CNN reported that Monica Crowley plagiarized large sections of her best-selling 2012 book, mostly from other conservative writers. Trump selected Crowley as communications director for national security.
“The review of Crowley’s June 2012 book, “What The (Bleep) Just Happened,” found upwards of 50 examples of plagiarism from numerous sources, including the copying with minor changes of news articles, other columnists, think tanks, and Wikipedia. The New York Times bestseller, published by the HarperCollins imprint Broadside Books, contains no notes or bibliography.
Crowley did not return a request for comment. A spokesperson for HarperCollins told CNN on Sunday: “We have no comment at this time. We are looking into the matter.”
“Crowley, a syndicated radio host, columnist, and, until recently, a Fox News contributor, will serve as Trump’s senior director of strategic communications for the National Security Council.”
Diane Ravitch's blog 
It seems that Trump’s Pence selections/suggestions for his Cabinet is just another list of con-men, frauds, and Alt-Right extremists except for the two retired 4-star Marine Corps generals, who I read yesterday are having their own problems dealing with the rest of Trump’s deplorable cabinet.
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And the cess just keeps on pooling.
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Crowley is an old hottie who has this seductive voice and speaks with a PhD. Trump selected her because he watches tv and probably said hey this is a nice looking woman with a PhD so lets give it a try.
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I was going to say that people with PhDs typivcally know all the ins and outs of plagiarism, so investigators need to examine her dissertation very carefully. Then I discovered that, yesterday, Politico reported they found at least a dozen instances of plagiarism in her dissertation. The thing about that is colleges will withdraw degrees that have been based either in whole or in part on plagiarism, so I hope Columbia University is onto her now:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/monica-crowley-plagiarism-phd-dissertation-columbia-214612
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Who cares about the inclusion of “notes or bibliography?”
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Inclusion of notes or bibliography is, first of all, standard practice with scholarly works; & second, it acknowledges that certain information has been derived from other sources, & if segments are quoted, they are credited appropriately.
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The publisher of Monica Crowley’s book has stopped selling it until she can supply the footnotes or delete the 50+ plagiarized sections.
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Lenny,
Laura was being facetious.
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Duane – oops. That did occur to me; thank you for pointing it out. Sorry. 😦
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Gee, when I see her on Fox News when I’m at the gym, she sure looks intelligent!
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We could ask why does national security need a “communications director” in the first place.
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Very, very good point!
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We could, but since the Republican Senate will be rushing through all the cabinet appointments without proper vetting or time to ask questions, that will not be possible.
That’s what happens when you legitimize Trump by insisting that the Russian hacking, fake news stories, FBI violation of the Hatch Act , and all other illegal actions that allowed him to win a bare majority of voters in 3 states is irrelevant and we need to move on now that we recognize that the vote was fair and Trump is our leader. We can say his policies are awful and disagree, but in the end, we have to recognize that he legitimately won and his leadership is exactly what the American people want.
I disagree. This was not a legitimate election, and the fact that the cabinet nominees of a corrupt election are being pushed through against all historic precedent is shocking to me. Although it sounds as if you are so certain that no matter what, those voters would have agreed with you that Hillary was so corrupt she needed to be stopped so you consider the election to be fair and we should all respect that Trump won fair and square. Let’s not do anything to spoil that belief by seeing if his campaign had any contacts with Russia. Who cares? He won! just like Nixon.
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To keep all the lies and propaganda making sense to the average Joe and Jane, e.g., Faux news viewers.
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The news these days continues to give satirists slim pickings. Known plagiarist becomes Trump’s senior director for strategic communications. Another one-liner!
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….for the National Security Council….
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None of the “news” from this WH of horrors is encouraging.
From Forbes:
“An internet troll, who was once called “the most hated man on the internet” and is banned from Twitter, is recommending candidates to serve in the Trump administration.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2017/01/09/chuck-johnson-troll-trump-transition-team/#4823d5ae5c12
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Thanks for the link, jcgrim.
All should read.
I despise the term “alt-right”. Call em what they are: xtian fundamentalist fanatics.
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Just another hard right wing ideologue and propagandist who spouts the following garbage ideas: small government, limited government, government you can water board in a toilet bowl, personal responsibility, tort reform, free market solutions, deregulation. It’s all BS, just a cover, a facade for raping the government, killing off all the social programs of FDR and LBJ and turning the US into pre 1929 America but with a super big military and nuclear weapons. Social Darwinism and survival of the fittest on steroids. Will they be calling for the repeal of the FDIC as well? In their universe, banks must be lightly regulated, if at all. We have been through this horror show before and it never ends well for the great mass of Americans. No problem for the folks with their “cottages” in Newport, RI. Welcome to a new gilded age.
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Well said, Joe.
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Well I have been looking for authentic examples of plagiarism to help my students see that you cannot just change one word and call it your own work. Looks like I have a great source now!
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Don’t forget our VP Joe Biden. He lost his presidential campaign due to it. Sad to see people we like involved in this….
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Doesn’t speak well of Columbia or HarperCollins that they didn’t catch the plagiarism. How does anyone write a PhD thesis with no citations? Apparently the publisher has pulled her book.
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At a religious college, way before the internet, a friend and I worked together on a paper about the religious symbolism in “The Old Man and the Sea.” We were accused of plagerism because we came up with the same symbols as the professor! Really? He never discussed symbolism of any kind in the class (another shocker for a literature class) but because it was in his mind, we cheated? We were brought up in front of the dean (a nun), grilled, and stood our ground. Example: ship mast equals the cross. The professor didn’t see the association even though we wrote in detail. The whole thing was dismissed and the dean graded our paper. It taught me to cite every little thing just in case! CYA!
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It probably would be worthwhile for publishers to run all manuscripts through applications that scan for possible plagiarism before printing.
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