Tuesday, August 12, 2008
McCain, so smart, he knows to plagiarize
From cqpolitics blog:
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/politicalinsider/2008/08/did-mccain-plagarize-his-speec.html
OK, normally a politician plagiarizing something wouldn't be that big of news. Of course, if it had been Barack Obama who had done so, the McCain campaign and the Republicans would be screaming bloody murder.
But this incident proves two things.
1 - McCain may say he knows so much about Georgia (not my home state...the one in Asia), but there seems to be no proof of that matter. Given his need to steal knowledge without referencing said source, he would immediately fail any PoliSci course.
2 - Even if McCain doesn't know Wikipedia, at least his speech writers do. Lack of knowledge of the internet does not mean one can steal intellectual property from said place. But at least he's stealing someone else's ideas as opposed to not having any, which has been the hallmark of his campaign so far.
So, I'm going to call John McCain, Mr. McPlagiarizer from now on. After all, it's the one name that I'm sure fits.
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/politicalinsider/2008/08/did-mccain-plagarize-his-speec.html
OK, normally a politician plagiarizing something wouldn't be that big of news. Of course, if it had been Barack Obama who had done so, the McCain campaign and the Republicans would be screaming bloody murder.
But this incident proves two things.
1 - McCain may say he knows so much about Georgia (not my home state...the one in Asia), but there seems to be no proof of that matter. Given his need to steal knowledge without referencing said source, he would immediately fail any PoliSci course.
2 - Even if McCain doesn't know Wikipedia, at least his speech writers do. Lack of knowledge of the internet does not mean one can steal intellectual property from said place. But at least he's stealing someone else's ideas as opposed to not having any, which has been the hallmark of his campaign so far.
So, I'm going to call John McCain, Mr. McPlagiarizer from now on. After all, it's the one name that I'm sure fits.
# posted by Kevin @ 8:14 AM 
