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tom
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Username: Tom
Post Number: 5231
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, July 6, 2006 - 12:23 pm: | 
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Her latest column attacks the New York Post, which has been investigating incidents of plagiarism in her new book, as well as past columns. My theory is she has to copy because she doesn't have a coherent thought of her own.
Quote:"Once considered a legitimate daily, the Post has been reduced to tabloid status best known for Page Six's breathless accounts of Paris Hilton's latest ruttings, and headlines like 'Vampire Teen -- H.S. Girl Is Out for Blood.' "
Editor & Publisher magazine dryly notes, "Of course, the Post could hardly be "reduced to tabloid status" since it is, in fact, a tabloid." |
Strawberry
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Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 7471
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, July 6, 2006 - 1:19 pm: |
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zzzzzzzz |
Bob K
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Username: Bobk
Post Number: 12053
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, July 6, 2006 - 2:16 pm: |
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Straw, welcome back. I can't say as I actually missed you, but your hiatus was noted. I thought you might have gotten your wish and been imbedded with the 8th Marines in Ramadi or maybe just on an extra long ban from MOL.
In other words, where you been, boy? |
Strawberry
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Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 7473
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, July 6, 2006 - 2:18 pm: |
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I was in S.F. visiting Ashear |
Hoops
Citizen
Username: Hoops
Post Number: 1606
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, July 6, 2006 - 2:49 pm: |
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I guess the Post was considered still legitimate daily somewhere back in the early 70s. I suppose she might have seen one as a little girl before the turnover to bogus. |
Brett Weir
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Username: Brett_weir
Post Number: 1681
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, July 6, 2006 - 3:08 pm: |
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'Cos even she can't believe half of the crap that she writes... |
Soparents
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Username: Soparents
Post Number: 1917
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, July 6, 2006 - 3:23 pm: |
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Most believe the saying that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
Coulter believes that imitation is the quickest way to earn money. Where you have no talent (and she doesn't) rip off mercilessly all those who have talent and make money off their backs.
Her 5 minutes of fame were up a long time ago. Ignore her and she might go away |
Strawberry
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Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 7475
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, July 6, 2006 - 4:43 pm: |
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Ditto Cindy Sheehan |
Ligeti Man Meat
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Username: Ligeti
Post Number: 730
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, July 6, 2006 - 5:09 pm: |
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Dunces like Sean Hannity keep putting her on as if she's one of those sad, hideously deformed people you used to see at carnivals.
She makes America look stupid.
Reject contemptible skanks like Ann Coulter. |
Innisowen
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Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 2093
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, July 6, 2006 - 5:28 pm: |
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She's not a contemptible skank. Well, not contemptible anyway, perhaps pitiful.
But "skank" I agree with. |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 5233
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, July 6, 2006 - 11:09 pm: |
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Considering the hatred she spews, contemptible works better for me. |
Chris Prenovost
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Username: Chris_prenovost
Post Number: 981
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, July 7, 2006 - 8:44 am: |
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Ann Coulter, Jessica Simpson, Madonna - not an ounce of talent amoung them, but a genius for self promotion.
Throw in a bleating gaggle of lazy media morons who breathlessly 'report' whatever inane blatherings those 'celebrities' spew out, and a public that willingly consumes endless reams of video and printed sewage, and voila! The modern day equivalent of the circus freak show.
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Innisowen
Citizen
Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 2094
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 7, 2006 - 9:08 am: |
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Send in the "geeks," the bearded lady, Tom Thumb, and the Piltdown Man. |
Michael K. McKell
Citizen
Username: Mckellconst
Post Number: 24
Registered: 5-2006
| | Posted on Friday, July 7, 2006 - 10:59 am: |
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She belongs under a bus. |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 5236
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, July 7, 2006 - 11:02 am: |
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But please don't forget: neither the bearded lady, Madonna, Jessica Simpson or Tom Thumb have called for mass murder of their political opponents the way Coulter has. Don't be so willing to dismiss her and her ilk as entertainers; some people, unfortunately, take them very seriously. |
Strawberry
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Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 7525
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 9:42 am: |
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Tom's wrong again...poor Tom.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/10/politics/main1789679.shtml |
Strawberry
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Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 7529
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 11:02 am: |
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bump.. |
Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 10070
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 11:09 am: |
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Here is something Ann should plagiarize:
Quote: ...[I]t is to the property of the citizen, and not to the demands of the creditor of the state, that the first and original faith of civil society is pledged. The claim of the citizen is prior in time, paramount in title, superior in equity. The fortunes of individuals, whether possessed by acquisition or by descent or in virtue of a participation in the goods of some community, were no part of the creditor's security, expressed or implied...[T]he public, whether represented by a monarch or by a senate, can pledge nothing but the public estate; and it can have no public estate except in what it derives from a just and proportioned imposition upon the citizens at large.
In other words, a government does not have the right to run up large debts and then throw the burden on the taxpayer.
Back in the days when conservatives were conservative.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 5251
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 12:50 pm: |
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Her syndicator says she's innocent? Well that's certainly an objective source! I doubt they've got any financial interest in her whatsoever.
And Charles Manson's mother still loves him, too. |
Rastro
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Username: Rastro
Post Number: 3542
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 12:58 pm: |
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I personally think this is a ridiculous story. Who cares if she plagiarized? If she did, let those she stole from sue her. Otherwise, it's just rehasihing the same BS over and over anyway. Whether she takes it from someone else, or from another of her own books, who really cares?
I did, however, find this amusing:
"Universal Press Syndicate is confident in the ability of Ms. Coulter, an attorney and frequent media target, to know when to make attribution and when not to."
Frequent media target. ROFL. Only when she puts herself in the spotlight does it shine on her. No one else does it for her. |
tom
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Username: Tom
Post Number: 5270
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, July 14, 2006 - 6:46 pm: |
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Coulter appears at a fundraiser for GOP Governor candidate, but the donors stay away. She's officially radioactive. |
John Caffrey
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Username: Jerseyjack
Post Number: 370
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, July 15, 2006 - 1:30 pm: |
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There is a great Ann Coulter story today on Democraticunderground.com
Seems the Repub. candidate for Colorado's governor held a fund raiser with Sweet Ann as the star guest...wingnut radio publicity, etc.
No money was raised.
Heh heh heh! |
Strawberry
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Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 7543
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, July 15, 2006 - 2:28 pm: |
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Why do libs care so much about Coulter? She's just a right wing Michael Moore. The only difference being you won't see her the star of the RNC, which was obviously the case with Moore and his pal Jimmy Carter at the DNC04 loserthon..
libs are so dumb.. |
dave23
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Username: Dave23
Post Number: 1865
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, July 15, 2006 - 3:16 pm: |
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I'm fascinated by her because I can't tell if she's a man turning into a woman or a woman turning into a man. And she's a right-wing Deadhead. |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 5275
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, July 15, 2006 - 4:26 pm: |
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Because Coulter is highly visible (even though she could hide behind a flagpole). She's a frequent talking head, and a widely published columnist. People read the feverish scrawled rantings of this shrieking sociopath -- and some actually come away believing some of it. It would be foolish to just let her screeds stand unopposed. Maybe you're in on the joke, but she's appearing on news shows, not Comedy Central.
Anyway, why are conservatives so obsessed with Michael Moore?
By the way, Jimmy Carter is a former President of the United States. Why would his appearance at a Democratic National Convention be in any way exceptional? |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 15045
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, July 15, 2006 - 4:31 pm: |
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tom, Strawberry has a point. We really shouldn't worry about those wackos. Yes, they have influence, but only over people who want to be led into ignorance and hatred. It's a shame, but there's not much we can do about their ilk.
Even Limbaugh has mused over how silly it is that people take him so seriously.
And to be honest, I agree with most of Michael Moore's views, but I don't agree with the way he foams at the mouth. He detracts from the credibility of reasonable people.
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tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 5277
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, July 15, 2006 - 4:37 pm: |
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You're being lulled to sleep. Why do you think that totalitarian countries throughout the twentieth century found it of primary importance to control the media? Because when they monopolize the message, the masses will come to believe what they hear.
The big difference here in the USA is, that the masses get to vote. They need to hear more than bile and guile. People can be led to ignorance and hatred, or they can be led to reason and goodness. It's a cliche, but all that's necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing. If the likes of Coulter and Limbaugh fill the airwaves and the other side is silent, then that's all people will hear, and they'll continue to believe it, and vote for it.
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Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 15047
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, July 15, 2006 - 5:05 pm: |
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All true, but I don't consider "the other side" to be silent. If you are part of the side making noise, then I support your noise.
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