{"id":7858,"date":"2006-07-06T09:10:09","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T13:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/7858.html"},"modified":"2006-07-06T09:10:09","modified_gmt":"2006-07-06T13:10:09","slug":"coulters-bosses-to-investigate-plagiarism-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/coulters-bosses-to-investigate-plagiarism-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Coulter’s bosses to investigate plagiarism charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you missed it during the July 4th festivities, [tag]John Barrie[\/tag], creator of the [tag]iThenticate[\/tag] plagiarism-probing system, concluded that [tag]Ann Coulter[\/tag] has repeatedly<\/a> used words that are not her own in her syndicated column and best-selling book. As Editor & Publisher reported<\/a>, [tag]Barrie[\/tag], who holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, where he specialized in pattern recognition, claimed to find at least three examples of what he called “textbook [tag]plagiarism[\/tag]” in Coulter’s latest book and discovered verbatim copying in Coulter’s weekly column.<\/p>\n

How would [tag]Universal Press Syndicate[\/tag], which distributes Coulter’s column to more than 100 newspapers, respond to the charge? At this point, the company wants to know more. TPMmuckraker’s Justin Rood explained<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In an email, [Universal Press Syndicate’s Kathie Kerr] thanked me for bringing the assertions to UPS’s attention, and asked me to get a copy of the report to them. “If Mr. Barrie would be so kind to send Lee Salem, President and Editor of Universal Press Syndicate his report, we will be happy to review it. Until we do, there’s little we can say about it,” she wrote me. John Barrie was the New York Post’s expert source who claimed to have identified Coulter’s plagiarized passages.<\/p>\n

In my reply, I explained to Kerr that Barrie had been quoted not by me but by the New York Post, and perhaps that paper would be a good source of information. Kerr replied: “we have no contact information.”<\/p>\n

A few minutes later, however, Ms. Kerr located Barrie’s contact information on the Web and said she would try to call him herself. Moments later, another email from Ms. Kerr arrived: “I’ve left Mr. Barrie a message.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It sounds a bit like Universal Press Syndicate was reluctant to investigate, but might have been shamed into it. This isn’t the kind of charge that’s easily ignored.<\/p>\n

For her part, Coulter is, as usual, lashing out wildly, but there’s one thing missing<\/a> from her response.
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Ann Coulter unleashed her trademark venom at the New York Post today, after the tabloid reported the caustic opinionatrix had plagiarized content for her columns. (“The Post has been reduced to tabloid status,” Coulter charged.)<\/p>\n

“Maybe the Post’s constant harassment of me is an attempt to shake me down for protection money like they did with billionaire businessman Ron Burkle. I have sold a LOT of books — more books, come to think of it, than any writers at the New York Post,” Coulter told Editor & Publisher.<\/p>\n

Careful readers will note that within the venom, a denial is nowhere to be found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I still think this has the potential to be a career-killer for Coulter. As I recall, the right gave up on Ben Domenech<\/a> when he was exposed as a plagiarist because it’s the one line writers simply cannot cross. The right will stand by Coulter when she recommends killing<\/a> war heroes or jokes about murdering<\/a> Supreme Court justices, just so long as her words are her own. If not, she’s almost certainly on her own.<\/p>\n

I haven’t seen Dr. Barrie’s report yet, but if it’s accurate, it’s hard to imagine Coulter spinning herself out of this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you missed it during the July 4th festivities, [tag]John Barrie[\/tag], creator of the [tag]iThenticate[\/tag] plagiarism-probing system, concluded that [tag]Ann Coulter[\/tag] has repeatedly used words that are not her own in her syndicated column and best-selling book. As Editor & Publisher reported, [tag]Barrie[\/tag], who holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}