when asked about the plagiarism yesterday he blamed his research assistant, someone named raleigh fisher. raleigh said, gosh, i did this all the way through, that it was public domain. information in the public domain, that they can put into, so we ve got straighten that out. i understand there s some machine or some computer software out there that you can take research and put it in there and it tells you whether or not it s similar to other research. i wasn t aware of that at the time. this is a non-issue if it weren t a political race. it s a political race, and they are going to try and, you know, divert from their weaknesses. wow. well, look, he either wrote this stuff or he didn t. this is the common sense part. if he wrote it, it wouldn t exist somewhere else. anyway, it s a bit more than a diversion now. the denver post reported today that a separate column and a speech that he mcginnis delivered when he was a congressman in the 90s closely resembles a washington post
that helped defeat him in south carolina, are pushing the party right and right out of the mainstream. he joins us right here tonight. also, have you had enough yet of all the right wing nonsense about tyranny and how we re becoming a nation of slaves? well, we ve tracked a decades long history of conservatives claiming that. liberals are leading the country to military dictatorships, to communist domination into tyranny, and one thing is consistent with all these predictions is that they have all been wrong. so why do people keep listening? and there are plans to build an islamic center in southern manhattan near the ground zero. of course, those plans have people outraged and the debate is on as to whether it s an insult to 9/11 s victims or actually a positive act by moderate islam. and finally, the michele bachmann turnover drive. why are so many people leaving her staff? that s in the sideshow. let s begin with the latest on the spill in the gulf. nbc s news mara s
post found large portions of those essays he claimed to have lifted were lifted from the writings of a colorado supreme court justice. when asked about t eed the plag yesterday he blamed his research assistant, someone named raleigh fisher. raleigh said he did it all the way through, that it was public domain. information in the public domain, that they can put into, it so we ve got to straighten that out. i understand there s some machine or some computer software out there that you can take research and put it in there and it tells you whether or not it s similar to other research. i wasn t aware of that at the time. this is a non-issue if it weren t a political race. it s a political race, and they are going to try and, you know, divert from their weaknesses. wow. well, look, he either wrote this stuff or he didn t. this is the common sense part. if he wrote, it it wouldn t exist somewhere else. anyway, it s a bit more than a diversion now. the denver post reported today that