Is it considered plagiarism when you simply restate a fact? I would think that every journalist would be in jeopardy if that is the case.
Let's hope this leads thousands of liberal blogfools to buy Ann's book and pour throught he pages in search of grist for their liberal spittle ... one or two might actually 'get out of the religion' and stop being liberal lickspittlists.
Restating a fact is not plagiarism.
Restating it in exactly the same form is.
The first example is almost verbatum.
The second is not.
Keeping in mind that with small amounts of information, there are only so many ways to say it.
Had I written this, I would have changed the sentence structure, or leave it as she has, and just cite the publication.
I'm no expert on plagiarism, but they're going to have to find either many more like the first example shown, or else multiple examples of larger word segments that are clearly a copy of someone else's work.
At this moment, to me, the plagiarism charge seems late and lame.
I wonder if she got her info from the same source the Portland Press did??? It seems a little bit of a stretch to claim that info that lines up with a newspaper article could be called plagiarism... If that's the case, newspapers are the biggest plagiarists around.
They are really reaching.