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Post number 11619

yerfatma — Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:27:36 -0800

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?

By: donkeyschlong

donkeyschlong — Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:55:34 -0800

Especially when she's tarred and feathered. :)

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:59:29 -0800

Leggy? Yes. Sexy? Only if you've got a coprophagy fetish or something.

By: Real9

Real9 — Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:01:44 -0800

A pretty weak case. One sentence in an entire book? And even then it was a simple statement of fact.

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:31:24 -0800

The title was a reference to a previous description of Ms. Coulter.

By: thomas j wise

thomas j wise — Thu, 18 Oct 2001 18:43:40 -0800

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.

By: donkeymon

donkeymon — Thu, 18 Oct 2001 18:58:54 -0800

I DO have such a fetish, and I still wouldn't touch that dung heap with my cheapest 10-foot-pole.

By: jragon

jragon — Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:09:05 -0800

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 ;)

By: realjanetkagan

realjanetkagan — Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:14:04 -0800

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!

By: flip

flip — Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:15:05 -0800

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.

By: jragon

jragon — Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:36:02 -0800

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

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:18:27 -0800

hm. for the record, G-R-A-M-M-A-R. grammar. Yeah, I thought that was the funniest part of all.

By: hincandenza

hincandenza — Thu, 18 Oct 2001 23:10:46 -0800

It was funny how Coulter's version is the one with the poor grammer

You judge so harshly- maybe jragon meant that Ann Coulter's grandmother is a woman of limited financial means? Regardless, this is both classic yet unsurprising: how unusual is it, really, that we see the harpy class of commentators eventually revealed for the bottom-feeding hypocrites that they are?