Posted on 10/15/2024 4:00:32 AM PDT by george76
Kamala Harris' presidential campaign has been rocked by allegations that Harris plagiarized parts of her book, "Smart on Crime," which she co-wrote in 2009 with author Joan O'C. Hamilton.
The claims were made by leading Critical Race Theory critic Christopher Rufo in a detailed Twitter/X thread and Substack piece, both of which were published Monday morning.
According to Rufo, the Democrat presidential nominee "plagiarized at least a dozen sections of her criminal-justice book," as discovered by Austrian "plagiarism hunter" Dr. Stefan Weber, who Rufo says "has taken down politicians in the German-speaking world."
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I wondered at the time how - or even if - the mainstream media would react/report on this story. As it turns out, they are, but some of the outlets, the New York Times in particular, are not taking it well at all.
First up was the predictable "pouncing and seizing" word games, because the story is the conservative reaction to it - not the actual story itself:
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Then there was the so-called "plagiarism expert" the Times was able to immediately get comment from, who assured us everything was okay, move along, nothing to see here:
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And perhaps the least shocking part about the Times piece was how they fell back on "some academics" (unnamed) to portray Rufo and his work exposing plagiarists as "racist" because of course:
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Strangely, when you click on the link to read the piece, not a single academic is cited, nor is a quote provided.
As RedState readers will remember, Rufo revealed in December 2023 that then-Harvard president Claudine Gay "plagiarized multiple sections of her Ph.D. thesis." Gay resigned just a few weeks later after coming under fire over the plagiarism scandal and over how she responded to antisemitism on the Harvard campus after the October 7th Hamas terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians.
Relatedly, Kamala Harris has previously been accused of plagiarizing Martin Luther King Jr.
In any event, the Trump campaign has rendered a final verdict on the Times' reaction to Rufo's documentation:
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Heh.
When I saw this yesterday, I wondered how it was possible that the publisher didn’t run its software against the pair’s content, standard practice among book publishers...
Thank you.
Same with the plagiarism found in former Harvard president Claudine Gay’s doctoral thesis.
Under lying it all is the presumption that Kamel Harris wrote the book. Given her inability to speak to ideas raised by questions, I will argue the book was written entirely by the Ghost Writer and Kamela’s name addition was her total participation.
Kamela Harris lacks the intellect to write a book
See my #21.
Yours is a very good relative question.
I’ve long wondered if the play was always to use her as a poison pill and this little ‘October Surprise’ was with [long planned] intent to that end.
It’s a disturbing proposition, especially in consideration of what they may have planned for DJT - and the rest of the country - this time...
If taken literally, that’s enough to gag a maggot.
92% of her staff quit .. she is a nasty drunk and ... ?
All current plagiarists have the sads that they didn’t have ai chat to write their books for them back when, which they then would claim to be their own.
Cite for me, please, when exactly was The New York Times “a great paper.” I’m 70 years old and for my entire life the NYT has been exactly what it is today.
Which would have been reason enough to scrutinize and examine!
According to Martha Raddatz, only a handful of chapters were plagiarized.
He found many many exact verbage where it was lifted from wiki.
Anyone who is still considering Harris for president either doesn’t know what plagiarism is or has done it themselves.
Ageed—the NYT has lied like a rug for decades and decades and decades.
Every story they published had an “angle”, i.e, an agenda.
They never played it straight.
Ever.
She uses quotes from the communist manifesto all the time!
I hate that narrative paper with a passion. It has always been at the pinnacle of the mainstream media pyramid of disinformation. Polysyllabic trash
When I was working om=n my Master’s, my professor said if you sourced Wikipedia, your paper would be failed. Blaming her book editors in 5-4-3-2-1.....
“ How was this discovered?”
Someone finally read it.
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