Joe Biden's long history of plagiarism

[Willie99]

Most everybody knows about his using the speech and the life experiences of Neil Kinnock, a British politician.

He also plagiarized the work of Robert F Kennedy.

He plagiarized a paper in law school, was caught and disciplined.

When the law school issues were raised, he compounded the problem by saying he improved his grades and graduated in the top half of his class, when he graduated near the very bottom.

Is this the type of character it takes to lead our country?

:lol:

http://www.cdobs.com/archive/our-co...y-a-characterbut-does-he-have-character,1583/

 

[Willie99]

stealing Kinnock's words and his life too
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Biden, then 44, was forced out of the 1988 presidential race-—he officially dropped out on September 23, 1987—just when his candidacy seemed to be taking off in Iowa, the all important first caucus, and just as he seemed to be gaining on Michael Dukakis, the eventual nominee.


(Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 from Delaware. He was only 29, and was one of the two youngest men ever elected to the Senate.)
A Dukakis staffer noticed and fed to Maureen Dowd, then a New York Times reporter, not yet the paper’s celebrated columnist, that Biden had lifted almost verbatim his closing remarks at a debate at the Iowa state fairgrounds in August, 1987. The lines were lifted from a passionate speech delivered by British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock (who would go on to lose to Margaret Thatcher).


Here’s Kinnock: ’‘Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? . . . Was it because all our predecessors were thick? Was it because they were weak? Those people who could work eight hours underground and then come up and play football? Weak? . . . It was because there was no platform upon which they could stand.’’

Not only did Biden not credit Kinnock, he told his audience in the classic liar’s technique of burnishing a lie with detail: “I started thinking as I was coming over here, “Why is it that Joe Biden’s the first in his family ever to go to a university? Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright? . . . Is it because they didn’t work hard, my ancestors who worked in the coal mines of Northeast Pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours?,,,, It’s because they didn’t have a platform upon which to stand.’’

Biden was not the first member of his family to go to college, and the closest his ancestors came to a coal min was a grandfather who was a mining engineer. (Biden’s father was wealthy as a young man, lost his money and had to work hard to support his family. He had a variety of jobs, including one managing a Chevrolet dealership in Wilmington, Delaware. The Bidens were far from rich but they were middle clas

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Biden was not even the first person from his family to go to a University

 

[Willie99]

Here’s RFK: ’‘Few will have the greatness to bend history itself. But each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.’’ Here’s Joe Biden: ’‘Well, few of us have the greatness to bend history itself. But each of us can act to affect a small portion of events, and in the totality of these acts will be written the history of this generation.’’
Bobby Kennedy: ’‘The gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry, or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.’’
Here’s Joe Biden, who overcame a stutter as a boy and grew into an excellent speaker: “‘We cannot measure the health of our children, the quality of their education, the joy of their play….It doesn’t measure the beauty of our poetry, the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate, the integrity of our public officials. It counts neither our wit nor our wisdom, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country….That bottom line can tell us everything about our lives except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America except that which makes us proud to be Americans.’’
Biden said at the time that RFK was “the man who I guess I admire more than anyone else in American politics.” No doubt about that.
Chicago’s own Bill Daley was among those who urged Biden, then chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to get out of the race and concentrate on defeating Ronald Reagan’s nomination of Appeals Court Judge Robert Bork for a seat on the Supreme Court. Biden, who was about to open the Bork hearings, had asked Daley to take a leadership spot in his campaign.

 

[Willie99]

On April 3, 1987, at a campaign stop in Claremont, New Hampshire, a voter named Frank innocently asked Biden what law school he attended and how he performed there. “I think I have a much higher IQ than you do,” Biden, who went to Syracuse University College of Law, answered. “I went to law school on a full academic scholarship.” He told the astonished man that while he admittedly did not do well his first year because he didn’t want to be in law school, he did much better his second and third years and “ended up in the top half” of his class. I won the international moot-court competition.”


Without being asked, Biden then boasted about his performance in college (at the University of Delaware), telling Frank that he had been named the “outstanding student in the political-science department. . . I graduated with three degrees from college . . . And I’d be delighted to sit back and compare my IQ to yours if you’d like, Frank.”


There were a number of lies in this outburst and it was not long before they too were enumerated:

—Biden got in trouble in 1965, during his first year in law school. He wrote a paper in which he lifted five pages verbatim from the Fordham Law Review. He was given an “F” in the course. He managed to avoid being bounced from law school, retook the course and earned a “B.” (He had to repeat two other law school courses, although not for plagiarizing.)



—He claimed that he was “the only one in my class to have a full academic scholarship.” He didn’t. He did have a half scholarship that was need based.



—He did not graduate from law school in the top half of his class. He graduated 76th out of 85—and he was near the bottom of his class all three years.



—If he won the moot court competition—and he claimed at the time that he actually did—he did not put it on his resume, surprising for a man prone to so egregiously exaggerating his accomplishments.



—He did not win the award for being the outstanding student in the political science department at Delaware, and he graduated with one degree, not three. He had a “C” average and graduated 506th in a class of 688.


At the time, he told a reporter, “I exaggerate when I’m angry.”


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[Willie99]

Unfit to lead, the liar is a laughing stock

:nohead:

 

[festeringZit]

Plagiarists Hall of Shame

He's in the Plagiarists Hall of Shame. Liberals don't care, they like
liars.


http://www.famousplagiarists.com/politics.htm#biden



<table width="650" border="0" height="233"><tbody><tr><td valign="top">[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Joe Biden [/FONT]

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[FONT=Courier New, Courier, mono]Joseph R. Biden, Jr.[/FONT]

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[FONT=Courier New, Courier, mono]Politician, US Senator (Delaware)[/FONT]

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[FONT=Courier New, Courier, mono]Repeated instances of plagiarism since the “stressless scholarship” of his college days[/FONT]

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[FONT=Courier New, Courier, mono]Circulation of “attack video” by Dukakis campaign torpedoed his presidential aspirations in 1987[/FONT]

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</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">[FONT=Courier New, Courier, mono]Overview:[/FONT]</td> <td valign="top"> [FONT=Courier New, Courier, mono]Joe Biden’s history of plagiarism and “stressless scholarship” gave plenty of ammo to his enemies, one of them choosing to circulate a so-called “attack video” to demonstrate Biden’s outright plagiarism of a British politician’s speech. But this appropriation from Neal Kinnock was not the first occurrence of unacknowledged lifting by the senator from Delaware.

In 1965 Biden plagiarized while writing a paper as a student at the Syracuse University Law School in a legal methods course which he failed because of that copied paper. Such “stressless scholarship” as it is euphemistically called has become all too common in the modern Internet era with countless cheatsites and “research services” offering to sell students papers on topics from A to Z.

Biden’s case demonstrates that student plagiarism is nothing new. Only the methods of cheating have changed. Today, cheating has gone digital with the proliferation of Internet based paper filing and distributions systems, but the principles—or lack thereof—are the same. And as the Biden case illustrates, getting caught for such academic dishonesty may have serious ramifications for one’s political career. Joe Biden’s failed bid for the Democratic ticket is a case in point.

“Stressless scholarship” may seem like a pretty good idea at the time that many students make that decision to ‘crib’, copy, or dowload a paper off the Internet, but in Biden’s case the plagiarism of his student days came back to haunt his bid for the democratic presidential nomination like a spectre from his past.

In an article entitled “Biden’s Belly Flop”, Newsweek printed Joe Biden’s yearbook picture from his college days and a copy of his law school transcripts with the big “F” in his transcripts circled. Biden was given a chance to repeat his legal methods course, and above the “F” his retake grade of 80% was eventually penciled in. Being a repeat offender when it came to plagiarism made things much, much worse for Biden than they might have been otherwise in his failed bid for the Democratic presidential ticket in 1987. [/FONT]

[FONT=Courier New, Courier, mono]Senator Biden’s plagiarism of a speech by British Labor Party leader Neal Kinnock took place at a campaign stump at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. In closing his speech, Biden took Kinnock’s ideas and language as if they were his very own inspired thoughts, prefacing Kinnock’s ideas with the phrase “I started thinking as I was coming over here . . . “. Little did Biden suspect that video footage of this speech would be spliced together with footage of Kinnock’s speech in an “attack video” which would be distributed by members of the Dukakis campaign.

Making the headline news in the New York Times, and the evening news on TV, the video was a stab in the back for Biden by his democratic competitor, and although he insisted that “I’m in this race to stay. I’m in this race to win,” the resulting publicity surrounding his unacknowledged use of Neal Kinnock’s speech was what eventually forced him out of the race. Name recognition was no longer a problem for Biden, but not the kind of name recognition which would assist his campaign for the democratic presidential nomination. His name was now a byword for plagiarism. His situation became a classic example of plagiarism for high school teachers and college instructors across the nation lecturing on the evils of unacknowledged source use.

Biden initially denied any wrongdoing, claiming that this was just an inadvertent lack of acknowledgement. Yet there were other instances of rhetorical borrowing from speeches made by Robert F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey. And the fact that Biden had given other speeches using the Kinnock passages without acknowledgment suggested that the lifting was more than just an inadvertent oversight.

As with Al Gore’s case, the perception existed in the public mind that Biden just wasn’t the real thing. He wasn’t authentic, didn’t have thoughts and ideas of his own, and was a malleable piece of clay being molded by his handlers to suit the political whims and fancies which they thought would appeal to voters. A Time magazine article by Walter Shapairo was pretty much on the money in offering the speculation that “In the end, Biden may be remembered as the candidate who truly offered the voters an echo and not a choice.”

William Safire, former speechwriter for Richard Nixon, gloated in the New York Times over Biden’s demise, quoting a supposedly “embittered Democrat” who said, “I’m going back to Gary Hart . . . At least he didn’t steal that girl from some far-lefty in England.” And he concluded his op-ed column with a swipe at Biden’s ability to think apart from his speechwriter: “So my advice to candidates like Joe Biden is this: Do justly, love perorations and walk humbly with thy speechwriter. (I forget where I got that, but it has a nice ring to it.) ”

With all the press he was receiving over his Neal Kinnock plagiarism courtesy of the Dukakis “attack videos”, Biden was quickly becoming the “most famous political plagiarist of our time”, as Thomas Mallon describes the unfortunate Delaware senator. It was just a matter of time before Biden would have to bow out of the democratic primary.

Biden himself thought that all the attention to his rhetorical borrowing was “frankly ludicrous”, and the media analysts generally agreed, stating that is was “hardly a capital offense”, but as William Safire put it, “times have changed; you can’t get away with borrowing anything these days – not even an oratorical technique, much less a phrase or paragraph – unless you are willing to give the attribution.” If Gore’s loss of the presidency to George W. Bush in 2000 was more indirectly related to plagiarism, it is evident that Biden’s case is without question a direct result of his unacknowledged use of Kinnock’s speech as if it were his very own. This instance of plagiarism and the public exposure it received cut short the presidential aspirations of an otherwise gifted orator and statesman. [/FONT]
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[cussin'it]

Better to just do it "Sarah's way," right gurls?

Have someone (Bush speechwriter) do all your thinking and writing for ya.

:nohead:.

I just hope she does her own screwing.

:shocked:

 

[Willie99]

Better to just do it "Sarah's way," right gurls?

Have someone (Bush speechwriter) do all your thinking and writing for ya.

:nohead:.

I just hope she does her own screwing.

:shocked:

Hiring somebody is better than stealing it Cussy, ask BO

 

[cussin'it]

Tell that to Kobe.

 

[Willie99]

Tell that to Kobe.

He pays for it after the fact

 

[Willie99]

If a man is a career liar, can he ever be trusted to tell the truth?

:think2: