[StAnDeliver]

It's nearly a week old, but it is fascinating that no one in the MSM has picked up on this. iThenticate [iParadigms LLC] CEO Jon Barrie was interviewed during the 6:30 p.m. KCRA newscast on July 6, 2006. The foregoing was the pertinent excerpt from a long interview.

As you might expect, the interviewer did not pursue Barrie's "we caught the speechwriter for Hillary Clinton plagiarizing" and simply acted as though Barrie had never said it. And there's nothing on the web from the New York Post about this allegation.

So, which "speechwriter"? Which speech? When was it given? What parts were plagiarized? Why didn't the Post reveal this information?

[null and void]

They digitized the book and took one year of her syndicated columns and sent it over to us to analyze."

Hmmmmmm, isn't making an unauthorized digital copy of a book a copyright infringement?

[Southack]

Good find. If true.

[kcvl]

we caught the speechwriter for Hillary Clinton plagiarizing

[bad company]

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001070.php


I finally found the list of "plagerized" works. iThenticate is going to need iLawyer before all this is over.

[Cinnamon]

"They digitized the book and took one year of her syndicated columns and sent it over to us to analyze."

oh my good lord.. are they admitting to copyright infringment?

[msnimje]

Did they by any chance bother to match the "plagiarized" entries with the bibliography or foot notes in the book?

[Cinnamon]

and why does the smartest woman in the world need a speech writer???????????????

[Recovering_Democrat]

And the Post wanted to see an example of how our technology worked. So they took a 2005 speech from Hillary Clinton and ran it through our service. And right off the bat, we caught the speechwriter for Hillary Clinton plagiarizing.

Speechwriter, eh? I kind of remember Joe Biden taking the fall for plagiarizing Neil Kinnock. Why does the speechwriter get in trouble and not Hitlery???

[DustyMoment]

Barrie: "And we found as I mentioned, found some textbook cases of plagiarism in both her syndicated columns and in the book. And after finding about three or four instances in the book and three or four instances in the column, I said look, I just had enough of reading Ann Coulter and the Post said 'That's enough for us. There's our story.' And case proven I guess."

Did I fall asleep and miss something?? The way this reads to me, Coulter plagiarized from herself!! So, how is that plagiarism? This guy just sounds like a leftist moron who is trying to dish some dirt on our beloved Ann (re-read "I said look, I just had enough of reading Ann Coulter"; he reveals a lot about himself, there).

[libstripper]

The big problem with iThenticate being used as the sole device to prove plagiarism is that it's a word matching program. Plagiarism, OTOH, is the deliberate stealing of another person's work and representing it as one's own. Word matches are a necessary part of it but don't necessarily prove intent. In other words, it's a lot like a computerized fingerprint identification program--it gives an investigator very good leads about what to look into but doesn't actually prove a case without that further investigation. In Ann's case the further investigation has shown there actually was no plagiarism.

Another good analogy is to a computer spell checking program. All any one of those does is catch unknown words; however, a computer spell check, vital as it is, is only the first step in cleaning up a document before it's released. The author still must proof the document to assure that words are properly used in context.

[Vision]

They're saying Coulter is plagiarizing from herself? Wow, they're desperate.

[new cruelty]

Bears repeating...

And the Post wanted to see an example of how our technology worked. So they took a 2005 speech from Hillary Clinton and ran it through our service. And right off the bat, we caught the speechwriter for Hillary Clinton plagiarizing.

BUMP

[avg_freeper]

"I just had enough of reading Ann Coulter"

Like witches and water, vampires and the light, slugs and salt, avg and ABBA, ...

[Sloth]

I ran Jon Barrie's stats through my special Child Molester Identfication Software and registered a hit.

[StAnDeliver]

I've e-mailed the Post, nothing in reply yet.

Haven't e-mailed Barrie yet, was looking at his website for an address.

Did watch this interview again (TiVo), and the transcript is absolutely accurate.

Vlogging the excerpt of the interview would be a good idea, or forwarding it to someone who can. As soon as I can find the time...

[StAnDeliver]

You will find this interview interesting.

[staytrue]

They analyzed a single speech from hillary and found plaigerism and four 3-4 cases from Coulter after analyzin a book and 1 year of columns.

[StAnDeliver]

I knew this time would come. Bumping straight to the top.