Where is Flip from, and is his background focused in writing? I think some of this has to do with the US having a poor education system, especially when it comes to writing.
From what I remember, growing up it was awful until I got into college. There were a lot of terrible writing assignments consisting of a forced topic that was difficult to work with unless you had an opinion or passion about the subject matter. The only other style was research based, involving pulling information from other sources and citing them. This conditioning probably results in disasters like this, where someone has trouble articulating strong opinions on things and when asked to express them in writing, resorts to...this, possibly not even knowing that plagerizim is not simply just copy pasting word for word.