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How McInnis Plans to “Fix” Plagiarism Scandal

by | 12:10 am, July 16, 2010 | 5 Comments

If you want to know what Scott McInnis is thinking in the wake of the news that the water articles he submitted for $300,000 contain lengthy plagiarized sections, he is again talking to the Denver Post. Apparently his theory is that, if he pretends the scandal will go away, it will. His tone is remarkably chipper.

Seasoned (and might I say spicy) reporter Lynn Bartels has the interview.

To me, the most serious question is what McInnis plans to do about the plagiarism scandal.

My solution was the following: "What I think McInnis needs to do on a personal level is immediately promise to repay all the money to the Hasan Family Foundation. If he's serious about wanting to take responsibility, that action would prove it."

But apparently McInnis has different ideas about that. Here is part of what he told Bartels:

I made a mistake... I immediately owned up to it. It's my responsibility. I’ve got to fix it. I’ve told my side of the story... I'd love to talk to you on jobs... I should have checked his [an assistant's] work. I relied on his work. I didn't check his work. But the buck stops with me. It's my name on the door. It's like a Ford pickup. You've got Ford on the truck. I've got McInnis on the truck. We'll make it right... [How?] I've got to sit down and figure that out. Sit down and make it right... [How?] Well, we've got to get footnotes in there, right? I stood up Day 1. I've got to make it right. I take responsibility.


Yes, after he has been busted for submitting plagiarized work, he can "make it right" by adding in footnotes now.

But it turns out we already all now know whose work was plagiarized -- Gregory Hobbs, currently a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court (as the Post has reported.) So somehow I don't think adding in footnotes now really addresses the issue.

I have to say I like McInnis's Ford analogy. I don't know what in the hell it means, but just the fact that he would compare himself to a Ford, under the current circumstances, is impressive in its audacity.

Unfortunately, he seems to me to be more like a Toyota with an extremely sticky gas pedal.

July 18 Update: As has been reported by People's Press Collective and other outlets, McInnis agreed to pay back the money in full. Good move (and one that may actually allow him to remain in the race for governor). Regardless, McInnis was a weak candidate before the plagiarism scandal broke, and now he is a much weaker one.

As Donald Johnson has pointed out, McInnis "is so inarticulate that it’s embarrassing."

But now McInnis has a much bigger problem. As John Straayer put it to the Denver Post, "You can just see the ad where the little girl comes home and says, 'I've got this big homework assignment, but I want to go out and play. Daddy, will you do it for me?' And then when her dad refuses, she says, 'Well, that's what the man who wants to be governor does.'"
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  1.   David
      July 16th, 2010 @ 1:06 am

    Really, we have a president who won’t even provide us with a birth certificate

  2.   Teresa
      July 16th, 2010 @ 6:13 am

    i love to read reports written by someone who has no staff therefore does all the dirty work themselves. Being important enough to get to delegate does carry risk in trusting those you assign a job to. So little respect for reporters w so little knowledge although you dont appear nearly as clueless as Johnson.

  3.   Mike B
      July 16th, 2010 @ 6:42 am

    Your Toyota analogy is perfect…except one thing; I guess you didn’t read that it was actually driver error and not Toyota’s fault. Just the media blowing something else completely out of proportion and nearly sinking a car company. Just like the DP is doing now, trying to sink a good candidate so that they can clear the way for their own boy Hick.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703834604575364871534435744.html

  4.   Mike B
      July 16th, 2010 @ 6:42 am

    Your Toyota analogy is perfect…except one thing; I guess you didn\’t read that it was actually driver error and not Toyota\’s fault. Just the media blowing something else completely out of proportion and nearly sinking a car company. Just like the DP is doing now, trying to sink a good candidate so that they can clear the way for their own boy Hick.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703834604575364871534435744.html

  5.   Alex
      July 16th, 2010 @ 9:39 am

    @ Mike,

    I am really surprised how often the liberal media is able to suck us in when we KNOW they are biased. There are so many questions that are not being asked in the rush to crucify Scott. I’m asking them and I challenge someone to dig a little deeper and answer them.
    1. Why are the Hasan’s claiming that they never know the papers were drafts, when all the pitctures of them on the news show that stamped right across them?
    2. Why did these papers which have existed since 2005 suddenly come to light right after the filing deadline for the primary passed?
    3. Why is no one questioning the Denver Post for it’s failure to do due dilligence on the Washington Post article authors who have debunked that part of the story.
    4. Has anyone confirmed with Scott’s office to check and see if they actually wrote the supposed letter that his researcher produced?
    5. Why did his researcher cooperate with Scott’s office at first and then suddelny change his tune?
    6. Does any of this have anything to do with Scott refusing to endorse Ali Hasan’s campaign at the state assembly?

    Until someone answers all of those questions with facts, I am going to give Scott the benefit of the doubt and not fall for the Denver Post’s blantant attempt to clear the way for Hickenlooper.

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