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Questions Arise About Possible Coulter Plagiarism

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Posted on Jun 12, 2006
Ann Coulter
From MediaMatters

Blogger Rude Pundit notes that passages from the conservative hatemonger’s new book are similar to previously published writings by other writers.


Rude Pundit:

Ann Coulter has a bad habit. And that habit, as mentioned before by the Rude Pundit (followed up by Raw Story), is that she appears to like to copy whole sentences from other sources without putting them in as quotes or even citing where she might have “paraphrased” from. You judge for yourself:

Here’s Coulter from Chapter 1 of Godless: The massive Dickey-Lincoln Dam, a $227 million hydroelectric project proposed on upper St. John River in Maine, was halted by the discovery of the Furbish lousewort, a plant previously believed to be extinct.

Here’s the Portland Press Herald, from the year 2000, in its list of the “Maine Stories of the Century”: The massive Dickey-Lincoln Dam, a $227 million hydroelectric project proposed on upper St. John River, is halted by the discovery of the Furbish lousewort, a plant believed to be extinct.

Strangely similar, no?

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By joel koury, June 13, 2006 at 1:03 pm Link to this comment
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To Mr. McClure:

If she uses a sentence without attributing it to the original source that IS plagiarism.  According to the Oxford dictionary, plagiarism is defined as: “taking someone’s words or ideas as if they were your own.”

Taking an off point and out of context passage from a hundred and fifty year old case won’t change the fact that she is a plagiarist.

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By C Quil, June 13, 2006 at 7:48 am Link to this comment
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The copied bits are probably the only sensible bits in her books. The rest is drug- and booze-fueled hatred and venom. Who buys that stuff?

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By R. A. Earl, June 12, 2006 at 8:04 pm Link to this comment
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Would someone please explain why I, or ANYONE, should give a damn what Coulter writes, says or does?

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By mw, June 12, 2006 at 5:16 pm Link to this comment
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Hmmmmm.

And I thought I was posting about *her* ad hominem   attacks in my Godless review:

http://westanddivided.blogspot.com/2006/06/ann-hominem-coulter-some-godless-notes.html

I wonder who’s personal attacks they really are? - mw

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By Phil McClure, June 12, 2006 at 4:13 pm Link to this comment
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You’re kidding me, she uses one sentence and that’s considered plagarisim.  How much content of Jayson Blair’s columns were lifted from other sources? A sentence?  A paragraph?  Large passages?

“A reviewer may fairly cite largely from the original work, if his design be really and truly to use the passages for the purposes of fair and reasonable criticism.” Folsom v. Marsh, 9 F.Cas. 342 (1841)

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By Farakon, June 12, 2006 at 3:12 pm Link to this comment
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To all Ann Coulter has to say, has said or ever will say I have only one reply.

Follow the link:

http://coulteredit.ytmnd.com/

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