Washington,DC/ CopyKat News - VP Joe "Oh, No" Biden rushed to the aid of beleaguered NY Times Columnist Maureen Down today after she admitted she lifted a few paragraphs from a Blogger for use in her column....without attribution.
Biden, who himself is no stranger to plagiarism, was quick to come to the columnist's aid. " Hey, it happens to the best of us. We see something we like, and I often think, wow, why didn't I think to say that....and so I either do say it , or write about it a few times....and then I forget that I never really did have an original thought! "
"Hey man, it's an odds game...how many times have I been caught...2-3 times.....do you know how many times I'e taken credit for other peoples ideas? Come on, get in the 21st century...everybody does it, it is a game after all, isn't it? And besides, do you know how many hits I get on Google when I say something really clever that I stole? Get over it!"
According to a spokesman at the Journalism School at Northwestern, the school no longer offers an Ethics 101 Course due to lack of interest and relevancy.
Professor Harry Ayers Skiffington, chairman of the school, said most professors have just given up on grading term papers, as most content has just been cut and pasted from on line media blogs from anywhere in the world, some as far away as India.
"What's the point," he asked rhetorically," no one cares anymore...newspapers are dinosaurs, and kids don't even want to read good books ...Ethics in Journalism is OUT and it's probably just as well. Only the Service Academies still have an Honor Code, at least I think West Point and Annapolis do, and I'm sure this administration will be working to bring them up to our AP standards within the next 4 years."
A spokesman for the President said he wished the Gaffe Prone VP would go hide for awhile in the formerly super secret bunker under his Washington house, but since the VP had divulged that location in a recent public address attended by the Press, he really no longer had anyplace to hide.
Addressing the nation over the flap, the President said "This is a day that will live in infamy......."
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