Why am I not surprised?

"If you want to live in the real world, a politician has to be cut a bit of slack," said Mr. Mallon, who wrote an oft-cited book on plagiarism, "Stolen Words." He said one reason to be more lenient is that everyone assumes that most words uttered by politicians or published under their names were actually written by speechwriters or ghostwriters.

It's thingone when you are actually paying someone to do the work for you. It's quite another thing when you steal from someone not associated with you at all.

This is what happens when you have no soul - you can do anything and not feel the least bit guilty.