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.
Everything has been plagerized bfd
Has Joe Biden weighed in?
I hear that Jared Kushner once dipped a girl’s pig-tails in an ink well.
Crowley even plagiarized a whole lot of individual words!!!
trump will be loyal and do the right thing. plagiarism is bad...but its a little sore throat at a time when the country is fighting cancers and clogged arteries. small taters...
Vice President Biden plagiarized from a law review article when he was a first-year law student. Of course, that was just a “youthful indiscretion.”
I don’t care what CNN says about Monica. If they investigated Hillary, they would find out that she’s an actual criminal who belongs in prison.
I’ll bet she used, “the” and “and”. Some nerve as others have used them, too.
We’re not hiring her to write books. Smear the Trumpists...any way possible.
Doris kerns Goodwin is outraged!
Don’t care.
well, i guess that’s it for Trump. nice while it lasted...
Also....old news.
Cnn has a confirmed plagiarizer who has his own show Fareed Zakaria.
“Four years ago, you could have almost seen Bill Clinton’s thought bubble as he watched Barack Obama’s weak and listless performance against Mitt Romney during the first presidential debate: “I can’t believe we lost to this guy.”
Mr. Clinton never would have mailed it in the way Mr. Obama did. He may have lost some of his old magic, but he’s still got the golden touch.
His wife, however, never had it — and clearly never will, as evidenced by her plodding and grating debate performance against Donald Trump this week. At the same time, Mr. Trump was aggressive, projecting authority even when he was on relatively shaky ground. Unlike others who have opposed her, he didn’t care that she was a Clinton or a Democrat or a woman. He didn’t defer to her, offer special treatment or allow her a wide berth for Clintonian parsing.”
Slow day in the news room after a candid report of their thorough and exhausting investigation into the sources and uses of funds in the various organizations that we refer to as the Clinton Foundation.
Well have they investigated to determine if those who she plagiarized from had plagiarized from somewhere else? Of course they haven’t. Besides it should be the person from whom they plagiarized from to raise the issue, in my opinion.
uh, Hussein stole his crap from Alinsky and Marx.
Often when I’m writing, I’ll look for a phrase online. If I like it, I’ll grab it. SO??
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