Posted on 07/17/2006 2:46:47 AM PDT by AJAY
"It all started with Oprah. A few weeks ago, New York Post reporter Philip Recchia heard that Winfrey, recently embarrassed by the plagiarism of memoirist James Frey, had begun using Barrie's service to vet submissions and make sure prospective guests hadn't cribbed someone else's work. Recchia called Barrie and asked how his service worked, and Barrie offered to test a sample chosen by the Post. Recchia e-mailed a 2005 speech by Hillary Clinton. In a matter of minutes, Barrie found five instances of plagiarism."
"Oddly, Recchia decided not to run a story about the senator. (When asked why, he declined to comment, referring all questions back to Barrie.) Instead, he told Barrie the Post wanted to put a famous author through the cribbing test. After Coulter made a sensation with her remarks about the 9/11 widows, Barrie got a second phone call. "Phillip Recchia called back and said, 'Ann Coulter's Godless that's what we want to run through your service,'" he recalls."
"The next day, her (Ann Coulter's) distributor, United Press Syndicate, announced it was investigating the (plagiarism) claims, and subsequently declared they were without merit."
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The part of the story that surprises me is how the New York Post (or should I say Rupert Murdoch) told Reporter Philip Recchia that his story about Hillary's plagiarism had to be killed ["Oddly, Recchia decided not to run a story about the senator. (When asked why, he declined to comment..."]
Rupert now is supporting Hillary's Senatorial campaign. Should she win the Democrat nomination for President, Murdoch will support her no matter who the Republican candidate is. COUNT ON IT!
It is true. Coulter knows it and hit back at the NY Post in a column.
It is a shame, because the Post was the only NY newspaper I buy every day.
Now, I am dropping it.
From the Article.
"Someone at FreeRepublic.com discovered that Barrie's company chairman, Steven Berger, had given $1,000 to MoveOn.org,"
Lol FR.
I'm sure Hillary's constant repeating of the phrase "you know" plagiarizes someone's work.
The title of my original post was screwed up somehow. The title I posted was:
RUPERT ATTACKS ANN COULTER WHILE PROTECTING HILLARY CLINTON FROM THE REPORTING OF HER PLAGIARISM
It would be good if Free Republic could change to the correct title for the whole thread.
RUPERT ATTACKS ANN COULTER WHILE PROTECTING HILLARY CLINTON FROM THE REPORTING OF HER PLAGIARISM
RUPERT ATTACKS ANN COULTER WHILE PROTECTING HILLARY CLINTON FROM THE REPORTING OF HER PLAGIARISM
RUPERT ATTACKS ANN COULTER WHILE PROTECTING HILLARY CLINTON FROM THE REPORTING OF HER PLAGIARISM
Yes she is...... and she's much too smart to write "to" when she means "too".
;-)
When the subject is about "smart".......... you must get it right.
;-)
"Some people are more equal that others"
Yes! It's not a happy thing that these are the same people who also are above the law. There were too many Clintons crimes for normal brains to keep track of but the number of indictments is easy to remember.
Hillary would be great for the media business. Even in the NY Post (which I buy daily), there are plenty of liberals. Reporters & columnists. Not the editorials though.
It would be helpful to be able to run Mr. Barrie's personal writings, including his college thesis, through his own "I-xaggerate" program to determine his own plagiarism proclivities.
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