Republican convention speaker and congressional candidate Burgess Owens plagiarized large portions of his book, according to new report
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Former NFL player Burgess Owens testifies during a hearing on slavery reparations held by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on June 19, 2019.
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GOP convention speaker and congressional candidate Burgess Owens plagiarized large sections of his book, left-leaning watchdog Media Matters reported Tuesday.
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Owens, a far-right activist and former National Football League player, stole material from sources including Wikipedia, History.com, Townhall, National Review, American Thinker, and the Boston Globe, according to Media Matters.
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In one instance, Owens plagiarized eight consecutive paragraphs, Media Matters writer Eric Hananoki reported.
Republican convention speaker and GOP congressional candidate Burgess Owens plagiarized large sections of his book, "Why I Stand: From Freedom to the Killing Fields of Socialism," left-leaning watchdog Media Matters reported Tuesday .
Owens, a far-right activist and former National Football League player, reportedly stole entire paragraphs from sources including Wikipedia, History.com and publications like Townhall, National Review, American Thinker, and the Boston Globe, among several others. In one instance, Owens plagiarized eight consecutive paragraphs, Media Matters writer Eric Hananoki reported.
In another instance, Media Matters reports Owens lifted 148 words almost entirely verbatim from Wikipedia on the definition of "gangsta rap."
The topics featured in Owens' plagiarized segments include the history of Reconstruction, school vouchers, and subsidized housing in Chicago. In the 2018 book, which Owens has promoted while running for the US House in Utah, Owens argues that Democrats are Marxists and aggressively attacks a host of Black Democratic lawmakers, including Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon who died last month.
Owens, who is running to defeat Democratic incumbent Rep. Ben McAdams in Utah's 4th congressional district, is scheduled to speak at the RNC on Wednesday night.
The 69-year-old former professional athlete faced criticism recently for appearing on a far-right YouTube show that supports the QAnon conspiracy theory.
The Trump campaign didn't respond immediately to Business Insider's request for comment.
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It's becoming really depressing, and I can't help but wonder if there is really anything we can do about it. Hells bells, we can't do anything about the abuse shoveled right here on NT. With that in mind, what hope is there for the rest of the country?
NT is nothing more than a reflection of what the nation is. For good or for bad, we can't hide our heads. Frankly, I think it's good to know and counter, but hey, that's me.
There is no censorship in the country at large.
Those that control the media control the media's content.
Viacom, Disney, AT&T and Comcast for ALL of those TV networks.
As for Facebook and Twitter, I don't look at them as 'media' any more than I view NT as media.
I note that you didn't list any of the plethora of holdings of Rupert Murdock. Why not?
You're downplaying Murdock's holdings. They aren't JUST in the US.
BTW, Trump thinks ratings are everything so Fox must have the most influence.
Au contraire.
MSM like Fox?
"Concerned', no, interested, YES. I watch BBC News and read the Guardian.
I made a factual statement, Inever even implied that I CARED.
Oh there are a couple of Fox anchors who aren't wholly lip locked on Trump's butt but only a couple. The rest IS propaganda and/or just pure sycophantic bullshit.
Your whataboutism is noted.
Glad you agree joe Biden is a liar and a cheat.
I mean, could you put it on a tee any nicer?
Is that all you got? Denial, deflection, projection?
Don't waste my time.
She said REPUBLICAN Sean.......
You're a step behind on your projections this morning.
So in your world, being a plagiarist only makes you a liar and chat if your are a republican!!!!
why would ever admit to that?
I see the pattern now Sean. When cornered with the truth you make shit up to try to slither away.
In your world, 180,000 dead from Covid..... is just a distraction.
So insults and projection Is your game, Principals and fact based arguments, not so much.
You just defended plagiarism on partisan Grounds, and you think you cornered me? You are so desperately partisan that you stoop to claim “I’m making up shit” about Biden being a plagiarist ?Who do you think you are fooling?
Let's make it real easy. I have no problem saying anyone who plagiarizes is a liar and cheat, including Burgress Owens and Joe Biden.
Let's see who else has principles that aren't contingent on partisan politics and can say the same?
Wow.... Now you are saying 180,000 dead Americans isn't a fact. That's pretty heartless. [deleted]
Provide proof of all the Democrat plagarists and cheats, we'll wait.
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What's it like being so beholden to the Democratic Party that you can't admit Joe Biden's a plagiarist and have to resort to silly little lies to distract from your blind partisanship? The topic is plagiarism. Why are you now so afraid of it?
. I have no problem saying anyone who plagiarizes is a liar and cheat, including Burgress Owens and Joe Biden. Why can't you say it?
We're awaiting your proof of all the Democrat(s) plagarists.
Prove it.
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Barack Obama (2008): During their heated 2008 primary battle for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton's campaign pounced on the Obama operation when it was revealed that the then-Illinois senator had been recycling rhetori c from his friend Gov. Deval Patrick's 2006 stump speech. Obama largely diffused the controversy by acknowledging he should have credited Patrick, saying the the two of them "trade ideas all the time" and he pointed out that Clinton herself had occasionally lifted some of his trademark lines herself.
Joe Biden (1987): Then-Sen. Biden's early rise and promising 1988 presidential bid took a huge hit when he was caught using lines from British Labour leader Neal Kinnock's speeches without always giving him the proper credit. The revelation led to a bit of feeding frenzy , with some of his law school papers' veracity getting called into question. Biden was forced to withdraw from the race for the Democratic nomination in September before a single vote was cast. The future VP later said : "All I had to say was 'Like Kinnock.' If I'd just said those two words, 'Like Kinnock,' and I didn't. It was my fault, nobody else's fault.
So you got nothing.
Thanks for admitting it.
So that's all you got?
Two examples.
It's overwhelming!!!!!!!!!
LOL!
You said all the democrats and that's what ya got. Democrats. And yep. It's two of your most faves........
Why are you so beholden to Trump to not admit that 180,000 dead on Trumps watch is a bigger deal? Speeches and books come and go.... death is forever.
Link please
Links? They don't need no stinking links. Plus they don't have any.
See how Sean told me to look it up.
The typical 'got nothing' responses.
FYI ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
you will see the exact quote.
33 years ago? I guess people can't change or admit that they were wrong.
Have we ever heard Melania apologize to Mrs Obama for plagiarizing her speech?
Yep............through her speech writer that wrote it...................
All Mrs Trump did was read what was written.
ok, Jim. You have a nice day now
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All that evidence won't matter a lick.
So all Owens has to do is admit his mistake just as forthrightly.
Yup, all he's got. Something from 33 years ago. They could only dig up two instances, one from 33 years ago.
All those links regarding just Joe Biden.
And?
It is THE great fault of the internet that it makes it easy to deceive the gullible. That is how the Republican Party has made it to where they are today. All the right wing bullshit that we suffer through every day can be traced back to the beginning of the internet in the early 90's. Rush Limbaugh used to talk about Compuserve and America On Line (AOL) every day.
I think there are many rural Americans whose primary contact with the outside world for decades was their TV, and some started to believe if it was on TV, then it must be true. Once the internet was invented that preconditioned gullibility naturally transferred over. And yes, the gibbering right wing fat heads on radio and TV and early AOL through the 90's has also apparently caused severe brain damage in millions who bought their daily lies hook, line and sinker.