Crossposted from MY LEFT WING
According to a plagiarism expert in the New York Post, Ann Coulter isn't just a batshit crazy evil lying douchebag whose only worth as a human being is as an example of what blowing your way to the middle and selling your soul to Rupert Murdoch can do to a person... she's also a thief of other people's writing. A plagiarist, in other words, is Ms. Coulter -- just one more pathetic example of the dearth of actual writing ability on the far edge of the right wing. To put it in clearer terms yet: Ann Coulter can't even put together her own vile, hatefilled, dishonest, badly written anti-American screeds -- she has to STEAL them from other people.
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.
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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.
Will we ever see an end to the torrential downpour of revelations of right wing nutbags who can't even write BADLY without stealing from other people?
Will it ever end? Will we ever see them turn the corner and march out of sight, this veritable parade of right wing liars, cheats and thieves we've seen marching down Main Street USA, the drum majors and majorettes of the ChristoFascist Neocon Zombie Brigade? These warmongering scum whose amorality extends to every corner of human behaviour, who think nothing of twisting the words of Jesus Christ to suit their propaganda and ignoring the words of Jesus Christ to suit their agenda -- they actually thought they could get away with it. And, let's face it, they've BEEN getting away with it.
Why was Bill Bennett given another book deal after being exposed as a lying hypocritical bigot? Why did Bob "Douchebag of Liberty" Novak continue to work at CNN after the revelation that he exposed the identity of an undercover CIA agent? Why are whackjobs like Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter given platforms on national television to spew their ignorant, hate-filled -- and apparently PLAGIARISED -- pablum?
Aside from the obvious answer, which is that these shills, these useful stooges, serve the corporate masters who own the media, and therefore WILL be used by them again and again, the secondary part of that obvious answer is that it has been financially or politically beneficial to those corporations to use these stooges. And they will continue to prop up these execrable swine masquerading as human beings until it becomes more liability than asset to have a succubus in a cocktail dress mouthing abominable lies on a morning talk show (whose sole purpose, after all, is to provide long, barely disguised commercials while pretending to entertain and inform its audience).
So the question becomes, how do we speed up the process of these cretins' extinction? It's fairly evident they will cause their OWN extinction, eventually, what with their plagiarism and such.
A long while ago, I wrote a silly little piece, challenging Ms. Coulter to a debate. She, of course, never responded, since she only debates people who can get her more publicity. Shortly thereafter, I had an epiphany: Ann Coulter is beneath me. I decided then and there to ignore Ms. Coulter whenever possible, to refrain from giving her the attention she so desperately seeks and needs (and it's more obvious to me than most, how much she craves attention -- it takes one to know one, after all).
But I think I was wrong. I think my "ignore her" tactic was just as wrongheaded in this instance as it is concerning trolls, right wing lies and gnats. They won't just go away because you ignore them. You have to take the time and the energy to HELP them along the road to extinction.
In this case, the case of Ann Coulter being a pathetic, lousy writer whose lack of abilities is SO blatant that she has to STEAL other people's writing -- and who is so STUPID that she can't even plagiarise well... The best tack to take with this disgusting moron is to shine the light on her misdeeds. Shine it long and hard, let the whole world see what a craven, nauseating THIEF she is, how hypocritical and insulting her claims to Christianity are.
I have a feeling Ms. Coulter's God is none too pleased with her shameful antics. Wasn't hypocrisy one of the BIG no-no's in the New Testament? Never mind the penalty for stealing in the OLD Testament... wouldn't want to be cherry picking from THAT tome at this point. Let's just stick with Jesus and what HE had to say about hypocrisy...
"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
For ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone."
Or, perhaps...
Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged . . . Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, `Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
Of course, people like Ann Coulter and George W. Bush already think they've removed the planks from their eyes, and so now feel justified in claiming they see freely enough to remove the plank from their brothers' eyes... With guns and bombs and Constitutional Amendments and vicious rhetoric that encourages others to mock, maim and kill the brothers who refuse to acknowledge their planks are far bigger and worse than Ann and George's...
I've drifted from my original topic, as is my wont. Can't help it sometimes -- whenever I start thinking about these pseudo-Christians and their claims to be devout followers of Jesus Christ, I want to puke. Let's face it -- plagiarism is the least of Coulter's sins... but it's the one she's most likely to be shamed by, if enough of us put it in the news and keep it in the news. Who knows -- if we expose it long and loudly enough, she might not get another book deal.
Yeah, that's a long shot. But it's worth a try.
I want to leave you with one of the better quotes I've ever heard about Jesus and hypocrisy and the Christianism that has passed for Christianity for so long among so many:
If Jesus Christ came back today and saw all the shit that's being done in His name, he would never stop throwing up.
-- Max von Sydow as Frederick in Hannah and Her Sisters, by Woody Allen