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Bolton Accuser a Serial Plagiarizer (There's more badnews about Melody Townsel)
little green footballs ^ | 4/27/05

Posted on 04/27/2005 11:05:25 AM PDT by finnman69

Bolton Accuser a Serial Plagiarizer

Yesterday we noted a post at Daily Kos from John Bolton accuser Melody Townsel, in which she admitted committing plagiarism while working at the Abilene Christian University student newspaper, the Optimist.

The ACU Optimist has a report on this today, with the revelation that Townsel was also involved in another plagiarism incident at the University of Texas at Arlington: Former student acknowledges past plagiarism.

Townsel left ACU soon after being removed from the Optimist to continue her undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she worked for the student newspaper, the Shorthorn. Marler said he received a call from UT-Arlington several months after Townsel left ACU regarding another situation of plagiarism with Townsel.

John Dycus, former adviser of the Shorthorn, recalled the event.

"I remember Melody as being very bright," said Dycus, adviser of the UT-Arlington Shorthorn when Townsel worked for the paper. "I remember thinking she didn't have to do this. She was bright enough; her mechanics were good enough; her research skills were good enough. This wasn't necessary."

UPDATE at 4/27/05 8:58:11 am:

In the post at Daily Kos, Melody Townsel wrote:

Months later, while working for another college newspaper, I wrote a review for a local play that tracked closely in format to another writer's review - and, although it was not plagiarized, it made my editors, who had become aware of my recent past, very uncomfortable, and we mutually agreed that I would no longer submit stories to them.

But that isn't how the paper's former editor in chief remembers it: Ex-editor key to Bolton debate. (Hat tip: Ward Cleaver.)

Theo Carracino, who had been editor in chief of the paper that previous semester, said he had read several news stories in other publications on the issue, and when he read a few of the first paragraphs of Townsel's story, many of the paragraphs seemed familiar to him.

"I knew I'd read them and read them recently'" Carracino said.

With his interest piqued, Carracino said he researched back issues of Time and Newsweek magazines, which had run stories regarding the famine.

He compared Townsel's story to an article titled "An African Nightmare" published in Newsweek on Nov. 26, 1984, and found many similarities.

About 80 percent of Townsel's story was plagiarized, Carracino said.

"I had to overcome my disbelief" he said.

The realization that The Shorthorn had a case of plagiarism to deal with quickly became apparent, he said.

"This was major plagiarism" he said. "Not the case of copying some sentences."

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This gets better and better.
1 posted on 04/27/2005 11:05:32 AM PDT by finnman69
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To: finnman69

oops.


2 posted on 04/27/2005 11:06:12 AM PDT by jess35
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To: finnman69
It's the seriousness of the allegations that matter, not their truthfullness.

Tom Foley taught us that.

3 posted on 04/27/2005 11:08:07 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism. DEA agents will not keep your children safe from drugs.)
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To: finnman69
Another example of dishonesty and lack of ethics. I think my new mantra is going to be how untrustworthy and evil many people are, yet the liberals take them all at face value without serious investigation. This also reminds me that at my college newspaper, the "reporters" included some of the most vicious and deceitful creeps on campus (which is saying a lot)

We had a woman who was getting A's w/o attending class and skipping exams. She had all the teachers convinced she was dying of cancer and was a briliant sweet girl. Used to wear a fake sling and bandages all the time. She had taken her brothers x-ray report from a routine injury and doctored it up as a record of her getting radiation treatment.

4 posted on 04/27/2005 11:13:58 AM PDT by Williams
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To: finnman69

Yup, Newsweek and their so called journalists are running with comments made by people not under oath about Bolton.

Let's see just how these people phrase their "complaints" about Bolton when they are under oath.


5 posted on 04/27/2005 11:15:32 AM PDT by smag999
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To: finnman69

Rush is discussing this right now. Ha! Said 'daily kos' was as bad as DU! Whoa!


6 posted on 04/27/2005 11:15:50 AM PDT by Maria S
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To: Williams

Carol Mosley Braun just called Bolton a "bigot" because he is critical of the U.N., where there are all types of people.


7 posted on 04/27/2005 11:16:03 AM PDT by massgopguy (massgopguy)
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To: Maria S

All garden variety LW barking moonbats.


8 posted on 04/27/2005 11:18:07 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: finnman69; prairiebreeze; onyx; CyberAnt; BigSkyFreeper; Tamzee; EllaMinnow; cyncooper; Dog; ...

Rush just read Melody's coming out letter from the Dkos


9 posted on 04/27/2005 11:19:52 AM PDT by Mo1 (Hey GOP ---- Not one Dime till Republicans grow a Spine !!)
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To: Maria S
Ha! Said 'daily kos' was as bad as DU! Whoa!

Yea .. But was the DU ever on Howard Dean's payroll like Dkos was??

10 posted on 04/27/2005 11:22:04 AM PDT by Mo1 (Hey GOP ---- Not one Dime till Republicans grow a Spine !!)
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To: finnman69

What do Dan Rather and the Democratic Party have in common?


11 posted on 04/27/2005 11:22:43 AM PDT by NavVet (“Benedict Arnold was wounded in battle fighting for America, but no one remembers him for that.”)
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To: finnman69
Those that can, do!

Those that can't, steal!

12 posted on 04/27/2005 11:23:06 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: massgopguy

Mosley Braun and the leftists do not understand that the other people at the U.N. are from other countries and as such Bolton has every right and reason to view them with suspicion, as he should view most of their governments with suspicion. They being corrupt dictatorships for the most part.


13 posted on 04/27/2005 11:23:09 AM PDT by Williams
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To: NavVet
What do Dan Rather and the Democratic Party have in common?

They both should have called it quits years ago?

14 posted on 04/27/2005 11:24:27 AM PDT by Zeppelin (Keep on FReepin' on.....)
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To: finnman69
Her advisor: "I remember thinking she didn't have to do this. She was bright enough; her mechanics were good enough; her research skills were good enough. This wasn't necessary."

So...if she'd been less intelligent and skilled, it would have been necessary? Sounds to me like she isn't the only one with an ethical blind spot.

15 posted on 04/27/2005 11:25:19 AM PDT by Graymatter
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To: All
The first Melody Townsel Plagiarism Thread.
16 posted on 04/27/2005 11:25:52 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: Maria S
Said 'daily kos' was as bad as DU! Whoa!

Yep. It is. Probably even worse.

17 posted on 04/27/2005 11:27:04 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Matthew 16:18)
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To: Mo1

Giving free publicity to DU is a GOOD thing.

99.9% of people that go to their web site to check it out and revolted at such America,religion, Democracy hating tripe that gets posted there.

Our college kids like to figure out who the nut cases on their campus are that post there. They have a reward system for figuring out who the posters are.


18 posted on 04/27/2005 11:30:19 AM PDT by smag999
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To: Mo1

He's right, I read Kos regularly and he's getting more incoherent by the day. Here's a bit more

http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2005/04/bolton-accuser-plagiarist.html


19 posted on 04/27/2005 11:30:21 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: massgopguy

Do you have a source? Thanks


20 posted on 04/27/2005 11:31:06 AM PDT by Ooh-Ah
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