Someone's talking -Conservative writer rats out conservative plagiarists

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The clip below comes from Crooks and Liars under the caption "Cat Fight." In the article, a conservative writer outs the conservatives who have plagiarized her and others.

Other Conservatives Got Away with Plagiarism

By Debbie Schlussel

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My problem with the piling-on of Ben Domenech is not that he doesn't deserve it. He does. It's that so many right-wingers--and left-wingers--that are calling him to task don't have a problem with much more prominent conservative plagiarists. That's hypocrisy.

When I pointed out, not too long ago, that whole portions of a column I wrote were flat-out ripped off by Jerome Corsi, co-author of the best-selling Swift Boat veterans book against John Kerry, his WorldNetDaily.com editor, Joseph Farah, refused to do a damn thing (but add a tiny link to my column--Big Deal).

Some conservatives told me to "take one for the team." Huh? I don't think so. (Since then, I've been told by several conservative writers that this is not the first time that WND and/or Farah have condoned--and engaged in--plagiarism.) Since Corsi has a Ph.D. and has written more than one book, how much of those are also plagiarized. People don't become plagiarists in their old age.

Then, there's Monica Crowley, formerly of FOX News Channel, now on MSNBC, and with a radio show on WABC in New York. She's the white, blonde Jayson Blair in a skirt. But unlike the loud calls for his firing by conservatives everywhere, there is not even a peep from conservatives about thief Monica Crowley. (Details of her blatant plagiarism are here and here.)

More.

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2006/03/other_conservat.html#comments

[leeroysphitz]

1. Schlussel is a kook and an attention whore

her word isn't worth squat...

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2. What conservative's word is worth squat?

Name one? As long as she's outing her own kind, she's a useful idiot.

[gatorboy]

3. A kook and a half

I wlways pegged her as someone who tried too hard to out-Coulter Coulter.

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8. Doesn't mean she's wrong in this case.

[yellowcanine]

4. I guess the old chestnut about "honor among thieves" is incorrect.

At least when the thieves are wing-nuts.

[warrens]

6. It's really "there is no honor among thieves"

Honor among thieves is just shorthand.

[zbdent]

5. How about the "astroturfing"?

That's plagiarism . . . that would expose the righties for the uncreative f*cks they are . . . having to actually attribute their "personal letters" to the GOP website . . .

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7. Damn. When someone points out the obvious. Do I feel stupid

for not seeing it before. Astro-turfing IS plagerism.


Soylent Green is people!

[Bake]

9. What is astroturfing?

I'm not familiar with the term.

Bake

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10. Okay. Picture someone in the GOP composing a letter to the editor

and that letter hits on all the talking points that he wants echoed across this nation. Then, picture him faxing that letter to operatives across this nation, who then fax them to the major newspapers of this country, but under their own name. So, the same letter gets published in the Chicago Tribune and the New York Times and the L.A. Times, but under different names. It's astro-turfing and plagiarism.

[Bake]

11. Thanks for clearing that up for me!

I was familiar with the practice, but not the terminology. That's an appropriate term, too! Thanks!

Bake