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The loveable Lefties over at Think Progress (a MoveOn.org, Soros-funded web project) jumped all over a foreign policy speech Sen. John McCain gave when they found remarkable similarities to a speech given over a decade ago by Admiral Timothy Ziemer.
They had a wonderful, sentence-by-sentence breakdown and comparison, scathing commentary and raucus readers' remarks and everything!
All was well...until the McCain folks pointed them to a McCain speech on the McCain's Senate website which predated Ziemer's speech...oops...it was the admiral who had borrowed from McCain, not the other way around.
I got to hand it to Think Progress though. They didn't pull a New York Times and bury the retraction deep in the bowels of their site somewhere. Nope. Right out front.
THINK PROGRESS
EXCLUSIVE: McCain’s Foreign Affairs Speech Plagiarizes 1996 Address By Adm. Timothy Ziemer (UPDATED)»
CORRECTION: 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. As soon as we were alerted to the error, we rushed to publish a correction. Once again, we regret the error, and we apologize for it.
Yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) gave a foreign policy speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. He stated:
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Think Progress s Foreign Affairs Speech Plagiarizes 1996 Address By Adm. Timothy Ziemer (UPDATED)
They had a wonderful, sentence-by-sentence breakdown and comparison, scathing commentary and raucus readers' remarks and everything!
All was well...until the McCain folks pointed them to a McCain speech on the McCain's Senate website which predated Ziemer's speech...oops...it was the admiral who had borrowed from McCain, not the other way around.
I got to hand it to Think Progress though. They didn't pull a New York Times and bury the retraction deep in the bowels of their site somewhere. Nope. Right out front.
THINK PROGRESS
EXCLUSIVE: McCain’s Foreign Affairs Speech Plagiarizes 1996 Address By Adm. Timothy Ziemer (UPDATED)»
CORRECTION: 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. As soon as we were alerted to the error, we rushed to publish a correction. Once again, we regret the error, and we apologize for it.
Yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) gave a foreign policy speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. He stated:
READ MORE
Think Progress s Foreign Affairs Speech Plagiarizes 1996 Address By Adm. Timothy Ziemer (UPDATED)
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