Publisher: Ann Coulter No Plagiarist

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[doesnt suffer fools gladly]

Publisher: Ann Coulter No Plagiarist

The latest media attack on Ann Coulter seems to be a desperate measure to undermine the credibility of one of America’s most prominent conservative voices.

Soon after her book "Godless: The Church of Liberalism” was released in June, Coulter made waves – Hillary accused her of being "heartless” and "vicious” -- for questioning the motives of four 9/11 widows.

With Coulter’s book topping the New York Times’ bestseller list, new allegations are surfacing that Coulter plagiarized material for her book and syndicated news columns.

But the publisher of Coulter’s book, Random House’s Crown imprint, has reviewed the plagiarism allegations and has found them to be baseless.

"We have reviewed the allegations of plagiarism surrounding ‘Godless’ and found them to be as trivial and meritless as they are irresponsible," said Steve Ross, Senior Vice President and Publisher of Crown Publishing Group.

Ross continued: "Any author is entitled to do what Ann Coulter has done in the three snippets cited: research and report facts. The number of words used by our author in these snippets is so minimal that there is no requirement for attribution. As an experienced author and attorney, Ms. Coulter knows when attribution is appropriate, as underscored by the nineteen pages of hundreds of endnotes contained in ‘Godless.’”

In the weeks after "Godless” came out, leftwing blogs began making claims that Coulter had engaged in plagiarism.

Apparently prompted by these reports, the New York Post asked a California firm to review Coulter’s writings with its iThenticate software, a program the checks databases to uncover plagiarism.

The syndicator of Coulter’s newspaper column, Universal Press Syndicate, is also investigating claims of plagiarism and should have a report out this coming week. Universal Press Syndicate has been under pressure for some time from liberal journalists and publications like Editor & Publisher to drop Coutler’s column.

[ConservativeMind]

Notice how the liberals never seemed to mention the exact quotes in the original news story?

This vindicates Ann. Unfortunately, as with so many other things the MSM does, the word has already been out that it was plagiarism, so that is what people will remember.

[evad]

Liberals don't understand the difference between..
footnoting..
and..
plagiarism.

[jla]

fyi

[BullDog108]

The rules, the rules!

[evad]

...and, the only true plagarists ARE liberals.

Doris, Ward, Al...are you there?

[Bob]

Liberals don't understand the difference between..
footnoting..
and..
plagiarism.

Maybe Joe Biden can teach them.

[motzman]

It's not the nature of the evidence, it's the seriousness of the charge.

Get with it!

[somemoreequalthanothers]

Same old playbook. Liberals can't win in the arena of ideas so they resort to slime, a la the Rush Limbaugh airport scene.

[NonValueAdded]

Don't forget Joe.

[martin_fierro]

The NY Post references the similarities here, but doesn't show the specific comparisons:

(John) Barrie, CEO of iParadigms, told The Post that one 25-word passage from the "Godless" chapter titled "The Holiest Sacrament: Abortion" appears to have been lifted nearly word for word from Planned Parenthood literature published at least 18 months before Coulter's 281-page book was released.

A separate, 24-word string from the chapter "The Creation Myth" appeared about a year earlier in the San Francisco Chronicle with just one word change - "stacked" was changed to "piled."

Another 33-word passage that appears five pages into "Godless" allegedly comes from a 1999 article in the Portland (Maine) Press Herald.

Accuser Barrie also makes more nebulous, value-laden complaints about Coulter's citations being "very misleading" and sloppy.

[SandRat]

SNIFF! SNIFF! SNIFF! Is that the smell of a Slander Suit in the air about to be filed by Anne et. al. against the leftist/liberal/media goon meatheads that made the salacious and false claim of plagiarism against her not in the courts but in the media.

[Mogollon]

Only the fools (liberals) that believe the drive-by media believe Ann would need to resort to plagiarism.

[USNBandit]

Hey, at least she has an idea for her new book. She could do a whole book on liberal plagerism. She can start with a chapter devoted to Martin Luther King Jr......Actually she better reserve at least two chapters for him.

[marron]

The pattern is to attack Coulter rather than engage her argument.

I just finished the book. Its a good book, and no sooner did I finish it than people are trying to bum it from me. I gave away my copy, bought and gave away a second copy.

[Mr. Bird]

one 25-word passage from the "Godless" chapter titled "The Holiest Sacrament: Abortion" appears to have been lifted nearly word for word from Planned Parenthood literature published at least 18 months before Coulter's 281-page book was released.

Having not read the book, I can only speculate, but there's something quite obvious here. I believe we can make the assumption that Ann would not be in agreement with PP's literature; the reason for her to "lift" a passage would be to illustrate their position, not hers, and would therefore be fair game. If I typed a sentence (or paragraph, for that matter) explicitly describing the planks in the DNC platform, would I be plagiarizing them?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Universal Press Syndicate has been under pressure for some time from liberal journalists and publications like Editor & Publisher to drop Coutler’s column.

Ah yes, free speech for liberals, none for conservatives.

[Hazcat]

Of course! After all you're just a lying FReeptard ;)

[TET1968]

The msm lies and makes false accusations daily in their never ending attempt to invalidate their enemies.

This from Ann Coulter's 'Godless- The Church of Liberalism' Crown Forum,New York.

"Meanwhile, Newsweek ran an article about the looming danger of evangelicals learning to debate, noting that Jerry Falwell's Liberty University had the number one debate club in the country. The reporter quoted Falwell saying," We are training debaters who can perform assault ministry".
These evangelicals are scary! Newsweek later ran an correction stating; "Newsweek misquoted Falwell as referring to 'assault ministry.'
In fact, Falwell was referring to ' a salt ministry'--a reference to Mathew 5:13, where Jesus says, 'Ye are the salt of the earth'. We regret the error"

[Lancey Howard]

Let's get a comment from Joe Biden.

[GOP Poet]

If anyone knows it is Ann's publisher. They do their work around there when it comes to Ann as they all know she'll be targeted.

[Paloma_55]

I am glad SOMEONE is paying attention to the rules!
:)

[sgtbono2002]

How about that guy who wrote Roots. He was proven to have plegiarisd and they just kept bragging on him like it wasnt so. totally ignored it.

[sgtbono2002]

Hillary calls her Heartlessand Vicious. Bwahahahahaa
If Jay Leno wasnt such a rabid liberal he could do an hour with that joke alone.

The woman who dropped Vince Foster , Fired the White House travel staff, Threw ashtrays at Bubba, Wouldnt allow any staff to look into her eyes. She has the nerve to call someone Vicious and Heartless.

What a -unt.

[angkor]

"Notice how the liberals never seemed to mention the exact quotes in the original news story?"

One of the leftie bloggers ran two alleged examples.

In one case it was a straightforward recitation of facts which would be difficult to phrase in another fashion, and in the second it would take a vivid imagination to identify any plagiarism.

[msnimje]

An not reported in the MSM is a psychology professor at a state funded college threatening to sexually molest and maybe even kill Jeff Goldstein's son.

In order to cover this up some of her allies have issued several DOS attacks against Jeff's blog.

See http://www.proteinwisdom.com

[gcruse]

Face it. Ann is the right's Al Franken. They're both about selling books. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[AnnaZ]

One of the leftie bloggers ran two alleged examples.

In one case it was a straightforward recitation of facts which would be difficult to phrase in another fashion, and in the second it would take a vivid imagination to identify any plagiarism.

They're here: Plagiarism Alleged In Ann Coulter's 'Godless' Book And they're so pathetic. If the Left weren't so shameless they would be embarrassed.

[Frank_2001]

Let's hope so. Sue their butts off, Ann!!!

[Condor51]

Future NY POST article on this huckster Barrie ....

NY POST
by Ima Dope

July 22, 2006 - John M. Barrie, Ph.D. President/CEO of iParadigms, LLC and the developer of the iThenticate™ program announced today that every composer, song writer, lyricist in the history of music is a plagiarizer.

Barrie made this astounding discovery after running some random sheet music by Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, the Beatles, Willie Nelson, Eric Clapton and even John 'Cougar' Melloncamp through his iThenticate™ program.

"I was shocked,.totally astounded by the blatant plagiarism that has occurred in music" Barrie said. "Every one of them used the notes A, B, C, D, E, F, and G!" Barrie gasped.

Barrie said he became suspicious after noticing a similarity between 'Beethoven's Fifth Symphony' and 'I Shot The Sheriff'. "I was pretty sure I heard the note 'C' in each and thought it merited further investigation" Barrie added.

~~huckster mocking off~~

[lilylangtree]

Remember how liberal leftist pro-demoncRAT MSM took down Anita Bryant. They've turned their eyes on Coulter now. Go Annie go!

[Khankrumthebulgar]

The truth is that the Left is trying to intimidate the Right and voices who disagree with them into Silence. Michelle Malkin has been targetted as well. She had to move for her Family's safety as well as the safety of her children. I sent an email to the Dirt bags responsible. I am a Registered Democrat. But not a Socialist or Leftist and am feeling distinctly unwelcome in my Party. A party that embraces Sedition and Treason.

I have always registered for the opposition party. When Clinton was in the White House I was a registered Republican. We will see more of this. Make the Political Personal playbook.

[syriacus]

Ann is the right's Al Franken.

You'll have to admit that
1) Ann spits less than Al
and
2) Ann hasn't sent lying letters on Harvard stationery to members of the Bush administration, as "Prankin' Al Franken" has done.

[gcruse]

Each has his/her own symptoms while filling mirrored roles.

[evad]

Don't forget Joe.

Oh yes...absolutely!

[ConservativeMind]

Thank you. I haven't been able to identify them until now.

[KarlInOhio]

If I typed a sentence (or paragraph, for that matter) explicitly describing the planks in the DNC platform, would I be plagiarizing them?

It would probably be better to footnote it because if it made the Dems look bad, they would claim that you just made it up and the press would happily report that you "lied".

It looked like a sentence that Ann probably should have quoted this exactly and footnoted, but Ann had so many thing footnoted that I could see how one minor line could slip through.

[Robwin]

Good point. Here is a link to an article on plagiarism published in "Slate" naming such figures as Stephen Ambrose, Nina Totenberg, Fox Butterfield, Alex Haley, Martin Luther King, and some others.

http://www.slate.com/id/2060618/

I'll take the histrionics of the "She Plagiarized! Oh, the humanity!" lynch mob much more seriously when they call for the posthumous revocation of King's doctorate.

[R.W.Ratikal]

The charge that Coulter stole somebody else's words fall flat. If anyone else had ever said the things Coulter is saying they would be under fire too.

As usual, the left cannot defend socialism. Instead they try to discredit those who write against socialism.

Ann Coulter is not only original, she is right, and she is funny.

[R.W.Ratikal]

Let's stop calling them "liberals." Let's call them what they are, communists.

This is not hyperbole. Read the Democrat Platform and then read the Communist Manifesto. Both the same.

[Jack Deth]

Why do liberals always insist on bring a knife to a gunfight?

Why do liberals always express shock when their scalp has been taken and collected by Ms. Coulter?

When will the liberals ever understand that Ms. Coulter does NOT take prisoners?

Just thought I'd ask.

Jack.

[RonDog]

See also, from luckydawgnews.com:

COPYCATTY COULTER PILFERS PROSE....or maybe not

A ran across this article at the NY Post claiming that Ann Coulter plagiarized parts of her latest book - "Godless".

Conservative scribe Ann Coulter cribbed liberally in her latest book, "Godless," according to a plagiarism expert.

John Barrie, the creator of a leading plagiarism-recognition system, claimed he found at least three instances of what he calls "textbook plagiarism" in the leggy blond pundit's "Godless: the Church of Liberalism" after he ran the book's text through the company's digital iThenticate program.

This Barrie guy is the president/CEO of a company called iParadigms. This iThenticate program is a product of this company.  The chairman of iParadigms is Steven Berger.

I did a little digging on Berger and came up with this.

Contributor	Candidate or PAC	Amount	Date
Berger, Steven Berkeley, CA 94705 NYF Properties Inc./Management	MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION	$4,400 primary	11/08/05
Berger, Steven Berkeley, CA 94705 NYF Properties Inc./Management	MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION	$500 primary	05/16/05
BERGER, STEVEN BERKELEY, CA 94705 NYF PROPERTIES INC	KERRY, JOHN F (D) Senate - MA FRIENDS OF JOHN KERRY	$1,000 primary	05/05/05
Berger, Steven Mr Jr Berkeley, CA 94705 NYF Properties Inc./Management	MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION	$250 primary	12/02/04
Berger, Steven Berkeley, CA 94705 NYF Properties Inc./Management	JENNINGS, JON PAUL (D) House (IN 08) FRIENDS OF JON JENNINGS COMMITTEE	$250 general	10/25/04
Berger, Steven Berkeley, CA 94705 NYF Properties Inc./Management	MURPHY, LOIS (D) House (PA 06) LOIS MURPHY FOR CONGRESS	$250 general	10/25/04
Berger, Steven Berkeley, CA 94705 NYF Properties Inc./Management	WETTERLING, PATTY (D) House (MN 06) PATTY WETTERLING FOR CONGRESS	$250 general	10/25/04
Berger, Steven Berkeley, CA 94705 NYF Properties Inc./Management	ROSS, DAVE (D) House (WA 08) FRIENDS OF DAVE ROSS	$250 general	10/25/04
Berger, Steven Mr Jr Berkeley, CA 94705 NYF Properties Inc./Management	MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION	$250 general	10/25/04
Berger, Steven Mr Jr Berkeley, CA 94705 NYF Properties Inc./Management	MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION	$250 general	10/25/04
Berger, Steven Mr Jr Berkeley, CA 94705 NYF Properties Inc./Management	MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION	$250 general	10/25/04
Berger, Steven Mr Jr Berkeley, CA 94705 NYF Properties Inc./Management	MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION	$250 general	10/25/04
Berger, Steven Berkeley, CA 94705 iParadigms LLC/Manager	MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION	$1,000 primary	08/05/04
Berger, Steven Berkeley, CA 94705 Nyf Proprties/Executive	KERRY, JOHN F (D) President JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT INC	$1,000 primary	03/31/04
Berger, Steven Berkeley, CA 94705 Nyf Proprties/Executive	KERRY, JOHN F (D) President JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT INC	$1,000 primary	03/03/04

Source on Berger donations - Newsmeat

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Every book that Ann Coulter has written brings out the left wing moonbats and cries of plagiarism.  This time is no different, with one exception.  These 2 particular moonbats, Berger and Barrie, are killing 2 birds with one stone.  They can trash Coulter on behalf of their DNC masters and get free PR to sell their dubious product. 

This non-story is also an example of how lazy the media is.  Nowhere in the press is it mentioned that the people at iParadigms are left wing, MOVEON types with an axe to grind.  It took me a whopping 10 minutes to find out this info. 

Coulter must have really hit a nerve with the liberals.  They are pulling out all the stops to destroy her credibility, although this latest attempt to smear Coulter borders on lame.

Better luck next time lefties...

Posted by Chris on July 6, 2006 10:27 AM

[goldstategop]

They made the same charges against Ilana Mercer, whose name comes up with Ann Coulter's in connection with these unfounded claims to plagiarism. See her comments on her "Barely A Blog" website.

(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)

[Rastus]

And Stephen Ambrose, though you were probably only mentioning the live ones.

[Jack Deth]

Oops! Almost forgot!!!





Jack.

[Cap'n Crunch]

Hitlery Clinton calling someone 'heartless' & 'vicious'????? Now I've heard it all.

But, coming from Hitlery, maybe they were meant as compliments....

[goldstategop]

Everything in her books is documented. And mere similarity of usage is not similarity of unattributed borrowing. The fact I say things in a certain sense means they might be mistaken on the surface for echoing someone else's views but the substance of my thoughts are and will remain uniquely my own. You have to look past how it is expressed to what is said. And the critics still haven't dealt with the findings Ann posted in Godless because they don't know how to respond to them. So instead of doing that, they try to discredit her by dragging in irrelevant accusations of plagiarism. Its just more evidence liberals can't win in the arena of ideas.

(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)

[goldstategop]

Its interesting they won't run the full quotes from the source and Ann's passages side by side. If their proof she was a plagiarist was that strong, they would have done it already. Instead, the rely on innuendo and implicit comparisons to do the job for them. Now that's what I call "bait and switch." Anything to get attention away from her book so they don't have to deal with what's in it. Liberals are not that great with Lexis Nexis apart from using it to further the politics of personal destruction. Now they're content to sit back and let the vicious whispering campaign do their dirty work for them.

(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)

[goldstategop]

She could reserve a chapter on this for the paper back edition of Godless next year. Show how liberals have constantly plagiarized and had what they wrote accepted as gospel truth when they were found out. I'm thinking of Jayson Blair and Diana Griego Erwin here. Both of whom reported stories their editors couldn't verify and who gained fame for a career of fictional journalism. None of which by the way was footnoted and endnoted. The Drive By Media hasn't even fessed up to its own ethical shortcomings and the only thing they can find wrong with Ann is they know she's right! Case closed.

(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)

[goldstategop]

Yes, just like with their attacks on her for being insensitive to the Jersey Girls. It all fits a pattern.

(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)