https://pjmedia.com/tatler/2011/09/09/is-our-president-a-plagiarist-here-are-the-facts-you-decide/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 09:08:20 -0400<![CDATA[Writing at the website “FutureofCapitalism.com,” former New York Sun vice-president and managing editor Ira Stoll, who is also author of a biography of Sam Adams, thought something sounded very familiar when he listened to President Barack Obama’s speech last night. Stoll had been reading the new book by Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, That Used To Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back. What Stoll found is that a paragraph in the president’s speech was taken directly from their new book, without attribution.]]>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:02:48 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2011/09/09/is-our-president-a-plagiarist-here-are-the-facts-you-decide-n152675