Ann Coulter is a serial plagairist - Wolcott

It seems that Ann Coulter has been plagarizing some of her material. Wolcott has the good on her.

"COPYCATTY COULTER PILFERS PROSE: PRO

"by Philip Recchia

"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.

"Barrie, CEO of iParadigms, told The Post that one 25-word passage from the Godless chapter titled 'The Holiest Sacrament: Abortion' appears to have been lifted nearly word for word from Planned Parenthood literature published at least 18 months before Coulter's 281-page book was released.

"A separate, 24-word string from the chapter 'The Creation Myth' appeared about a year earlier in the San Francisco Chronicle with just one word change - 'stacked' was changed to 'piled.'

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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."

Demonstrating that Coulter does not differentiate between a fact and a lie, prefering the lies when they have greater impact, does not reduce her ability to express the desires of the lower class less educated right-wing Fascist wannabees she writes and talks for. But demonstrating her intellectual dishonesty and theft of intellectual propery might limit her effect on the somewhat educated middle class right-wingers who really pay for what she writes.

Coulter is intellectually the equivalent of a right-wing Tammy Faye Baker at Tammy Baker's height of popularity. I can't be sure that Baker was lying, but in Coulter's case she knows she is lying. She is also stealing what she writes. As long as the money rolls in she'll keep it up.

Exposing her as a seriel plagarist should slow down the money flow a bit.