Thank God for Ann.
Posted on 07/10/2006 9:05:43 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
Syndicator Denies Coulter Lifted Material By HILLEL ITALIE The Associated Press Monday, July 10, 2006; 6:49 PM
NEW YORK -- The syndicator of Ann Coulter's newspaper columns rejected allegations that she had lifted material from other sources, saying a review of the work in question turned up nothing that merited concern.
"There are only so many ways you can rewrite a fact and minimal matching text is not plagiarism," Lee Salem, editor and president of Universal Press Syndicate, said Monday in a statement.
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I'm wondering now if this shuts anyone up or we're now faced with the doublespeak "seriousness of the charge" crapola from now until forever.
The seething Left goes to be hungry once again. Good.
Naw. They'll just say the right-wing press is covering for one of their own.
I have written all the time that Bill Clinton is a traitorous rapist bastard. If someone else uses those words, I would believe he plagiarized my work. Now, calling Hillary "Satan's Daughter" is another matter. I first called her that on the C-SPAN broadcast of the FReeper Victory Brunch in Feruary of 2001. That belongs to me. :)
Part of the accusation was plagarism of ten words.
Ten words is not very many to match up with. [As many as the previous sentence]
did the left ever provide evidence? all i heard was an allegation with no proof..
If there's anyone who doesn't need to plagiarize, it's Ann Coulter.
I wonder how many of you are aware that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. committed plagiarism on a large scale. I read about it in the book Hoodwinked by Jack Cashill. I wonder why the media isn't publicizing that story.
He was given a total pass, however. The Left said he did "so much good" that it is best to just ignore the "bad."
Affirmative action at its utmost.
(PSSST: other PhD's have had their degrees revoked for similar charges on a much smaller scale.)
King's fame lay in being a charismatic figure to bring these stolen sermons to the attention of the masses. There has to be some reason the original "I have a dream" mostly got the nation's yawns, but King's delivery inspired the nation. That said it sure would not have hurt him to tuck a credit or two into his addresses.
"Satan's Daughter"?
I once called her a Socialist hosebag.
Did you plagiarize my efforts?
I will sue you. You will be so sued!
In his 1991 memoir, Breaking Barriers, journalist Carl Rowan writes that in 1964 congressman John Rooney told him that he and his congressional committee had heard J. Edgar Hoover play an audiotape of an apparent orgy held in King's Washington hotel suite. Over the sounds of a couple having intercourse in the background, according to Rooney, King could be heard saying to a man identified as Abernathy, "Come on over here, you big black motherf*cker, and let me suck your d*ck." Horrors, King was gay! (Rowan thinks this was just ribald repartee.) In his account of the same episode, civil rights historian Taylor Branch attributes a couple more quotes to King: "I'm f*cking for God!" and "I'm not a Negro tonight!" The FBI anonymously sent King (or, according to some accounts, King's wife, Coretta) a tape of compromising material recorded in his hotel rooms. The tape was either accompanied or followed up by a note suggesting that King should commit suicide if he wished to avoid exposure.
Did he plagiarize most of his writings? He plagiarized a lot of them. An investigation conducted by Boston University, where King got his Ph.D. in theology, determined that he had appropriated roughly a third of his doctoral thesis from a dissertation written three years earlier by another graduate student. Curiously, the same faculty member had been "first reader" of both theses, leading some to wonder whether King's faculty advisers at BU were incompetent or just guilty white liberals who gave a promising young black leader a pass. King also "borrowed" portions of many other writings and speeches, including the famous "I have a dream" speech he gave at the 1963 civil rights rally in Washington.
As every reasonable observer has commented, neither King's sexual wanderings nor his scholarly misdeeds detract from his core achievement. By continually publicizing black grievances while putting a palatable, nonviolent face on resistance to jim crow, King paved the way for the landmark civil rights legislation of the 1960s and a major turnaround in public attitudes about race. But there's no getting around the fact that he was a complex and deeply flawed man. Was he a great American? No argument here. Was he a fraud and a hypocrite? He was that, too.
--CECIL ADAMS
MLK. Kennedy. Clinton.
The heroes of the Liberal left.
Myths.
Created, promoted, sustained and protected, courtesy of the Liberal media.
Thank God Liberal media are dead and dying.
One can only imagine how Gore and Kerry would have been elevated to towering figures in the insane, irrational, chaotic and nutty world previously brought to you by Liberal media.
"As every reasonable observer has commented, neither King's sexual wanderings nor his scholarly misdeeds detract from his core achievement. By continually publicizing black grievances while putting a palatable, nonviolent face on resistance to jim crow, King paved the way for the landmark civil rights legislation of the 1960s and a major turnaround in public attitudes about race. But there's no getting around the fact that he was a complex and deeply flawed man. Was he a great American? No argument here. Was he a fraud and a hypocrite? He was that, too."
I basically agree. However, the truth is the truth. If King's achievements overshadow his faults, then the media should not need to cover up those faults. We know they would never do that favor for a conservative. Had Ronald Reagan been caught plaguirizing, we would never hear the end of it. It would come up in every story about Reagan, just as Watergate comes up in practically every story about Nixon.
Plagiarist MLK was honored today...
Like that?
Annie bump
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