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Topic: Alex Haley and ´Roots´:
The Lance Armstrong of Literature |
Alex Haley and ´Roots´:
The Lance Armstrong of Literature
Breitbart Big Journalism, by John Nolte
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Posted By:FlyRight, 1/22/2013 4:21:43 PM
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| During President Obama´s inauguration today, Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander (R) quoted Alex Haley, the author made world-famous for his Pulitzer Prize-winning literary sensation, "Roots." According to The Washington Post, Haley and Alexander were longtime friends. That´s all well and good, but quoting Alex Haley at an important national occasion is not unlike quoting Lance Armstrong. Because what both men are most famous for is based on brazen fraud. Haley not only lost a high-profile plagiarism suit against his work in "Roots, but any serious look into the Haley family´s genealogy has found -- and I´m being generous --
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
lazyman, 1/22/2013 4:38:09 PM (No. 9132963)
Two standards should lead us to become a 3rd world nation one day.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Ruhn, 1/22/2013 4:39:39 PM (No. 9132966)
Let´s remember another sacrosanct left icon guilty of gross academic and scientific dishonesty: Rachel Carson and her dangerously misleading book of the era: ´Silent Spring´
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bighambone, 1/22/2013 4:43:02 PM (No. 9132972)
Unfortunately during the age of Obama it is politically incorrect to criticize a black person for just about anything, even factors relating to outright fraud and criminal behavior. There is no physical danger in ignoring a literary fake, but when you get into disciplines like mathematics and medicine it is another story and that is bound to happen.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
dolphin, 1/22/2013 5:26:08 PM (No. 9133008)
This is the first I have heard about this. Haley must have been REALLY guilty.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Attila DiMedici, 1/22/2013 5:27:01 PM (No. 9133009)
#3, you are completely wrong. It is just as acceptable, if not more so, to criticize a black conservative as a white conservative, especially if otherwise their behavior might be viewed as exemplary.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Susannah, 1/22/2013 5:27:41 PM (No. 9133011)
This article´s already been posted today.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
BigCreek, 1/22/2013 5:57:05 PM (No. 9133045)
Lamar is a very big mistake that we Tennesseans made. He is the RINO´s RINO! A huge embarrassment to everyone in TN. He is a liar and a Demonrat brown noser. He makes me sick. I see him at the airport and he is so smug and arrogant. It is as though he thinks he is some kind of "Lord over the People" or something. I called his office when the START treaty was being negotiated and his staff flat out lied to me and I will never forget it. Came out in the local paper 2 weeks later, that he gave in to the START treaty to allow the union pensions to be funded as part of the treaty. He mysteriously never mentioned that before. I can´t stand the sleaze ball. Can you tell?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Hoosier, 1/22/2013 5:59:44 PM (No. 9133051)
"Roots" was a very good movie. If you run it backwards it has a happy ending.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Rafter, 1/22/2013 6:54:28 PM (No. 9133129)
Great timing on this... a friend just told me last week about "Roots" and the
plagiarism charges.
Somehow I had missed the news.
The worst part (from Haley´s standpoint) of this article is the blatant falsehood/s
pinpointed by the genealogy experts.
Poor ol´ Kunta Kinte is/was a fraud.
We wuz hoaxed.
Who knew?
Who´d a thunk it?
Who dat say dat Kunta Kinte be a fraud?
Why... Obie WON Kenya-obie... dat who...
He a Chief of Fraud... and JoeBlow Buh-Bye-den be his Plagiarism Czar, doncha know?
Perfect, then, that a RINO Senator (Lamar Alexander) would introduce more fraud
into the Obie WON Kenya-obie Fraud Festival in DC...
Who really needs Kwanzaa any more when you can stage an internationally-seen
Quadrennial Fraud Festival on the Washington Mall and Capitol Steps... ?
(Side note -- my dad knew Alex Haley a little bit, but not that much... ohhhh, wellll... )
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
SoCalGal, 1/22/2013 8:50:07 PM (No. 9133240)
Posted here earlier today:
http://lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=720076
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LComStaff8, 1/22/2013 8:51:14 PM (No. 9133242)
Previously posted: http://lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=720076
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