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Joe Biden’s climate plan, released on Tuesday morning, contains a number of passages that seem to have been copied and pasted, at times with very superficial changes, from various advocacy organizations, policy shops, and in one instance a Vox article.

These plagiarism allegations were first flagged by Josh Nelson, the vice president of Credo Mobile and a veteran of several environmental organizations. He appears to believe that Biden’s ideas should be more progressive. Peter Hasson of the conservative Daily Caller added a few more examples to Nelson’s findings.

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The paragraph in Joe Biden’s climate plan about carbon capture and sequestration includes language that is remarkably similar to items published previously by the Blue Green Alliance and the Carbon Capture Coalition."

The pincers movement illustrates some of the peril of positioning yourself as the moderate choice in a primary campaign against an incumbent president. Everything Biden does is bound to attract scrutiny from two rival ideological camps, leaving him fighting a two-front battle. In this case, there is also what unquestionably looks like sloppy staff work (the campaign has apologized for attribution errors).

Joe Biden’s climate plan, released on Tuesday morning, contains a number of passages that seem to have been copied and pasted, at times with very superficial changes, from various advocacy organizations, policy shops, and in one instance a Vox article.
These plagiarism allegations were first flagged by Josh Nelson, the vice president of Credo Mobile and a veteran of several environmental organizations. He appears to believe that Biden’s ideas should be more progressive. Peter Hasson of the conservative Daily Caller added a few more examples to Nelson’s findings.

The pincers movement illustrates some of the peril of positioning yourself as the moderate choice in a primary campaign against an incumbent president. Everything Biden does is bound to attract scrutiny from two rival ideological camps, leaving him fighting a two-front battle. In this case, there is also what unquestionably looks like sloppy staff work (the campaign has apologized for attribution errors).

On a more fundamental level, however, it’s not clear what the allegations really amount to. Journalists and artists are supposed to be original. Lifting the work of others is a form of theft. But borrowing ideas and policy concepts from specialists, advocates, and interest groups and then synthesizing them into politically workable packages is what presidential candidates are supposed to be doing.

Indeed, Nelson’s main point turns out to not be a plagiarism allegation at all, but rather the observation that “membership of the Carbon Capture Coalition … includes Shell, Peabody Energy, Arch Coal and Cloud Peak Energy.” The complaint, in other words, is just that Biden is potentially influenced by the wrong people.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/...plan-plagiarism-“scandal”-explained/ar-AACra5s?ocid=spartanntp

See, kids, this is how it works. If you are a Democrat, even if you are a known plagiarist like Biden is, you are merely using unattributed material in order to put forth policy proposals. No big deal, nothing to see here, move along. However, if you are a Republican, doing the same makes you a pariah, stealing other's work and ideas as presenting them as your own. Dog.