Plagiarism in Joe Biden's 1988 presidential campaign

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[ryankey]

He met with his advisors after he was caught and said “don’t worry staff: we have nothing to fear, but fear, itself.”

[Vonniesistah]

You know, if you're caught plagiarizing in college or at your place of work its immediate expulsion. 47 years of this and he's still in politics. What am I missing?

[DGill]

Missed the funniest he robs Kinnock's speech about those coal mining ancestors

[jham]

Numerous occasions of plagerism. Never mentioned once during campaign. He was never challenged on this at any point.

[danielmims]

He also plagiarized his Master thesis in college. That came out after all the speech plagiarizing came out and was the final nail.

[pinky]

"JOE BIDEN IS THE KING OF "PLAGIARISM"

[FrankAndrews]

How did this not ruin his career in politics?

[markjohnston]

maybe plagiarizing is the only way he can complete a coherent sentence...

[jjerry]

This video just barely scratches the surface.

[PunksterOS]

Biden's speeches are truly inspirational. It means that perhaps I too can steal and get to be a world leader.

[magma]

*He has a new one now, "Made in America!"* Trump already has taken this one! He brought many of jobs back to America so that instead of China we'll make the products back home. The nerve this guy has!

[vincentbaca]

When has this man ever had an original thought? And we are to believe 80 million Americans voted for him?🤔

[maxchavez]

He copied Kinnock just three months after his speech. That must have been some speech.

[MAllen-ngpl]

his alzheimer's has gotten to the point where he can start reading his old speeches, and it'll seem completely new to him.

[joshuadavidbuffalo]

Imagine your brain being so broken that you forgot every lie you ever told…

[overtonpendulum]

The saddest part is that he would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for the Internet.

[lorimeyers]

Back when I was going to college in 2008, I had a poly sci prof who told us about Biden’s plagiarism being his demise in ‘88. It seemed like zero young people at the time (now in my 30s) knew that. Thought it was hilarious once the rest of the world saw this pop up on YouTube years later. Team Brandon!

[shantvincent]

WaPo wouldn't put this out today, I'm surprised they haven't taken it down yet.

[maxchavez]

This is why he dropped out of his '88 campaign in the first place. And yet, he did it again. He'd rather meet with big donors than look over his own campaign.

[digitalfootballer]

Well, I can understand why he plagiarizes...every time he comes up with his own stuff, it is things like "I mean, you've got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy"