The latest example of how the “leaders” on left often lack academic and real-world experience
In the past few weeks, the latest example of Kamala Harris lack of qualification for high office, or any office, was exposed. I must it humorous that as I’m writing this, Donald Trump is making fun of Kamala Harris again by preparing French Fries at a McDonalds in Pennsylvania. But then again, she’s no worse than her current “boss.”
Joe Biden’s first attempt at the presidency in 1988 was cut short by his plagiarism of Neil Kinnock. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, “Mr. Kinnock was a leader of the British Labor Party. In 1987, he addressed his party convention and said to great reviews:” *
“Why is Glenys (his wife) the first woman in her family in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Was it because all our predecessors were thick?”
“Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university?”
A few months later a senator from Delaware said:
“Why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university?
“Why is it that my wife who is sitting out there in the audience is the first in her family to ever go to college? Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright?
“Is it because I’m the first Biden in a thousand generations to get a college and a graduate degree that I was smarter than the rest?”
Quite frankly Joe, not many people look at you as “smarter than the rest?” For a man who famously claimed to have graduated college with “three degrees” and to be the only student in law school on “a full scholarship.” From the Washington Post:
Biden held a news conference last week at which he confirmed he had faced disciplinary action on a charge of plagiarizing part of a law school paper as a freshman, and admitted that he had sometimes borrowed quotes from other politicians, including Robert F. Kennedy, Hubert H. Humphrey and British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock.
Biden’s records that he released last week indicated he attended law school on a half-time scholarship based on financial need and that he graduated 76th out of a law school class of 85. His undergraduate academic records show that he graduated from Delaware 506th in a class of 688 with a “C” average and that he got his undergraduate degree with a dual major in history and political science…
…”I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do, I suspect,” Biden responded to a questioner, according to a United Press International report on the tape. “I went to law school on a full academic scholarship, the only one in my class to have a full academic scholarship. In the first year in the law, I decided I didn’t want to be in law school and ended up the bottom two-thirds of my class and then decided I wanted to stay, went back to law school and in fact ended up in the top half of my class.”
His records show that he ranked 80th in a class of 100 his first year in law school, 79th of 87 at the end of his second year, and 76 of 85 the final year.
Fast forward twenty-six years, the selected, not elected nominee for the presidency, Kamala Harris, is having her writings reviewed. Shocking, she plagiarized multiple items in “her” 2009 book Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer (cowriting credit Joan O’C. Hamilton). “In the text she copied verbatim from an NBC report, reproduced extensive sections from a John Jay College of Criminal Justice press release, and in the worst example of plagiarism, copied Wikipedia paragraphs verbatim.”
One Amazon review was damning (emphasis mine), “This book is basically written at a third grade level. That’s a little frustrating, given how intelligent Harris is. After a reasonably strong start — which details how Harris was influenced by her social scientists parents — the book suffers from organizational problems, as if the ghost writer was just sort of slapping chapters together.”
“Slapping chapters together.” Sounds about right.
From Reason magazine, a recent article shows more details of the plagiarism of Ms. Harris and Ms. Hamilton. From Christopher Rufo, relying on research from “Stefan Weber, a noted exposer of plagiarism—finds that there are at least 12 sections of the book in which sentences or entire paragraphs were copied from another source without proper attribution.” Two examples from the article:
Always on the prow, the New York Times has already grabbed a “plagiarism consultant,” Jonathan Bailey, to say “This amount of plagiarism amounts to an error and not an intent to defraud,” he said, adding that Mr. Rufo had taken relatively minor citation mistakes in a large amount of text and tried to “make a big deal of it.”
Mr. Bailey, if I had done this on my 11th grade English paper the teacher would have placed a huge “F” on the front page, I would likely have failed the class, and my mother would not tell the instructor, “it amounts to an error and not an intent to defraud.” I would hope a professional would not make this “intent to defraud.”
I take this seriously because I take writing seriously. A close friend and fellow Army vet got me into blogging, and he explained how critical, and relatively easily, it was to source items. In my writings on my blog, here, and other places, quotes are put into quotation marks, and as a rule I indent and italicize them, with a hyperlink.
Also, from the “*” above, something that drilled into me during my master’s degree. If you rephrase or summarize someone’s words, you not only must note the source, but the rewritten text must be in quotation marks. Shows that is someone else’s work, even if you change the writing a bit.
Is that too much to ask from people who call themselves “smarter than you?”
Michael A. Thiac is a retired Army intelligence officer, with over 23 years experience, including serving in the Republic of Korea, Japan, and the Middle East. He is also a retired police patrol sergeant, with over 22 years’ service, and over ten year’s experience in field training of newly assigned officers. He has been published at The American Thinker, PoliceOne.com, and on his personal blog, A Cop’s Watch.
Opinions expressed are his alone and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of current or former employers.
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Every mammal, every bird, and every reptile, can tell the difference between males and females of their own species; it is only the highly edumacated human liberal who has lost his ability.
How can anyone take seriously the intelligence of people who think that girls can be boys and boys can be girls?