… but not a plagiarist to run communications.
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I’ll tell you ol’ UD‘s take on it.
Crowley was a veteran, all over the place, slaphappy plagiarist. So are a lot of people. What’s scandalous here is the woman’s assumption that even after having taken the job of one of the country’s highest-profile writers, she could continue to get away with it. She didn’t even fucking disclose!
And you know why not?
Because virtually everyone in this administration, starting at the top, flagrantly plays the angles. She figured she could too.
(Carson? He apologized. He’s more high-profile, having run for prez. And being a plagiarist doesn’t have obvious and immediate implications for running housing.)
January 16th, 2017 at 10:14PM
https://medium.com/@alexey__kovalev/message-to-american-media-from-russia-6e2e76eeae77#.v5me6qfgj
January 17th, 2017 at 1:33AM
And this on a federal holiday celebrating a serial plagiarist!
January 17th, 2017 at 1:46AM
Michael: True. He did it too.
January 19th, 2017 at 11:04AM
Didn’t a plagiarist vice-president just receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from his own boss? That doesn’t give anyone reason to believe that plagiarism disqualifies one from working in the White House. Unless plagiarists with “R” after their names are judged differently than those designated “D.”
January 19th, 2017 at 12:46PM
Jonah: Yes, Biden plagiarized in his speeches. He acknowledged it and apologized. Crowley plagiarized extensively for years and has neither apologized nor acknowledged, as far as I know. She withdrew from the appointment without any comment beyond some bland farewell.
If you’ve followed my plagiarism posts, I really don’t discriminate. My guess is that there are more Ds than Rs in the archives. I certainly however make distinctions in terms of degree and type of plagiarism.
January 19th, 2017 at 3:12PM
Do they now run MA theses and Ph.D. dissertations through something like Turnitin these days? We don’t have grad programs in arts and sciences here, and the few grad programs we have are test/practicum only. I do work a lot with faculty in the summertime from grad institutions, and no one has ever mentioned it.
January 19th, 2017 at 5:32PM
tp: Yes – as I understand it there are now tons of plagiarism detecting programs. There are also groups of people who work together on various cases…
January 31st, 2017 at 1:37PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/devos-questionnaire-appears-to-include-passages-from-uncited-sources/2017/01/31/50577dec-e7be-11e6-b82f-687d6e6a3e7c_story.html
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