Sorry Fellow Kossaks, But It Was Freepers Who First Spotted McCain's Plagiarism

[EV_Ares]

Yes, it's sad to say, that the nut-jobs over at FreeRepublic.com were actually the first to spot the similarities between McCain and Solzhenitsyn. Of course they would. They all love Solzhenitsyn and at the time, they all hated McCain. The year was 2005...

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And McCain had just published his latest book of embellished tales. A Freeper posted the reference to the Cross-in-the-Dirt story, and Freepers accepted it with, lets say, something less than enthusiasm.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538054/posts

Among some of the responses are:

One post:

But my jaw hit the floor when I read this:

Hmmmm. Looks like McCain has been reading Solzhenitsyn.
From The Mayor's daily posts at FR's Finest and The Canteen from the devotional "Our Daily Bread" comes Sunday's reading...

World-famous Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was sent to a Siberian prison because he criticized communism. Languishing there under intolerable conditions year after year, he decided to end his life. But suicide, he firmly believed, would be against God's will. He thought it would be better for a guard to shoot him.

So at a public assembly of the prisoners, he sat in a front row, planning to get up and walk toward an exit, compelling a guard to kill him. But to his surprise, another prisoner sat down, blocking his exit. That unknown man leaned over and, to Solzhenitsyn's astonishment, drew a cross on the dirt floor.

rest of the comments and post @ link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/18/769/18054/897/569634

[JVS]

1. your first link doesn't work properly. It just leads to the site and not a particular thread

[EV_Ares]

3. Got it fixed. Thanks, eom.

[dkf]

2. I bet there is a whole lot of juicy stuff over there.

They used to hate McCain...before they were for him.

[MagickMuffin]

6. Does that qualify them as official "FLIP FLOPPERS" .........?

Boy that's gotta :hurts:



:-)

[yourguide]

4. and it makes the resdiscovery

that much richer...

[OmahaBlueDog]

5. Even a broken clock is right twice a day

;-)

[Hope And Change]

7. K & R!

[ashling]

8. It seems like I've heard this story before