More Plagiarism Found in Rand Paul's Book
Attribute, man! Attribute!
Several more sections of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's 2012 book Government Bullies appear to be plagiarized from articles by think tank scholars, BuzzFeed has found.
As BuzzFeed previously reported, more than three pages of the book were plagiarized from The Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute, and another section of the Kentucky senator's book was plagiarized from a Forbes article.
As was the case with the other cut-and-pasted jobs, Paul included links to the works in his book's footnotes but made no effort to indicate that the words themselves had been taken from other sources.
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Rachel Maddow had proven this is the worst thing that has ever happened. It's like 9/11 and Hitler had a baby.
Bah, fuck this guy. I'm tired of trying to rationalize his statism, and now there's this for me to deal with? I'm done.
Was the book in question actually written by Rand Paul, or by a ghost writer, as were many Ron Paul documents?