WaPo:Biden staff acknowledges lifting language from other groups for policy plans

[MBS]

Last edited Wed Jun 5, 2019, 09:37 AM - Edit history (1)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/joe-bidens-campaign-acknowledges-lifting-language-from-other-groups-for-its-policy-plans/2019/06/04/2b599318-870d-11e9-a491-25df61c78dc4_story.html?utm_term=.66903cf97cd6

edited to add: I agree with everyone's comments. I just thought that it would be useful to post the article so that people need to know what's being put out there. (Note that article also mentioned that Harris campaign lifted some language, too).

[Zoonart]

1. So what...

Andrew Yang's "Democracy Dollars" idea is lifted entirely from Bill Bradley.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/6/4/1862713/-Why-Democracy-Dollars-are-the-right-way-to-weed-corporate-influence-our-of-Politics?utm_campaign=recent

We have bigger fish to fry on the outrage scale.

[Cha]

4. It's a big nothing burger but some

are only too happy to pile on like it's something.

Link to tweet

[BeyondGeography]

2. What a surprise.

[Cha]

3. Some paragraphs would be nice.. here is a statement

from BlueGreen Alliance.. one of the groups that seemed happy enough about it..

Link to tweet

[ancianita]

5. Did WaPo add that to their "report"?

[Cha]

6. No, that's from

a tweet I'm passing on.

I have no idea what WaPo said.. it's a pay wall.

[ancianita]

8. Thanks. It's a gracious statement, too. One that doesn't appeal to for-profit editors in the jackal

zone of journalism, where the richest man on the planet demands a pay wall for readers of his paper.

[Cha]

9. Well said! I didn't

even think about Bezos and his Billions when I hit a pay wall.. talk about The Twilight Zone.

[ancianita]

10. You'd think that Bezos is so past the need to squeeze people. But no.

Everytime WaPo posted something on FB that brought me to their paywall, I called out people on the thread to "Unlike" this richest guy because of his fucking paywall squeeze. Then added a big "Fuck you, Bezos!" Silly, but he needs to be told.

WaPo just stopped posting.

It's just that kind of mentality that magnifies every mistake of Democratic frontrunners while ignoring any bulldog research into the huge corruptions of a komrade prez and his corrupt syndicate. Or fails to report public polls on impeaching the filth at the top.

[SouthernProgressive]

7. The only people this bothers....

Are those who want to be bothered.

[mcar]

11. I don't get why this is a problem

Is the policy a good one? If so, who cares where some of the ideas came from?

I have a feeling other candidates policies didn't come from thin air. There is a lot of work on the important subjects - why not use it when crafting a policy?

[BeyondGeography]

12. Missing citations is all

Since this has dogged Biden in the past, his campaign should be better at this.

Nothing too serious, but it’s not a positive. It hands a Twitter point to a dunce like Trump who hasn’t had an original policy idea his whole life.

[mcar]

13. That was corrected right away

So a minor error that the media and some on the left are turning into a huge deal.

Sound familiar?

[BeyondGeography]

14. Everyone should care about our nominee being as strong as possible

Biden’s the front runner. If Bro criticism bothers you more than self-inflicted dings in the Bidenmobile that’s your issue.

[LanternWaste]

16. It does not follow.

Slapping down an errant criticism does not support the premise, "bothers you more than self-inflicted dings..." any more than "as string as possible" equals perfection.

[mcar]

17. Yeah, it's not an either/or situation.

I am still painfully aware of how the media blew HRC's "scandals" so much out of proportion.

[Cha]

15. They're grasping.. it

really bothers them!! It's not a big deal but they'll try to make it one.

The rw is certainly trying their stupid asses off to Blow it UP

[MineralMan]

18. The trouble is that WaPo is behind a paywall.

I can't read the article, and you didn't post any excerpts from it. So, I'm at a loss here.

[Indygram]

19. What about from other candidates' Climate Plans?

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