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Scandal scandal scandal. We have it from all over the world. Like a couple of weeks ago the President of Hungary resigned because the university he attended revoked his doctorate.
Why?
Um, he plagiarized the thesis that "earned" it.
Interestingly, this guy was pretty respected. His name is Pal Schmitt. What I great political name. "Vote for me, I'm your Pal." He actually won gold medals in fencing in the 1968 and 1972 Olympics. In 1992, he wrote a 215-page thesis on the Olympics. But a committee recently found 200 of the 215 pages were cut directly from other authors' works.
Oh well. I suppose he had to take a stab at it. But he wasn't too sharp. No truth to the rumor that on his exposure he said, "Curses, foiled again..."
He wasn't alone at the plagiarism party. Just last year both Germany's defense minister and the German Vice President of the European Parliament lost their jobs when it was found that they plagiarized their theses.
In their defense, it must be getting pretty hard. A PhD thesis is supposed to be a totally original idea. They must be just about used up by now.
Except if you're the Secret Service. A few bad eggs there apparently had the original idea of having prostitutes entertain them right before our President went to Columbia. Scandal indeed. You gotta feel for President Obama. If you can't trust the Secret Service to keep a secret, who can you trust?
I know. They must have been doing undercover research. The percentage of presidential assassins who are also prostitutes must be pretty high. Apparently, the whole thing leaked out because one of the not-so-Secret Servicemen argued about the price.
Good to know at least Obama's belt-tightening budget message is getting through.
Now if they can only keep their belts on...
America ya gotta love it.