Friday, October 14, 2011

Scott Brown's website steals childhood anecdote from... Elizabeth Dole

THis is pretty amusing, Scott Brown's website steals childhood anecdote from... Elizabeth Dole "Sen. Scott Brown may have some explaining to do. It seems a passage from his website detailing the values instilled in him as a young child was stolen essentially word-for-word from former Sen. Elizabeth Dole."

The Boston Globe article explains, "Brown spokesman John Donnelly said the language was attributed to Brown in error, while his staff was creating the senator’s website."

I think the most telling part is that the thing posted on his web site as "A Message From Scott" isn't really a message from the Senator but rather from a staffer. And the fact that a message about his upbringing wasn't really about his upbringing. This is just a stupid campaign mistake and it doesn't mean much, but since Brown is so much about being a real person who's for the average guy, it's just not very real of him.

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