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echo: pol_disorder
to: JIM HOLSONBACK
from: John Massey
date: 2007-06-13 19:56:22
subject: Ain`t life grand?

JIM HOLSONBACK -> STAN HARDEGREE wrote:
 -=>> On 06-13-07 13:45 STAN HARDEGREE wrote to BOB KLAHN <=-

 BK>>  Therefore, by your reasoning, John M is guilty of plagiarism in
 BK>>  posting Boortz's work as his own.

 BK>>  Are you going to accuse him?

 SH>> I didn't accuse *you.*  You accused me, which is why you were booted
 SH>> from Politics.

 JH> Klahn is a slow learner - now he's here in this echo accusing Massey of
 JH> plagiarism.  Comes with Klahn being too wrapped up in himself.

 SH>> But to answer your concern, John has been posting Boortz columns for
 SH>> years. I know who they are from.

 JH> Sure.  John is a fan of Boortz, and posts these excerpts from the Nealz
 JH> Nuze program notes on Boortz's website.  The excerpt in question is from
 JH> right up at the top of today's program notes.

 JH> Boortz doesn't intersperse his byline or other IDs all over the place,
 JH> and John M. sometimes neglects to add attribution.  Every reasonable
 JH> person in the Fidonet discussion echoes knows about this, and it has
 JH> come up in Debate, where Klahn holds forth.  The clownish Lofaso tried
 JH> to make a big deal of it there. So even Klahn knows about it, and he's
 JH> just being a jackass here. John posted the same info into Debate and
 JH> Pol_Inc this morning, and he remembered to attribute it to Boortz in
 JH> those echoes.


I'm not sure he will like the way I did it but WTF.

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