Right-Wing Pundit's Work Under Scrutiny (Ann Coulter)

sfgate.com ^ | 07-07-06 | By HILLEL ITALIE, AP

[bugseye]

Right-Wing Pundit's Work Under Scrutiny By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer

(07-07) 19:17 PDT New York (AP) --

The syndicator of Ann Coulter's newspaper column is looking into allegations that the right-wing pundit has lifted material from other sources.

"We are reviewing the material and expect to have a response some time next week," Kathie Kerr, a spokeswoman for Universal Press Syndicate, told The Associated Press on Friday.

The New York Post and the Web sites Raw Story and the Rude Pundit have raised numerous questions about Coulter's columns, which appear in more than 100 newspapers, and her best-selling "Godless," already notorious for the author's calling four 9/11 widows, who supported Democrat John Kerry for president in 2004, "harpies" thriving on their husbands' demise.

Kerr said that the press syndicate had not discussed the allegations with Coulter, who was not immediately available for comment Friday. The publisher of "Godless," the Crown Publishing Group, issued a statement saying it had reviewed the "the allegations of plagiarism" in her book and "found them to be as trivial and meritless as they are irresponsible."

"As an experienced author and attorney, Ms. Coulter knows when attribution is appropriate, as underscored by the 19 pages and hundreds of endnotes contained in 'Godless,'" Crown's senior vice president and publisher, Steve Ross, said in the statement. [...]

See also: Media Matters asks Random House to investigate Coulter plagiarism allegations http://mediamatters.org/items/200607070004

and, Syndicate Will Look Into Alleged Coulter Plagiarism On Its Own -- And Possibly With Electronic Tool http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002801078

[Just mythoughts]

Ok so you don't like Ann Coulter OR Tom Delay, could you please name at least one conservative you can say something nice about??????

[pageonetoo]

This is not an official FR Ann Coulter Thread without PICS!

[Jameison]

"You see things in the short run."

Short term , long term, the RATS needed to be called out on their "victims as human shield and attack dogs" campaign tactic, using the strongest words possible.
Ann just called it right.
And those Joisey harpies WERE enjoying their new found fame, the publicity, the media circus, their hate-Bush attacks and for all intents and purposes acted and behaved like they were enjoying their poor husbands' deaths.

[Jameison]

"You may think that and it may be true that it was satire, but that sentence will be used to ruin her. "

Dream on!

"Ann is funny .......... and quite angry"


Angry?
Naaaaah.
You are angry angry, and sound unhappy.
Ann? She is having a ball.

[MarkL]

I saw Jaunita Williams on one of the Fox News shows, and he still had his panties all in a wad over the 2 sentances about the Jersey Harpies... Two sentances, out of over two hundred eighty five pages! This is hillarious!

Mark

[Jameison]

"Ok so you don't like Ann Coulter OR Tom Delay"

Not only that, "KantianBurke" gets depressed when RATS are attacked (post # 3).
Go figure.

[Jameison]

"By HILLEL ITALIE, AP"

That pretty much covers it.
It's like reading propaganda from the Goebbels, Nazi propaganda machine.

[Just mythoughts]

Well we better include him/her so there can be no complaint that he/she is being talked about behind his/her back.

He/she has been alllll over Tom Delay and now Ann Coulter this morning so I saw a trend, and wondered if there were any conservatives he could say something nice about.

I have been given NO response, so I can only conclude he/she is having a bad liberal morning and needed to spread some misery.

[roaddog727]

The whole problem with this report of Plagiarism is that it was computer generated and not validated by human means.

So what if a string of words in a row show up as coming from somewhere else as long as it is cited and referenced in the endnotes.

I have written quite a few military research papers and at least 50% of the content came out of previous works from other people. I was meticulous in my citing and references. No problems, and have received high marks (90% or better) on ALL of them.

Once a HUMAN validates the alleged plagiarism is actually properly cited, the left will once again be proven to be a bunch of idiotic, raving loons.

[FrankR]

This is an election year - also, Presidential campaigns are brewing in the background...

This is just the libs trying to get rid of Ann, and Rush, prior to the elections. It starts every election cycle.

It's simple political persecution from the left...IT THE ONLY WAY THEY CAN WIN, FOLKS.

The best way to combat it is to ignore the left, and continue to support Ann, Rush, etc. The real power is in the numbers.

[FreedomPoster]

>>Point out the double standard and hypocracy.

Good idea. Fortunately, South40 has put together that info for us:

The information below belongs in any thread regarding Ann's alleged plagiarism.

Among the violations that the committee found Churchill had committed were falsification, fabrication, plagiarism, failure to comply with established standard regarding author names on publications, and a “serious deviation from accepted practices in reporting results from research.”
link

Lawrence Tribe, a professor of constitutional law at Harvard who represented Al Gore’s case at the Supreme Court and is considered a strong candidate for to sit on that court himself, has been caught plagiarizing.
link

Al Franken Plagiarized Liberal Group's Writings
link

Joseph Biden's Lengthy History of Plagiarism
link

[SMM48]

Sean Hannity is my favorite conservative. He doesn't look for attention and is for the regular guy.

Sean (me me me me) Vanity....er, I mean Hannity? Take another look and listen...objectively.

[beyond the sea]

BTW: is it me, or has no liberal come forward to actually challenge her on what she's actually saying?

LOL! You are right. The point she made about victimization needed to be made and cannot be refuted by the left ...... and they haven't.

I'll just try to leave this at this, because I got in trouble before trying to explain this. I have three of Ann's books, I love her writing and I'd like her to survive the decades to continue to skewer the left. She's one of the best at it. But she doesn't need to be "marked" or worse.

To me she went too far here and she did not have to. That is my point, she did not have to. Here's my scoop. She wrote:

"These self-obsessed women seem genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted as if the terrorist attack only happened to them," she writes. "They believe the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony."..................... "These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them revelling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' death so much."

She had already made her point. She could have completely left that last sentence off and the rotten left would have NOTHING to hang her on, because everything before that she said was true. "Enjoying their husbands' deaths" was in terrible taste and really unforgivable for a decent woman. (jmo)

p.s. I'm a news hound and I am near the news and talk shows all day at my job at my home. I have already seen a number of lefty (CNN, etc.) tv outlets putting that ONE sentence up on the screen to show the ignorant viewers. It makes Ann look real bad to those who don't know the whole story ....... and that's a lot of folks. She didn't need that sentence. She will live to regret it. (jmo) again

;-)

[beyond the sea]

You wish.

I don't wish. You got it wrong. See post # 73.

[FreedomPoster]

>>The more they hate her, the more she likes it.

Didn't she once say something along the lines of "I wear their hate and disdain as a badge of honor."

I'd have to agree.

[beyond the sea]

Short term you are right. Wait until you see some of the things they do to her in the next five or so years. It won't be pretty. See post # 73. She could have made her point and avoided the low blows from the sickos on the left. They are out to injure her now.

[FreedomPoster]

Unless they physically attack her (which is not out of the question), the only way they injure her, is by getting people to believe their "take" on her words. Which you seem to be advancing.

[beyond the sea]

What are you and your KOSsack pals going to do? Hold another moronic "convention" in Vegas with Ann as your # 1 topic?

Asking a foolish question like that of me, a guy who has three of her books and relishes her sardonic wit and brilliant writing, is about as stupid as proclaiming that Karl Rove is working for the Dems.

Get a grip.

[Heartland Mom]

Ann is an entertainer, not a great mind.

Actually, she is both entertaining AND intelligent. She outsmarts most interviewers and debate opponents with logic and wit. That is one of the reasons she is so hated by the Libs.

[beyond the sea]

How old are you? The cartoons are still on if you hurry.