Plagiarize This!
February 18th, 2008Breaking news: Clinton hatchet men are after Barack Obama as a plagiarist. Is he? I don’t know if I’d call it that, but that’s what others will and it is what it is. All politicians and speakers refer to works of others and use thousands of words a day; that, occasionally, there’ll be a close similarity is inevitable. I doubt there’s any politician free of any and all plagiarism and besides, there are a million reasons to vote against each and every candidate: “it sounds like he borrowed without asking from someone I never heard of until this controversy!” is not one of those reasons. I couldn’t care less where he got his platitudes from!
Just like I don’t really care that he wasn’t born out of “Selma” and Hillary Clinton wasn’t named after Sir Hillary of Everest. You shouldn’t either, Dear Reader — you should get real and support or criticize these characters on their own merits, not their speechwriter’s, who should, for the record, be fired along with the fact checker. It’s their jobs to prevent these ridiculous embarrassments, not the candidate’s.
And so you know, I likely accidentally plagiarized the title.