Posted on 09/04/2010 10:50:00 AM PDT by kristinn
Good find! Gotta run...
Shades of the little guy on laugh in, holding the cigarette between thumb and first finger, saying ‘Veeeery interesting.’
“....My investigation into this error led me to David Remnick’s biography of Obama, “The Bridge,” published this year. Early in the narrative, Remnick, the editor of the New Yorker, presents this as “Barack Obama’s favorite quotation.” It appears that neither Remnick nor Obama has traced the language to its true source.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090305100.html
Thanks for sharing your research! Very interesting.
Not surprising. The jerks in this Admin and their minions are incapable of an original thought.
Since clearly the Ivy League can't even do a google search.
The jerks in this Admin and their minions are incapable of an original thought.
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Now then, hasn’t Biden ‘borrowed’ quite a few of them?
He also had an original thought here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyEqyYUGk4I
No else EVER came up with that thought!
Wow, never invite that guy to a party. He’ll insult all your guests.
(facepalm)
MLK used the phrase and there was no copyright on it so attributing it to MLK is no big deal.
It does prove that Obama is an idiot, but we knew that already.
Copyright or not, failure to attribute is wrong. You'd think someone like our president who claims all those legal and scholarly credentials, not to mention a Nobel Prize, would be a bit more fastidious, if out of scholarly habits learned at Columbia and Harvard if nothing else.
He stole a speech from Duval Patrick but Patrick being such a good guy told him.......no problem!!!!
Ha ha ha, actually David Axelimprod gave the same speech to Obambi and Patrick.
Or is it Patrick Duval?
In a legal “copyright’ sense no violation, but as to plagiarism, that is a differnet story.
Have you seen the new link on Drudge that is questioning an incorrect Roosevelt quote, too? The link is bad, unfortunately.
Barry can’t even draft his carpet correctly without the aid of his former ghostwriter Bill Ayers. Bill would have caught the error if he were still Barry’s closest advisor/mentor.
There are some phrases that begin to embed themselves into the culture. After a time everyone knows them and no one knows where they came from.
One of the remarkable things about internet search functions is that it makes it possible to trace a phrase to everyone who has ever used it. Even at that, I’m surprised when someone is able to find who originally used it. Good job.
I’d like to think something I wrote was plagiarized; I got off what I thought was a pretty good zinger one day on a thread here in FR, and a couple of hours later the very same zinger was in a speech during the convention... it made me sit up in my chair. Then I thought, first, the speech had to have been written days before. And, secondly, in retrospect, it was a pretty obvious joke, probably a lot of people thought of the very same thing. Still, I enjoyed giving myself credit.
That actually happens from time to time, it makes me think people beyond our circles actually read FR and steal “inspiration” from some of the things we write. I enjoy thinking so, in any case.
There’s an article on Drudge that insinuates that the Roosevelt quote may be incorrect, also. The link is dead, though. Do you know anything about that?
This douche can’t seem to do anything right - not even buy a freakin’ rug.
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