Friday, March 4, 2005
GOP Congressman From Nevada Plagiarized His Hatespew...
What kind of a GOP Congresscritter can't even come up with his own political hatespeech?
The speech delivered by U.S. Rep. Jim Gibbons, R-Nev., during Friday night's Lincoln Day Dinner in Elko was largely plagiarized from a copyrighted speech by Alabama State Auditor Beth Chapman.
Chapman told the Elko Daily Free Press this morning Gibbons had not requested permission to use her speech, which she said she delivered Feb. 2, 2003, at a Stand Up for America rally in Alabama.
She said Gibbons apologized today for using large portions of her speech."I spoke with him this morning and he has apologized," she said.
Chapman, a Republican, said Gibbons told her he did not realize the speech was copyrighted.
During his speech at Friday night's Lincoln Day Dinner, Gibbons did not mention that the speech had been written and previously delivered by Chapman.
"I don't remember where I got it," Gibbons said this morning. "I had no idea it was copyrighted."
He said he believed the speech had been e-mailed to him."I have no idea," Gibbons said. "I think it was sent to me, cut-and-paste."
Chapman's speech is 21 paragraphs in length, of which Gibbons used 15 paragraphs word-for-word in his Lincoln Day address.
"It was just some wording that was sent to me," he said. "It reflected my thoughts."
Apparently, the speech so closely reflected Gibbons' thoughts, he went ahead and dispensed with his own thoughts. Very bright...
Then again, if he can't remember where he got the info in the first place, maybe he's incapable of writing an entire speech on his own. I guess we'll never know...
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