Rand Paul on plagiarism: promises footnotes 'if it will make people leave me the hell alone'

[ashling]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/05/1253262/-Rand-Paul-aide-acknowledges-plagiarism-charges-blames-extraordinarily-stupid-staff?detail=facebook

Rand Paul, for his part, weighs in with the requisite amount of Paul family lunacy:

Acknowledging that his office had “made mistakes,” he said he was putting a new system in place to ensure that all of his materials are properly footnoted and cited.

“What we are going to do from here forward, if it will make people leave me the hell alone, is we’re going to do them like college papers,” he said.

Yes, yes. It's all about your hurt feelings. The stupid reporters with their stupid finding things out.

There's no guarantee, of course, but I'm pretty sure if you resigned your senate seat and went off to live in a cave somewhere that people would be happy to leave you the hell alone.

[Vashta Nerada]

1. I would prefer footnotes and a full bibliography.

But I do all of my citations in the SAA format.

[FSogol]

2. Hey Rand, resign from office, promise to never run again, and we will leave you alone.

What a butt wipe.

[Lasher]

3. "What WE are going to do..."

WTF, doesn't he even do his own plagiarizing?

[JohnnyLib2]

4. Rand, the petulant Paul.

Jerk.

[Botany]

5. Well Rand if you want to make it "like a college paper"

From Ohio University's code of student conduct

http://www.ohio.edu/communitystandards/academic/students.cfm

Plagiarism - Plagiarism is defined as the presentation of the ideas or the writing of someone else as one's own. Examples:
a. Reproducing another person's work, whether published or unpublished (this also includes using materials from companies that sell research papers).
b. Submitting as your own any academic exercise (written work, computer printout, sculpture) prepared totally or in part by another.
c. Allowing another person to substantially alter or revise your work and submitting it as your own.
d. Using another's written ideas or words without properly acknowledging the source. If a student uses the words of someone else, he or she must put quotation marks around the passage and add indication of its origin, such as a footnote.
e. Simply changing a word or two while leaving the organization and content substantially intact and failing to cite the source is plagiarism. Students should also take note that failure to acknowledge study aids such as Cliff's Notes or common reference sources, such as Wikipedia constitutes plagiarism.

[DrDan]

6. wow - so he is sensitive for being criticized for not giving credit to those that have earned it

THAT is extremely immature and juvenile

[Frustratedlady]

7. Maybe now, Paul gets a little taste of what Obama and Michele

have had to contend with their whole lives and did it with a smile, I might add. Of course, they then call them uppity.

Don't come crying to us, Paul. I still remember that woman lying on the curb getting her head stepped on and kicked while you saw what was happening...every time I see your face, I think of her!!!!

I believe you never had any discipline in your pampered childhood and people are beginning to see the end result. Not pretty.

[KurtNYC]

8. What he actually said is "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore"

[B Calm]

9. Starting to get to him, hee hee hee!