Thursday, July 06, 2006

more on coulter's plagiarism

Coulter: "textbook plagiarism"

TPM Muckraker has been tracking this story and it's getting really good.Today's update confirms that the plagiarism expert, John Barrie, who exposed Coulter's plagiarism for the New York Post, has been in contact with her distributor:

It didn't take long to find evidence of plagiarism, Barrie said. "After we found three in the book, we called it quits. I think we found four of her syndicated columns that had problems." But the task proved draining, he said -- on himself, not his technology. "After combing through Ann Coulter for a while, it doesn't take long before you want to call it quits. I want to prove the technology, but I don't want to make my eyes bleed."

Barrie confirmed that Universal Press Syndicate, which distributes Coulter's columns to over 100 newspapers around the country, called him twice yesterday. UPS' Kathie Kerr had told me yesterday that they want to review a copy of Barries "report" before making a comment.

YouTube has the full interview with John Barrie on last night's Olbermann show. It's good. She's bad.


(Americablog)