Nutroots at ThinkProgress say McCain Plagiarized…oh Nevermind..
By 186 on Mar 28, 2008
Here is ThinkProgress yesterday accusing John McCain of Plagiarism in his speech Wednesday;
These lines are not McCain’s own. As TP reader 5th Estate discovered, they were in fact taken largely from a 1996 speech by ret. Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer. Below is a comparison of McCain’s address yesterday with Ziemer’s in 1996:
Seems “ThinkProgress” did just enough “googling” to satisfy their need to smear John McCain and stopped there until they were forced to correct themselves.
At least ThinkProgress Regress corrected it’s knee jerk accusation of McCain plagiarism.
UPDATE: It appears that Ziemer’s speech may have been plagiarized from McCain. According to the McCain campaign, the senator used these lines before Ziemer — in 1995. We regret the error.
UPDATE: As a blog that strives to maintain credibility and transparency, we would like to explain our mistake. When we were alerted to the tip that Adm. Ziemer gave a similar speech in 1996, we searched LexisNexis and McCain’s campaign site for whether the senator used the disputed phrases before that time. We did not find anything. After we published the post, the McCain campaign contacted us and pointed to a speech given by the senator in 1995, which appears on McCain’s Senate site. As soon as we were alerted to the error, we rushed to publish a correction. Once again, we regret the error.
Just another shining example of how the left trips over itself to smear somebody who doesn’t ride the nutroot magic carpet.
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