For those of you who’ve been wanting to keep up with the developing story of Ann Coulter’s plagiarism scandal(and for those who’ve been drawn to my blogging thanks to Egarwaen’s fantastic signature on his posts – thanks E. for the publicity, btw), I present you a roundup of sorts.
More after the break!
The Rude Pundit has a timeline of his and Raw Story’s coverage of Coulter’s plagiarism.
Media Matters asks if corporate media outlets will continue to give the succubus air time, and if so if the charges of plagiarism will even get mentioned.
The Gawker has fun with Coulter’s dissing the NY Post (a tabloid), which has recently published a story on Coulter’s plagiarism, for of all things “being a tabloid.”
According to Editor & Publisher, apparently the Universal Press Syndicate (the org. that distributes the Brownshirt Barbie’s columns to unsuspecting newspapers) is finally getting off its ass and is now fixing to investigate the plagiarism charges.
Bottom line: the jig is up. We’ll soon see if those who’ve been most outraged about Ward Churchill’s problem with cribbing footnotes will show the same outrage at what Frau Coulter has done. If nothing else, any publisher of her books should put a distinctive label on her book covers that states, “The insane rantings contained herein may or may not be the work of Ann Coulter. In fact, they may be someone else’s insane rantings that she’s chosen to appropriate uncredited. Who knows?”
If your local paper just happens to be one of the “lucky” recipients of her column, write to the paper’s editor and confront the editor about the plagiarism charges (with of course the investigative reporting that has already been done and spearheaded by The Rude Pundit). Maybe some of these editors will do the right thing and yank the column. One can hope.
Also, if you’re already on amazon.com anyway, go look up Coulter’s book “Godless” and add a few “tags” to her book. You can use mine (“plagiarism”, “plagiarized”, and “plagiarist”) and you don’t even have to credit me.
This is a modified version of something posted earlier Friday at my blog.
Warning: for those who are easily offended, my blog is a very dangerous place. I’m even meaner over there.
Update: Via Steve Gilliard’s News Blog, I ran across The Rude One’s commentary on her publisher’s defense of their embattled author How Defending Ann Coulter Is Like Defending a Serial Killer, which reminds me of the advice I try to give to my students on a regular basis: when in doubt, cite, cite, cite. Not only has she been caught red-handed directly lifting whole passages verbatim, but she’s also got this nasty habit of failing to cite her references. A bunch of haphazardly slung-together endnotes will not suffice, especially when the original sources are still not credited properly.
Of course New York Post is still having fun with this story.
As they say in the journalism biz, developing…
Kudos, flames, image spam, love notes, death threats, etc. are all welcome. No marriage proposals though – Melia would not be pleased. 😉
think of at least three more reasons that your blog is dangerous. 😉
Frau Coulter, love that name btw, is not someone I spend alot of time paying attention to, but since she has been given a prominent place in the chattering classes, I’m glad to see that bloggers and now the corporate media are starting to expose her for the fraudulent banshee she is.
is great, Man Eegee.
“Frau Coulter” — not so great, I think.
I’ll leave it at that. My sense of you, based on your writings here, is that you’ll think about it a bit and figure out why. But if you do find this post mystifying, I’d be happy to discuss it with you (or anybody else).
I had thought of using “Herr Coulter”.
I’d kinda like to know, if you have an explanation in you for someone other than Man Eegee. (Unless you’re making one of those “jokes” about Ann Coulter’s sex. I find those inappropriately nasty because they’re grounded in the bigoted belief that intersexuality and/or transsexuality is a bad thing on some essential level.)
Hi Indy,
Thanks for asking. No, I wasn’t making one of those jokes. I was responding to the implicit equating of “German” and “Nazi” — see, all we have to do is peg someone as “Frau” (or “Herr”) and, snicker snicker, we all know what that means…
It’s easy, it’s old, and it perpetuates a stereotype that is (in my view) ludicrously out of touch with present-day reality.
If there was any latent or nascent Nazism in the last international controversy over a massive military incursion, it was not, it seems to me, on the side that the vast majority of “Frauen und Herren” adopted.
And if there’s ever been a country that’s faced up to the evil in its own past and tried to figure out how to keep it from being repeated, it is, I think, Germany. One doesn’t need to align oneself with ductape to think that, in that respect, the American “collective consciousness” might be a bit behind those supposedly fascistic Frauen und Herren on the maturation curve.
I share your distaste, IndyLib, for the transsexual jokes as well.
(Sorry, JB, if this now looks like an attack on you. That’s not my intent; you know I respect you. I think we tend to make these quips, which come to mind so readily, without thinking about them.)
Full disclosure: I’m married to a “Frau” and so am vulnerable to charges of mere personal griping, oversensitivity, etc.
No worries. I’m certainly not reading any personal attacks here. Just some food for thought. Even this old dog could learn a few new tricks.
No. Don’t tell me. Not only is Coulter not really a writer, she’s not really a bitch but a dick instead. The world is a wonderful place.
Looks like the story has made its way to AP (as a quick Google News search will indicate). The Raw Story has the latest roundup. TPMmuckraker has also been checking into the allegations and has what they call a “complete” list of the allegations so far.
I take this stuff pretty seriously, in large part because I am an educator by trade. Whether it’s a student trying to get an “A”, or a pundit trying to score a few more millions the issue needs to be addressed and punished.
I can’t stop this really stupid chuckling. My wife is sure I’m nuts. But the fact that Coulter has had to fake being a piece of shit bitch is fucking hilarious. Okay, I know it’s not funny. She’s not faking anything. She is a POS bitch. She’s just not a very bright one. I have always liked bitches to be bright. It just sounds better in a sentence.