White House Straight Up Plagiarizes ExonnMobil Statement

Riggs 3/7/2017 4:01 PM

CNN — A White House statement congratulating ExxonMobil for increasing investment in Texas and Louisiana cribbed multiple lines from the oil giant’s statement without citation.
The White House statement, which includes quotes from President Donald Trump, pulled this quote nearly word-for-word from ExxonMobil ‘s statement.
White House statement
“ExxonMobil is strategically investing in new refining and chemical-manufacturing projects in the United States Gulf Coast region to expand its manufacturing and export capacity. The company’s Growing the Gulf program consists of 11 major chemical, refining, lubricant and liquefied natural gas projects at proposed new and existing facilities along the Texas and Louisiana coasts. Investments began in 2013 and are expected to continue through at least 2022.”
ExxonMobil statement
“ExxonMobil is strategically investing in new refining and chemical-manufacturing projects in the U.S. Gulf Coast region to expand its manufacturing and export capacity. The company’s Growing the Gulf expansion program, consists of 11 major chemical, refining, lubricant and liquefied natural gas projects at proposed new and existing facilities along the Texas and Louisiana coasts. Investments began in 2013 and are expected to continue through at least 2022.”

Ahh nothing better come spring break time than a little plagiarism. Gotta get your shit done and high tail your ass outta town. Why commit your valuable resources to researching and working and writing when you can just copy and move right along? Just smart. Efficient. I like how the White House tried to do that college kid thing too where it’s not copying because you changed a couple words. A quick transformation of “U.S.” to “United States” and boom, totally different. No way you get caught.

Smart move from the White House. We don’t want them exhausting themselves creating original statements about Exxon when they’ve got “major things” to do and all just getting along great.

PS — This crew, plagiarize? No way.