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Biden plagarizes Reagan in acceptance speech.

Posted on 08/21/2020 11:37:04 AM PDT by dmzTahoe

Sept 03, 1984, President Reagan said the following:

"Well, America isn’t about promises; it never has been. America is about promise. It’s about possibility."

Last night, in his acceptance speech, Biden said:

"I have always believed you can define America in one word: Possibilities."

Biden is a serial plagarist and he feels he can continue to get away with it, or he is truly senile.

In any case, he is dangerous.


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KEYWORDS: biden; plagiarism; reagan; vanity
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1 posted on 08/21/2020 11:37:04 AM PDT by dmzTahoe
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Weak.


2 posted on 08/21/2020 11:40:05 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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Its bland and platitudinous enough to be anything. Thats the take away.


3 posted on 08/21/2020 11:40:31 AM PDT by Bayard
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No wonder MoUrning Joe found Biden’s acceptance speech “ Reaganesque “.


4 posted on 08/21/2020 11:45:16 AM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: dmzTahoe

That isn’t plagiarism.

verbatim or near-verbatim is plagiarism

Biden lifts/copies stuff verbatim or near-verbatim


5 posted on 08/21/2020 11:45:33 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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Don’t take my opinion... But how about that from Reagan Speechwriter Ken Khachigian,. who pointed this out a few weeks ago when Biden used it in a speech. His comments to American Spectator were interesting, calling out the plagarist.


6 posted on 08/21/2020 11:49:38 AM PDT by dmzTahoe
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The media praised Biden’s speech.

I know I have my own biases, but, I thought the speech was terrible. His delivery and cadence were not good, in addition to my not agreeing with what he was saying.

He seemed like an old man ranting at certain points. Yet the media universally praised it as a speech for the ages. Go figure.


7 posted on 08/21/2020 11:50:26 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: dmzTahoe

Biden had a PAC for a while: “American Possibilities.”


8 posted on 08/21/2020 11:54:01 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: dmzTahoe
Paraphrased plagiarism involves making a few (often cosmetic) changes to someone else’s work, then passing it off as your own. Unless a specific idea is common knowledge, you cannot include it in your paper without providing a citation—even if you do not include any direct quotes.

I would say "possibilities" falls under the 'common knowledge' exception.

9 posted on 08/21/2020 12:13:16 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (Youth, and speed can always be overcome with experience and treachery.)
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To: dmzTahoe

From NPR: “Biden Comments And Jokes On Inappropriate Touching Allegations”

It seems the only thing original about Joe is his ways of getting too close to children.


10 posted on 08/21/2020 12:15:01 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (Biden's)
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To: dmzTahoe

Sorry. In this instance, not plagiarism.

Biden has famously plagiarized in the past. His handlers in this campaign won’t let him, lest they give Trump a club to beat him with.

This tells me Biden did not write (or have final say, anyway) over his acceptance speech.


11 posted on 08/21/2020 12:21:25 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
The media praised Biden’s speech.

I fell asleep.

12 posted on 08/21/2020 12:25:27 PM PDT by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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“...verbatim or near-verbatim is plagiarism

Biden lifts/copies stuff verbatim or near-verbatim”
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I kept waiting for Biden to read from the teleprompter “...we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender...”.


13 posted on 08/21/2020 12:27:57 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: dmzTahoe

So you got no link but call this news?
Get a job, Frootloop.


14 posted on 08/21/2020 12:28:15 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“...the media universally praised it as a speech for the ages...”

Did you expect anything less?????


15 posted on 08/21/2020 12:40:56 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Don Corleone

I kept my eyelids propped open with toothpicks.

It wasn’t worth it.

Rambling platitudes, stolen words, stolen valor, cheesy sentimentalism,

Droning on and on. Not an original idea in the whole lot.

Speechwriter should be taken out and shot.


16 posted on 08/21/2020 12:52:47 PM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: dmzTahoe; All

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17 posted on 08/21/2020 2:35:03 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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That must be why the dimwit Scarborough said Biden’s speech was “Reagan-esque”


18 posted on 08/21/2020 2:35:19 PM PDT by lewislynn ( It's not your color stupid, it's your attitude.)
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To: House Atreides

ha!


19 posted on 08/21/2020 3:37:02 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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“This tells me Biden did not write (or have final say, anyway) over his acceptance speech.”

“Come on man! Of course I had final say. You hear any folks saying those words anymore!?”


20 posted on 08/21/2020 3:41:04 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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