rand's writer lifted from called for the ending of mandatory minimums

/sigh