Copycatty Coulter Pilfers Prose: Pro

NY Post ^ | July 2, 2006 | PHILIP RECCHIA

[BlackElk]

If you think about it, that applies to Abraham Lincoln too. Of course, Annie is usually a lot better politically.

[dalight]

I agree, this guy has this coming.. and while folks are at it.. the whole New York Post needs an thorough fragment check if that is the standard new standard.

I sure hope Philip has cross checked every sentence he has ever written against all of the copyrighted material in the world. My guess is this sucker is screwed if someone just takes the time to pursue it.

[AmericanChef]

Were this a lefty's book, we'd be all over it, but I can't imagine she's trying to steal anyone's work. Just sounds like sloppy editing (or sloppy on someone else's part) to me.

[dalight]

Twenty four words can't make a decent "block quote." Twenty four words make two or three short sentences. Hard say much in 24 words. :)

[dalight]

Uh, copying the entire book into digital form without permission is a copyright violation.

Just ask the RIAA. Sounds like we might have to report someone to the Feds. I think its $250,000 per incident, I believe. And the Feds pay for the prosecution.

Copying an entire work is not fair use by any means.. and the existence of the work on their hard drive is prima facie evidence of the violation.

The ironies are delicious.

[GOPJ]

Who cares? This "MSM/liberal-lawyer union complex" thinks it's OK to print stuff that will get Americans killed, but is "oh so concerned about protecting Planned Parenthood? Great. We'll keep voting in Republicans until there's not a liberal judge left in the country.

[Junior]

She doesn't have one original thought in that entire book. She stole her attacks on the Jersey girls from Ted Rall. William Dembski ghost wrote the section on evolution. I've seen just about all her other points made be folks here on FR (and we know she at least lurks).

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

the headline is the important part for the left

Even the headline is a dead give-away. "Copycatter Coulter Pilfers Prose"...I mean c'mon. That's something you'd find in the The Globe or something.

[Cedric]

Your comment assumes that the accusations are both valid and accurate. Neither is arguable, based upon the attendant article.

[ClaireSolt]

" I do not knaow about taht. "She doesn't have one original thought in that entire book" I do know that it is a great read, because she has a funny sense of humor and a great way of putting things.

[Cedric]

And every point you made has been made by someone else {including, but not limited to the legendary seer, Ted Rall}.

[UB355]

mark

[R.W.Ratikal]

The left is pulling out all stops to stop Ann Coulter. Notice that no one ever, ever debates her points. All they can do is attack her.

I have been reading Coulter for along time ever since she began to write in Human Events. She has remained consistent over the years. Her books hit the nerve that causes liberal knees to jerk violently and sh tells the truth.

[Junior]

Normally, I would agree with you. Her latest tome, however, is little but invective and very-poorly researched invective at that. It's like she put no effort into this at all.

[Junior]

I'm not certain Ted Rall and I have ever agreed on anything.

[Non-Sequitur]

Stupid lies are the modus operandi of the left...They know that, no matter how false, if a thing is put out into the media, it will be believed more than any valid refutations afterward........and for anyone to lend their allegations credence up front, before researching the veracity or waiting for more evidence - they "aid and abet" - innocently or not.

Well if the charges are false then the evidence refuting them should be presented on principle if for no other reason. I'll watch for it.

[fish hawk]

What? Did she rip of Ward Churchill?? LOL

[goldstategop]

You should always credit your sources and if you need to restate someone else's view, do it in your own words. Its very easy to lift whole passages out of another work. But in Ann Coulter's defense, if that's true, her editor would have brought it to her attention. And they discovered it just now? Yeah, right.

(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)

[Verginius Rufus]

To judge from the items a Google search turns up, the leftists have been throwing accusations of plagiarism at Ann for more than a year.

Maybe this is just a pre-emptive attack, to deter Bush from nominating Ann if another vacancy occurs on the Supreme Court.

[WL-law]

But if the article is accurate, it leaves her open to charges of hypocrisy

Obviously we can't get to the bottom of the story since the NY Post doesn't give any specific references (and that's suspicious regarding their motives and the supposed strength of the case).

But one thing is immediately clear -- the sources she's "lifted from" represent the arguments she's ATTACKING, ie, Planned Parenthood, the SF newspaper, etc.

So she's obviously paraphrasing their arguments, and accurately by using their own words, so that she can then ATTACK the logic of their arguments.

She isn't STEALING or LIFTING their arguments and foisting them off as her own -- and THAT'S what plagiarism is about.