Rand Paul finally commits the ultimate sin.

[LMNO]

Plagarism.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/10/29/rand_paul_gattaca_did_rachel_maddow_catch_rand_paul_plagiarizing_wikipedia.html
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/section-of-rand-pauls-book-plagiarized-forbes-article
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/11/05/rand_paul_plaigerism_buzzfeed_catches_gop_senator_ripping_of_the_week_column.html

I'm appalled that people think no one will check up on them.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

His supporter's excuses will be DELICIOUS.   

[LMNO]

At least one of them was in a published book -- isn't there some sort of penalty that gets imposed for stuff like that?


Can't be loss of credibility, otherwise he'd be in negative numbers.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It looks like he almost made a half-assed attempt at paraphrasing. Sort of.

Betcha anything the reason he does it is because he thinks he's above getting in trouble for things they tell the little people not to do, though.

[I_Kicked_Kennedy]

Well, when he was offered the job by the patron sponsors of the ultra-right, he was told:
1) We'll tell you what to say
2) We'll write the legislation that you bring to the floor
3) We'll send you talking points and slogans from our researchers on the daily
4) Outside of that,  talk out of your ass, so long as the core summary of what you say is "fuck everyone who isn't a billionaire. "

He was under the mistaken impression he was "CTRL-C then CTRL-V" in human form. The best part is during the one interview where he kept referring to it as "footnoting" or "footnoted" in reference to his papers in school. Um Rand, did you mean "cite" and "citations"? Was it MLA or APA? Or do you have absolutely no clue because you paid someone to do that for you, as well?

Judging by your complete lack of comprehension of reality in all of its forms, I'll assume that was the case.

[Ben Shapiro]

Can't spell free market with out FREE.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

You know, out of the corner of my eye it looked like the title was "Rand Paul finally commits suicide" and I was like, damn dude, that's cold.

[Ben Shapiro]

Same thing.

[Cain]

Come on now.

Does anyone believe Rand Paul actually wrote that book?  Really?

No, some staffer (probably secessionist loon and Confederate supporter Jack Hunter) decided to crib pages from old Heritage Foundation papers, and Paul's sin is being stupid enough to plaster his name over something he didn't get independently checked first.

[LMNO]

Like father, like son, I suppose.

[Cain]

No, Ron Paul was perfectly capable of writing his own distorted ideas down, as it turned out.

"[People] close to Paul's operations said he was deeply involved in the company that produced the [racist] newsletters, Ron Paul & Associates, and closely monitored its operations, signing off on articles and speaking to staff members virtually every day.

"It was his newsletter, and it was under his name, so he always got to see the final product. . . . He would proof it,'' said Renae Hathway, a former secretary in Paul's company and a supporter of the Texas congressman.

[LMNO]

Oh, lovely.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It's a goddamn rat king.

[LMNO]

What exactly am I looking at, here?

[Reginald Ret]

In The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett, Keith skeptically notes that the filth associated with supposedly tying the young rats together at a young age is not found in a rat's nest, and suspects that a rat king is created as a sort of project by a rat catcher himself. In an author's note at the end of the novel, Pratchett ventures the theory that "down the ages some cruel and inventive people have had altogether too much time on their hands".