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Cambio5 at Kos remembers the "plagiarism" attack being used against other African Americans to try to take them down:

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Hillary plagiarizes Rovian-race-baiting attack

Rovian? Race baiting? Am I crazy? Yeah, well, maybe, but OMG am I also pissed!
Hillary's plagiarism attack is a new low, even for her. I apologize if this is repetitive,
but I think it adds new info. It at least hasn't been on the recommended diaries and I, for one,
think it should be. First off, the plagiarism attack is 100% Rovian on it's face:
take something that is a strenfth of your opponent, and wail on it.

Second It's also disingenuous: If the sentiment that Obama expressed was plagiarism, then, so too,
must be David Letterman's series "Great Moments in presidential speeches" more or less. The idea is the same.

Follow me for why this is race baiting below:

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I read this and, following my initial shock at the baseness of it, I thought, who else has been attacked as a plagiarist.
Well, of course, there was Joe Biden, hardly anything racist about attacks on someone so clean.
Besides, he actually did plagiarize. But then I remembered the attacks on Martin Luther King Jr.for plagiarism in his doctoral thesis.
Why is it race baiting? Well, you've got a person who didn't cheat to get his house, is not an adulterer,
is inspirational, and who deflects overtly racial attacks by raising more money and solidifying his lead.
You need to attack him, but his record is pretty rock solid and personal attacks don't work. So what can you do?
Attack his intellectual authenticity. Insinuate that he's a puppet, that he's an empty suit, that he's dishonest.
Try to evoke stereotypes of African Americans, but point to the video and say, "It's not us, the tape is right there.
We HAD to point it out, before someone else did." This is not to say that Hillary's attacks are meant to be racist,
they are just from the racist play book.