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Kamala Harris accused of plagiarizing in 2009 book about being 'smart on crime'
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Posted on 10/14/2024 8:19:54 PM PDT by bryan999

Vice President Harris is being accused of plagiarizing from several sources in her 2009 book on policing that was released while she was district attorney of San Francisco.

The book, "Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer," was co-authored with Joan O'C Hamilton.

The so-called "plagiarism hunter," Austrian professor Stefan Weber, found 27 times that Harris, the 2024 Democrat nominee for president, and her co-author allegedly committed some form of plagiarism.

He found that "24 fragments are plagiarism from other authors, [and] 3 fragments are self-plagiarism from a work written with a co-author."

Manhattan Institute senior fellow and conservative activist Chris Rufo first reported on the allegation on Monday, pointing to multiple examples from Harris' book in which entire sentences and phrases were apparently lifted from other sources without the use of quotations, though in some cases a footnote cites the source.

"Taken in total, there is certainly a breach of standards here. Harris and her co-author duplicated long passages nearly verbatim without proper citation and without quotation marks, which is the textbook definition of plagiarism," Rufo wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: plagiarism
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1 posted on 10/14/2024 8:19:54 PM PDT by bryan999
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To: bryan999

Kamala will blame it on her co-author!


2 posted on 10/14/2024 8:26:23 PM PDT by Brandonmark (November 2024 cannot come soon enough!)
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To: Brandonmark

Do you really believe that she was capable of writing a book?

She’s not even capable of hitting a competent ghostwriter.


3 posted on 10/14/2024 8:28:02 PM PDT by jdege
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It's not insignificant. Although I am sure that the media will sweep it under the rug. This isn't an autobiography. This was, ostensibly, an intellectual effort. A statement of belief and ideology. It is like faking a doctoral thesis. I know that Martha Raddatz will try to claim that it is only “a handful of instances of plagiarism”. But it just reinforces her inauthenticity.
4 posted on 10/14/2024 8:40:07 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: bryan999

Fox will be the only network to even mention it.

Or . . . if they mention it they will say the accuser is a right winger, or it has been debunked, or something. Some talking point the non-playing characters can hold onto.


5 posted on 10/14/2024 8:47:01 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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Martha Raddatz will try to claim that it is only “a handful of instances of plagiarism”

Ouch!

6 posted on 10/14/2024 8:47:42 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: bryan999

She tried 2 court cases her entire career


7 posted on 10/14/2024 8:53:38 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: jdege

Essentially what I was going to say but you beat me to it.


8 posted on 10/14/2024 9:35:07 PM PDT by piytar (Remember Ashli Babbitt, Rosanne Boyland, and Corey Comperatore!)
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To: bryan999

Biden plagiarized Brit PM Neil Kinnock in his 1987 campaign - so it’s only natural he’d pick a fellow plagiarizer for his VP. Lying, cheating, stealing, plagiarizing - it’s all of a piece for Democrat leadership.


9 posted on 10/14/2024 9:48:38 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: bryan999

More here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4270965/posts

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4270949/posts

😊👍


10 posted on 10/14/2024 10:45:10 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Stosh

He also plagiarized in school. Deception and theft comes naturally to him.


11 posted on 10/14/2024 10:47:37 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: Jeff Chandler

“false claims”?

“debunked”? “unproven”?

“baseless”?

In the “Thesaurus of the Left”, there must be many more...


12 posted on 10/15/2024 1:57:32 AM PDT by Does so (Vote for The Anti-War President...🇺🇦...Dem☭crats...)
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To: bryan999

black female Harvard head just got a promotion for the same, there is a future in this


13 posted on 10/15/2024 2:42:13 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: bryan999

If she’s a “career prosecutor,” how the heck did she end up running for the Senate and now president? Did she lie again?


14 posted on 10/15/2024 3:11:04 AM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Thanks for the info. I didn’t know that, especially since she keeps calling herself a “prosecutor.” So what exactly did she accomplish before she ran for the Senate?


15 posted on 10/15/2024 3:15:26 AM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: bryan999

Kamala and smart should never be used together.


16 posted on 10/15/2024 4:30:07 AM PDT by Old Yeller (On judgement day, you’ll wish you were biblically correctly, not politically correct.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

She tried TWO CASES??? TWO???


17 posted on 10/15/2024 4:40:00 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: bryan999

Just following the lead made by MLK,Jr., and a multitude of other black writers. Plagiarism is rampant and accepted by them.


18 posted on 10/15/2024 5:26:16 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: bryan999

Not surprised at the finding. But you can “self-plagiarize.” (Although most writers like to remind the reader, “as I said before . . .”)


19 posted on 10/15/2024 7:52:15 AM PDT by csn vinnie
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To: Ann Archy

People researching have only found 2.
But they haven’t reported on it yet. Not sure they will or if they’ll find more cases.


20 posted on 10/15/2024 7:55:34 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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