Clinton Campaign: It’s Only Plagiarism If It Sounds Good

This “controversy” is a joke, and this anecdote from Jake Tapper proves it more than anything:

I asked Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson and Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass, if they could assure the public that neither Clinton nor McGovern has ever done what Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, did when he used the rhetoric of Gov. Deval Patrick without footnoting him.

They would not.

In fact, Wolfson seemed to say it wouldn’t be as big a deal if it were discovered that Clinton had “lifted” such language.

“Sen. Clinton is not running on the strength of her rhetoric,” Wolfson said.

Obama should have credited Deval Patrick as he did in the past, but on a scale of zero to Joe Biden, this is about a 0.01. Even a former Bill Clinton speechwriter admits as such.

I remember when the Clinton campaign used to be good at spin. If they win this way, it’ll be more embarrassing than anything else.

h/t Ana Marie Cox.