Am I the only one here who is deeply impressed with Sen. Rand Paul's insistence on playing the victim in his own plagiarism scandal? The narcissism levels are
off the chart.
In an interview with National Review Online on Capitol Hill, Paul was furious, especially with the press coverage of the allegations. “It annoys the hell out of me,” Paul said. “I feel like if I could just go to detention after school for a couple days, then everything would be okay. But do I have to be in detention for the rest of my career?”
Well poor effing baby—you get caught lifting entire pages worth of material and passing it off as your own work, and your primary response is to be irritated that people keep bringing it up
several days? Dear God, I don't know where our country finds these people, but we should be paying NASA some serious cash money to develop a system for sending them back there.
“What makes me mad about the whole thing is that I believe there is a difference between errors of omission and errors of intention,” he said. “We aren’t perfect and we have made errors of omission, but we never intended to mislead anybody.”
No. You cannot get caught with your hand in other people's cookie jars to the tune of thousands of words and then plead
oopsie, saying you didn't mean it. Of course you meant it. Either you—the person who wrote the book with your name on it—or some random staffer—the person who actually wrote the book with your name on it—copypasted large sections of text and put them under your byline. Same for op-ed articles. Same for speeches. The only way that happens is (1) if nobody involved, despite presumably at-least-basic levels of edumacation, has the slightest grasp of what plagiarism is or (2) nobody involved cares. The good senator has still not properly elucidated which of those two things happened, but from his sad coyote howling I am guessing that he would like us to believe that Mr. Doctor Senator Rand Son Of Ron Paul is simply unfamiliar with this whole
don't goddamn steal concept. How
dare people ask him about these things. For multiple days in a row!
Smart people have noted that Rand Paul seems to be a more political politico than his father, a man who always was a crackpot first and a politician second. Paul the Younger inherited his father's notions but attached an ambition all his own. Short version: The bullshit force is strong in this one.
“It’s also what people hate about politics, and it’s why, frankly, members of my family are not too interested in politics, period, or wanting me to do more of this,” he said. “To tell you the truth, people can think what they want, I can go back to being a doctor anytime, if they’re tired of me. I’ll go back to being a doctor, and I’ll be perfectly content.”
That's right, America, the Rand Paul family is none too keen on politics. If you're going to keep yelling at him for stupid things like junior-high level plagiarism, well Mr. Doctor Rand Paul will just go back to his self-certified ophthalmology career. None of
those people give a damn if you design your own medical accreditation and sign your name to the bottom of it. Not like you "haters."
So far the only consequence of Paul's serial oopsies has been the cancellation of his Washington Times op-ed column. That's right: Sen. Rand Paul has been considered too unethical for the damn Washington Times. That's got to be worth a framed certificate right there.