John Barrie knows a good press op when he sees one. Given the flurry of charges accusing Ann Coulter of plagiarizing heavily in her latest book, Godless, Barrie ran the manuscript through his company iParadigms' iThenticate authenticity technology and found, low and behold, Coulter is indeed a copycat. Cue the endless press plugs for Barrie's product. Also cue the third (of many more to come, we're sure) substantiated claim that Coulter ripped off the work of others, from Godless, to previous books, to her syndicated column.

It's pretty fair to say, at this point, that Ann Coulter's hate speech is about as authentic as Rosie O'Donnell's admiration for Star Jones. But perhaps Coulter isn't the only one plagiarizing. After all, when do someone's accusations of plagiarism become plagiarism themselves? If the Boston Globe's Alex Beam made the charges in 2001, and this year blogger The Rude Pundit merely updates the charges, and now some fella with a product to push suddenly comes to the same conclusion, it sounds like a blonde horse-haired talking head ain't the only plagiarist.*

* So you don't walk away confused: No, we don't actually believe our own argument. Idiots.

COPYCATTY COULTER PILFERS PROSE: PRO [Philip Recchia, NYP]