one of the reasons biden ended up on the ticket with obama in 2008 was that in 2007 and 2008 running against hillary clinton, running against barack obama, it was biden who are often than not who would steal the show at those democratic debates. it never actually translated into votes for him but he impressed people in the obama campaign as somebody they wanted to have out there. you go farther back in his career when he first ran for president in 1988, he got derailed by a bit of a plagiarism scandal, but when he was using his own words, he was one heck of an orator. that was his reputation. a really strong communicator. i look at biden and his debate skills and communication skills, and i say escapable of doing what barack obama either couldn t or wouldn t do last week against mitt romney. right. professor reich, paul ryan is known for being an encyclopedia of numbers but can he effectively counter headlines like this one today, gm to add 2,000 jobs in michigan ? if this race come
with the lipitor co-pay card. terms and conditions apply. learn more at lipitorforyou.com. republican senator scott brown of massachusetts complained today that people should stop bugging him about him plagiarizing elizabeth dole on his website. scott brown telling the boston globe he could not answer anymore questions about the praj plagiarism. he said the whole thing was silly, insisting to the globe when they kept asking about it, quote, end of story. i command the hometown newspaper, end of story. the way you make a story like this actually go away, the way you make people and reporters lose interest in a story like this, is just to come clean about it. tell the truth about what happened. say you re sorry. the reason everybody is still so interested in the scott brown plagiarism scandal, the reason it s becoming more interesting than when it started now is because senator brown keeps making it worse. on scott brown s senate website,
plagiarism scandal than scott brown cutting and pasting part of an elizabeth dole campaign speech into his personal message on his congressional website. the idea of the three 9% taxes was used in the sim city virtual reality game, as you can see in this screen grab from the 2003 edition. joining me now is sam stein, political reporter for the huffington post. sam, congratulations to the huffington post for getting to the bottom of the 9-9-9 plan, where it came from. it doesn t get stranger than this in the politics of economics in our country, to have no. to have that screen grab being relevant to the story. but also this adviser to herman cain who has no training in what it is he s talking about, what it is, and says in his mind this is very simple, this is as simple as the physics of
it might be a bigger republican plagiarism scandal than scott brown cutting and pasting part of an elizabeth dole campaign speech into his personal message on his congressional website. the idea of the three 9% taxes was used in the sim city virtual reality game, as you can see in this screen grab from the 2003 edition. joining me now is sam stein, plin political reporter for the huffington post. sam, congratulations to the huffington post for getting to the bottom of the 9-9-9 plan, where it came from. it doesn t get stranger than this in the politics of economics in our country, to have no. to have that screen grab being relevant to the story. but also this adviser to herman cain who has no training in what it is he s talking about, what it is, and says in his mind this
pounding on mr. morgan. i don t know him. i have no opinion of him one way or the other. but i am stunned in the middle of this story, we have a timeline i guess as a lawyer, i m looking at the timeline. you want to see how far back you can take that timeline. and it looks like by his own admission, it goes back to the mid 90s. two elements. one is ideological one. in the united states, there s rejoicing in certain circles this is affecting conservative media, new york post, fox news. whoa, whoa, whoa dancing on the grave, if you will. whoa, your got the plagiarism scandal. so i think that s why you re seeing so much of this. and it s i d logically focused to one area. there s a bigger point here too. as nicole and i did a lot of clashing with the media, let me defend the american media. they are different. their practices are different, the reporting standards are