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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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To: Sully- who wrote (51624)7/21/2004 7:42:14 PM
From: abstract  Read Replies (2) of 89467
 
Bush League

Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times carried a follow-up to Bush's remarks on Cuba last Friday. Bush had charged that Fidel Castro was brazenly promoting sex tourism to Cuba. "The dictator welcomes sex tourism. Here's how he bragged about the industry," Bush said. "This is his quote: 'Cuba has the cleanest and most educated prostitutes in the world.'"

So what is Bush's source for this? Turns out that the quote was cribbed from an undergraduate paper that had been posted to the web after it won a prize in 2001. But, as many of us know all too well about all too many
Undergraduate papers, the quote was not footnoted in the original and the student writer is unable to produce a source for it.

That's bad enough already, but it turns out that in the context of the paper itself, the unsourced quote has nothing to do with comments on any sex "tourism" or "industry" anywhere. The student makes it clear in his paper that the quote is a bit of bragging about Cuba's advances in literacy, and at best the "quote" is a paraphrase of a remark Castro made back in 1992 that had nothing to do with the cleanliness of anybody.

The student's defense would probably not hold up in a Freshman English course. He now says: "I don't know why I don't have a footnote for that. . .
That was before I was in law school and understood that you have to footnote everything."

One wonders what Bush's defense would be?
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