Coulter column subject of plagiarism investigation.

[happydreams]

NEW YORK — The syndicator of Ann Coulter's newspaper column is looking into allegations that the right-wing pundit has lifted material from other sources.

"We are reviewing the material and expect to have a response some time next week," Kathie Kerr, a spokeswoman for Universal Press Syndicate, said Friday.

The New York Post and the Web sites Raw Story and the Rude Pundit have raised numerous questions about Coulter's columns, which appear in more than 100 newspapers, and her best-selling "Godless," already notorious for the author's calling four 9/11 widows, who supported Democrat John Kerry for president in 2004, "harpies" thriving on their husbands' demise.

Kerr said that the press syndicate had not discussed the allegations with Coulter, who was not available for comment Friday. The publisher of "Godless," the Crown Publishing Group, issued a statement saying it had reviewed the "the allegations of plagiarism" in her book and "found them to be as trivial and meritless as they are irresponsible."....

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[lpbk2713]

1. This whole Coultergeist plagiarism thing doesn't surprise me.

After all, this idiot is not capable of making an original thought.

[Donkeykick]

2. Well if this is true...

I feel that her audacity has just walked her off a cliff. I have seen other signs of this on the Internet and have always wondered just how true they were.

[AndyTiedye]

4. Her Fans Won't Care

[Donkeykick]

14. True.

However I believe that those fans are the only ones that totally follow her BS.;)

[itzamirakul]

13. She hasn't walked off a cliff.

The people related to the rw are able to spit in the wind and have it miss them totally on the blowback.

None of them except perhaps Rep.Cunningham, has suffered one damn bit for any evil they have done.

[MADem]

3. You would think CROWN would be proud of their girl, but this is

interesting. You go to their home page, and is her book featured? Why NO: http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/ It's NOT EVEN THERE on the front page! But, but...it's supposedly a best seller!!!!!

You click on authors, and surely, given that she's in the news, you'd expect to see her picture up there in the top bunch, but NO: http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/authors.html

So, you click on MORE, on that authors page, and you get a LIST...no pictures, just a LIST of names--the A's are first. In order to get to the dreadful creature, you have to then click on C, and there she is, way down the list in alphabetical order.

If this cretin was REALLY raking in the dough for CROWN, a division of RANDOM HOUSE, don't you think they'd be giving her a big beautiful PR bubble to float around in?? A bit of a boost, a tad of CODDLING???

I'm wagering the profit off her is small as can be, and she's getting the attention from these guys that her profits in actual fact merit.

Hell, the DOG WHISPERER is getting WAY more play from them than she is--and deservedly so; he provides a useful service!!!

[lpbk2713]

6. The publisher might be just a little bit ashamed

that due to all the bulk sales it is showing up at Dollar stores for a buck a copy. Less than what it cost them to print it.


Hell, I don't know. Maybe it's on the same shelf next to the toilet paper.

[MADem]

8. I think they secretly know what the deal is

I will also bet that the Right Wing baaastids KNOW which bookstores are used to tabulate/extrapolate single book sales, and then, they have a cadre of idiots go in and buy a book an hour, just to fiddle the numbers, solely at those venues.

But the publishers have probably figured out that it's awfully funny that the sales only jump off the sheet at THOSE stores, and not the others. So, they're probably assuming she's doing some shitty, lousy cheating, and they want distance. Thus, no jacket cover, no picture, no nada at their website...even though she's somehow, magically, on the NYT list.

She sure isn't getting much love from her publisher, and it seems that virtually ALL of her publicity is generated by HER agent getting her guest spots, not the publishing company.

She's filthier than a shitty diaper, and they know it.

[HuffleClaw]

18. her books are a vanity press deal really

i'd love to get a close look at her contracts, for i'm certain it would reveal the innner workings of 'how to falsely put a book on the bestsellers list'. also, i'm certain MOST of the huge advances she crows about are put back into the scheme as well. and what i really find funny about her being caught plagiarising is that there's a VERY high likelihood that her books, or at the very least, most of them, are ghostwritten.

[MADem]

21. I think you're right--an even bigger asshole is writing for that cretin!NT

[Ringo84]

5. Re:

Oh no! That poor woman! She's obviously the victim of a lib'ral MSM that wants to trash any Real American. :sarcasm:
Ringo

[jobycom]

7. She was accused of plagiarism in her first book

Michael Chapman accused her of stealing specific phrases and of paraphrasing an entire chapter from his writings. IIRC, they were friends before this.

[Alacrat]

9. Liberal bias

She will say there is a liberal bias, as a reason for her book not being headlined on her publisher's web site. Oh the paranoia.

[jobycom]

10. Her first accuser was a conservative. She even accused the National Review

of being liberal when they dumped her as a contributor over her "Swarthy males" column. When she's not stealing other people's work, she's only got one line.

[IndianaGreen]

20. You are right, it is rightwing paranoia

Coulter's pissing off Murdoch's NY Post is certainly a major booboo on her part.

[madrchsod]

11. wow--- someone is giving the rude one credit!

about time the rude one got his due.....

[grannylib]

12. "trivial, meritless and irresponsible..." just described Annthrax Annie

herself.
She has no credibility...don't know why anyone anywhere gives her a forum for her hate-driven, irrational ranting.

[Toots]

15. as trivial and meritless as they are irresponsible.".

But Coulter saying Democrats and Liberals are "Godless" and "Traitors" is just great journalism....:crazy:

[rasputin1952]

16. I'm here in the Heartland, Northeastern NE to bring it into context...

and each time I go to the Library, I go to the New Non-Fiction section first. With each visit, there are new politically slanted books, and those by what we call Liberal/Progressive types, generally have 2-3 copies either on the shelf or checked out. The RW authors generally have 1 copy. Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter et al...I wondered who was checking out the other copies?

Well...after a few visits, I notice that the L/P books have been dogeared, and there are a lot of scratches on the plastic covers that libraries are so fond of; but, the RW authors are sitting there essentially untouched. One or two scratches on the cover, and w/Coulter's "Treason", the pages were still 'bound' as if it had never been opened. I had to talk to one of the Librarians I know...:)

So here is what I found out about readers in my part of Nebraska, RW books are rarely checked out, one copy is ordered to ensure that a copy is available. LW/Prog books are read pretty consistently and are off the shelves in a matter of days, checked out and returned quickly; usually 3 copies of each are ordered. My library gets "preferential" copies of some books by Coulter et al. These are books that have been purchased in bulk and are then distributed to libraries and other entities used as a 'tax deduction' for whomever purchases them, essentially a donation.

Librarians are some of my favorite people, and due to their constant attention to detail, I can never find any dust on the Coulter or Hannity books; but I have been assured on several occasions, I would be hard pressed to find dust on any book in my local library. I have been told in a whisper though, that the RW books would have quite a bit of dust if the staff were not so particular...:D

[daleo]

17. That's an interesting anecdote

And it makes sense to me. Coulter admirers aren't usually readers.

These blowhards have their books published by rich backers, which are then sold in bulk to rich backers, so that they can go on TV and be called "authors". It is meant to give their lurid ranting the veneer of scholarship.

[rasputin1952]

22. Hannity used a rather unique sales tool at one point...

He made it known that his book had, "no words longer than five letters in it"...:rofl:

His book was so bad, the library sold it for a quarter, three months after no one picked it up to look at the cover, much less check it out. I'm not kidding about this, (they actually made a quarter off the book, since it was "preferential" anyway).

[daleo]

23. They got a quarter for it?

Now that is truly amazing.

[rasputin1952]

24. LOL...Yeah...they would have had to pay me to take it...

:D

BTW: Coulter's "Treason" was selling at Shopco a while back, it was down to $4.95 and it looked to me like none had been sold...:D

[IndianaGreen]

19. That's a very interesting and informative anecdote

Bulk purchases are reflected in NY Times Best Selling lists, and can give the wrong impression as to an author's popularity.