Posted on 04/27/2005 11:05:25 AM PDT by finnman69
Bolton Accuser a Serial Plagiarizer
Yesterday we noted a post at Daily Kos from John Bolton accuser Melody Townsel, in which she admitted committing plagiarism while working at the Abilene Christian University student newspaper, the Optimist.
The ACU Optimist has a report on this today, with the revelation that Townsel was also involved in another plagiarism incident at the University of Texas at Arlington: Former student acknowledges past plagiarism.
Townsel left ACU soon after being removed from the Optimist to continue her undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she worked for the student newspaper, the Shorthorn. Marler said he received a call from UT-Arlington several months after Townsel left ACU regarding another situation of plagiarism with Townsel.
John Dycus, former adviser of the Shorthorn, recalled the event.
"I remember Melody as being very bright," said Dycus, adviser of the UT-Arlington Shorthorn when Townsel worked for the paper. "I remember thinking she didn't have to do this. She was bright enough; her mechanics were good enough; her research skills were good enough. This wasn't necessary."
UPDATE at 4/27/05 8:58:11 am:
In the post at Daily Kos, Melody Townsel wrote:
Months later, while working for another college newspaper, I wrote a review for a local play that tracked closely in format to another writer's review - and, although it was not plagiarized, it made my editors, who had become aware of my recent past, very uncomfortable, and we mutually agreed that I would no longer submit stories to them.
But that isn't how the paper's former editor in chief remembers it: Ex-editor key to Bolton debate. (Hat tip: Ward Cleaver.)
Theo Carracino, who had been editor in chief of the paper that previous semester, said he had read several news stories in other publications on the issue, and when he read a few of the first paragraphs of Townsel's story, many of the paragraphs seemed familiar to him.
"I knew I'd read them and read them recently'" Carracino said.
With his interest piqued, Carracino said he researched back issues of Time and Newsweek magazines, which had run stories regarding the famine.
He compared Townsel's story to an article titled "An African Nightmare" published in Newsweek on Nov. 26, 1984, and found many similarities.
About 80 percent of Townsel's story was plagiarized, Carracino said.
"I had to overcome my disbelief" he said.
The realization that The Shorthorn had a case of plagiarism to deal with quickly became apparent, he said.
"This was major plagiarism" he said. "Not the case of copying some sentences."
oops.
Tom Foley taught us that.
We had a woman who was getting A's w/o attending class and skipping exams. She had all the teachers convinced she was dying of cancer and was a briliant sweet girl. Used to wear a fake sling and bandages all the time. She had taken her brothers x-ray report from a routine injury and doctored it up as a record of her getting radiation treatment.
Yup, Newsweek and their so called journalists are running with comments made by people not under oath about Bolton.
Let's see just how these people phrase their "complaints" about Bolton when they are under oath.
Rush is discussing this right now. Ha! Said 'daily kos' was as bad as DU! Whoa!
Carol Mosley Braun just called Bolton a "bigot" because he is critical of the U.N., where there are all types of people.
All garden variety LW barking moonbats.
Rush just read Melody's coming out letter from the Dkos
Yea .. But was the DU ever on Howard Dean's payroll like Dkos was??
What do Dan Rather and the Democratic Party have in common?
Those that can't, steal!
Mosley Braun and the leftists do not understand that the other people at the U.N. are from other countries and as such Bolton has every right and reason to view them with suspicion, as he should view most of their governments with suspicion. They being corrupt dictatorships for the most part.
They both should have called it quits years ago?
So...if she'd been less intelligent and skilled, it would have been necessary? Sounds to me like she isn't the only one with an ethical blind spot.
Yep. It is. Probably even worse.
Giving free publicity to DU is a GOOD thing.
99.9% of people that go to their web site to check it out and revolted at such America,religion, Democracy hating tripe that gets posted there.
Our college kids like to figure out who the nut cases on their campus are that post there. They have a reward system for figuring out who the posters are.
He's right, I read Kos regularly and he's getting more incoherent by the day. Here's a bit more
http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2005/04/bolton-accuser-plagiarist.html
Do you have a source? Thanks
"It's the seriousness of the charge, not the nature of the evidence". All the Democrats need is the MSM making allegations, ripping someone to shreds, destroying their lives, and they don't even have to have any concrete evidence to support their allegations.
How about ... "Why I can't believe this is even being published!" ... and ... "That Ward Cleaver needs to be sent to Devils Island." ... and ... "That John Bloton must be stopped!"
Big Story With John Gibson, on April 26th, 2005. "The Judge" Andrew Napolitano was guest hosting.
Which also explains why she's such a favorite of Biden's.
Congress should hold hearings on this wom...oops, they already are. Never mind.
Yep.
Rush just said what we all are thinking. He just said relating to Melody Townsel "well somebody's gotta say it, No wonder Joe Biden likes this woman so much". I love it,he read all our minds and we read his.
"Yea .. But was the DU ever on Howard Dean's payroll like Dkos was??"
Dang! I'm so...like...out of the loop! I learn something new every day on FR.
Thanks. Of course, it didn't make the press, or at least I can't find it in print.
imagine that....I never would have guessed ya know?
I know. The most recent example of the MSM in the act of destroying someone's life without concrete evidence: Dan Rather and the forged document drama last September.
I quit checking out DU long ago. There is absolutely nothing of value there; no logic, no reasoning, no nothing. The site appears to be overrun with semi-literate, low I.Q. wackos who never made it past third grade spelling. Many contributors, however, DO appear to have a strong command of every curse word known to man.
Good one.
So...she and Plugs Biden have something in common.
Random question. Where did you pull this cartoon. I love this person. They drew the Janet Jackson nuclear breast cartoon (if you remember that one). I have been looking for it for an age. It used to be my screen saver. Hysterical. This ones a classic too.
NewsMax.com: Inside Cover Story
... Howard Dean's presidential campaign has admitted that it paid two ...
who publishes the popular DailyKos, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. ...
Giving 'em the Randy Moss?
I'm with you. I was excited to learn about DU's existence; I assumed that it would be a home for logical analysis under liberal dogma. Instead, I found the flaming, acrimony, cynicism and hate-America-firstness disturbing. What I found most disgusting was the lack of connection among the postings.
There are no threads of hundreds of posts, correcting, challenging and modifying what was said above. Instead, there's vituperative name-calling. It's all very atomistic, almost as if everyone who posts there believes that he is the center of the universe (imagine that).
Since graduating, she opened the Kinkos in Abilene where the Bush National Guard memos were faxed to See BS for dan blaTHer to use in his hit 60 minutes of BS last September.
I love the fact that they eat each other alive. Psuedointellectualism meets a consequence free environment....oh, wait! Forget it, the universities already have that niche covered.
That's why there can never be the socialist "utopia" the liberals are always dreaming about.
God Bless
The lady is a crackpot, but then again, so is the entire democrat party
Anyone got picks of this women? I keep hearing her name but cant put a face to the name.
So...if she'd been less intelligent and skilled, it would have been necessary? Sounds to me like she isn't the only one with an ethical blind spot.
I disagree. Nothing is necessary in the absolute sense. So when we that something is necessary, we mean it is necessary in order to accomplish a certain goal. If a person can't write well and doesn't have research skills then it in order to write a good article it would be necessary to plagiarize, but that doesn't mean it's ok.
Name that tune:
Plagiarize
Let no else's work evade your eyes
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes
So don't shade your eyes
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plaaagiarize
But remember to call it always please
Research.
So that's how they found her - she was President of the Joe Biden Fan Club!
Knowing what a brainiac Braun is, we should be worried, right?
Every Bolton accuser is either a crackpot or has a contary agenda a mile long.
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