Harris Faces More Plagiarism Allegations in Her 2009 Book
Did Harris really copy an anecdote from Martin Luther King, Jr.?!
Christopher Rufo discovered two more instances of plagiarism in VP Kamala Harris’s book, Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer.
The Telegraph discovered another example in the book. It seems she stole something from Martin Luther King, Jr.
MORE PLAGIARISM: This is a seventh instance of significant plagiarism by Kamala Harris. She copied the language verbatim from a California government website, substituting a single word, rather than paraphrasing it or putting it in quotations. We can keep this going for a while. pic.twitter.com/yHONocMSBh
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 15, 2024
OH NO, MORE PLAGIARISM: This is the eighth instance of significant plagiarism by Kamala Harris. Although she cited the source, she copied long stretches of verbatim language, without paraphrasing or putting it in quotations. This is what they teach you not to do in high school. pic.twitter.com/6JNRrJ6HHQ
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 15, 2024
SHE KEEPS GOING: This is a ninth instance of significant plagiarism by Kamala Harris. Although she cited the source, she copied long passages of language verbatim, without paraphrasing or putting it in quotations. It's textbook "verbatim plagiarism"—and not an isolated incident. pic.twitter.com/5uwWwRDxkt
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 15, 2024
Harris loves that “fweedom” anecdote. PJ Media noted that she used it a lot, such as in Elle Magazine in October 2020:
Senator Kamala Harris started her life’s work young. She laughs from her gut, the way you would with family, as she remembers being wheeled through an Oakland, California, civil rights march in a stroller with no straps with her parents and her uncle. At some point, she fell from the stroller (few safety regulations existed for children’s equipment back then), and the adults, caught up in the rapture of protest, just kept on marching. By the time they noticed little Kamala was gone and doubled back, she was understandably upset. “My mother tells the story about how I’m fussing,” Harris says, “and she’s like, ‘Baby, what do you want? What do you need?’ And I just looked at her and I said, ‘Fweedom.’”
Stefan Weber, known as the “plagiarism hunter,” discovered the instances of plagiarism, describing them from “’minor transgressions’ to more ‘serious infractions.’” More from The Telegraph:
Dr Weber’s findings were shared in a joint investigation with Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist who previously made claims against the now-ousted Harvard University president, Claudine Gay.
In his report, the Austrian academic wrote: “What do these findings say about Kamala Harris? Is she in part fake? Did her ghostwriter plagiarise? Was it just the team behind her? I have no idea. I let other people from the US draw the right conclusions.”
His investigations have previously focused on academics and German politicians and secured him an international profile. Some of those he has accused of plagiarism have later been cleared.
Again, I don’t remember plagiarism ever having a gray area when I went to school and taught. Unless the thought, statistic, or evidence came from you, you cite and credit the source.
Why is this so hard?
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She seems to be plagiarizing crap.
There was a Milton Berle show skit based on Berle being famous for plagiarizing jokes. They made up an awful joke based on confusing Marilyn Monroe and the Monroe Doctrine and placed it in a safe, and Berle used it, proving that not only is he a thief but has no taste.
No wonder Joe chose her. He was found to have been a serial plagiarist back around the first time he ran president. It all makes sense now.
Fweedom.
There is a headline today she plagiarized MLK.
In Harris’ defense, she probably never heard of MLK, Jr.
Is it a crime for a Democrat politician to steal something from someone else???
Subotai Bahadur
And nobody cares
That’s the story , these idiots will still vote for her
“Unless the thought, statistic, or evidence came from you, you cite and credit the source. Why is this so hard?”
“They weren’t brought up in our culture.”
–Random German Leftard Panjandrum excusing “immigrants”
Im seeing a pattern with all these DEI appointments and their inability to actually think for themselves.
Plagiarizing MLK, JR? Isn’t this akin to double hearsay?
Well, the entire book is likely plagiarized from a ghost writer.
Ask 100 people in the street what “plagiarism” is. Does any reading this seriously think that 5 would be able to give the correct answer?
If she wrote any of her so-called “book,” which I find doubtful in the first place, no one cares whether she copied it wholesale from anywhere. Spending time on this detracts from time spent focusing on useful ways to discredit her.
According to Breitbart, the Harris campaign is denying that she plagiarized anything. Are you going to believe your lying eyes or the Harris campaign?
Plagiarism moves the meter zero units on reasons I, along with millions of others, is not voting for her.
Christopher’s work, or at least what I’ve seen, unfortunately gives no evidence of the dates of what he sees as the “original.” I assume he checked that out, but it’s not inconceivable that an article in Wiki was plagiarized from “her” book — maybe by the same ghost writer that wrote Harris’s book. 🙂