Discussion: Carson’s Prepared Testimony For HUD Hearing Contained Plagiarism

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Hmmmmm…Dr Sleepy slept through the attribution part of his prepared statement.

Trump sure is surrounding himself with a lot of intellectual heavyweights, isn’t he?

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So henceforth Republicans won’t plagiarize anyting, just be the victims of “hyperlinks and footnotes … that seems to have fallen off.?”

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A Trump transition spokeswoman told the newspaper that the plagiarized text was mistakenly included, and that Carson never intended to read it at his hearing.

They are using the Melania inadvertent plagiarism misspeak defense that worked so well.

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Carson was given homework to do before testifying, but he ate it. Arf, arf.

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To be fair, Carson never wanted this job because he was sure he was not up to it, but some idiot nominated him anyway.

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Well, the authors of the plagiarized text clearly know more than Ben, so maybe in this case plagiarism’s not so bad.

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Well, when Comrade Coir Coif is the Smartest Guy in the Room … you see the problem.

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Sure sign of the mediocre mind: Someone who is afraid of hiring a person smarter than he on a particular subject. Notice that Obama never had the problem.

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Once again, only the best people for The Trump Administration (tm, I imagine).

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SO another idiot shows his true colors…but…in defense of him…“The original written statement was sourced with hyperlinks and footnotes, but unfortunately that seems to have fallen off.”…yea,things just fall off all the time!

these people are even worse than imagined…

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Oh noes! After the GOP debates I was so impressed by Carson’s vast intellectual ability.

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Who could be better for HUD than some guy who has lived in a house? (In the interest of not plagiarizing here, this is not my original thought. I heard some comedian say it whose name escapes me on some show)

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:joy:

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Well of course he plagiarized. He fits right in with the other plagiarist in Trump’s admin.

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He just couldn’t be as bad as some of the other appointees … could he? …

What’s a few pyramids … here or there …

Really gonna need more housing (storage) … down by the new wall —

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Yeah, and call it part of the wall so we can make the Mexicans pay for that too- a real bundle deal.

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In the manner of “Not intended to be a factual statement”.

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Those things are alway falling off. Especially footnotes. So close to the edge of the paper.

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I mean really …

" It’s not like this is brain surgery " —

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