Harris Campaign Slaps Down Right-Wing Activist’s Plagiarism Allegations
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Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign on Tuesday dismissed as “desperate” a conservative activist’s accusations that she plagiarized passages in a book she co-authored more than a decade ago. Christopher Rufo claimed that five sections of 2009’s Smart on Crime were lifted from other sources—extracts that totaled about 500 words across a 66,500-word, 200-page book. The New York Times and The Washington Post subsequently reported that the allegations concerned statistics or verbatim language from other sources used without quotation marks, but that most of those sources were correctly cited in footnotes or the sources section of the book.
Jonathan Bailey, a plagiarism consultant, told the Post that the errors were “sloppy” and “bad” but did not amount to the “malicious plagiarism” that Rufo seemed to be alleging. He added to the Times that the allegations amounted “to an error and not an intent to defraud.” In a statement to the Daily Beast, campaign spokesman James Singer said, “Rightwing operatives are getting desperate as they see the bipartisan coalition of support Vice President Harris is building to win this election, as Trump retreats to a conservative echo chamber refusing to face questions about his lies. This is a book that’s been out for 15 years, and the Vice President clearly cited sources and statistics in footnotes and endnotes throughout.”
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More Trump far right wing much ado about nothing.
The mistakes were minor and almost certainly not Harris' fault. It sounds like the mistake was made in the editing process and quotation marks were left off of passages that comprised less than 8/10ths of 1% of the book.
Of course, that must be it, because we know that Harris is as honest as the day is long
Those silly editors were sure a bunch of incompetent ninnies.
Trump tried to say the word "insurrectionists" last night and "inrushes" came out of his mouth, and you want us to reject Harris because of minor attribution mistakes in a 15 year old book ?
Do conservatives really want to continue on with this trivial complaint ?
All they have is trivial complaints. Nothing of substance. They have to dig pretty deep find something from 15 years ago, which proves nothing.
The left has reached back decades trying to dig up credible evidence of alleged sexual harassment by Trump. Some lying bitch convinced a jury that Trump allegedly attacked her. Same thing happened to Kavanaugh
Careful... the last person to make that claim was sued.
“Some lying bitch convinced a jury…”
A jury of his peers, being a cornerstone of our judicial process. So he is indeed a convicted felon.
The ‘lying bitch’ comment seems a more personal problem in its incessant use.
Technically he is not.
Technically he as been found guilty of 34 counts of felony fraud. Until he wins an appeal he IS a felon. He is lucky NY allows felons to vote in elections, if they are not currently behind bars.
Sigh, his appeal has absolutely nothing to do with it. Technically he is not a convicted felon. Period.
THAT'S NOT FAIR!
lol
And it's absolutely wrong, LOL
No. Not true.
We know who the lying bitch is.
Hmmm... weird.
Absolute bullshit by the Harris campaign, this stupid bitch touts here credentials as a prosecutor 15 years ago but doesn't want her plagiarism from 15 year ago to count. Fuck you Kamala, you stole someone else's ideas because yours died of loneliness.
Maybe a glass of warm milk will calm you down.
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I could have just deleted his comment as "no value". Would you prefer that?
and that would have been very wrong but more like vindictive
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“…this stupid bitch…”
“Fuck you Kamala…”
…thus rendering any further comment only pathetic partisan propaganda. Plagiarism has suddenly become an issue? If so, happy to discuss the character of your candidate.
Who is my candidate, sure isn't trump. what is your issue with Ms. Stein?
Klan leader David Duke endorsed Stein yesterday.
“what is your issue with Ms. Stein?”
see 2.2.2
Duke says Harris and Trump are stooges of the Jews.
David Hasn't been a Klan leader since he left the democrat party.
and Trump is not president but people call him Mr.President
The Klan kicked him out for theft. In 1988 he left the democratic party and joined the repubs losing every election but one ... republicans in those days were still real conservatives. However, by all means continue to offer up lame gotcha excuses.
And endorsed Trump.
“David Hasn't been a Klan leader since he left the democrat party.”
And trump didn’t make a difference until he left the democrat party. Coincidence or confirmation of his appeal to the most base of bases.
I guess neither one of them were racist enough to be a member of the democrat party ruling elite anymore.
You're not alone in that 'field' of mental gymnastics.
She just admitted she did it and simply said "who cares that I stole other people's work and passed it off as my own?"
Someone who actually wanted to steal others words would not cite the source a few paragraphs later.
This trivial charge of plagiarism , presented as if it disqualifies her, is out of gas.
And did you notice Rufo made the allegation but "forgot" to mention that the sources were listed a few paragraphs later ?
“This trivial charge of plagiarism , presented as if it disqualifies her, is out of gas.”
And lest we forget…the kerfuffle of leaving her history of her stint at McDonalds off a resume. Disqualifying? More likely desperation, and most certainly pathetic.
lol. Now you want to argue that copying , verbatim, six sentences is okay…
I only dealt myself a card from the bottom of the deck one measly time..I did it correctly the next card. How can anyone be mad?
This is why democrats screaming and needing fainting couches for Trump lying was always such a farce.
Who's surprised that the Post was more critical of Melania Trump, instead of the actual Vice President running for President?
As evidenced by comments here, some righties apparently live for bad faith misinformation, even when shown why it's bad faith misinformation.
With this accusation the MAGA’s are aware that Harris can read and write, something that their leader will never be accused of.