Colorado Republican Scott McInnis is running for governor, and it turns out he plagiarized some stuff one time. And then people saw that and found some more stuff he plagiarized. So the story is that some oppo research people went and bought themselves a De-Luxe Plagiarism Detector Machine, and now voters will not elect this man, except for the fact that voters do not care about academic honesty probably.
Plagiarism is probably one of the most misunderstood elements of scholarship. While everyone recognizes the evil of copying the work of another word for word, the consensus readily dissolves when discussions turn towards less egregious forms of “borrowing.” One particularly problematic method of paperwriting that many students have used is what is sometimes called “cut and paste.” Writers who “cut and paste” take (cut) small chunks of material from several sources and assemble (paste) them into another document that does not acknowledge the original authors.
The real reason this initial plagiarism charge is funny, though, is how boring it is and how much money was paid for this plagiarism. The Hasan Family Foundation gave this guy money after he retired from Congress because he used to be in Congress, of course. The report in question was about water conservation issues. There are probably few new ideas about that, and nobody cares about it since it is boring, and this group probably only just now realized he wrote this plagiarized report because they never read it.
As for the most recent plagiarism charges, they relate to the man plagiarizing op-eds in his speeches. So you must be looking at your next vice president, folks! [Post Independent/Denver Post]
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Who is that: Keith O.’s older, retarded brother?
You know, the sane one?
Fuck the plagiarism – it’s the dog’s radioactive eye that’s scaring the shit out of me…
Surely he was just “sampling”. Ice Ice Baby.
No, no, not the other in the blue jacket. The OTHER one.
God, you people are sooo stupid sometimes.
He looks like he puts out.
Just sayin’.
That last might have been funny. If it hadn’t been mispeled and incoherant.
Might have been.
Is that a live dog? Or, per that photo, is this one of those “quiet-middle-aged-bachelors-whose-hobby-is-stuffing-animals-in-his-basement-taxidermy-shop-until-suddenly-one-day…” stories?
McInnis on Tuesday declared the plagiarism of the water essays a “non-issue” that Colorado voters don’t care about.
As long as he’s not gay or a liberal they don’t care if he’s a lying murderer.
People realized he was plagiarizing op-eds when he started rambling some nonsense metaphor about the Earth being flat.
[re=617328]13ollocks To The Rules[/re]: Shit, I think that’s a hellhound or dire wolf in disguise.
He looks like a child molester/priest.
Is that a Rolling Stone logo on his jacket?
Cut & paste what?
How’s about cutting off hiz truknutz and pasting them on that Iowa billboard?
With skills like that, someday he could become Vice-President.
[re=617344]JMP[/re]:
D&D Nerd. I thought so.
Odd that this story comes out at the exact moment that we also learned about former (thank gawd) vice-preznit has received life-saving socialist medicines to prolong his life, much to the detriment of all other lifeforms on planet Earth.
Academic honesty? Since when the fuck does Colorado care about academic anything? These are the same bumpkins that choked the university system to death with their fucking TABOR.
CU – the high school after high school.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, under God, with liberty and justice for all. Ask not what your country can do for you, because the only thing we have to fear is Fear itself. War is Hell! We do these things not because they are easy, but because the internet’s completely over. Usually briefs. You may take with you the satisfaction that proceeds from the consciousness of duty faithfully performed, but give me liberty, or give me death! I did not sleep with that woman!
we shall Wonkette on the beaches,
we shall Wonkette on the landing grounds,
we shall Wonkette in the fields and in the streets,
we shall Wonkette in the hills;
we shall never surrender!
That means he gets to be VP in 22 years, just like Biden.
What’s with the wispy ‘stache? Or did some teabagger painterize his picture?
That dog’s got the fuckin’ crazy eye(s).
Too bad he didn’t plagiarize from Ward Churchill. That wouldn’t have been old news.
[re=617372]germansteel[/re]: It’s as close as he could get to Ron Jeremy’s original porn ‘stache.
That’s gotta be Michele Bachmann’s dog.
[re=617333]Neilist[/re]: Have you seen the new Northern Idaho Mr. Potatohead?
He just lurvs his doggie.
With garlic butter.
Jesus wept.
[re=617333]Neilist[/re]: oh ok ok damn funny with a redneck surrealishness that is hard to find.
THERE IS AN EASTER EGG IN THE SECOND PARAGRAPH
[re=617381]Hot_Carl[/re]: It’s a demon sheepherder.
The GOP , the party of other people’s ideas.
The dog’s eye follows me around the room, no matter where I am.
Make it stop.
[re=617328]13ollocks To The Rules[/re]: That’s a publicity still from the Glenwood Springs Dinner Theatre production of A Boy and his Dog.
[re=617372]germansteel[/re]: MUST CREDET EXTEMPORANUS JUNIOR HIGH SKOOL PITCHUR!!1
[re=617387]weejee[/re]: Weejee, I don’t weigh that much. Without the iron, I mean.
[re=617391]sati demise[/re]: All rednecks are surreal. The trick is to be so intentionally. Whoops. Got to go. I didn’t realize the time: My watch melted.
[re=617394]Jack Stuef[/re]: I am disappointed by your lack of academic integrity.
[re=617395]geminisunmars[/re]: I will NEVER FORGET that comment.
(OMG! WHOA HEY!! 2:26 FTW!!1)
[re=617352]Tommmcatt[/re]: No no, the Dire Wolf thing is a reference to A Song of Ice and Fire – wait, no, that’s just as nerdy; a reference to that Grateful Dead song. See? Not nerdy. Oh but crap, that’s hippie…
[re=617390]snideinplainsight[/re]: I hate to tell you this Snide…but “Jesus Wept” is my signature comment. Please cite your source. ;-)
Oh yeah…what is it with Republican men and gay yappy dogs?
….after the collapse of the much ballyhoo’d “Twelve Million Dollar Romance” and the acrimonious divorce of Steve Austen and Jamie Summers, Oscar Goldman went into seclusion at a secret Government facility in Colorado, where he devoted himself to his latest project, “The Two Million Dollar Mutt”…..
A face screaming to be punched.
[re=617471]Mr Blifil[/re]: “He looks like every woman’s first husband.”
Oh, hell. Everybody plagiarizes everybody else. It’s called synthesis. Get over it.
There is nothing new under the sun.
[re=617345]Doglessliberal[/re]: No, please no! My son sat next to this douche bag on a flight once. Naturally, he took time to tell us how tight my son’s cornhole was. Not really. Scotty did once swoop into Glenwood springs as the charred bodies of dead fire fighters were being helicoptered out. He insisted on “helping” as there were tons of media cameras there since the fire fighters were now dead heroes, the media’s favorite kind. Totally pissed off the real fire rescue people who had been working 20 hour shifts for weeks on end.
In simpler (better) times, this would bring down a candidacy.
Nowadays, you can patronize prostitutes, employ dudes who stab women, undermine your own country to vaguely score a political point against your president. Really the possibilities are endless.
[re=617419]Neilist[/re]: I know you are a spy.
This doesn’t count because Arabs paid him, with terrist money
The Silver Fox: If you are a White, Christian, Republican.
[re=617507]sati demise[/re]: To quote one of the True Immortals on the subject of this post:
I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky.
In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics:
Plagiarize!
Plagiarize,
Let no one else’s work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,
So don’t shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize -
Only be sure always to call it please ‘research’.
Tom Lehrer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQHaGhC7C2E&feature=related
Speaking as a Coloradan, this was the only Repub running who wasn’t totally crazy, on retainer for Exxon, or both. So I have to ask “what is worse, thievery, lying and taking credit for other people’s thoughts; or a governor who thinks Glenn Beck is a straight thinking American and has a large crazy flag flying in their own right?” We have no shortage of reasons to drink, not that it matters.
Anyways, who’s the dead guy? I think I saw him on an episode of Dr.G. Medical Examiner.
He was the best of plagiarists. He was the worst of plagiarists. Also? Also.
Malik Hasan wants Scott to return the $300,000 fee paid for the report unless the former congressman (R- Lazy Bones, Colorado) puts more color pitchders in it. And does a spell check. Demanding dudes, them Middle Easternites. And he got by U.S. Customs how?
http://www.denverpost.com/election2010/ci_15502025
Am I the only one who thinks that is the cutest dog ever?! Sure the eyes have a “Dawn of the Dead” thing going on, but it’s so furry and calico!! I just want to squeeeeeeze it
Hey he stole that dog from my neighbor’s kid too!
Pffft. It’s not “plagiarism”, it’s a “mash-up”. As in “wanna see my Google maps / Twitter / Facebook App?”
Is it too late to make a Biden joke, or do you guys have that covered?
You know, if we just take jokes directly from the text above, they can all be keepers!
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