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.
(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.
Have you seen the new link on Drudge that is questioning an incorrect Roosevelt quote, too? The link is bad, unfortunately.
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.
Example: the apolitical will likely never hear this story though a google News search reveals some MSM mention -- including the Las Vegas Review-Journal! Warning! Warning! Stop thinking about this story you'll get sued . . . .
The second mistake is a Teddy Roosevelt quote taken completely out of context. President Obama had the Oval Office renovated. Good for him. But there is a controversy. Naturally. It concerns a quote on the rug by Teddy Roosevelt: “The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally on the welfare of all of us.” Over at the Huffington Post, the quote is considered an endorsement of socialism. But Susan Shelley at America Wants To Know said the quote is taken out of context. Great detective work by a great thinking American. We know the speech today as the The Square Deal speech. Readers may decide for themselves: Don Surber has posted the transcript of the entire speech, which ends with this: The death-knell of the Republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.
Dumbazz
The only type of justice referred to in a Biblical context is one of eternal justice, not justice in an earthly context. There are many bad things that happen in this world that are never “justiced.”
If Obama wanted a quote from a black preacher for the carpet, it would have been much safer to have quoted Jeremiah Wright—Wright’s not likely to have plagiarized from a 19th-century white guy.
additional:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2583129/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2583251/posts