October 18, 2001

4:27 PM

Nothing more sexy than a leggy blonde Plagarist?
Oops. Is it possible open-minded Ann Coulter was too busy converting the unwashed masses to Christianity to write her own book?
posted by yerfatma (12 comments total)

Especially when she's tarred and feathered. :)
posted by donkeyschlong at 4:55 PM on October 18, 2001

Leggy? Yes. Sexy? Only if you've got a coprophagy fetish or something.
posted by jpoulos at 4:59 PM on October 18, 2001

A pretty weak case. One sentence in an entire book? And even then it was a simple statement of fact.
posted by Real9 at 5:01 PM on October 18, 2001

The title was a reference to a previous description of Ms. Coulter.
posted by yerfatma at 5:31 PM on October 18, 2001

The article quotes two examples, actually, and it isn't clear from the article that said examples represent the only instances. More to the point, the issue is not the use of well-known facts (which do not require citation) but identically phrased sentences using those facts (which do).

Accidental plagiarism is, as many writers admit, fairly common, and even an anti-plagiarism dragon like myself--I nailed four students for it earlier this semester--would be relatively kind to someone who, in a book-length work, unconsciously lifted perhaps one or two sentences from someone else. However, I would be far less kind if the person denied knowing anything about the text from which the sentences had been taken.
posted by thomas j wise at 6:43 PM on October 18, 2001

I DO have such a fetish, and I still wouldn't touch that dung heap with my cheapest 10-foot-pole.
posted by donkeymon at 6:58 PM on October 18, 2001

Those sentences are hard to mock up to accidents, and they're not the only two examples.

It was funny how Coulter's version is the one with the poor grammer ;)
posted by jragon at 7:09 PM on October 18, 2001

For a REAL woman's story, scroll down this article for a link to a story about the real Wonder Woman...or click straight to the GOOD STUFF! Donkeymon, trust me---*this* woman you are allowed to love!
posted by realjanetkagan at 7:14 PM on October 18, 2001

Ann Coulter embarrassed herself after getting thrown out of the National Review, but this is ridiculous. Couldn't find better news than another conservative self destructing because her morals are no better than those people she criticizes.
posted by flip at 7:15 PM on October 18, 2001

hm. for the record, G-R-A-M-M-A-R. grammar.
posted by jragon at 7:36 PM on October 18, 2001

hm. for the record, G-R-A-M-M-A-R. grammar.

Yeah, I thought that was the funniest part of all.
posted by yerfatma at 8:18 PM on October 18, 2001