As I said earlier, I shot an e-mail over to the Carter campaign about the Lone Star Project’s plagiarism assertions. And campaign representative Craig Murphy responded, but now I have more questions.
First, let’s jump for the response.
Murphy said:
A look at the entire Carter speech and the six-year-old Obama speech rather than just snippets shows that not only is it entirely different, but that the point Stefani Carter was making was entirely different.
The fact that Kent and this trial lawyers front group are attacking Carter so early and on such a reach is just the first indication of how far behind they think they are in this Republican District.
The Democrats are running so far from Obama that they believe their only chance is to link the Republican candidates to him. That is not a good sign for Democrats.
Carol Kent, who has a 28% rating on fiscal responsibility, has spent the last two years plagiarizing the Obama platform and she is now coming to a realization that was a bad idea.
But like I said, questions. How do you arrive at a percentage for Kent’s fiscal responsibility? Isn’t that kind of subjective? One voter’s fiscal irresponsibility is another town’s waste treatment facility or something. How many other Democratic campaigns have linked their Republican opponents to Obama in a bid to win? And how do we know Kent was behind this?
I need a drink.
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You guys got played here.
This group had to go to extreme lengths to cut that video together to somehow make it look like this woman was plagerizing Obama.
If they thought the Democrat was leading in this race, you would hear nothing about Ms. Carter from their camp. Clearly they’re in deep trouble and creating straws to grasp at.
The sad thing is you fell for it.
Ask Tony about Kent. She’s slimy to the core.
Actually, one doesn’t have to consider the entire Stefani Carter speech to note plagiarism in one part of it. The part of her speech where she doesn’t lift from Obama (even if it’s 98%) hardly negates the part of her speech where she does. That would be like an author saying, “My book is 400 pages long, and the section of lifted material (whole phrases and concepts) on pages 276 and 277 shouldn’t count.”
Sure it should.
Stef isn’t the first to lift from Obama’s 2004 Democratic National Convention speech this year. Vaughn Ward, a Tea-Party/Sarah Palin-backed candidate in Idaho, lifted liberally from that same Obama speech. Ward lost his congressional bid a couple of weeks ago. Here’s his funny thievery: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7qoKpIZK_I&feature=player_embedded
@tested: I’m not sure how it’s extreme. It seems pretty straightforward, especially when, you know, it’s the same wording and phrasing.
@amanda: please provide examples of “slimy”. I mean, me calling you a tea bagger, what with it’s double entendre and all, that would classify me as “sliming you”.
It just shows that President Obama is such a genius that even the GOP people are stealing his ideas. I can imagine that in 20 years, when universal health care is a valued part of America, the Republicans will say it was their idea, just like they have tried to do with social security and civil rights.
How can you plagiarize someone who reads words written by another?
As to whether Jon Favreau was plagiarized, feel free to use my matrix from yesterday’s item on this issue.