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Sunday, November 3, 2013
Should we bully Rand Paul about plagiarism for cutting and pasting 3 pages of Heritage Fund text into his book "Government Bullies"?
Buzzfeed uses the word "plagiarism," but there is an endnote to the Heritage Fund report and Heritage Fund itself is only saying "we like when people cite our work."
How bad is this? (Multiple answers allowed.)
If only he'd blocked and indented it would have been nothing, but as it is, it's plagiarism.
Makes him less of a distinctive character, more like a name to be slapped on a group project.
Puts him in a category with other middling politicos, like Joe Biden.
It's a mark of dishonesty, but a mild one, and politicians are always at least somewhat dishonest.
As dishonesty, this is nothing compared to Obama's lies about Obamacare.
I'll be honest. This was dishonest, and it should be held against him.
More evidence that political books are unreadable trash.
A writer worth reading, even if dishonest, would never leave someone else's sentences verbatim.
What's truly unoriginal is a book where someone else's prose seems to blend right in.
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