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Palin May Have Pulled a "Biden"
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is being accused of paraphrasing at length from an article co-written by Newt Gingrich when she gave a speech.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is being accused of paraphrasing at length from an article co-written by Newt Gingrich when she gave a speech.
Blogger Geoffrey Dunn makes the accusation on the Huffington Post Web site. He compared Palin's speech introducing conservative talk show host Michael Reagan, son of former President Ronald Reagan, to an Anchorage audience Wednesday to the article urging Republicans to study Reagan, written by Gingrich and Craig Shirley in 2005.
In one part of Palin's speech, she said, "We have to remember first that Ronald Reagan never won any arguments in Washington. He won the arguments by resonating with the American people.''
Gingrich and Shirley wrote in their article, "Reagan never won an argument in Washington. Reagan won his arguments in the country with the American people ... .''
Vice President Joe Biden was accused of stealing a speech from a British Labour Party official in his 1988 presidential bid, causing him to abandon his campaign and apologize.
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