Coulter wins award for cheapening political discourse.
D-word
BOSTON -- Ann Coulter was mentioned and criticized several times by
speakers at the National Society of Newspaper Columnists (NSNC)
conference here. Then she received the NSNC's ultimate mention and
criticism -- winning the annual Sitting Duck Award for easiest column
target.
The NSNC noted that it gave the prize to the columnist/author "for
cheapening political discourse in America." The statement did add: "We
award the Sitting Duck reluctantly, because we know Ms. Coulter is
desperate for any kind of attention."
A Brick in the Wall
"D-word" <yank_e...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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And now plagiarism.
July 2, 2006 -- Conservative scribe Ann Coulter cribbed liberally in her
latest book, "Godless," according to a plagiarism expert.
John Barrie, the creator of a leading plagiarism-recognition system, claimed
he found at least three instances of what he calls "textbook plagiarism" in
the leggy blond pundit's "Godless: the Church of Liberalism" after he ran
the book's text through the company's digital iThenticate program.
He also says he discovered verbatim lifts in Coulter's weekly column, which
is syndicated to more than 100 newspapers, including the Fort Lauderdale
(Fla.) Sun-Sentinel and Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
Barrie, CEO of iParadigms, told The Post that one 25-word passage from the
"Godless" chapter titled "The Holiest Sacrament: Abortion" appears to have
been lifted nearly word for word from Planned Parenthood literature
published at least 18 months before Coulter's 281-page book was released.
A separate, 24-word string from the chapter "The Creation Myth" appeared
about a year earlier in the San Francisco Chronicle with just one word
change - "stacked" was changed to "piled."
Another 33-word passage that appears five pages into "Godless" allegedly
comes from a 1999 article in the Portland (Maine) Press Herald.
Meanwhile, many of the 344 citations Coulter includes in "Godless" "are very
misleading," said Barrie, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of
California at Berkeley, where he specialized in pattern recognition.
"They're used purely to try and give the book a higher level of
credibility - as if it's an academic work. But her sloppiness in failing to
properly attribute many other passages strips it of nearly all its academic
merits," he told The Post.
Barrie says he also ran Coulter's Universal Press columns from the past 12
months through iThenticate and found similar patterns of cribbing.
Her Aug. 3, 2005, column, "Read My Lips: No New Liberals," about U.S.
Supreme Court Justice David Souter, includes six passages, ranging from 10
to 48 words each, that appeared 15 years earlier in the same order in an
L.A. Times article, headlined "Liberals Leery as New Clues Surface on
Souter's Views."
But nowhere in that column does she mention the L.A. Times or the story's
writer, David G. Savage.
Her June 29, 2005, column, "Thou Shalt Not Commit Religion," incorporates 10
facts on National Endowment for the Arts-funded work that originally
appeared in the same order in a 1991 Heritage Foundation report, "The
National Endowment for the Arts: Misusing Taxpayers' Money." But again, the
Heritage Foundation isn't credited.
"Just as Coulter plays free and loose with her citations in 'Godless,' she
obviously does the same in her columns," Barrie said.
Coulter did not respond to requests for comment.
Secular Human
mean. I think she enjoys the ignominy.
W.Henry
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I think it just pisses you off because there are no left wing commentators
that can counter her in a persuasive manner.
richar...@hotmail.com
Persuasvie manner? What read her to get persuaded she is a b*tch?
Coulter, Savage, and other individuals (either left or right) who
resort to derogatory flaming hatred cheapen political discourse. I am
going to throw Hugh Hewitt in the mix, for his own verse of "Earth
Democrats MUST DIE". Doesn't matter if Coulter wrote a real good
final chapter to her book, her whole approach causes political
discourse to go right down the tubes.
- Richard Hutnik
the_blogologist
led to FOUR WARS in the Middle East. Phew.
Me
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>
>"D-word" <yank_e...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:1151881989....@a14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>> July 02, 2006
>>
>> BOSTON -- Ann Coulter was mentioned and criticized several times by
>> speakers at the National Society of Newspaper Columnists (NSNC)
>> conference here. Then she received the NSNC's ultimate mention and
>> criticism -- winning the annual Sitting Duck Award for easiest column
>> target.
>>
>> The NSNC noted that it gave the prize to the columnist/author "for
>> cheapening political discourse in America." The statement did add: "We
>> award the Sitting Duck reluctantly, because we know Ms. Coulter is
>> desperate for any kind of attention."
>>
>
>And now plagiarism.
>
>July 2, 2006 -- Conservative scribe Ann Coulter cribbed liberally in her
>latest book, "Godless," according to a plagiarism expert.
>John Barrie, the creator of a leading plagiarism-recognition system, claimed
>he found at least three instances of what he calls "textbook plagiarism" in
>the leggy blond pundit's "Godless: the Church of Liberalism" after he ran
>the book's text through the company's digital iThenticate program.
>
>He also says he discovered verbatim lifts in Coulter's weekly column, which
>is syndicated to more than 100 newspapers, including the Fort Lauderdale
>(Fla.) Sun-Sentinel and Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
(brevity SNIP)
MLK's college papers were full of plagarism, yet he's worshipped as a
god by the left. Mind you, I'm not defending plagarism, I'm just
pointing out typical liberal hypocricy.
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Polonius...@excite.com
I find it difficult to believe that Coulter could wrest the crown from
Michael Moore.
Baldin...@msn.com
Me wrote:
> MLK's college papers were full of plagarism, yet he's worshipped as a
> god by the left.
No, he isn't.
> Mind you, I'm not defending plagarism, I'm just
> pointing out typical liberal hypocricy.
Nah. You LOVE what Coulter does.
BP
Baldin...@msn.com
Polonius...@excite.com wrote:
> I find it difficult to believe that Coulter could wrest the crown from
> Michael Moore.
Which crown... plagerism?
BP
W.Henry
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How violently middle of the road of you!
A Brick in the Wall
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Does that discredit his information here?
Kevin Cunningham
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Scotius
wrote:
It doesn't seem that she needs it. If they had said this about
Al Franken, I could have believed it.
tkc
Coulter, Savage, and other individuals (either left or right) who
resort to derogatory flaming hatred cheapen political discourse. I am
going to throw Hugh Hewitt in the mix, for his own verse of "Earth
Democrats MUST DIE". Doesn't matter if Coulter wrote a real good
final chapter to her book, her whole approach causes political
discourse to go right down the tubes."""""""
Sorry I took so long to read and respond to this silly self serving,
bloviated post.
The News was replaying Harry Ried, Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean, Turbin
Durban, Murtha doing their tributes to Nastiness, insulting the pres,
our troops, war progress etc..
zooooooooooooooooooooooom>>>>>>>>>>! Klunk
- Richard Hutnik
richar...@hotmail.com
tkc wrote:
> """"Persuasvie manner? What read her to get persuaded she is a b*tch?
> Coulter, Savage, and other individuals (either left or right) who
> resort to derogatory flaming hatred cheapen political discourse. I am
> going to throw Hugh Hewitt in the mix, for his own verse of "Earth
> Democrats MUST DIE". Doesn't matter if Coulter wrote a real good
> final chapter to her book, her whole approach causes political
> discourse to go right down the tubes."""""""
>
> Sorry I took so long to read and respond to this silly self serving,
> bloviated post.
> The News was replaying Harry Ried, Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean, Turbin
> Durban, Murtha doing their tributes to Nastiness, insulting the pres,
> our troops, war progress etc..
>
> zooooooooooooooooooooooom>>>>>>>>>>! Klunk
I see, so Coulter is just playing along, right?
You know, all you Bush fanboys apparently incapable of taking
leadership and initiative on anything. All you do is reply by saying
the Democrats do this or the Democrats do that. You reply to anything
is to point fingers and say, "Those big bwad Dummycwats made us do it!
Look at those meanies! We must defend ourselves! Execute the doctrine
of preemption! Slander and namecall them first before they hit us with
bad words and names!" Yep, totally incapable of knowing what it is
like being in power, acting just like you aren't, and being SCARED of
these meanies who hold almost no power now.
Care to post some of the insults Ried, Pelosi, Dean and so on have
thrown out there? Or, golly gee, you consider questioning of policy by
an opposition party insulting everyone. Nope, calling into question
policy is EXACTLY the same thing as sticking Turbin before a
congressman's name. EXACTLY the same thing, right?
By the way, it is "Turban", not "Turbin". Wait, you meant to call Dick
Durbin, "TurbinE" but you forgot the E. In other words he is a
motoring moron, right?
- Richard Hutnik