00:05:28.540So, for example, the chairman of the board of trustees of the Wharton schools,
00:05:32.540a guy named Mark Rowan, great point, who is who is a very successful New York businessman who spoke out unequivocally and demanded that she be fired and demanded that the chair of the board of trustees of Penn be fired as well because of their response to anti-Semitism.
00:05:49.140And I got to say, because you had his leadership and you had the leadership, as you noted, of numerous donors, people like Ronald Lauder, people like the Huntsman family who said they were going to cut off their contributions to Penn.
00:06:03.140And that combination, Penn was the most vulnerable to the pressure and Penn did the right thing.
00:06:10.500You had some leadership within Penn, at least in a formal position of authority, and you had the threat of donors cutting off cash.
00:06:19.500Now, at Harvard, it's been widely reported that there was upwards of $1 billion of future commitments that were canceled or threatened to be canceled in light of Harvard's terrible record on anti-Semitism.
00:06:34.960And yet, even so, Harvard didn't blink.
00:06:39.480The Harvard Corporation, which is the governing body of Harvard University, put out a statement unanimously standing with Claudine Gay.
00:06:50.340And by the way, it's also been reported that Barack Obama was personally lobbying.
00:06:55.960The chairman of that board is Penny Pritzker.
00:06:58.080She was the Commerce Secretary under Barack Obama.
00:07:00.700And it's been reported that Barack Obama was personally lobbying the members of the Harvard Corporation.
00:07:07.760And so their view was a horrible record on anti-Semitism is OK.
00:07:12.420Horrible testimony before Congress in which you cannot bring yourself to condemn people calling for the genocide of the Jewish people.
00:07:22.800And and refusing to create an environment on campus where Jewish students are safe, looking the other way at threats against your Jewish students.
00:07:31.900All of that was OK, not just OK, unanimously OK.
00:07:35.480There was not a single board member that could find even a single vertebrae in a backbone to stand up and say enough is enough.
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00:09:54.200Let's dive into, by the way, how these claims came out.
00:09:58.060Because it also, I think this is one of those moments that we should highlight here, the lack of journalistic integrity among the mainstream media that did no research and did not do anything,
00:10:13.940even after some of the first allegations of plagiarism came out against the Harvard president, Claudine Gay.
00:10:20.740It was the incredible reporting of those that are conservatives and those that were trying to grab these documents and hard work of the Washington Free Beacon, for example,
00:10:33.240where they went in and did the hard work to compare the words of the Harvard president against those that she stole from.
00:10:42.740And yet still the media is not really reporting on this.
00:10:46.320And they certainly didn't go and actually investigate any of this.
00:10:52.700And I have to say there was no one who played a bigger role in Claudine Gay's resignation than Christopher Ruffo.
00:10:59.840Christopher Ruffo, we've had as a guest on Verdict.
00:11:02.560He has been doing an extraordinary job for years exposing critical race theory.
00:11:08.340Christopher Ruffo is someone I talk about in considerable length in my new book, Unwoke.
00:11:13.160But the job that Chris did, exposing this, pushing the plagiarism, giving specific examples, because the New York Times, the Washington Post, they all wanted to whitewash it.
00:11:23.260And even after she resigned, listen to this.
00:11:26.840Listen to CNN talking about her resignation and trying to give this this this word salad, convoluted justification for her plagiarism.
00:12:09.120They have the words side by side in this reporting from from her dissertation and other documents, other things that have been published.
00:12:16.300And let's go back to Harvard and hold them accountable here.
00:12:20.100The Harvard Corporation, the school's governing body, said earlier this month that it had, quote, initiated an independent review of Gay's work in October and found, quote,
00:12:28.520quote, no violation of Harvard's standards for research misconduct.
00:12:33.760That investigation only focused on three papers.
00:12:37.560And then what we understand is that was pretty much like, yep, we're good.
00:12:42.580Harvard's official policy states, by the way, that all allegations of faculty plagiarism must be reviewed by the school's research integrity officer.
00:12:50.420And that if the allegations are deemed credible, they must be sent to a further probe.
00:12:54.820So any faculty member found guilty of plagiarism can end up suspended, having their rank reduced or even terminated.
00:13:02.320Notably, the university said it considers whether the misconduct was, quote, an isolated event or a or part of a pattern while deciding the appropriate level of punishment.
00:13:12.640So, Senator, they gave her a clean bill of health earlier this month.
00:14:47.720The VRA, which is the Voting Rights Act, the VRA is often cited as one of the most significant pieces of civil rights legislation passed in our nation's history.
00:14:57.420The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is often cited as one of the most significant pieces of civil rights legislation passed in our nation's history.
00:15:04.720That's word for word identical, other than she spelled out Voting Rights Act instead of saying VRA, and she added of 1965.
00:15:12.160So congratulations, Claudine, you found the year it was passed.
00:15:15.960Those are the only new words in the quote.
00:15:22.140The central parts of the VRA are Section 2 and Section 5.
00:15:25.700The form prohibits any state or political subdivision from imposing a voting practice that will deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color.
00:15:34.480The latter imposed was imposed on only only uncovered jurisdictions with a history of past discrimination,
00:15:39.680which must submit changes in any electoral process or mechanism to the federal government for approval.
00:15:46.400The central part of the measures are Section 2 and Section 5.
00:15:49.960Section 2 reiterates the guarantees of the 15th Amendment prohibiting any state or political subdivision from adopting voting practices that deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color.
00:16:00.240Section 5, imposed only on covered jurisdictions with a history of past discrimination,
00:16:05.240requires Justice Department preclearances of changes in any electoral process or mechanism.
00:16:10.440The vast majority of those words are identical.
00:16:14.380All right, let me give you another example.
00:16:16.400And this is an example from her dissertation.
00:16:20.000And she lifted a sentence from her thesis advisor from Gary King, who's describing a mathematical model.
00:16:29.160The posterior distribution of each of the precinct parameters within the bounds indicated by its tomography line is derived by the slice it cuts out of the bivariate distribution of all lines.
00:16:41.660The posterior distribution of each of the precinct parameters for the precinct is derived by the slice its tomography line cuts out of this bivariate distribution.
00:16:48.800Now, I got to admit that some of that is is academic gobbledygook.
00:16:56.760But the fact that she just copied it, and by the way, the way plagiarism works, she could copy that if she put a quote mark in the front, a quote mark in the back, and she cited Gary King, who wrote it.
00:17:09.620You're allowed to quote people, but the way you do it so you do not steal their words is you put it in quotation marks, and you cite the person who you're quoting.
00:17:19.500What she did over and over and over again is just typed it in.
00:17:23.340And by the way, much of this was done before word processors were used.
00:17:29.900That means it was done on a typewriter.
00:17:31.720I got to say it is much harder to accidentally plagiarize, particularly in the era of typewriters.
00:17:40.280You have some instances where, say, a researcher is taking notes, and they cut and paste from a cut and paste from a principal source, and they put it in their notes, and they forget that it was cut and pasted, and they end up cutting and pasting it into their work.
00:17:57.000And by the way, Harvard will expel you for doing that, but it is more possible for someone to do so inadvertently with word processors and cut and paste.
00:18:07.440Many of these instances, Claudine Gay, she had to type on a typewriter the words presumably from the original source, and so she knew exactly what she was doing.
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00:18:48.700When you talk about all that, let's go back to the core point here that we were mentioning earlier, and that is, it is not what happened in front of Congress.
00:19:01.200And I think it's time that we remind people of how egregious, because there's three points I want to make sure that we're clear here on verdict for everybody listening.
00:19:09.840No one has lost their job yet due to the testimony.
00:19:13.960I'm talking about actually being fired, being unemployed, not getting a paycheck.
00:20:52.620Before we play her testimony, let's also talk about the racial aspect of this.
00:20:58.980In Claudine Gay's resignation letter, she actually called out her critics as being racist.
00:21:04.460And not only that, you then had Al Sharpton saying the Harvard president's resignation, quote, is an attack on every black woman in America.
00:21:19.920You can testify before Congress that calling for the extermination, genocide of Jews, and not denouncing it, and not saying that that is a violation of the rules at Harvard.
00:21:32.100That's totally fine. You can be that person.
00:21:35.080But if you criticize Claudine Gay, you are then a racist.
00:21:39.000And she, in her resignation letter, when she's resigning, she made it very clear she believes this is all because she is a black woman.
00:21:49.000Well, and let me, quoting from a resignation letter, let me tell you the operative language.
00:21:54.520Quote, and by the way, this is what one does to avoid plagiarism.
00:21:57.920I'm quoting her, so I'm telling you it's a quotation.
00:21:59.900These are not my words. These are hers.
00:22:02.100Quote, it has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and upholding scholarly vigor,
00:22:09.300two bedrock values that are fundamental to who I am, and frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus.
00:22:19.400That's what she's blaming this on, is that the only people who had criticisms about her apparently are racist.
00:22:26.180Like, if you believe that Harvard's willingness to tolerate the harassment of Jewish students, to tolerate anti-Semitism,
00:22:33.680and in fact, in many ways, to embrace it, if you believe that's problematic,
00:22:36.860if you believe actually the president of Harvard should be a scholar who complies with principles of academic integrity,
00:22:43.660that means, in her worldview, you must be a racist.
00:22:47.640And I'll tell you, even worse than that, at the end of her letter,
00:22:52.060is, there's a sentence that I found really galling.
00:22:57.720Here's what she writes at the end of her letter.
00:22:59.740Quote, when my brief presidency is remembered, I hope it will be seen as a moment of reawakening
00:23:07.340to the importance of striving to find our common humanity
00:23:12.380and of not allowing rancor and vituperation to undermine the vital process of education.