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Kamala Harris proposes forgivable loans of up to $20,000 for black entrepreneurs.
Oct 14, 2024
A story in three headlines! First, anti-DEI warrior Chris Rufo, who took down Harvard’s gay black president for plagiarism, published this Substack article two short days ago:
Kamala Harris's Plagiarism Problem
The vice president appears to have airlifted sections of her book, Smart on Crime.
CHRISTOPHER F. RUFO
OCT 14, 2024
On the same day, the New York Times, leaping to the plagiarizing vice president’s defense, ran a classic “Republicans pounce!” story. Admitting that Kamala cut-and-pasted parts of her 2009 book, ironically titled “Smart on Crime,” the Times framed the scandal as conservatives taking advantage of a poor, misunderstood — but joyful — Vice President who merely lapsed.
Conservative Activist Seizes on
Passages From Harris Book
A report by Christopher Rufo says the Democratic presidential
nominee copied five short passages for her 2009 book on crime.
A plagiarism expert said the lapses were not serious.
It was just a lapse. It can happen to the best of us! Kamala lapsed into something all right. Amusingly, the increasingly poorly written New York Times overlooked the fact that “lapse” means something someone did before but stopped.
So ironically, the Times accidentally accused Kamala of being a serial plagiarist. In other words, friendly fire.
Finally and third, this morning’s (not paywalled!) Washington Post headline:
Harris campaign rejects claims of plagiarism
Some experts say the incidents cited by a conservative critic are modest and may not reflect an intentional effort to take
credit.
In other words, Kamala might have done it on accident. The Washington Post’s attempt to cover for Kamala was even more accidentally destructive than the Times’ “lapses” argument. According to WaPo, Kamala’s not a plagiarist, she’s just stupid:
Accusations of plagiarism can become politically damaging they
helped derail President Joe Biden's presidential campaign in 1987
and potentially invite questions about a candidate's honesty. But in this
instance, according to several experts, the passages appear the result of
sloppy work rather than a malicious attempt to steal someone's ideas.
More friendly fire! The WaPo’s quoted “plagiarism experts” did their best to soft-pedal the scandal — it’s nuanced — but were forced to admit that, technically speaking, Kamala did in fact plagiarize several parts of her awful book:
"It's nuanced," said Jonathan Bailey, a copyright and plagiarism
consultant who has examined the claims about Harris's work. "It's not
nearly as serious as accusers want it to be and it's not the
nothingburger that the Harris campaign wants it to be, either."
All in all, with all that friendly fire, Kamala probably felt like she was being attacked by a swarm of indignant bees. And this is how desperate the Kamala campaign is getting: behold yesterday’s headline from Bloomberg:
Kamala Harris Says Reparations for Black Americans Deserve Review
Vice president touts agenda in Charlamagne tha God interview
Harris seeking to ramp up outreach to Black male voters
Reviewing Reparations! So.
Apparently this comes from the 'hope springs eternal' that his Rockefeller cousin IHLlary can still be maneuvered by sleight of hand into the bankrupt office and complete the task of starting WWIII.
Patrick says
With the wealth and do nothing job, you'd think he'd age better. He has AIDS.
Kamala's interview on Fox such a disaster,
blaming everything on Trump.
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