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Did Kamala Harris plagiarize sections of her 2009 book? It sure looks like it. Christopher Rufo has uncovered significant evidence of Harris taking the work of others word for word and passing it off as her own, and it’s damning. Nowadays, when many Americans take for granted that politicians lie, this may not seem like a big deal, but it is. The plagiarism calls into question Harris’ honesty, her integrity, her trustworthiness, and even her most celebrated area of alleged expertise, as the plagiarism took place in a book that was designed to establish her credibility as a prosecutor.
JD Vance knows it’s a big deal. “I saw today, actually,” Vance said Monday, “a story that Kamala Harris apparently copied some significant chunks of her book from Wikipedia. So if you want a president with their own ideas, vote for Donald Trump. If you want a president who copies her own ideas from Wikipedia, vote for Kamala Harris.”
The New York Times knows it’s a big deal as well, which is why it published an 1100-word piece on Monday trying to explain away Harris’ plagiarism and portray the whole matter as an unfortunate example of just how low the foes of the sainted Harris will go. In the Times’ version, “conservative [a four-alarm word for the Times and its hapless readers] activist Christopher Rufo” is making a mountain out of a molehill. He “had taken relatively minor citation mistakes in a large amount of text and tried to ‘make a big deal of it.’”
That was the assessment of one Jonathan Bailey, whom the Times identifies as “a plagiarism consultant,” without explaining what exactly a “plagiarism consultant” is or how one attains such a lofty position. Bailey, the Times informs us magisterially, “said on Monday that his initial reaction to Mr. Rufo’s claims was that the errors were not serious, given the size of the document.”
See, if you’re a Democrat, you can get away with ripping off entire paragraphs of other works and claiming them as your own, as long as you fit the thefts into a document of sufficient size. And not only that, but our moral superiors have also determined that Harris’ plagiarism was the wrong kind: “The New York Times found that none of the passages in question took the ideas or thoughts of another writer, which is considered the most serious form of plagiarism. Instead, the sentences copy descriptions of programs or statistical information that appear elsewhere.” So relax, peasants, and vote for Kamala as you have been told to do.
Back in the real world, however, Rufo found several examples of paragraphs that Harris purloined so exactly and extensively that they would derail the career of any politician with an R after his or her name. An NBC News report from 2008 stated:
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WPM says
A vacuum empty suit why is the left so surprise see sucks and steals other peoples writing and ideas? She is cosplay Presidential Democratic place holder third rate actor who cannot remember her lines The escort girl who is past her sell by date ,now she has Obama scolding black men they must vote for her because she is “black” kind of ?Bill devil in a Blue dress Clinton hopping along the campaign trail .pulling for her ,I wonder if he is still hunting for some more tail? Harris has failed up ward her whole life ,I wonder how at this stage of the game if she mangers to pull off getting a “win ” in a “fortified” election if she would have a nervous break down with the pressure her handlers place on her to keep her from looking like a over the hill side piece girl in way over her head .She is the girl in the office who the boss takes on “business trips” that wifey does not know about. Everyone else in the office keeps their mouths shut ,and all she does in the office is her nails and order office supplies and get paid a six figure salary. She inherits the business when the boss has a heart attack and has no clue in how anything works.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Just for reference, in 1988, the revelation that Joe Biden had copied parts of his speech from British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock, was enough to end his primary campaign, and he never dared run for the same office again until 2008 (in the same race involving Hillary and Obama). However, this revelation won’t do squat to Kamala’s campaign, even though they could replace her w/ Walz on the ticket
The thing that beats me is – if she was not into writing, why did she even bother writing a book? Who exactly was she trying to impress?
somehistory says
bailey admitted that he had never read the book. He took what he said solely from what the times’ reporters gave him.
In school, the honest student has to be extra careful, or else, one can be expelled for copying the work of another and not giving credit. Even if the ‘copying’ is unintentional
But this “career prosecutor” can lie like a mozlum and nothing happens. She’ll go right on cacklin’ and lying and pretending she has a bunch of good ideas she hasn’t stolen from Mr. Trump..
One day, the lying hyena will reap what she has sown. She is sowing evil weeds and will reap a bitter harvest. How much damage she’ll do before then is kind of up to the voters of America.
OLD GUY says
Kamala Harris is a danger to the world. She literally can’t think for herself. She must of got her law degree out of a Cracker Jack box.
OLD GUY says
Kamala Harris is a danger to the world. She literally can’t think for herself. She must of got her law degree out of a Cracker Jack box.
Troybeam says
Just goes to show how the media has gone from truth to hiding the evil and wrong doings of elected officals.