"The Bee"
Posted on 10/15/2024 7:06:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
Katie had it yesterday: Kamala Harris might have plagiarized good chunks of her book, Smart on Crime. This goes beyond the recent plagiarism scandals that have rocked elite higher education institutions. It’s one thing not to cite someone else’s work. It’s another when you copy and paste entire sections of Wikipedia, which the vice president is accused of. And I thought Joe Biden lifting Neil Kinnock’s speech during his 1988 campaign was bad. This is even more egregious.
The New York Times tried to run interference. It failed. Christopher Rufo, who had the scoop, had the receipts:
Kamala’s publisher seems to know a disaster is in their hands, as all inquiries about this matter are to be forwarded to the higher-ups. The publisher accidentally sent an internal company communication to Rufo:
Tweets at link................
Break up the media conglomerates, don’t allow newspaper companies to own TV companies and vice versa.
I don’t mind them being biased as long as I know I can find other sources of information that are not.
It’s when the government wants to pre-empt any ‘other sources’ that the Constitution gets mangled.
Having a third party censor your publication is no different than the government doing it directly. Like hiring a hit-man to do your dirty work, you are just as guilty as the hit-man, even though you didn’t pull the trigger.................
Very interesting that no one has done an analysis of total cases tried by an AG’s office vs how many the AG does themselves
That data must be out there but isn’t shared as it would show how she was a placeholder rather than a prosecutor
Contrast Guiliani doing something with organized crime vs this “social warrior I was a prosecutor fake”
I do mind them being biased.
I want the newspapers and TV news to tell me “what happened yesterday”. There is no room for bias there. Tell it straight.
They have Op-Ed pages. Those are for some “expert” to tell us that, in their opinion, Trump is a poopy-head.
But the front page, and all the pages that cover News should be spitting facts about yesterday. Don’t try to persuade me about how I should think about stuff tomorrow.
As Charles Cooke put it, “She can’t think”.
Just went to the Amazon listing for this book and another one supposedly written by Harris “The Truths We Hold”. Amazon always starts it’s review section with an AI summary of all the reviews. This summary usually starts out with the positive and adds a little negative at the end. Both of these books summaries are all positive...even though I saw a few individual negative reviews.
For that you can blame the so-called Journalism Schools, where every professor is a Edward R. Murrow wannabe that failed in their career...............
"The Bee"
BTTT
I’d bet $1000.00 that she DID NOT WRITE ANY PART OF THIS BOOK!
Yeah.....sure.....WHO is going to bring up a BLACK DEMOCRAT WOMAN on these charges?? NO ONE!
Knees had a good gig with Willie
Bwahahahaha
She probably hired a ghost writer, and a damn lazy one at that!...................
Publisher quote in article:
“This is a very sensitive topic.”
Lol.
They got caught with their fingers in the cookie jar.
I have no problem with a politician, athlete, or other celebrity using a ghostwriter to help with authorship. Hillary Clinton used ghostwriters, even though she did not acknowledge them. Clinton's content was original, even if the precise wording was not her own. Even very good professional writers have editors who suggest (or demand) modifications to text to improve readability or correct grammatical mistakes.
That said, I do not believe that Kamala Harris has the intellectual discipline or work ethic to author anything like a reasonably coherent or intellectual consistent book. If she had a ghostwriter, I suspect that ghost writer did all the heavy lifting, and is also likely responsible for any plagiarism. Harris is a phony, for sure, but she may not have gotten the ghostwriting she thought she was paying for.
Why doesn't the New York Times blame her ghostwriter?
Sounds like the publisher did not do even minimal due diligence. Harris hired a hack ghostwriter who gave her what she paid for and what she wanted. Good and hard.
It's open theft, a scheme to divert unearned money to an undeserving recipient. Whether she actually did it (I question if she's smart enough to do even that), she signed her name to it and if Kammy takes a dime, she's guilty.
Self-plagiarism is an oxymoron. When you sell your writing, your work-product is your words. If you sell a work to one publisher they have exclusive rights to it. You cannot sell the same exact content to another publisher.
Everyone repeats themselves, and the flow of paragraphs in different works by the same author may resemble previous work. Exactly copying your own previous work and reselling it is fraud.
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