Ann Coulter, plagarist

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http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2006/06/because-some-things-are-more-profane.html

Ann Coulter has a bad habit. And that habit, as mentioned before by the Rude Pundit (followed up by Raw Story), is that she appears to like to copy whole sentences from other sources without putting them in as quotes or even citing where she might have "paraphrased" from. You judge for yourself:

Here's Coulter from Chapter 1 of Godless: The massive Dickey-Lincoln Dam, a $227 million hydroelectric project proposed on upper St. John River in Maine, was halted by the discovery of the Furbish lousewort, a plant previously believed to be extinct.

Here's the Portland Press Herald, from the year 2000, in its list of the "Maine Stories of the Century": The massive Dickey-Lincoln Dam, a $227 million hydroelectric project proposed on upper St. John River, is halted by the discovery of the Furbish lousewort, a plant believed to be extinct.

Strangely similar, no? By the way, that's a story from 1976. Coulter doesn't tell you that little tidbit, making you think it happened last week. The next one's from 1977:

Here's Coulter writing about an attack on the Alaska pipeline: A few years after oil drilling began in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, a saboteur set off an explosion blowing a hole in the pipeline and releasing an estimated 550,000 gallons of oil.

Here's something from the History Channel: The only major oil spill on land occurred when an unknown saboteur blew a hole in the pipe near Fairbanks, and 550,000 gallons of oil spilled onto the ground.

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1. Her former business partner accused her of plagerizing her first book

from him. Never did hear how she got out of that one. Her books are as original as her thoughts.

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2. Coulter Versus Intellectual Property Rights: Court Case?

I'm wondering why someone from whom Coulter took without obtaining permission or without citing as a source can't sue her for theft of intellectual property. It's not only non-ideological, but also fair. After all, once upon a time right-wingers were all in favor of property rights.

I have no doubt that if Coulter were a vicious, untruthful LEFT-winger, Judicial Watch or some other right-wing funded legal beagles would be filing papers for the attention of a judge or three this instant.