Rand Paul: I'm Not A Crook

Gawdzilla said:
Or that other hard word, "honesty". He still needs to look that one up, too.
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Or he somehow thinks that being up front about it would have somehow been humiliating... Either way, he's not the first current politician to plagiarize, it just wouldn't have made the news like it has if he'd just apologized, corrected the record, and moved on.
 
Rare Truth said:
First - after hiding away for days and not responding -- and then finally having to respond, Rand Paul lashed out at the people who caught him,

then went jump-shark loony by saying he would like to put a bullet or a sword in the chest of his accusers -

then was all bah bah footnote police *******s!, whereupon he finally started owning up to it, after he blamed his staff of course

and now it's a divot to a W-inspired "it's hard work!" with Paul claiming with allllllllllllllllllllllllllll a junior senator has to do, his time management skillz have pressed him balls to the wall Too Busy! Too Busy! to write authentic material while taking credit for others works.

Hear that? He's got too much on to his plate as a junior senator --- as the background music of Hail to the Chief echoes in his ears and a Paul 2016 poster waves in the background...

And finally, his last two original quotes said in response to this cluster (yes, really for true) were these...

"leave me the hell alone"

and

"I’ll go back to being a doctor."

And you can quote me on that.
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Actually, it's worse. He's too busy to APPROVE.

UnrepentantSinner said:
And I understand that satirical humor doesn't always convey on the Internet. The joke was that he's not going to blame his staff (which he had done and still does), but that his excuse for not being more on top of his speech/book/Op Ed writing was the hectic schedule of being a freshman Senator from KY. That was why I wrote "in light" of both your and Tricky's posts. I wasn't directly responding to them.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...s-and-anecdotes-not-clearly-sourced-or-vetted
Paul partly blamed the errors on his hectic schedule, saying sometimes he has to read and approve the text of articles or speeches in 20 minutes.

“We write something every week for The Washington Times, and I literally am riding around in a car in between things trying to figure out if I can approve it,” He said.​

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I'm a freelance writer and I'd wager Rand had no idea where the text came from. I envision some poor schlump having to draft speeches (or ghostwrite a book) who is at fault here. At the low end of the pay scale plagiarism is rampant (at least online, where I compete).

He needs to start using Copyscape. Or pay his writers more.

(For other writers: "...from where his text came.")
 
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Grizzly Bear said:
Sometimes plagiarism is difficult to avoid, because there's many people that think alike in terms of certain ideas... not to excuse it or anything... But Paul would have come across all the better had he just said that indeed he made a mistake by not attributing the content to its original source. The weaseling around just fans the flames and digs the hole deeper that he doesn't have original ideas... IE... this is a scandal he made worse when he could have ended it relatively quick.
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Thinking alike is not plagiarism. Claiming someone else's ideas as your own would be. Those two things are not the same.

In the Senator's case, however, we aren't talking about "ideas". We're talking about multiple instances of sometimes paragraph long verbatim or nearly verbatim quotes without attribution.

If that can be shown to be a result of "thinking alike" I would be very interested to see how. The odds seem rather long against it.
 
marplots said:
I'm a freelance writer and I'd wager Rand had no idea where the text came from. I envision some poor schlump having to draft speeches (or ghostwrite a book) who is at fault here. At the low end of the pay scale plagiarism is rampant (at least online, where I compete).

He needs to start using Copyscape. Or pay his writers more.

(For other writers: "...from where his text came.")
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I find it somewhat ironic that President Obama is currently being raked of the coals by conservatives for a failure to micromanage every individual whose responsibilities fall under the purview of the Executive branch (i.e. the IRS, HHS, DoD, DHS ...), but the Teabagger darling of the 2016 election for those very same critics cheerfully admits that he can't even manage to be responsible for his own personal staff.

I have never understood why their brains don't 'splode from sheer cognitive dissonance.

Maybe they have. That would explain a lot.
 
marplots said:
I'm a freelance writer and I'd wager Rand had no idea where the text came from. I envision some poor schlump having to draft speeches (or ghostwrite a book) who is at fault here. At the low end of the pay scale plagiarism is rampant (at least online, where I compete).

He needs to start using Copyscape. Or pay his writers more.
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I think this is what bothers me here. It is not that he steals, it is that he has very little interest in producing a quality product. He doesn't have enough respect for his audience to make sure that his speeches and columns are written by quality writers.

It is a mix of poor management and disrespect for the consumer. It's what I expect from the Dollar Tree, not from someone who wants to be president.

(For other writers: "...from where his text came.")
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:D
 
Technically it is not a correct statement

Rand Paul continues to perform eye “surgery in his home state, often getting favorable media attention for performing free eye procedures. His profile on the website of the Tri-Star Greenview Regional Hospital, where Paul has privileges, includes the notation "Specialty Board Certifications: Ophathalmology." Likewise on the Healthgrades Web site where patients can locate physicians his entry reads: "Ophthalmology, Board Certified."

Since 2005 Rand Paul has not been certified by any board recognized by the state of Kentucky, and since 2011 has had no certification since the NOB was dissolved.
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