Scott Brown’s latest gaffe – the discovery of material on his “message to students” that was pinched from a speech by Elizabeth Dole – leads one to ask: how much of the content on Senator Brown’s official site has the Senator himself actually read and signed off on?
One would think that Brown would have reviewed at least the parts of the site that are “messages from Scott” – i.e., those bits that are written in the first person. But, of course, that would be awkward, since it’s one of those bits that turns out to have come from Dole. Maybe he didn’t read any of it? But that’d be awkward too – how is it that a U.S. Senator has not read any of his own website?
Anyway, inquiring minds want to know. I asked him via Twitter, but am not holding my breath waiting for a response. Perhaps some enterprising reporter will follow up.
bills he votes on. (It has always annoyed me that for a year even the Boston Globe repeated ad nauseum that Brown was “reading the bill” and seeing comments condemning other Senators for not doing so – ignoring that Kerry, for instances, can and does speak in detail on the bill – and Brown never does.
The strange thing – beyond the fact that plagiarizing is never acceptable – is that it doesn’t match his own version of his life. He really did not have the type of solid values type upbringing that stems from – as Dole did. After all, didn’t he just say that anyone that knows him knows how hard his life was with his parents remarrying 4 times.
He likely assigned the task of writing his “personal” comments to staff – and they cheated by plagiarizing, which is incredibly dumb in an age where taking a sentence and goggling easily finds matches.
Looks like Brown will have another very bad day – couldn’t happen to a more deserving empty suit.
if Brown’s statement really had come from him, then apparently his “school of hard knocks” would have included being “raised to believe that there are no limits to individual achievement and no excuses to justify indifference,” being “taught that success is measured not in material accumulations, but in service to others,” and being “encouraged to join causes larger than myself” and “to pursue positive change through a sense of mission.”
too good. Here’s a press release from this summer; the news is–get ready–:
That’s what they sent out for a press release!?
And then there is the autographed baseball bat you can get for donating $150 to Scott’s campaign. And this weird picture of some girl–not his daughter–holding the bat.
Scott Brown has been strenuously arguing that he is an independent voice in the U.S. Senate. Well, I’ll hand it to him. He’s such an independent voice that he’s even independent of his own website’s text. Now, that’s independent!
Perhaps Mitch McConnell is running the website…from what I can tell, McConnell pretty much runs everything else Brown does.