Posted on 01/07/2017 4:24:26 PM PST by usafa92
An investigation by CNN’s K-File has found that Trump advisor Monica Crowley, who the president-elect has tapped for a senior communications role on his national security team, plagiarized many parts of her 2012 bestseller, What The (Bleep) Just Happened? The Happy Warrior’s Guide to the Great American Comeback. CNN discovered and documented more than 50 instances where Crowley, a former Fox News contributor and syndicated radio host and columnist, had lifted passages or phrases — some wholesale — from a variety of sources including Wikipedia, think tank websites, and news articles and op-ed columns from numerous publications like the National Review, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and many others.
The Trump transition team defended Crowley in a statement to CNN and called the allegation — which CNN backs up with essentially irrefutable side-by-side comparisons — a “politically motivated attack that seeks to distract from the real issues facing this country,” insisting that Crowley’s “exceptional insight and thoughtful work on how to turn this country around is exactly why she will be serving in the [Trump] Administration.”
CNN was unable to get a response regarding the discovery from either Crowley or her book’s publisher, HarperCollins. Crowley is currently set to become Trump’s senior director of strategic communications for the National Security Council. She was previously accused of plagiarizing part of a Wall Street Journal column she wrote in 1999, an allegation she denied.
Teddy Kennedy ( spit ), had other kids take tests for him and got kicked out of college for more of the same, but his father paid the college off and made them reinstate him.
SPOT ON!
That’s from my favorite Stooges movie. :-)
What did he plagiarize? This is the first I’m hearing of it.
Zakaria got the whole election wrong. He said, “Donald Trump will lose and will destroy the Republican Party.” I can’t recall the exact quote, but that’s essentially what he said if not word for word.
I just wonder what possessed CNN to look to see if her book was plagiarized. That took a lot of work to check all these passages.
I agree. Conservatives, the right, or whatever you want to call us, are held to a higher standard and in a sense that’s not fair. The press goes out of their way to cover up for leftists, but even a small infraction on the right is put in the spotlight.
But we actually have higher standards ourselves, and she needs to live up to these. It sounds like there’s a lot of non-original and non-cited material in the book. It may have been careless and unintentional, but I think she still needs to apologize and withdraw it.
We’ll talk about that after you MSM clowns talk to Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch about his “book”.
May want to check with Ayers, the “eddikation docktor”.
We’ll talk about that after you MSM clowns talk to Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch about his “book”.
May want to check with Ayers, the “eddikation docktor”.
It begins. Everybody associated with Trump is going to be given an anal exam by the media, but no democrat will.
I didn’t read it. Are they saying she didn’t attribute it?
Non-story. So did all the libs. Nobody cared then, so they don’t get to care now.
I am going to take issue with this view on two levels. First, Crowley's work is not plagiarism because her work is original and transformative - she discussed the ideas of others to weave them into a synthesis and prescription for future action that is original with her.
Second, far too much is made of plagiarism. The exact crime of plagiarism is stealing someone else's work, taking someone else's original ideas . And so for it to be plagiarism she must be passing off as her ideas, ideas that were actually original with the person accusing her of plagiarism.
Generally known and reported facts are not original ideas. For instance she was accused of plagiarizing something from someone who recorded what Reuters reported. But, the original plagiarist does not own the report, Reuters does, and Crowley wrote that Reuters reported it. And she was accused of plagiarism for reporting something about Keynesian economics. Now, it would be theft if she reported ideas thought up by Keynes as her ideas, but she didn't. She stated they were Keynes's ideas. Someone does not gain title to those ideas, by being the first thief. The are Keynes's ideas, not Investopedia's.
The real issue is not plagiarism, but principles of good scholarship, which requires citing sources of ideas and information principally to provide evidence of accuracy. Avoidance of plagiarism is a lower standard. It merely requires not passing off as your ideas, ideas that belong to someone else. Now, generally I am a strong advocate of good scholarship to assure the provenance of facts and ideas. And there the issue is to ensure that the facts and ideas are not original with Crowley, not #fakenews, but in fact things that actually transpired or were actually said or recorded.
So, it is a valid criticism to state that for you, or for me, the value of the work would have been augmented by careful footnoting (if it wasn't all properly footnoted, something I don't know for a fact.)
Josh Ernest plagiarizes Goebbels daily.
Dept of InJustice:
The Nature of The Evidence Doesn’t Matter;
It’s The Seriousness of The Charge.
Did she have a reference to Klein in the bibliography? She should have, for that. That is pretty darn near a copy for multiple, consecutive sentences.
There is no reason to copy like that and not quote.
Yes, Ted had others take a Spanish exam for him at Harvard. I am ashamed that my alma mater subsequently admitted him to its law school.
I’ve been laughing at that Stooge skit for more than 50 years :)
Why didn’t they blast her then?
He also plagiarized a speech by British lefty Neal Kinnock when running for President.
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