Rush Limbaugh claims Obama plagerized him.

[LynneSin]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/21/rush-limbaugh-obama-plagiarized-un_n_974722.html

Rush Limbaugh: Obama Plagiarized Me In UN Speech

Rush Limbaugh accused President Obama of plagiarizing him during his speech at the United Nations on Wednesday.

Obama's speech drew attention mostly for his insistence that the Palestinian delegation drop its attempt to be recognized by the UN as a fully independent state. Limbaugh, though, focused on what he seemed to think was Obama's overuse of some of his favorite aphorisms.

Apparently, Limbaugh wrote a 1988 column that contained his "35 Undeniable Truths of Life." (The full list is a very vintage document.) One of them, he said, was uttered "verbatim" by Obama at the U.N.: "peace does not mean the absence of war." (Technically, Obama said that "peace is more than just the absence of war.")

"I feel like I have been plagiarized," Limbaugh said. "...No, no! Of course he didn't credit me." He also accused Obama of cribbing from his 14th "undeniable truth," "to free peoples, peace means the absence of threats and the presence of justice."

Really?

BTW I've heard that quote a bunch of times just because Rush might have said it doesn't mean he owns it.

[Turbineguy]

1. That's depressing

Somebody at the White House gets paid by taxpayers to listen to that POS.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. And Limbaugh plagiarized it from Harry Truman.

http://thinkexist.com/quotation/the_absence_of_war_is_not_peace/147032.html

Also, "Absence of War Does Not Mean Peace" is the title of an album by a Finnish black metal band, Impaled Nazarene.

[Maeve]

4. Let's go even further back

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza, in Theological-Political Treatise (1670)

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. Thank you

The quote to me is Spinoza as soon as I hear it. Limbaugh's quite the blowfish, puffing himself up to have invented one of Spinoza's rather famous dictums. What's next, Limbaugh will claim he first uttered Descartes "I think, therefore..."

:rofl:

[Shagbark Hickory]

3. The two are sounding increasingly similar now that you mention it.

[Thor_MN]

5. Hell, I plagiarize Rush just about every day.

What comes out of my ass where I sit on the toilet matches closely with come out of his mouth when he gets on the radio...

[LynneSin]

6. PM me so I can send you my billing address

You owe me $250 to replace my Samsung 24" widescreen monitor

:spray:

:rofl:

[treestar]

7. LOL!

That's what comes out of Rush's mouth all right. And yet he thinks it is plagiarize-able. :rofl:

[Gman]

8. Limbaugh damn sure wasn't the first to say those things

nor can he even begin to credibly prove he did.