"Michael S. Lorrey" wrote:
>
> Gore is supposed to be a liberal arts graduate of Harvard, where one
> would expect to have been exposed to Markham,
You, maybe. I can see quite easily how one individual could go through
such a cirriculum, or any broad cirriculum, without having heard of any
given individual (aside from pop culture ones like Einstein, Newton,
and Shakespear).
> and thus its unreasonable
> to expect that he would not know that the proper attribution is Markham
> and not his father. Is plagiarism lying or not?
>
> Adrian Tymes wrote:
> >
> > "Michael S. Lorrey" wrote:
> > >
> > > For those still not convinced that Al Gore is a liar, gander at this:
> > > Planet Puck noted that Al Gore was up to his old lies and misleading
> > > taking of credit again...
> > > Al Gore said (in his CONCESSION speech, no less): As for the battle
> > > that ends tonight, I do believe, as my father once said, that no matter
> > > how hard the loss, "defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the
> > > soul and let the glory out. "
> > > This was really said by Edwin Markham, in Victory in Defeat: "Defeat
> > > may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
> > > "(source)
> > > We just dodged a bullet America.
> >
> > So his father was quoting Markham, directly or indirectly. I fail to
> > see how Gore was lying, or how this continues to really matter.
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