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EXCLUSIVE: McCains Foreign Affairs Speech Plagiarizes 1996 Address By Adm. Timothy Ziemer
http://thinkprogress.org/ 2008/ 03/ 27/ mccain-plagiarism/
UPDATE: It appears that Ziemer's speech may have been plagiarized from McCain. According to the McCain campaign, the senator used these lines before Ziemer - in 1995. We regret the error. UPDATE: As a blog that strives to maintain credibility and transparency, we would like to explain our mistake. When we were alerted to the tip that Adm. Ziemer gave a similar speech in 1996, we searched LexisNexis and McCain's campaign site for whether the senator used the disputed phrases before that time. We did not find anything. After we published the post, the McCain campaign contacted us and pointed to a speech given by the senator in 1995, which appears on McCain's Senate site.
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McCain's Foreign Affairs Speech Plagiarized? UPDATED
http://www.democrats.org/a/2008/03/mccains_foreign.phpUPDATE: Think Progress now says Ziemer's speech may have been the one that's plagiarized. Think Progress has the scoop. No word from the McCain campaign on whether they Ziemer had permission to lift the text for the speech yesterday on foreign affairs
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John McCains Joe Biden problem
http://www.punditreview.com/2008/03/27/john-mccains-joe-bide...This is certainly not good news for John McCain. At a time when his opponents are beating each other into the ground, McCain has made an unforced error that will draw attention away from the Democrats civil war. McCain gave a foreign policy speech
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Who Came First? McCain or McCain
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/03/who_cam...Think Progress thought it trapped John McCain in a plagiarism controversy. But McCain may wind up being the victim, here. The accusation of plagiarism is fundamentally and irrefutably false. The Senator has used that language as early, and possibly
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Think Progress Gets Sloppy
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/03/think_pr...The big exclusive from Think Progress: Yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) gave a foreign policy speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.... These lines are not McCains own. As TP reader 5th Estate discovered, they were in fact taken largely from
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War: So Awful He Said It Twice
http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/03/war_...War: So Awful He Said It Twice 27 Mar 2008 05:36 pm Apparently much of John McCain's language about how much he hates war was lifted from a 1996 speech by Rear Admiral Timothy Ziemer. Interestingly, back in 1996 McCain didn't love war nearly so much as
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False Accusations as a Cautionary Tale
http://www.resurrectionsong.com/index.php/weblog/false_accus...There are some takeaways from Think Progress discredited accusation of plagiarism against McCain, and they apply to more than just the folks at that site. The first thing to learn is that searching Google for an answer shouldnt qualify as due diligence
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Its catch a Democrat/Progressive liar day
http://commonsensewonder.com/?p=3222Think Progress retracts McCain plagiarism charge ÃÂ Yesterday, liberal blog Think Progress published an explosive and EXCLUSIVE charge that John McCain had plagiarized from a 1996 speech by Adm. Timothy Ziemer. Now Think Progress takes it back. Think
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Think Transgress: Pro-Clinton Blog Retracts McCain Smear
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2008/03/28/think-tra...Mark Hemingway at the Corner pointed at this one: As Hillary's Army publishes paperbacks complaining about the "Free Ride" John McCain is getting from the press, the Hillary brigade at Think Progress didn't give McCain a free ride, they gave
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Instapundit.com
http://instapundit.com/archives2/017047.phpAT THINKPROGRESS, getting their plagiarism scandal backward: UPDATE: It appears that Ziemer's speech may have been plagiarized from McCain. According to the McCain campaign, the senator used these lines before Ziemer - in 1995. We regret the error. They
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Think Progress Gets Sloppy
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/03/think_pr...The big exclusive from Think Progress: Yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) gave a foreign policy speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.... These lines are not McCains own. As TP reader 5th Estate discovered, they were in fact taken largely from
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McCain, word-for-word with admiral, distaste for war
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/03/mcca...by Mark Silva Sen. John McCain delivered some remarks about the wretchedness of war this week that are awfully reminiscent of the worlds of rretired Navy Adm. Timothy Ziemer, a member of the Bush administration who today is leading the administration's
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And Now It's Time for John McCain's Timothy Ziemer's Plagiarism Scandal
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/03/john_mccains_speechwrit...Photo: Getty Images If you thought it was bad when Barack Obama plagiarized Massachuetts Deval Patrick, or when Hillary Clinton started running around going all, "Change! Change!" in a deep baritone, then the latest plagiarism scandal of the
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MCCAIN "BORROWS" HEAVILY IN HIS FOREIGN POLICY ADDRESS.
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=03&y...Amanda Terkel over at Think Progress catches John McCain plagiarizing large portions of his foreign policy speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council yesterday. Sizable chunks of it were lifted directly from a speech made by retired Rear Adm.
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MCCAIN "BORROWS" HEAVILY IN HIS FOREIGN POLICY ADDRESS.
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=03&y...Amanda Terkel over at Think Progress catches John McCain plagiarizing large portions of his foreign policy speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council yesterday. Sizable chunks of it were lifted directly from a speech made by retired Rear Adm.
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John McCain Didnt Plagiarize His Iraq Speech
http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/03/27/john-mccain...Original thought dies another day. Update: Looks like Johnny Mac is the victim of the plagiarism here. To recap: hes a warmonger, but one with original warmonger thoughts of his own.
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