http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/12/sen-rand-paul-is-footnoting-his-speeches/
Sen. Paul footnoting his speeches after plagiarism controversy
A Tuesday morning address at the military college, The Citadel would become the talk of all. Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky gave a speech to the military college that morning but, before his time on stage, Fox News found citations and word from word excerpts from fellow websites. The websites included, The Washington Post and Reuters. Paul in the past has had many incidents and accusations of plagiarism in his speeches. In order to fix his previous behavior, Paul said he will start adding footnotes to his speeches. "What we are going to do from here forward, if it will make people leave me the hell alone, is we're going to do them like college papers. We're going to try to put out footnotes." Will Paul's rash comments and misleading behavior of plagiarism cause him to step down as senator of Kentucky?
Although I doubt Senator Paul will step down from office because of this issue, I'm very surprised he allowed this to happen. I can't believe he would get in trouble for plagiarism, and then have the audacity to keep doing it anyways. How hard is it to have an assistant at least mix up the wording a bit? This is just laziness and not the quality we should expect from a US senator.
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