POLITICO - By ANDY BARR 6/8/09
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s camp said Monday allegations that Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin plagiarized a column Gingrich co-authored four years ago are “just silly.”
“I’m thrilled if Sarah Palin used a Newt Gingrich idea from an op-ed, or speech, or column or whatever,” Gingrich spokesman Rick Tyler told POLITICO. “[Gingrich’s] response to people repeating his ideas has always been good.”
On Saturday, Huffington Post blogger Geoffrey Dunn accused Palin of lifting passages from a column Gingrich co-authored with Craig Shirley in November 2005. Palin twice referenced Gingrich in her remarks, but Dunn claimed she did not give enough credit. Dunn’s biography on the site says he is writing a book about Palin that is due to be published by Macmillan/St. Martin’s Press in 2010.
An Associated Press story on Palin’s denial that she plagiarized Gingrich, a response to the blog post, was the lead story Monday on the Huffington Post’s heavily-trafficked politics page. The plagiarism charge has received broad play in the progressive blogosphere and in stories in Politics Daily and the Anchorage Daily News. ...Read more...
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