Reporter Jane Ganahl, discussing the engagement of actors Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise (a follower of the religion of Scientology) wrote:

[A] galactic ruler named Xenu brought billions of people to Earth 75 million years ago, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs.

On Page 209 of Godless, Coulter compared the theory of evolution to the religious doctrines of Scientology:

[G]alactic ruler Xenu brought billions of people to Earth 75 million years ago, piled them around volcanoes, and blew them up with hydrogen bombs ...

[...]In the [Portland Press Herald] article, library assistants Linda Madsen, Susan Butler, Beth Murphy, Julia McCue, and Beth Brogan and historian Herb Adams wrote:

The massive Dickey-Lincoln Dam, a $227 million hydroelectric project proposed on upper St. John River, is halted by the discovery of the Furbish lousewort, a plant believed to be extinct.

From Page 5 of Godless:

The massive Dickey-Lincoln Dam, a $227 million hydroelectric project proposed on upper St. John River in Maine, was halted by the discovery of the Furbish lousewort, a plant previously believed to be extinct.

Do a search of that phrase about Xenu and you'll get hundreds of websites with the same phrase.

In Scientology doctrine, Xenu (also Xemu) is an alien ruler of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to Earth in DC-8-like spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the living, and continue to wreak chaos and havoc today.

From Wiki

There has to be a point where something gets repeated enough so you no longer have to quote it.
As to the second example that may be more on point but since she lives in Palm Beach I'm at a loss to see how she would of used that article. I don't find reference to it online, it's not on their website

note: I may have found the article but I'm just not willing to pay $2 for the evidence.

Ideas enter the public sphere at a point where they no longer have to be credited. Exact phrasing and punctuation do not. As a historian, I can tell you that I would never have been able to get away with what she did (in the two examples I listed). They count as plagiarism in both the academic and the profession spheres of publication.

FrankMask

Saint Paul, MN

June 2003

JUL 10, 2006 01:11 PM

FreakPirate said:

Loiosh said:

I am a huge fan of Ann's just for the pure fact that she does not care what anyone thinks. Which is amazing considering you would think people on this site would be all for that.

Most of the people here wouldn't take away her right to say anything. But just because she says it doesn't mean we have to like it. She spews nothing but garbage.

Most people that give her shit have never actually read anything she has written to completion.

I have, out of morbid curiosity, and I regret every second of it.

I tried, but there was no substance to it. I started flipping back and forth through the book. You could string any paragraph together with any other paragraph and the whole mess would be just as bad.

TheJuanupsman

Hopkins, MN

April 2004

JUL 12, 2006 11:10 PM

Loiosh said:

But the most important question would be Why would an intelligent LAWYER do something as stupid as plagiarism?

I don't care enough about Ann to have any other opinion on this, but I have to address this. Trust me. Intelligent lawyers do lots of stupid things. Plagiarism is no exception. In fact it's more like the rule.

The legal profession is rife with plagiarism. It's practically an epidemic.

Why? Usually it's laziness. I've seen a lot of it in working not just with authors, but also with judges, lawyers and law students. A second reason? Arrogance. Some people just think they are too smart to be caught. I don't have much trouble envisioning Ann as one of those people.

I don't know, or really care, if Coulter did this, but I really don't think motive is anywhere neat being the most important question here.

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RedBstrd

Riverside, CA

April 2004

JUL 09, 2006 04:41 PM

FrankMask

Saint Paul, MN

June 2003

JUL 10, 2006 01:11 PM

TheJuanupsman

Hopkins, MN

April 2004

JUL 12, 2006 11:10 PM