Rand Paul's Speech Analysis
ASHINGTON -- Sen. Rand Paul shifted his tone from apology to condemnation Wednesday as he continued to face fallout from alleged plagiarism in numerous speeches and articles.
Last week, the Kentucky Republican chalked up accusations that he had improperly lifted passages from Wikipedia to a misunderstanding about attribution practices and the malicious intent of “haters.” But as more suspiciously similar passages emerged, including one in a September Washington Times column that prompted the paper to suspend Paul’s weekly contributions, Paul has been forced to go on the offensive.
“What makes me mad about the whole thing is that I believe there is a difference between errors of omission and errors of intention. We aren’t perfect and we have made errors of omission, but we never intended to mislead anybody,” Paul told the Review’s Robert Costa, saying the whole situation has been blown out of proportion. …show more content…
"Nobody reports on what the speech was even about," he said. "At least I saw the movie ‘Gattaca.’ I read the book ‘1984.’ They didn’t even read my damn
Last week, the Kentucky Republican chalked up accusations that he had improperly lifted passages from Wikipedia to a misunderstanding about attribution practices and the malicious intent of “haters.” But as more suspiciously similar passages emerged, including one in a September Washington Times column that prompted the paper to suspend Paul’s weekly contributions, Paul has been forced to go on the offensive.
“What makes me mad about the whole thing is that I believe there is a difference between errors of omission and errors of intention. We aren’t perfect and we have made errors of omission, but we never intended to mislead anybody,” Paul told the Review’s Robert Costa, saying the whole situation has been blown out of proportion. …show more content…
"Nobody reports on what the speech was even about," he said. "At least I saw the movie ‘Gattaca.’ I read the book ‘1984.’ They didn’t even read my damn