Sarah Palin PLAGIARIZED Memorial Day Message

[Segami]

Yesterday the Palin tweeted the following: "VETERANS,not reporters,give freedom of the press.VETS,not politicians,give freedom to vote.VETS,not campus radicals,give freedom to assemble." She did not mention that she'd stolen it from a 1970 poem.


The remarkably similar poem, by former soldier Charles M. Province, is available here and goes as follows:


<http://iwvpa.net/provincecm/>



IT IS THE SOLDIER

It is the Soldier, not the minister

Who has given us freedom of religion.

It is the Soldier, not the reporter

Who has given us freedom of the press.

It is the Soldier, not the poet

Who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer

Who has given us freedom to protest.

It is the Soldier, not the lawyer

Who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It is the Soldier, not the politician

Who has given us the right to vote.

It is the Soldier who salutes the flag,

Who serves beneath the flag,

And whose coffin is draped by the flag,

Who allows the protester to burn the flag.



Does one have to attribute in tweets? We'd say that if you're a politically active public figure with about 160,000 followers it would probably be the decent thing to do.



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[malaise]

1. Lady Blah Blah sickens my entire being

She's a proven grifter, LIAR, and ignoramus - so plagiarism is hardly a biggie here. That woman is an idiot!

[sagetea]

21. OMG Lady Blah Blah!

ROTFLMAO...that is so fucking funny!!
I'm gonna start using that one!
Thanks!

Ho
sage

[malaise]

22. Thank DUer Mitchum

:hi:

sp

[madchick44]

40. Anyone with an ounce of sense knew she didn't write that.

Her language skills do not reach that level.

[emulatorloo]

2. "campus radicals" - LOL

From the comments section:


bozofish
05/30/10

I would have thought that the term "campus radicals" was a time-travel give-away that this was 70s material. And Sarah, as we all know, is a material girl.


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[peekaloo]

3. Twitler twats again!

she needs to see a VET about her "viral" distemper.

[hobbit709]

4. Whoever does her twittering plagiarized it.

I doubt she actually has read anything to plagiarize from.

[LLStarks]

5. I take she's not a fan of college.

[Poiuyt]

20. Sure she is. She went to five of them!

[emulatorloo]

39. and probably plagiarized at every one of them n/t

[IDemo]

6. Per Maher's New Rules for Politicians:

Anything you say can and will be Googled.

[TexasObserver]

7. Hate the poem. Hate the thought. It's simply not true.

Our freedoms are won every day, every year, right here in America, by those who fight for them against those who would eliminate them.

[katandmoon]

9. Ditto. IMO this kind of vet worship is obscene.

[DimplesinMI]

29. DITTO.......

[Berry Cool]

13. No, they are PRESERVED.

Nobody "gives" them to us or "wins" them for us now. They were enshrined in the Constitution and its Bill of Rights long ago. What people are doing today--soliders and others--is protecting, preserving and defending those rights. Not "giving" them to us. Not "winning" them for us.

[sarge43]

15. This ole sarge agrees 100%

Can't speak for any other vets, but this one deeply resents low lifes like Saracuda using us to push their agenda.

As we used to say in the orderly room, sit on it and make like a propeller, sweetie.

[TexasObserver]

36. 90% of such things I get come from non vets

Sometimes I want to write back and say "I remember when you were about to shit your pants in 1966 because you were terrified of getting drafted and couldn't stay in college!" But I don't. I let it slide, because too much truth can ruin a family relationship. I don't remind them that I volunteered while they sought out medical excuses, National Guard, or other avoidances.

And the vets who do send me with this stuff were NOT gung ho back in the day. They were anything but gung ho while in the military. Guys who hated falling out for flag related activities are now flag freaks.

[Festivito]

27. Enemies foreign and domestic, soldiers fight foreign ones, not domestic ones.

and that is that.

[LiberalFighter]

30. I totally agree. Anyone that is or was in the military that has this mindset are dangerous.

I respect the military for the most part. And I respect those in military that serve for the right reasons. But I will not respect every one of them. Those in the military that argue that they fight for or protecting our freedom are either full of it or need to downsize their ego. They are dangerous to our society.

There is also a difference between those that enlist and those that were drafted back in the old days. On the one hand I give more support to those that were drafted because they didn't have a choice. Some did enlist because there were advantages to it when they knew they would get drafted. Some enlisted because it was either that or go to jail. On the other hand I give some support to those that enlisted when there wasn't a draft. Even that group have those that enlisted for various reasons. Some good and some bad and some had no real choice in the matter.

I would rather give respect to those on an individual basis. I sure as hell wouldn't give Ollie North any respect! Or give credence to anything the jackass has to say. He sure as hell wasn't fighting for our freedom. And he sure as hell isn't a hero.

If they were all such honorable men and women they wouldn't need military tribunals and wouldn't have to worry about putting them in the stockades or court-martialing them.

Back to our freedoms. Those freedoms were won initially not by the military but citizens that decided that enough was enough when they declared independence from Great Britain. And it was citizens not the military that created the Constitution and Bill of Rights. If we didn't have the Constitution and Bill of Rights those in the military wouldn't be kept in check. They would be dictating to the government and the citizens what we could or could not be doing.

The military play an important part in our freedom but so do the citizens and those within the non-military community.

[vixengrl]

8. The poem is kind of obnoxious. The Constitution enumerates

our rights, but people all express them and defend them in different ways. It's like the poem is saying "you suck, soldiers rule!"

[KharmaTrain]

10. This Lady Is An Idiot...

Seems she can't take the holiday off...

[nichomachus]

11. She ain't no lady

[timtom]

12. K & R, but I just gotta ask:

So what if she cadged part of this poem? Why would we expect anything different from her or her ilk? (This is a screed against her, not the OP).

[Walk away]

14. What a simple minded poem! She can have it. nt

[Lasher]

16. She was forwarding a chain email.

I've seen that one about a million times. Caribou Barbie gets a lot of her material from chain emails.

[Kali]

17. it's her whole persona!

no wonder the idiots that send them adore her

[Ned Bro]

18. What??? She didn't write it herself?????

Well I am shocked!

:dunce:

[Catshrink]

19. Leave Sarah alone! Stop attacking her!!!

You're just a bunch of libruls picking on Sarah because of the hope she brings to so many regular people. It's so typical of the lamestream media to lead the charge against her.

just in case --> :sarcasm:

[Segami]

32. I guess we're just a bunch of librul ' morans ' lol

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[donco6]

23. In other words, . . .

"we fought for all these rights, which we don't like, but WE will let you exercise anyway. Because we're that good."

Ugh. Sickening. And my father who fought in WWII would have hated it too.

[blogslut]

24. Back up for a second there, also

Contrast and Compare:

http://twitter.com/sarahpalinusa

Ms. Lady Ex-Governor only has 159,604 followers?

Hmm. Let's look at oh, say, Rachel Maddow's Twitter account:

http://twitter.com/Maddow

Ms. Maddow has 1,654,120 followers.

Isn't that interesting?

[Scuba]

25. Whaddya expect? She's never had an original thought.

[sarge43]

26. Oldie, but goldie

A thought tried to cross her mind{sic} and died of thirst half way across.

[Scuba]

31. That's classic. Thanks.

[tavalon]

28. If you believe that woman has ever had an original thought in her head,

I have a bridge to sell you. Not that I'm downplaying plagiarism, it's just, that with Sarah Palin, it's kind of like saying water is wet.

[walldude]

33. LOL, ignoring the Palin Plagerism, that poem is full of shit anyway

The truth is we haven't fought for "Freedom" in a long time. Is Palin saying that if we hadn't fought in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan or Iraq we wouldn't be free? Well ignoring the fact that we aren't really "free" anyway, this is typical righty bullshit.

She should get into acting, because it has to be tough to say these things with a straight face.

[Contrary1]

34. Pic of Lady Blah Blah giving her speech...

Compliments of atlasfugged at the Gawker:



Pretty good likeness.

[struggle4progress]

35. This is the red meat Zell Miller was throwing at the 2004 RNC

... it is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press. (APPLAUSE)
MILLER: It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. (APPLAUSE) It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest. (APPLAUSE) It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom he abuses to burn that flag ...
Remarks by Sen. Miller to the Republican National Convention
FDCH E-Media, Inc.
Wednesday, September 1, 2004; 10:42 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54300-2004Sep1.html

While I think it entirely appropriate to thank those who have risked life or limb for something beyond themselves, history rather strongly suggests that soldiers are too often used as mere cannon fodder for political careers or for special interests, that the military might of the state is too often used to oppress people, and rights are often won simply by the persistent insistence of ordinary people

[Segami]

37. NOT an original thought amongst them. RepubliCON plagerized material.

[MisterP]

38. that poem was always better in the original German nt