Plagiarism Scandal Continues

 This morning, if you review Focus....they chat on the Baerbock plagiarism scandal....various plagiarism 'hunters' have gazed over the 240-odd page book....now saying a minimum of 43 problems exist.

They suggest that a couple of entire pages are simply cut-and-paste situations.

So this went from a list of 14....to 43.

The thing that occurred to me....the pronounced deal where it was Baerbock who was going to be the Green Party Chancellor candidate.....didn't occur until late December.  All the way up to October....it looked pretty solid for Robert Habeck to be the candidate, then in a matter of two months....Baerbock suddenly came along from number two....to number one.  

So the question....from late December....to 21 June (the day that the book was published/released)....did Baerbock have time to write the whole entire book?  

I sat and pondered upon this topic.

It's not a work of fiction.  It's really just a broad 240-odd pages where she discusses her ideas.  If you took six weeks off....you could probably write draft version one and then spend a month....correcting things, and improving the flow of words.  

But the problem here....I don't think she took any real time off....certainly not an entire month.

So if she didn't write it....who did?

My obvious answer?  Her husband....Daniel Holefleisch.  His real job in life?  Political consultant and PR consultant.  He'd probably have a broad list of times that she wanted to talk about, and would have the time to expand upon those.  Has he ever written a book?  I went looking and have yet to find an example of any book.  

To me, it'd be a crazy thing to go and rush out a book to gain public support in an election year.  Most people  would go and hire up a professional writer and have a plagiarism hunter hired to ensure no screw-ups.  

Finishing off Baerbock's odds in this election?  As of the 2nd of July, the Greens and SPD are now pretty much tied (18-to-19 percent each).  Back in April?  The Greens were near 28-percent and actually ahead of the CDU Party (so yeah, they lost around one-third of their support in 90 days).  My humble guess is that the Greens will eventually crash at around 13-to-14 percent of the vote.