This doesn't even surprise me anymore. Sigh.

There was a time when reality was NOT stranger than timecube...

A recent Reagan speech? I thought he died 5 years ago.

This was an unspeakable crime when Maureen Dowd did it.

Let see if any "conservatives" notice...

Sara needs to shut her mouth and keep an eye peeled for Putin and Kim Jon Il lest they sneak up behind her and catch her unawares.

I looked at a transcript of her speech and she credits Gingrich several times. I would have to give her a pass on the plagiarism charge.

Recently, Newt Gingrich, he had written a good article about Reagan. He said, regarding your dad, Michael, he said that we need to learn from his example...


What Newt had written in this article, he wrote, remember how refreshing it was with his outrageous directness that Americans loved and craved and deserved that Reagan dealt with, with then the troublesome Soviet Union.

Quoting a guy twice and then paraphrasing more is not plagiarism.

the real question is why would anyone want to quote Newt?

"donning red Franco Sarto high heels (she mentioned them)"

Who the hell mentions their shoes.

As a lifelong Democrat, can we please get some non jackass Republicans, it would be better for the country.

Lionel Mandrake: This was an unspeakable crime when Maureen Dowd did it.

Let see if any "conservatives" notice...

So, about Joe Biden . . . .

GIGO

Hobodeluxe: the real question is why would anyone want to quote Newt?

I would have thought that the real question is who read the speach to her in the first place?

/ That family does not appear to put scholastics high on the totem pole.

notmtwain: Recently, Newt Gingrich, he had written a good article about Reagan. He said, regarding your dad, Michael, he said that we need to learn from his example...


What Newt had written in this article, he wrote, remember how refreshing it was with his outrageous directness that Americans loved and craved and deserved that Reagan dealt with, with then the troublesome Soviet Union.

I sort of miss Sarah of the ridiculously convoluted sentence structure making daily headlines.It was always good for a laugh.

So she quoted him, paraphrased him and then gave him credit? Sorry HufPo, that's not plagiarism.

What it IS is just downright laziness on her and her staff's part in not actually writing their own material. And they didn't even get the vague timeline correct.

I don't really see the plagiarism...she mentioned the article and then paraphrased a bunch.

However, this is just funny:
"The "right" ideas really matter (the left was wrong and Reagan was right about virtually every major public policy issue and the historic record is clear for those willing to look at it)."

keep beating that drum

It'll be "right" eventually. It just HAS to be.

Sounds like there's two authors, and she only mentioned one. But it seems like really crappy source material.

RadiomanATL: So she quoted him, paraphrased him and then gave him credit? Sorry HufPo, that's not plagiarism.

There might've been some plagiarism in there, but I stopped reading after the second example. (The one where she states, "he said," and then the author takes her to task for repeating what he said).

Give back the clothes.

So if Freepers can mock Obama as "Hopey McChange" can we officially nickname Palin "FellatingReagan McMediaPersecutionComplex"?

InmanRoshi: So if Freepers can mock Obama as "Hopey McChange" can we officially nickname Palin "FellatingReagan McMediaPersecutionComplex"?

I don't think she needs a nickname.

Just say: Palin.

No punch line needed.

Lionel Mandrake: This was an unspeakable crime when Maureen Dowd did it.

Everything is a crime when Maureen Dowd does it.

It doesn't matter if this is plagiarism or not. The fact that people say this woman is intelligent when she can't put together a coherent English sentence in a written speech boggles the mind.

So I join you in speaking up and asking the questions and taking action, and here at home in my beloved Alaska I just say, politically speaking, if I die, I die. I'll know that I have spoken up and I will speak up to thank people like Mr. Reagan as we honor his dad, to encourage you too, Alaskans, to do the same and don't just hang in there and go along to get along but stand up and speak up, and be bold and demand that Washington be prudent with our public monies and prioritize for America's security, and forget the political correctness that makes one guard your conversation, and couch our words so cautiously that they lose meaning, and we lose effectiveness, and then we lose hope because we start thinking that politicians are only worried about their poll numbers and attracting campaign contributions for their next bid so that they can hold on to some title and some position.

I would hate to see what happens when she doesn't "couch her words so cautiously."

RadiomanATL: What it IS is just downright laziness on her and her staff's part in not actually writing their own material.

THIS.

Fark's sake, there have got to be two dozen farkers who can't stand her who could still write a more thorough speech if the price was right. Lest you think you'd never do such a thing, think of it this way: Quote a high enough fee and you can kick some of it straight to Obama, plus she won't have as much to spend on clothes.

Did Palin even write the speech?

But whoever wrote the words she mangled, the commenters above have clearly shown that it was not plagiarism as it did credit the source. A real academic paper probably should not have so much paraphrasing and have more original material, but political speeches are not academic papers.

notmtwain: What Newt had written in this article, he wrote,

"What Newt had written, he wrote." It's kind of a biblical syntax. Having said that, I usually try to give people a pass for "spoken" typos. It's difficult to go back and edit when you're speaking.

I have never cared so little about Sarah Palin since last September, and it feels so good!

I like how she emphisized the word "people" in her speech.

What a bimbo. Why does the right want someone like her to represent them?

/scares me that she was almost VP
//although she is very attractive to me, I would not fark her simply because of how stupid she is

Sun God: A recent Reagan speech? I thought he died 5 years ago.

It does explain why that speech was mostly "RARRR! BRAINS!"

Ouch. Why did I read that? Now my brain hurts.

Gulper Eel: RadiomanATL: What it IS is just downright laziness on her and her staff's part in not actually writing their own material.

THIS.

Fark's sake, there have got to be two dozen farkers who can't stand her who could still write a more thorough speech if the price was right. Lest you think you'd never do such a thing, think of it this way: Quote a high enough fee and you can kick some of it straight to Obama, plus she won't have as much to spend on clothes.

She'd have to be able to articulate what she wanted you to write, though.

RadiomanATL: So she quoted him, paraphrased him and then gave him credit? Sorry HufPo, that's not plagiarism.

What it IS is just downright laziness on her and her staff's part in not actually writing their own material. And they didn't even get the vague timeline correct.

It's a tad bit worse than that. If you simply recopy someone else's work, even if you cite it, you're still essentially stealing.... Look at it as if this were a paper written for college: citing more than 3 lines of any work usually requires that you simply post the entire piece into your paper.

Basing a speech on one article - and this is precisely what happened - is essentially stealing, even if you cite your source, unless you make it clear that you're basically offering the crowd a recitation.

Plagiarism is out. It's called sampling.

johnphantom: I like how she emphisized the word "people" in her speech.

What a bimbo. Why does the right want someone like her to represent them?

/scares me that she was almost VP
//although she is very attractive to me, I would not fark her simply because of how stupid she is

I'm glad that there is no afterlife, and that when people die, they are just dead.
I would hate for Ayn Rand to be looking down from somewhere, seeing this trashy, whorish, retarded bimbo, and knowing that she is actually fairly smart for a conservative, these days.

I love the smell of hate in the morning!

jso2897:
I'm glad that there is no afterlife, and that when people die, they are just dead.
I would hate for Ayn Rand to be looking down from somewhere, seeing this trashy, whorish, retarded bimbo, and knowing that she is actually fairly smart for a conservative, these days.

I don't think she'd be looking "down".

Pajama Bottoms: jso2897:
I'm glad that there is no afterlife, and that when people die, they are just dead.
I would hate for Ayn Rand to be looking down from somewhere, seeing this trashy, whorish, retarded bimbo, and knowing that she is actually fairly smart for a conservative, these days.

I don't think she'd be looking "down".

THIS.

/Hates Ayn Rand with every fiber of my being
//why do people like that drivel?

jcooli09: I have never cared so little about Sarah Palin since last September, and it feels so good!

yeah, we dodged a bullet on that one. Palin one heartbeat away from the presidency is what swung my vote to Obama. It's a shame because I actually like McCain when he's not pandering to the retard right.

Pajama Bottoms: I don't think she'd be looking "down".

Unlike Trig.

InmanRoshi: So if Freepers can mock Obama as "Hopey McChange" can we officially nickname Palin "FellatingReagan McMediaPersecutionComplex"?

Unfortunately, that nickname really describes everyone in the current Repubican party. A nickname should separate someone from the crowd with which they run.

Time to dust these off...



and

lazy wingnut is lazy?

Master of the Flying Guillotine: Time to dust these off...



and

I laughed at Palin as the rocky robot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsAdIdfJirA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cku6oPGWW7Q

9. Palin: He stood strong on his knowing that the framework through which he believed that positive change that framework for our kids, it was freedom [sic].

English, motherfarker! Do you speak it?!

The only time I hope there are cameras running near Palin is when she loses her gubernatorial re-election.

Then she can embrace her TRUE calling: hosting a talk show named "You Betcha" on the Hallmark Network.

If you voted for Obama who picked Biden as his VP, your right to complain about former VP nominees from the other party plagiarizing anything is null and void.

So Ronald Reagan spoke to us then with us here in our hearts is where he reached us, and that's where he won the arguments and then, this was, this was the good part, we the American people through him, we imposed our will on Washington, and that is the way it's supposed to be.

Translation -- We need to abolish the democratic institutions of defined in the Constitution and install a Republican dictatorship.

This is why the Republican Party has been waging a propaganda war against Congress for the past few decades.

And when he fought socialism and any sort of tyranny that he knew would ruin us, he stood strong on his knowing that the framework through which he believed that positive change that framework for our kids, it was freedom.

Actually the framework is the Constitution.