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You must have had this perspective while you were in school.

You sir, since you claim you can call me a fraud, YOU ARE A DUPE.

You have fallen for CNN's arugment - Don't pay any attention to Crowley's arguments here, and certainly don't accept an appointment in the whitehouse, because she cribbed her book - she plagiarized, she didn't follow the Harvard guidelines for citations enforceable by the Harvard academic senate. Were she on the Harvard faculty, her tenure could be terminated for this, I suppose, but she isn't.

Since you are an academic expert I will not run through the list of rhetorical swindles you fell for, because I am certain you could list them yourself, but two would be argumentum ad hominem and question begging.

But since this is a political forum and not an academic one I will leave that and remind you that I thought good conservatives followed the dictates of WFB - "I would rather be ruled by the first 500 names in the Boston Telephone Directory than the faculty of Harvard."

But not you. You fell for the swindle and swallowed the hook whole and the left has dragged out not just your guts, but your soul. You are being ruled by the academic senate of Harvard.

In the first place, the citations standards of academia are not the standards for journalistic advocacy. Read any editorials in anything you want from the most conservative to the most liberal and you won't find any adherence to the Harvard standard for citations. It is no different if it is marked opinion in the Slimes of if it is a book that is clearly opinion - You do know that - that Crowley's Book is Crowley's political opinion? You did get that key fact didn't you.

Here is an interesting story on this which I encourage you to read I Stood Accused of Plagiarism by Stephen B. Oates a case arising from his book "With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln" in it's entirety because it is a rollicking good tale about the damage that your view has caused as well as the abuse of power by individuals that has produces YOUR VIEW. Here is an important point Oates makes:

In fact, there are no guidelines for what is sufficient acknowledgment of sources in popular biographies and histories. Thousands of such works including a great many on Lincoln have been published with no footnotes and no bibliographies at all. In my view, the AHA professional division had no business passing judgment in an area of historical writing devoid of any recognized standard.

And let me close by saying that you have turned a debate into a very personal attack while knowing nothing about me, when in fact I could prove scrupulous citation to published literature in my own publications.