Questions Arise About Possible Coulter Plagiarism
Blogger Rude Pundit notes that passages from the conservative hatemonger's new book are similar to previously published writings by other writers.Blogger Rude Pundit notes that passages from the conservative hatemonger’s new book are similar to previously published writings by other writers.
Your support matters…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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