When she steals, Ann Coulter, the plagiarist, doesn't discriminate. She lifts passages from Planned Parenthood as well as from don't think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, reports the conservative New York Post.
The New York Post slams Coulter and cites damning examples of plagiarism in the She-Devil's columns as well as in her latest book.
Why are all the rightwing's 'brilliant' 'patriots' eventually exposed as crooks?
Snippets from, COPYCATTY COULTER PILFERS PROSE:
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."
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.
So, do our newspapers have any standards?
I guess we'll find out when we see how many continue to carry the plagiarist's columns.
The Rude Pundit wrote about Coulter's plagiarism here and here.
Hat tip to Americablog
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