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A staff member resigned and apologized Tuesday for writing a speech read by Stephen Harper in 2003 as leader of the Opposition that plagiarized from an address days earlier by then Australian prime minister John Howard.
"Pressed for time, I was overzealous in copying segments of another world leader’s speech," Owen Lippert says in a news release sent out by the Conservative camp on Tuesday afternoon.
"Neither my superiors in the Office of the Leader of the Opposition nor the leader of the Opposition was aware that I had done so."
originally posted by: khnum
a reply to: pheonix358
Theres a third possibility both are Masons and Bilderberg darlings.
originally posted by: theantediluvian
Plagiarism by a speech writer it seems:
A staff member resigned and apologized Tuesday for writing a speech read by Stephen Harper in 2003 as leader of the Opposition that plagiarized from an address days earlier by then Australian prime minister John Howard.
"Pressed for time, I was overzealous in copying segments of another world leader’s speech," Owen Lippert says in a news release sent out by the Conservative camp on Tuesday afternoon.
"Neither my superiors in the Office of the Leader of the Opposition nor the leader of the Opposition was aware that I had done so."
source of exerpt
BBC News article about same
What self-respecting leader would simply utter the same words as another unless compelled to do so?
originally posted by: theantediluvian
Plagiarism by a speech writer it seems:
A staff member resigned and apologized Tuesday for writing a speech read by Stephen Harper in 2003 as leader of the Opposition that plagiarized from an address days earlier by then Australian prime minister John Howard.
"Pressed for time, I was overzealous in copying segments of another world leader’s speech," Owen Lippert says in a news release sent out by the Conservative camp on Tuesday afternoon.
originally posted by: pirhanna
originally posted by: theantediluvian
Plagiarism by a speech writer it seems:
A staff member resigned and apologized Tuesday for writing a speech read by Stephen Harper in 2003 as leader of the Opposition that plagiarized from an address days earlier by then Australian prime minister John Howard.
"Pressed for time, I was overzealous in copying segments of another world leader’s speech," Owen Lippert says in a news release sent out by the Conservative camp on Tuesday afternoon.
Or, that's how they covered it up when it was first exposed.
You don't think they could do that? A "staff member" resigned. Did they? Even if one actually did resign, it wouldn't be out of the ordinary to have a "staff member" resign to cover for the higher ups. He / she would just get a job elsewhere.
So... a professional speech writer who is writing for the prime minister needs to plagiarize?? LOL that's ridiculous. I could write some decent speech text on short notice, and I'm not even a professional. If you make it to writing speeches for a prime minister you don't need to plagiarize. That's absurd.