Let me try to explain to you what nasty crap Ann may have to absorb in the future (this silly plagiarism rap is just the beginning) because of that one unneeded sentence of hers.
When she wrote that "husbands' death enjoyment" sentence, she rubbed it in more than she needed to. It was real bad form. It was not decent (the sentence by itself).
Here is an example that I hope helps you to understand my point.
I played some baseball years ago for money...... I played it a long time. There were rules. When a batter hit a homerun it used to be always customary to just throw away the bat, put your head down, and run around the bases and that was it. These days, every once in a while there will be a hitter who homers, and then stands at home plate to admire his homer before heading around the bases. He's asking for retribution. It's real bad form to "show up" the pitcher. You may say, "so what". OK, fine.
But here is what happens in real life (in politics, etc.) at times. The hitter who shows up" the pitcher like that eventually some day down the line, later in the season or even somewhere further down the line ........ may get DRILLED with a beanball or a well-placed fastball that breaks his wrist. When that happens he has hurt himself AND his team by his showing up the pitcher. If he is put out of action for a couple of months he has hurt his team.
Ann (with that one sentence) has hurt her team, imo. She most likely will be "beaned" by the evil lefties over the next years. Yes, they will never forget that sentence, and they will make her life miserable. She will be given the "Linda Tripp" treatment on the late night shows. Letterman and Leno have been skewering her for days now.
There are those of you out there who think this just brings her more great publicity. It does bring her publicity. But it will bring her pain too, and that pain will be transferred to all conservatives.
No showing up the pitcher........... bad form. It accomplishes nothing good!
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She would have been accused of plagiarism whether or not she made a comment about the Joisey Goils.
Yes, the person who says the "forbidden" words first (before a certain percent of the public accepts the ideas expressed) will suffer. But that does not mean it was wrong for the person to speak out.
Speaking out against abortion was once considered forcing one's own religious beliefs on another and, therefore, bad form.
A prophet is not without honor, except in her own time.
And Letterman and Leno show themselves up for the creeps that they are - long ago I became convinced that these people were the absolute $hit of the airwaves because they "skewered" people who I would trust because of their patent honesty. The Leno and Letterman are frigging scumbags pandering to the leftist idiots of the world.