Hardball: Plagiarism or Not?

Matthews and Buchanan seem to think that this recent dust up between the Clinton and Obama campaigns is so very important and Katrina vanden Heuvel brings a bit of sanity back to the conversation. In the big scheme of things, this is nonsense. Then Buchanan interjects that Drudge is main stream America. In what world Pat?

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• Hardball
• Chris
• Matthews
• Pat
• Buchanan
• Katrina
• vanden
• Heuvel
• Plagiarism

[cakedoodle]

Obama is just words. And now we all know sometimes even STOLEN words.

How lame!

[videocafeblog]

They're only stolen if the guy you borrowed them from doesn't want you to use them. All people in politics use speech writers and many of them borrow from each other when giving speeches. I think Katrina is right and that this entire argument is silly, and not productive, but it's out there and the rhetoric needs to be countered. I think the Clinton campaign didn't do themselves any favors here and the whole thing distracts from more important issues which should be discussed instead.

[jipoku]

Plagiarism is unauthorized use of another's words and this was authorized. Everyone knows that the words that the candidates use are not their own because speechwriters write them. It is not unethical to use someone's words or sing someone else's songs, etc. if you are not profiting from it financially. This is a man who has written two books, and people are getting all worked up about three sentences in a speech? People really are so gullible and easily fooled.

[baronmorris]

duh. they have speechwriters. big surprise there, right? and he had permission.

this is a non-story.

[AcaiBerryMONAVIE]

SHE WILL sit ON A REAL HARD TESTES

[simonbayes1]

White mum, why dont you get a real Black man on the presidencial trial, you know he would win.

[maganjaa]

That bitch is very very good.

[boozehound420]

I dont give a shit about obama or clinton. I'm not even from the US. But what he said was FAR from a speech. It was a catch phrase or a slogan. They will always be reused. I'm shur you say things somebody else said first aswell.

[tigerone1970]

What a storm in a teacup.

Look, in 1964 the Democrats lost the racist vote to the Republicans. Penn and Wolfson want it back.

They are Clinton's worst enemies. It also implies that Clinton is not in control of her own campaign.

[KCJimC]

and just today, obama's wife was quoted that for the first time in her adult life, she is proud to be American. Yes. The new American Way. Steal speeches that appeal to mass voters to vote for change. How much change can we expect from someone who lifts a great speech from another politician? Again, it's just another attempt to win the beauty pageant and be the most popular. No substance. Just words. And another's words at that. It's quite sad.

[KCJimC]

you obviously don't know the meaning of plagerism. this was nearly an exact speech in response to hillary arguing that he's only words. the sad thing for Obama is that he can't even claim that they're his own words.

[Swair87]

Go Katrina!

[otomi]

it's not about what hillary thinks, it's more important what the public thinks. he lost great big point in credibility for not crediting patrick's words.!!