Friday, February 22, 2008

Plagiarize This!

Well, we believe that whole plagiarism issue has been put to rest, judging by the reaction to Hillary's well-rehearsed phrase "Change you can Xerox" (we also wonder whether she should have credited the staffer who wrote that one for her). Obama then swept the issue away: “The notion that I had plagiarized from somebody who’s one of my national co-chairs who gave me the line and suggested that I use it, I think is silly.”

According to Slate, Hillary's final answer contained a passage that matched one of John Edwards' well-known riffs and another that matched one of her husband's.