Gore is supposed to be a liberal arts graduate of Harvard, where one
would expect to have been exposed to Markham, and thus its unreasonable
to expect that he would not know that the proper attribution is Markham
and not his father. Is plagiarism lying or not?
Adrian Tymes wrote:
>
> "Michael S. Lorrey" wrote:
> >
> > For those still not convinced that Al Gore is a liar, gander at this:
> > Planet Puck noted that Al Gore was up to his old lies and misleading
> > taking of credit again...
> > Al Gore said (in his CONCESSION speech, no less): As for the battle
> > that ends tonight, I do believe, as my father once said, that no matter
> > how hard the loss, "defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the
> > soul and let the glory out. "
> > This was really said by Edwin Markham, in Victory in Defeat: "Defeat
> > may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
> > "(source)
> > We just dodged a bullet America.
>
> So his father was quoting Markham, directly or indirectly. I fail to
> see how Gore was lying, or how this continues to really matter.
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