Blind eye to Coulter plagiarism.
By on Jul 5th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
Blind eye to Coulter plagiarism.
“I think [Ann Coulter] is the one that needs to address this,” says Kathie Kerr of Universal Press Syndicate, which distributes Coulter’s column. Kerr told TPM Muckraker that editors should get involved only after an “investigation is complete and the allegations are proven correct,” but said she wasn’t aware of any investigation by her company into Coulter’s “textbook plagiarism.”
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“They’re used purely to try and give the book a higher level of credibility – as if it’s an academic work. But her sloppiness in failing to properly attribute many other passages strips it of nearly all its academic merits,” he told The Post.
And I think this guy might loose all of his academic merits, for thinking that any of her work could have academic merits.
July 5th, 2006 at 1:30 pmSure Ann’s writing has academic merits, it’s a case study on the dangers of gender reassignment surgery.
July 5th, 2006 at 1:32 pmYou know, I’m thinking of getting published. Do you think they will accept my manuscript “Lord of the Bling-Bling” which is all about a hip rural “Robbit” and his quest to destroy a really snazzy but actually evil ring?
July 5th, 2006 at 1:36 pmMaybe those from whom she plagerized need to step up & sue for copyright violation. Lifting entire paragraphs without attribution is not “fair use.”
July 5th, 2006 at 1:36 pmBringing up Coulter today just seems like a diversion from Kenny Boy Lay falling over dead so convienately today for Bush Baby?!
July 5th, 2006 at 1:44 pmWow, first and alleged felon and now this. Screw her.
July 5th, 2006 at 1:45 pmJay
Coulter is in fact, Ken Lay in disguise.
July 5th, 2006 at 1:46 pmI’m sure it’s all liberal propoganda, and NBC, ABC, CBS, Faux, and CNN are all willing to give her an additional 30 minutes EACH to explain how it is so….
July 5th, 2006 at 1:55 pmHas anyone hear actually read the book?
July 5th, 2006 at 2:02 pmBruce: I vigorously disagree with your assessment. Many of my friends are Republicans and only a few of them are transexual.
July 5th, 2006 at 2:03 pmI’m sure it’s all liberal propoganda, and NBC, ABC, CBS, Faux, and CNN are all willing to give her an additional 30 minutes EACH to explain how it is so….
Comment by Punchy
10 minutes, really. The other 20 will be used to promote her book, again!
July 5th, 2006 at 2:04 pmThere has to be something else in the news other than this hair-ball.
July 5th, 2006 at 2:05 pmHas anyone hear actually read the book?
Comment by Tom — July 5, 2006 @ 2:02 pm
I refuse to read her so called op-eds. Why the hell would I spend my hard earned money to buy and read a book that spreads nothing but half truths, outright lies and venom upon progressives?
She is the lowest form of vile.
July 5th, 2006 at 2:06 pmTom: As you may have already figured out, this is a left-leaning blog and we are not likely to buy and read shit like that. We do, however, allow our “conservative” friends come on in to try to convince us that in spite of a Republican-led White Houise, both branches of Congress and Supreme Court–what’s really wrong with America is us.
July 5th, 2006 at 2:10 pmAnn Coulter faked her own wounds!!!
July 5th, 2006 at 2:15 pmAbove the Clouds it wasn’t willing that I can assure you, he was licked by Rush once, and has ever since been turning into a were-pundit, each time taking longer and longer to turn back until he became, Ann Coulter.
Even a man who is good in heart
And helps all humanity by night
May become a propagandist loon
And start to speak stupid shite.
Needless to say, the transformation was more extreme with Lay then most, because there wasn’t much good in there to begin with.
July 5th, 2006 at 2:19 pmPlagiarism is how our country was founded, you don’t think Jeffereson wrote the Declaration himself do you? [/coulterism]
July 5th, 2006 at 2:20 pmWhenever important news comes out like Ken Lay dropping dead mysteriously, or North Korea testing missiles, then Ann Coulter is paraded out slinging mud, or calling for Dems to be murdered like Rep. Murtha! Whatever she/him spews is a diversion from reality!
July 5th, 2006 at 2:20 pmI have not read it either, but I am inclined to buy it to find out what the fuss is all about… Same reason I read here… LOL…
July 5th, 2006 at 2:24 pmThe newspapers I read don’t run Ann, so I can’t send them outraged letters demanding they remove the plagiarist from their midst. It would be useful if Think Progress or some other enterprising soul could compile a list of papers that do run Ann, so that the editors of these outlets could be made aware of their liability. Guess I could go look it up myself…
July 5th, 2006 at 2:25 pm#20. UPI runs her columns. The quotes you see above are from their “media relations” person, and she doesn’t care. Plagerism is OK with UPI, as long as it sells papers.
July 5th, 2006 at 2:33 pmHas anyone hear actually read the book?
Comment by Tom — July 5, 2006 @ 2:02 pm
Tom – I have read about 20 minutes worth of one of her older books while waiting for someone in a bookstore. It was a stream of consciousness rant written by (and for) someone who has a lot of hatred and poor critical thinking skills.
July 5th, 2006 at 2:59 pmCoulter, Hannity & Limpblow should be put in Club Gitmo.
July 5th, 2006 at 3:23 pmCollectively, they’ve spread more terror & fear among Americans
than any person in recent memory, at least back to Joe McCarthy.
Remember the MTV series showing live shots from people living together.
Can you imagine Ann, Sean & Rush in this setting?
Can you imagin the BS spewed among those three?
Maybe we could ‘bet’ on who would survive the longest, or who spouts the
most inane BS. (That would be tough to decide; they’re all full of it.)
Or how about book burnings? Kansas, are you listening?
Off topic, sorry…Nothing on the white house fast…..What’s with that..?
July 5th, 2006 at 3:48 pmYou can’t use the words “Ann Coulter” and “academic merits” in the same sentence.
July 5th, 2006 at 3:55 pm#24 – Sharon, see the link I put up at the end of the ThinkFast AM thread, regarding the Fast.
July 5th, 2006 at 5:23 pm[...] by Kathie Kerr of Universal Press Syndicate, the company that distributes Coulter’s column. (Kerr has reversed her earlier stance that “[Ann Coulter] is the one that needs to address this.”) 5:41 pm | Comment (0) [...]
July 5th, 2006 at 5:42 pmAnyone “hear” have a spell check program I could borrow? Okay, so it’s not the biggest & most shocking news story of the day, but it’s further evidence that they’re all LIARS & CHEATS.
July 5th, 2006 at 6:42 pmhey #23 McCarthy was RIGHT!! look at all the commies now in hollywood! Hell look at all the commies here! Joe McCarthy where are ya when we really need ye??
July 5th, 2006 at 10:28 pmimagine Michael moore, maureen dowd, al franken and cindy sheehan in one room?? perfeect place for a stick up! that is if moore did not eat ‘em all first.
poor liberals, cannot understand integrity, honesty, patriotism and logic.
30 Moonbat Patrol
July 6th, 2006 at 7:44 amGood morning, this is your editor. Your sentence should read: “Poor liberals, cannot understandwhy Republicans have an aversion to integrity, honesty, patriotism and logic.” BTW, give me a call. Maybe we can arrange a deal for plagarist Coulter and old labeller you to do a book together.
#30 hey editorialize this! (middle finger salute).
July 6th, 2006 at 12:54 pmthe grammar nazi strikes again. No you cannot edit my book ! I don’t deal with communist -progressive swine in my business deals thank you. Besides as a liberal you would not want to work with my book beacuse it deals with the TRUTH not liberal lies.
go editorialize youreself in the ass you condescending little dipshit.
I haven’t read her book ( why should I read it if I already lived it) but I do read the columns from time to time. Man this stuff cracks me up. Personally I don’t see much difference between her and anyone else (left or right) that makes money off of hate.
I wish someone would make a tee shirt that said Ann wrote a book about me. Talk about a badge of honor maybe I should make the tee shirt I could possible make some money off of this as well/
July 6th, 2006 at 6:21 pmTypical of an ignorant righty, moonbat patrol rebuts criticism with nothing short of a hate-filled flamethrower. Instead of taking criticism and learning from mistakes, the righty spews ignorance. Of course, you can’t expect a reasoned retort either, because the extremists on the right cannot formulate arguments but rather only regurgitate what they hear on the brainwashing, right-wing radio. Since moonbat had not been fed a response to PLC’s critique, moonbat had to revert to the standard f-you-I’m-an-idiot-who-can’t-think-for-myself response. Sad really.
I’m guessing moonbat is a man, because it looks like his e-peen just got a +1.
July 10th, 2006 at 4:08 pmYou folks are certifiable nut jobs. Rather, et al manufacture fake and forged documents using a font that did not exist at the supposed time of the memo’s creation, but you wingnuts are still unconvinced about the docs authencity. But some fellow wingnut finds that some words in Ann’s tome are the same words used in other books and are convinced that Ann is akin to Steven Glass/ Michael Moore/ Jason Blair/ Joe Biden/ Ted “the swimmer” Kenney. Suggestion: If you ever want to be thought of seriously, get serious. In the words of the general assigned to N.O. after the hurricane: you guys are stuck on stupid!!!
July 11th, 2006 at 12:20 am