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• • 21 Sep 06
  • 9:57 pm

  Using Coulter's photo to illustrate the author's otherwise valid point was both unfair and politically suspect, as were the accusations against her in the first place. None of the purported "plagiarism" atributed to Coulter involved ideas OR expression, but rather prosaic statements of fact that could have been authored by anybody. I sincerely doubt that Ms. Douglas read them, or if she did, that she could argue with a straight face that they would have ever been mentioned in the same piece as the other examples in her article, were Coulter not such an easy and loathsome target. Coulter 's borrowings …

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• • 24 Sep 06
  • 1:55 pm

  What? One should ALWAYS wonder how sloppy or diligent an author is, lest we take for granted that the Lawrence Tribes of the world (now there's a true plagiarizer) are giving us their analysis rather than someone else's. I don't think that Coulter's laziness is excusable, but you can't be serious that copying a sentence that says "the sun rose at 6:46 AM" is in the same league of theft as copying one's effective phrasing or original ideas. ALL of Coulter's liftings were of the former variety, and there's a reason why none of them would sustain a copyright violation claim. …

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