Its not like we are asking for her to be a Vice President after being a plagiarist of major political speeches...whoops, that was Joe. But that’s okay, he’s a Dem.
That is exactly the point. She did not copy her arguments about how Obama is expropriating the product of American exceptionalism, redistributing it to the third world and undermining the source of American wealth and power from another book and pass it off as hers.
And that is exactly the point. CNN hates her for it. But to criticize her for what she said, they would have to repeat what she said which would convince others that her views are valid. So they accuse her of plagiarizing, which is an academic standard, not a legal one. It is not theft of intellectual property to quote a view without citation and then criticize it. Criticism is a category under fair use, and you cannot accuse here of seeking to profit from a stolen idea which she holds up to scorn and ridicule.
The real problem is that the left is attempting to use "plagiarism" to squelch political speech.