Biden Plagiarizes His ‘Green’ Homework
His climate plan for “revolution” and “justice” didn’t properly cite his sources.
Maybe you really can’t teach an old dog news tricks, but you would think that after aborting his 1988 presidential campaign over accusations of plagiarism, Joe Biden would be exceedingly cautious about repeating history. But no.
National Review reports:
Former vice president Joe Biden, who currently enjoys a hefty lead over his opponents for the Democratic presidential nomination, released his plan to combat climate change on Tuesday and was promptly accused of plagiarizing parts of the proposal.
The sections in question appeared to lift language from documents published by the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions and the Blue Green Alliance. The vice president of the progressive group CREDO, Josh Nelson, noted the double language Tuesday morning, pointing out that passages from Biden’s plan nearly mirror sentences from a 2017 letter the Blue Green Alliance sent to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
The Biden campaign responded to the controversy by insisting the drafters had simply forgotten to include citations.
This goof was profoundly foolish. It may have been a lowly staffer to blame, but Biden is way out in front of the field of 482 Democrat presidential candidates, and he’s weighing in on one of the Left’s most sacred issues. At age 76, Biden should know better, and he should hire better people. Either way, it does not recommend him for the top office in the land.
As for the proposal itself, the video rollout is titled “Biden Plan for a Clean Energy Revolution & Environmental Justice,” which tells you about all you need to know — this is leftist tyranny packaged as the way to save the planet. Not surprisingly, Biden’s plan is still not radical enough for climate alarmists, who slam his reliance on nuclear power and a “too late” 2050 deadline for reducing net carbon emissions to zero. Plagiarism is really the least of Biden’s sins. The root problem with the entire ecofascist movement was aptly summed up by Reason’s Christian Britschgi: These leftists have “a near limitless faith in the ability of government to reorganize the economy.” That’s red, not green.
