Obama, Plagiarism and Marshall McLuhan
Posted by Nate Jastrow at 2/19/2008 10:00 AM and is filed under uncategorized 
Hillary Clinton's communication director, Howard Wolfson, has accused Senator Obama of plagiarism, claiming that the Senator stole from a speech given by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick.
This episode plays out poorly for Wolfson, who ends up looking like the pontificating schmuck in "Annie Hall" who gets intellectually body-slammed by Marshall McLuhan.
In this case, Governor Patrick does the body-slamming:
"I've known Barack 15 years. We've talked a good deal. I fully expected he would sustain a charge at some point, trying to belittle his ability to motivate people. I got the same attack," Patrick said.
Finally, if there is any plagiarism at all, it is Wolfson himself stealing the iconic look of "Actor's Studio" host James Lipton.
"Your least favorite word?" Lackey.
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