From POLITICAL HOTSHEET at CBS NEWS:
The office of Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts is blaming a technical error for the fact that comments attributed to Brown posted to his campaign website were lifted verbatim from former Sen. Elizabeth Dole.
…snip…
“I was raised to believe that there are no limits to individual achievement and no excuses to justify indifference,” Brown was quoted as saying on his site in comments that were removed earlier this week. “From an early age, I was taught that success is measured not in material accumulations, but in service to others. I was encouraged to join causes larger than myself, to pursue positive change through a sense of mission, and to stand up for what I believe.”
Dole, the former North Carolina Republican senator, used those exact words in kicking off her campaign in 2002.
I wonder if Bob Dole knows about this. This is on top of Nekkid Liddy Scotty stupidly insulting Elizabeth Warren and pissing off a lot of women with a sexist remark. No worries, kids. Problems solved!!
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From POLITICO:
Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) says the accusations of plagiarism on his official Senate website were “getting a little silly” and blamed a summer intern for the mess, The Boston Globe reports.
“It was a summer intern that put together the site, we corrected it once we found out, and we’re working on trade agreements and jobs,” the senator said Thursday.
…snip…A spokesman for Brown told the Globe, which first reported the story late Wednesday, that the content in question was “inadvertently transferred without being rewritten,” adding that it was a “staff level oversight which we regret and is being corrected.”
Brown on Thursday said the intern who made the error had “very little time and resources to put things up.”
…snip…But Democrats are pushing back on Brown’s story, accusing the senator of being disingenuous by using a summer intern as the scapegoat, saying the senator was unlikely to have had any summer interns when his website was created.
Marcie Kinzel, a spokeswoman for Brown, told Reuters on Thursday that the senator’s website hasn’t been updated since around Feb. 2010 when her boss took office.
One Democratic source told POLITICO that this timeline clearly doesn’t match up with the senator’s claims, since February would have been “well before any ‘summer intern’ would have been onboard.”
…snip…Kevin Franck, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Democratic Party, said it’s “hard to believe” that a summer intern would have been responsible for parts of the website that Brown’s office says was launched in February.
“After he bragged about seeing fake Osama bin Laden pictures and his campaign was caught running fake twitter accounts to anonymously attack Democrats, it’s becoming harder and harder to tell the difference between Scott Brown’s truth and Scott Brown’s fiction,” Franck told POLITICO.
Mr. Pink Leather Shorts has Elizabeth on his mind. The problem is that it’s the wrong one!
massachusetts went from the lion of the senate to the liar of the senate. what the hell were they thinking?
“What were they thinking?”
Martha Coakley was boring.
that’s what i mean, neon vincent. they didn’t like coakley, because she was boring, and she screwed up her boston red sox facts. that apparently was more egregious than electing a wall street-owned phony who has no respect for women.
“Summer intern.” Yeah, right. He’s gonna let major election phrases be posted by a “summer intern”?
I guess this is proof the English language is changing. “I screwed up” has morphed into “Somebody else is to blame”.
just another rich guy trying to blame some schmuck who really doesn’t matter.
Scott Brown should be ashamed! He hasn’t been elected to copy/paste whatever Elizabeth Dole has been writing. He has been elected to copy/paste whatever Wall Street has been writing.
The haircut change is brutal
you don’t think the hairstyle is flattering, j-p? how about the lip gloss?
Brown is an obnoxious jerk…and a remarkably ugly woman
Blaming an intern, much less an imaginary one, is pathetic. And his dick remark about Elizabeth Warren smacks of frat boy cruelty. She’s so above him in every way.
nekkid scotty thinks he’s a laugh riot. he’s more like a laughingstock. he’s not fit to shine elizabeth warren’s shoes. frat boy is a good description of him.
What writechic said.
nonnie you totally convinced me scott would be more interesting with that bitchin’ perm.
i bet he spends all kindsa time looking in the mirror, so he should have no problem keeping up that ‘do.
I was gobsmacked by Brown’s win but have hope that Elizabeth Warren can kick his lying butt out of office.
i hope so, too, maggiejean. he’s such an arrogant ass. i can’t stand him. let him take his pick-up truck and go home.
Keep an eye out to see if he accuses Warren of hosting any church of satan covens. That worked so well for Mrs. Dole!
satan covens are a big sell with certain segments of the rethuglican crowd.
With Halloween approaching, I can’t recommend him dressing as a woman. But hey Nonnie, loved the rolled-up Cosmo in the basket!
thanks for noticing the magazines, frank. it took be forever to get those to look right in the basket with the flowers.