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Who Came First? McCain or McCain
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/ archives/ 2008/ 03/ who_came_first_mccain_or_mc...
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 earlier, as 1995," writes campaign senior adviser Mark Salter in an e-mail. They point to a speech McCain gave before the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Kansas City. Think Progress now "updates:" It appears that Ziemer's speech may have been plagiarized from McCain.
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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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