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.
What’s amazing to me is that all kmalla or her fellow plagarist ghostwriter had to do was site their sources and no one would have cared anything at all about this. It just proves, once again, that the left will lie even when the truth would suit them better!
Why didn’t the NYT find it first?
Once again, the Left shows that they have No Moral Code. There is no way back to normal from where they are and no end to whatever atrocities they will commit against the Constitution and US. They must be stopped with prejudice.
In law school, we were told by our Advanced Legal Writing professor that if we even used wikipedia as a source (even if not plagiarizing it), not only would the paper/brief/opinion get an F, your course grade would be an F and you would be removed from the law school. That was around 20 years ago though.
...and now people are using open source AI that uses sources like Wikipedia as their source. That’s a dangerous trend. Businesses that have well sourced & controlled AI knowledge base should thrive provided the AI engine is controlled.
.....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......
kamala is too stupid to write a book!
This book was almost certainly mainly written by Ms. Hamilton, with lots of plagiarism to boot!
Vote Trump/Vance!
In the past there was some separation between ‘news’ and ‘opinion’... that line disappeared some years ago. Other than that, you’re right. Oh, and once they had a public editor with a pair so they fired him. Daniel Okrent was a hopeful sign they could be a real newspaper.
she wa not even good at it either, the side by side comparasons show a changed word here or there.
epic fail on kammy
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