The Rand Paul Plagiarizing Guessing Game - Guess the Next One, or Which Movie!!!

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Last edited Wed Oct 30, 2013, 12:17 PM - Edit history (4)

As many of you know, Rachel Maddow has done a couple stories on Rand Paul plagiarizing Wikipedia entries for movies. First reported was Gattaca, then today she reported that Buzzfeed had found he also plagiarized the Widipedia entry for the movie Stand and Deliver.

Gattaca story:

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/more-wikipedia-copying-in-rand-paul-speeches-58387523656

#t=69

Stand and Deliver:

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/more-wikipedia-copying-in-rand-paul-speeches-58387523656


Well I thought it would be fun to come up with more speeches that he might have plagiarized from Wikipedia, so here's a speech he could give about the difficulty of fitting in and doing well in college:

As a Republican, I have fought long and hard to make it easier for kids to achieve their education goals. The Repbulican Party stands for your right to higher education so that everyone can have a better chance at a good job and a secure future. But there were times in our history when college was a lot harder than today.

In 1962, college freshmen Lawrence "Larry" Kroger and Kent Dorfman seek to join a fraternity at Faber College. They visit the prestigious Omega Theta Pi House's invitational party, but are not welcomed there. They then try next door at Delta Tau Chi House, where Kent's brother was once a member, making Kent a "legacy." There they find John "Bluto" Blutarsky urinating outside the fraternity house. The Deltas "need the dues" so they permit Larry and Kent to pledge, giving them the fraternity names "Pinto" and "Flounder".

Dean Vernon Wormer wants to remove the Deltas from campus due to repeated conduct violations and low academic standing. Since they are already on probation, he puts the Deltas on something he calls "double secret probation" and orders the clean-cut, smug Omega president Greg Marmalard to find a way to get rid of the Deltas permanently.

Flounder is bullied by Omega member and ROTC cadet commander Doug Neidermeyer, so Bluto and Daniel Simpson "D-Day" Day persuade Flounder to sneak Neidermeyer's horse into Dean Wormer's office late at night. They give him a gun and tell him to shoot it. Unbeknownst to Flounder, the gun is loaded with blanks. Unable to bring himself to kill the horse, he fires into the ceiling. The noise frightens the horse so much that it dies of a heart attack.

In the cafeteria the next day, smooth-talking Eric "Otter" Stratton tries to convince the stuck-up Mandy Pepperidge to abandon her boyfriend, Marmalard, and date him instead. Bluto proceeds to provoke Marmalard with his impression of a popping zit by stuffing his mouth with a scoop of mashed potatoes and propelling it at Marmalard and table mates, Chip Diller and Barbara "Babs" Jansen. Bluto then starts a food fight that engulfs the cafeteria.

Bluto and D-Day steal the answers to an upcoming psychology test, but it turns out the Omegas planted the exam mimeograph and the Deltas get every answer wrong. Their grade-point averages drop so low that Wormer needs only one more incident to revoke the charter that allows them to remain on campus.

Spoiler below:










https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_house

[cui bono]

1. Here's one he may have given to the NRA...

You know, I wasn't always a gun advocate. When I was a little boy I was scared of them. But then my grandaddy told me a story his grandaddy told him, and I'd like to share that with you today.

The way grandaddy told it is... Young Travis Coates has left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother Arliss while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the 1860s. When a yellow mongrel comes for an uninvited stay with the family, Travis reluctantly adopts the dog. Though Travis initially loathes the "rascal" and at first tries to get rid of it, the dog eventually proves his worth, saving the family on several occasions. Travis grows to love this dog named Old Yeller. And they become great friends.

The rightful owner of Yeller shows up looking for his dog and recognizes that the family has become attached to Yeller, and trades the dog to Arliss for a home-cooked meal prepared by Travis's mother, who is an exceptional cook. Old Yeller becomes exposed to rabies while defending the family from a rabid wolf. Travis is forced to shoot Yeller after the fight with the wolf because he cannot risk Yeller becoming sick and turning on the family. Old Yeller had puppies with one of Travis's friend's dogs, and one of the puppies helps Travis get over Old Yeller's death.

So you see, guns have a positive role to play in our society. They can save us not only from an intruder, or a bank robber, but they can keep us healthy and strong by eliminating contagious diseases.

Spoiler below:











https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_yeller

[riversedge]

2. did you make up these stories?

[cui bono]

3. I just edited my OP in case people hadn't heard that he's been found out to have plagiarized

wikipedia entries of movies in his speeches, pretty much word for word. I'm going to find links to the Maddow videos of her reports on this. He seriously used Gattaca and Stand and Deliver. It's really bizarre.

So no, I didn't make up those stories, well just the part of him actually using those in speeches, well, I'm not really sure about that since I haven't heard every speech of his.

[riversedge]

9. Thanks, I have followed

Maddow the last 2 nights regarding her reporting of Rand Paul. It is clear to me that the stories were lifted.

I hope the mainstream media picks up on this. They most likely have by now but choose to lay low. Why???

[dchill]

4. I'm quite sure that this is just the tip...

of the Wiki-berg. Is it too soon to say "Wikigate?"

[cui bono]

5. Step right up and take yer chances!

Win a Rand Paul Squirrel Hat!

Submit your best guess at the next speech!

[Laelth]

6. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[tjwash]

7. I have a feeling he will keep his next speech on the simple side...

[tjwash]

8. Of course you will be able to depend on him to arrive to the presser in style...

[cui bono]

10. Isn't that pic missing the last word of that sentence?

asshole?

[tjwash]

14. Come to think of it, he's more like a Number-2

Or a deuce as I call it...

[cui bono]

11. Here's one he might have given on teaching people morals:

We all know about the wonderful clinics that exist to cure those poor people stricken with the disease of homosexuality. Well there's a new type of clinic now, one that will help curb crime by healing people of their violent tendencies. Here's a case study from one of the test clinics:

Alex was a lonely child who got in with the wrong crowd and joined a gang. One night, his gang members express discontent with Alex's petty crimes, demanding more equality and more high-yield thefts. Alex reasserts his leadership by attacking them. Later Alex invades the mansion of a wealthy "cat"-woman, while his droogs remain at the front door. Alex bludgeons the woman with a phallic statue. Hearing police sirens, Alex tries to run away, but Dim smashes a pint bottle of milk across his face, leaving him stunned and bleeding. Alex is captured and beaten by the police. A gloating Deltoid spits in his face and informs him that the woman died in the hospital, making him a murderer. Alex is sentenced to 14 years incarceration.

Two years into the sentence, the Minister of the Interior arrives at the prison looking for test subjects for the Ludovico technique, an experimental aversion therapy for rehabilitating criminals within two weeks; Alex readily volunteers. The process involves drugging the subject, strapping him to a chair, propping his eyelids open, and forcing him to watch images of violence. Alex becomes nauseated due to the drugs. He realizes that one of the films' soundtracks is by his favourite composer, Ludwig van Beethoven, and that the Ludovico technique will make him sick when he hears the music he loves. He tries to end the treatment but is unsuccessful.

After two weeks of the Ludovico technique, the Minister of the Interior puts on a demonstration to prove that Alex is "cured". He is shown to be incapable of fighting back against an actor who insults and attacks him, and he becomes violently ill at the sight of a topless woman. The prison chaplain protests at the results, feeling that Alex has been robbed of his God-given freewill: "He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice." The prison governor asserts that they are not interested in the higher ethics but only with "cutting down crime and relieving the ghastly congestion in our prisons."

Now, this test clinic was set up in the liberal, god mocking north, but down here in the south our churches understand that when it comes to righting a wrong like homosexuality and random violence against rich people all methods are blessed. We know that what is important is to eradicate bad behavior, which of course leads to people being moral. And let me just end this by saying I do think we should still be putting people in prisons, as long as it's the right people.

Spoiler below:














https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_%28film%29

[dchill]

12. K & R.

[Initech]

13. I can't wait for him to reference "Jesse From New Mexico" on the dangers of blue methamphetamine.

[WillyT]

15. LOL !!! - "Rosebud..."

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Animal farm

[gopiscrap]

17. what a dick head

[cui bono]

18. Kick for recently uncovered instances!