RIGHT SPEAK: The Kamala Harris Plagiarism Row is a Disaster for Her Campaign: It threatens to compound the perception that she is out of ideas; NYT Expert Who Cleared Kamala Harris of Plagiarism Admits He Didn’t Do Full Analysis, and related stories

The Kamala Harris plagiarism row is a disaster for her campaign:

It threatens to compound the perception that she is out of ideas

Of all the words you could use to describe Kamala Harris, “integrity” probably isn’t front of mind. “Lucky” might make a little more sense: it’s not every day that a historically inept vice president gets to take over from an even more incompetent incumbent. But even a winning streak like Harris’s had to come to an end.

It may not come as a shock that a candidate caught repeatedly on camera switching her accent depending on the audience would have little attachment to sincerity. Still, the claims made by a famous plagiarism hunter about a book written by Harris prior to her term as California attorney general could knock her campaign goal to present herself as a breath of fresh air. Joe Biden, at least, had the good sense to plagiarize from a senior British politician: Harris is alleged to have ripped straight from Wikipedia.

Harris’ book was never intended to be the next great American novel. But that is precisely why these allegations could be so damaging for her. Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer was supposed to meld her personal experiences as a legal expert with the on-the-ground situation in the Californian criminal justice system. It is the sort of book in which one would expect plagiarism to be, regardless of any moral consideration, entirely unnecessary.

That Harris has been accused of lifting entire passages without attribution from elsewhere threatens to compound her existing reputation for being vacuous. The disgraced former Harvard president Claudine Gay might have been sloppy, but Harris looks just plain out of ideas. --->READ MORE HERE

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Nolte: NYT Expert Who Cleared Kamala Harris of Plagiarism Admits He Didn’t Do Full Analysis:

The far-left New York Times disgraced itself Monday by clearing sitting Vice President Kamala Harris of obvious and blatant plagiarism. Now the expert used by the Times to exonerate Harris says he did not do a full analysis.

Monday afternoon, journalist Christopher Rufo dropped the bombshell that Harris “plagiarized at least a dozen sections of her criminal justice book, Smart on Crime.”

The 2009 nonfiction work, coauthored with Joan O’C. Hamilton, was written while Harris was the district attorney of San Francisco and gearing up to run (successfully) for California’s attorney general.

With the help of Dr. Stefan Weber, an internationally famous “plagiarism hunter,” Rufo provided one jaw-dropping example after another of Harris directly copying and pasting paragraph after paragraph into her book that were written by others. She did this without attribution or quote marks. In other words, she not only stole text from other sources, but she also stole ideas, reporting, and scholarship. That is textbook plagiarism.

Additionally, per Rufo, “Harris copied virtually an entire Wikipedia article into her book without providing attribution to Wikipedia” [and] “fabricated a source reference, inventing a nonexistent page number.”

Kamala has been caught red-handed. There is no defending this. Nevertheless, while reporting on the Rufo bombshells, I warned Breitbart News readers that the “corporate media will almost certainly either ignore this scandal or attempt to wrist-flick and ‘fact check’ it away as a ‘Republican-fabricated controversy.’

Within just a few hours, that is precisely what the New York Times did. “Conservative Activist Seizes on Passages From Harris Book,” reads the easily predicted Times headline.