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Another Republican without an idea or a clue.
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“…heavily plagiarized…”
Policy positions? Republicans surely don’t need policies. Government isn’t supposed to do anything. Or so these honorable people say.
It’s a con.
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I teach in college and over the past three years about half of my courses have been online. The plagiarism in these course is much higher than in traditional, brick and mortar courses. But, in both cases, what surprises me is that many students don’t see anything wrong with it. They feel that the points are earned as long as their answer is correct, regardless of who wrote it.
It’s very frustrating and I would be lying if I didn’t admit to occasionally saying "f*“k it, just give them the points”. It’s much easier than gathering evidence and arguing with the student and administration. At some point you just cut your losses and focus on the things you enjoy: classroom teaching and research.
Outside of the top tier, schools are pushing online courses as a way to bolster their enrollment (i.e., revenue) and lower costs. The writing is on the wall – a lucky few will get excellent traditional educations from flagship schools, while the majority are herded through quasi-diploma mills like my school.
My point is that you will likely see much more of this. In fact, we may be on the cusp of a “post-plagiarism” world where, outside a few small scholarly networks, plagiarism is viewed as perfectly normal and acceptable.
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On Tuesday Wehby spokesman Dean Petrone told Buzzfeed the charges were “absurd.” But The Huffington Post pointed out that the Wehby campaign also appeared to have removed the plagiarized content in response to the report.
On Wednesday evening Wehby’s campaign released a statement saying that the staffers who wrote the content in question had been fired.
"These website pages were authored by staff who are no longer employed by the campaign and were immediately removed once brought to our attention,"
So on one side of their mouth they called the allegations “absurd”, yet on the other they are claiming they immediately removed the content when it was bought to their attention.
But the Democrat that is running against Webby better not mention this because then it’s a distraction. Nevermind the fact that her campaign didn’t even write their own policy plan nor mentioned the source of the words.
And yeah, blaming it on a “staffer”. One would think it was the guy that runs the Xerox machine or the person in charge of bringing coffer and donuts. But this is a CAMPAIGN MANAGER. You don’t think Webby knew where “her” plan came from? Please.
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“I did not author the health care policy or economic policy plans,” Pearce told The Oregonian in an interview.
He’s being honest. He didn’t author them. Someone else did, and he copied them.
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Is there one, reasonably honest politician in the GOP?
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Ideas, shmideas. Tax cuts for job creators and cuts to programs that benefit the parasites. What other ideas do you need? But a website has to have Content and they added Content. What’s to complain about?
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It sucks when the best excuse a potential leader has is that she did not know what her staff was doing. And it seems like they all use that same excuse from McConnell and Christy all the way down to the bottom of the bird cage.
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“Wehby, a physician, has repeatedly highlighted her medical experience to argue that it gives her a strong understanding of health care reform…”
Filling our insurance forms does not give you “a strong understanding of health care”. Just sayin’…
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Well, their “base” doesn’t read, so it seemed like a reasonable thing to do…
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There’s only so many ways you can use Benghazi in a sentence. GOP was bound to run into trouble.
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Staffer?
I mean, I guess the campaign manager is technically “on staff.”
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Yeah, when a serial plagiarizer is still considered a serious contender for the presidency, it means we’ve lost this battle.
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There are only so many ways to talk about the nothingness you plan to do. No wonder they have to steal from one another.
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Personal responsibility…that’s the GOP.
“I am not responsible for the contents of the plan I proposed - someone else did it. I stand behind my vast medical experience when I say that I didn’t do the things that we did wrong.”
Truly a professional.
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The party of “Personal Responsibility” ™ passes the buck again…
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Rough translation: “The GOP is the party of personal responsibility, but none of the things that have gone wrong here are my fault in any way, shape, or form.”
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She seems to gloss over the fact she apparently let “staffers” produce her policies. A staffers job would be to “spellcheck” any policy memos and put them on the website, but here apparently, they were tasked with generating said policy.
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