To carry on the Gobbons Foot-in-Mouth saga. We find out that Gibbons
plagiarized most of his speech in Elko.
From the Elko Daily Free Press
ELKO - 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.
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Looks jike Sunny Jim used a bunch of Ms. Chapman's speech:
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."
Including the real meat of the comments
Gibbons is under fire from Nevada Democrats for his speech in general and particularly the lines: "I say we tell those liberal, tree-hugging, Birkenstock stocking wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals to go make their movies and their music and whine somewhere else."
Those words, with the exception of "I say," were taken verbatim from Chapman's speech.
Gibbons said if war protesters lived in Iraq or Afghanistan, "Ironically they would be put to death at the hands of Saddam Hussein or Osama Bin Laden," another quote that also came directly from Chapman's speech.
These are the kind of hate mongering and disrespectful comments that will attract the middle back to reality.
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I also noticed a comment in the Previous Gibbons thread that His Holliness, Pope John Paul II considered being a human shield in Iraq.
Draw your own conclusions about what Republicians are really about.
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