This guy spends entirely too much time in his pickup truck. He can’t even put together a website without “borrowing” ideas , and even biographical notes:
The home state of Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) may contain the country’s largest population of college students, but Brown appears to have committed one of academia’s cardinal sins: plagiarism.
American Bridge 21st Century, a Super PAC associated with liberal causes, discovered that Brown’s website contained chunks of text taken verbatim from a campaign speech for Elizabeth Dole’s 2002 North Carolina Senate run, the transcript of which was posted to her website.
In a message to students on his site, which has since been removed, Brown borrowed from Dole’s childhood memories, omitting only one line: “I am Mary and John Hanford’s daughter.”
“I was raised to believe that there are no limits to individual achievement and no excuses to justify indifference,” the message reads. “From an early age, I was taught that success is measured not in material accumulations, but in service to others. I was encouraged to join causes larger than myself, to pursue positive change through a sense of mission, and to stand up for what I believe.”
Brown spokesman John Donnelly told the Boston Globe that the copied text was a staff mistake.
“Senator Dole’s website served as one of the models for Senator Brown’s website when he first took office. During construction of the site, the content on this particular page was inadvertently transferred without being rewritten,” Donnelly said. “It was a staff level oversight which we regret and is being corrected…”
That may not be the only section of Brown’s site that has traces of Dole’s language, Politico reported. On a page about internships with the senator, another section of text mirrors Dole’s site…
How is it that lying like this is so acceptable that the excuseo f the page not being overwritten is accepted without demure?
In a message to students on his site, which has since been removed, Brown borrowed from Dole’s childhood memories, omitting only one line: “I am Mary and John Hanford’s daughter.”
The editing out of that line makes Brown, or whoever spoke for him, a liar.
Oooo, plagiarism.
Can we say Barack Obama lifting whole sections of Deval Patrick’s speeches verbatim?
Just words?
Someone on Scott Brown’s team is going to bring that up. You know they will.
Well, as I’ve always said about this particular campaign, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
And you can quote me on that.
There are only two kinds of Republicans: criminals and cretins. Some of them, like Brown, are both criminals and cretins.
That’s interesting. I thought he sounded like a ‘fratboy’ also when I read this story:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/scott-brown-elizabeth-warren-senate_n_998048.html
Not exactly the dignity one would expect from a United States Senator, Scott! He always refers to himself as “United States Senator Scott Brown”