[gcruse]

It looks like a little more than the word 'the.'

Barrie, CEO of iParadigms, told The Post that one 25-word passage from the "Godless" chapter titled "The Holiest Sacrament: Abortion" appears to have been lifted nearly word for word from Planned Parenthood literature published at least 18 months before Coulter's 281-page book was released.

A separate, 24-word string from the chapter "The Creation Myth" appeared about a year earlier in the San Francisco Chronicle with just one word change - "stacked" was changed to "piled."

[denydenydeny]

*gasp* 25 and 24 word strings!

But this of course is not about plagiarism. It's about finding a pretext, any pretext, for silencing Ann.

[iowamark]

Barrie... told The Post that one 25-word passage from the "Godless" chapter titled "The Holiest Sacrament: Abortion" appears to have been lifted nearly word for word from Planned Parenthood literature published at least 18 months before Coulter's 281-page book was released.

Certainly a prolifer would not represent a pre-abort passage as her own views.

Perhaps Ann was quoting pro-abort writings and failed to accurately note the source. That is possible, but is not plagiarism.

[Yaelle]

Was the Chronicle passage from her own column? (Hope so, though I somehow doubt she has a column in the Chronicle...)

[Lazamataz]

With 281 pages -- at, say, 120 words a page -- there would be 33720 words. They are claiming 49 plagiarized words.

That is one-tenth of one percent.

The charge is ludicrus. I probably could be accused of plagiarism in this very post at that sort of threshold.

In fact, I can be.

[EndWelfareToday]

"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.

[Sensei Ern]

Barrie, CEO of iParadigms, told The Post that one 25-word passage from the "Godless" chapter titled "The Holiest Sacrament: Abortion" appears to have been lifted nearly word for word from Planned Parenthood literature published at least 18 months before Coulter's 281-page book was released.

First, do you have any idea of the length of a twenty five words? - Just asking that question took 14 words and has no descriptive adjectives. Second, most likely the words she allegedly plagered may have been quoted to prove a point as to the position of the left. I highly doubt she was presenting a pro-death position as her own thought. Third, it may have been a common position that has been stated so often that it is public domain. And fourth, twenty five words in a book of how many words?

[FastCoyote]

"25-word passage from the "Godless" chapter titled "The Holiest Sacrament: Abortion" appears to have been lifted nearly word for word from Planned Parenthood literature published at least 18 months before Coulter's 281-page book was released.

A separate, 24-word string from the chapter "The Creation Myth" appeared about a year earlier in the San Francisco Chronicle with just one word change - "stacked" was changed to "piled."


Wow, I gues she's done for now. She plagiarized at least four sentences. Let's see, 50 words out of 100,000 is one in every two thousand words. Obviously she is an empty shell!

[Tribune7]

Twenty-five words is really not that much. It is three fairly short sentences. For a nice example, just count the words in this post.

[torchthemummy]

Plagiarism is to a passage or passages and pass them off as your own. Can this be the case if surely the passage is presented word-for-word but with the opposite intention - ie. satire? I seriously doubt it.

I would be very pleased if Ann did this on purpose where the 25 words exposed will prove to be less than beneficial to Planned Parenthood while allowing Anne to repeat her point and then asking if they disavow their own words.

Not to mention additional publicity.

[RonDog]

See also, from luckydawgnews.com:

COPYCATTY COULTER PILFERS PROSE....or maybe not

A ran across this article at the NY Post claiming that Ann Coulter plagiarized parts of her latest book - "Godless".

Conservative scribe Ann Coulter cribbed liberally in her latest book, "Godless," according to a plagiarism expert.

John Barrie, the creator of a leading plagiarism-recognition system, claimed he found at least three instances of what he calls "textbook plagiarism" in the leggy blond pundit's "Godless: the Church of Liberalism" after he ran the book's text through the company's digital iThenticate program.

This Barrie guy is the president/CEO of a company called iParadigms. This iThenticate program is a product of this company.  The chairman of iParadigms is Steven Berger.

I did a little digging on Berger and came up with this.

Contributor	Candidate or PAC	Amount	Date
Berger, Steven Berkeley, CA 94705 NYF Properties Inc./Management	MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION	$4,400 primary	11/08/05
Berger, Steven Berkeley, CA 94705 NYF Properties Inc./Management	MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION	$500 primary	05/16/05
BERGER, STEVEN BERKELEY, CA 94705 NYF PROPERTIES INC	KERRY, JOHN F (D) Senate - MA FRIENDS OF JOHN KERRY	$1,000 primary	05/05/05
Berger, Steven Mr Jr Berkeley, CA 94705 NYF Properties Inc./Management	MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION	$250 primary	12/02/04
Berger, Steven Berkeley, CA 94705 NYF Properties Inc./Management	JENNINGS, JON PAUL (D) House (IN 08) FRIENDS OF JON JENNINGS COMMITTEE	$250 general	10/25/04
Berger, Steven Berkeley, CA 94705 NYF Properties Inc./Management	MURPHY, LOIS (D) House (PA 06) LOIS MURPHY FOR CONGRESS	$250 general	10/25/04
Berger, Steven Berkeley, CA 94705 NYF Properties Inc./Management	WETTERLING, PATTY (D) House (MN 06) PATTY WETTERLING FOR CONGRESS	$250 general	10/25/04
Berger, Steven Berkeley, CA 94705 NYF Properties Inc./Management	ROSS, DAVE (D) House (WA 08) FRIENDS OF DAVE ROSS	$250 general	10/25/04
Berger, Steven Mr Jr Berkeley, CA 94705 NYF Properties Inc./Management	MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION	$250 general	10/25/04
Berger, Steven Mr Jr Berkeley, CA 94705 NYF Properties Inc./Management	MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION	$250 general	10/25/04
Berger, Steven Mr Jr Berkeley, CA 94705 NYF Properties Inc./Management	MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION	$250 general	10/25/04
Berger, Steven Mr Jr Berkeley, CA 94705 NYF Properties Inc./Management	MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION	$250 general	10/25/04
Berger, Steven Berkeley, CA 94705 iParadigms LLC/Manager	MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION	$1,000 primary	08/05/04
Berger, Steven Berkeley, CA 94705 Nyf Proprties/Executive	KERRY, JOHN F (D) President JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT INC	$1,000 primary	03/31/04
Berger, Steven Berkeley, CA 94705 Nyf Proprties/Executive	KERRY, JOHN F (D) President JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT INC	$1,000 primary	03/03/04

Source on Berger donations - Newsmeat

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Every book that Ann Coulter has written brings out the left wing moonbats and cries of plagiarism.  This time is no different, with one exception.  These 2 particular moonbats, Berger and Barrie, are killing 2 birds with one stone.  They can trash Coulter on behalf of their DNC masters and get free PR to sell their dubious product. 

This non-story is also an example of how lazy the media is.  Nowhere in the press is it mentioned that the people at iParadigms are left wing, MOVEON types with an axe to grind.  It took me a whopping 10 minutes to find out this info. 

Coulter must have really hit a nerve with the liberals.  They are pulling out all the stops to destroy her credibility, although this latest attempt to smear Coulter borders on lame.

Better luck next time lefties...

Posted by Chris on July 6, 2006 10:27 AM

[1L]

Plagarism means the passing of another's work as your own. I seriously doubt Coulter having a viewpoint so similar to planned abortionhood and some idiotic article attempting to argue the opposite of what Coulter argues so as to pass these opposite views as her's.

If she's using it as text to be refuted, its fair use, and if Barrie and his idiot friends don't know what that is, they shouldn't be quoted by anyone.