November 22, 2007
*I've edited and cleaned up the post somewhat, as I was updating as we dug up new info, it was kinda sloppy.
***Update: I've received a response from the MN GOP, noting they are looking into our allegations.
One of my top posts, about Nanny Staters beginning to beat the war drum against bacon and other tasty smoked meats, was pretty much plagiarized by blogger The Seventh Son a week later, totally uncredited, down to the AK kitty pic I used. (I love that pic)
You'll note, he doesn't have comments at his site, and he doesn't leave a way to contact him. Weak.
MagicalPat, guestposting at Ankle Biting Pundits had a post he did plagiarized by this guy too(thanks for letting me know Pat), and brought it to my attention in comments. I'd advise anyone who reads or accidentally stumbles into my crapblog to see if he plagiarized something from you. Before, I asked people to flag the guy's site, I changed my mind, I want people to see the tool's site.
I'm also putting up where he took MagicalPat's guest post. Here's Pat's ABP piece, and here is where Seventh Son swiped it.
He likely stole my post from Ace of Spades HQ, Slublog made a post there with the essentially the same "First they came for..." poem Seventh Son has in his entry. Here's where Slublog cross-posted at his site, now go back and read Seventh Sons entry. And here's likely where Seventh Son swiped it, Ace of Spades HQ is a pretty big site, and probably where he saw it.
The guy had a feud with a left-leaning blogger, and Pat, using the name given by the lefty blog, shows that his name is Michael Barrett, and he ran for for the House of Representatives in 2006. We can also confirm who it is from a second source, a site he contributes to called Look True North, where he writes under the name The Seventh Son. Seventh Son likely refers to the fact that he is from District 7 of Minnesota. I also like the irony Pat found here, from Look True North's bio,
Disclaimer: All opinions expressed by me are my own personal views and should not be construed in any way as reflecting the views of the RPM or the CD-7 Executive Committees.
Heh.
That link is Look True North's biography page, it links his blog, and confirms who it is, using the combined info from those three links, we can find out that not only is it Michael Barrett, who ran for the House of Representatives in 2006, he is a Vice-Chairman of the Minnesota Republican Party! Pat also noted that Barrett may be running again for the House in 2008.
Sadly, he is also linked by the Minnesota Republican Party's Official website under their blogs, its linked as CD 7 (unofficial) Blog. The Minnesota GOP may want to think about reprimanding Mr. Barrett, and probably may want to discontinue linking his site.
By the way, Barrett, if you're reading this...I have screencaps of the stuff you plagiarized from Pat, Slublog and myself, and those will get posted if you scrub your blog and try to deny that you plagiarized us. Just letting you know.
Update: Oh, nice, you'll note he actually quotes larger bloggers, like here, where he recently posted a piece from RedState. So not only is he a thieving tool, he's an elitist thieving tool. If its a big-league blogger, he'll give you your due reference. On the flipside, it gives us proof that he knows he should have cited us, he's destroyed the Internet Ignorance("I didn't know what I was doing, I'm new to this") defense.
I know some people don't like when full blog posts are copied, I don't really care, as long as the blogger or blog that wrote it was cited. Its clear Michael Barrett has no problem plagiarizing obscure blogs like my own, figuring he can get away with it. Its odd that he plagiarized Pat's piece, given it was published on a fairly large site. Of course, Slublog is an official Ace of Spades Moron Co-Blogger, so that was published at a popular site too.
And because I might as well have some fun, I nicked the MN GOPs mug of the chump, and made myself a LOLitician,
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Posted by: mesablue at November 22, 2007 10:35 PM (KCOdQ)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 22, 2007 10:46 PM (VZv6D)
Posted by: Conservative Belle at November 23, 2007 07:27 AM (O1R4M)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 23, 2007 11:54 AM (VZv6D)
and here is a post that magically appeared the very next day: http://seventhsonblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/have-you-hugged-your-tree-today.html#links
Identical, down to the title with a few minor word changes and the elimination of one paragraph.
Consider him flagged.
I don't expect much from blogger, but I did follow one of the plagiarists links and found that he is a contributor to this website: http://www.looktruenorth.com/ so I wrote them and told them one of their contributors is a thief.
I was pretty stunned how thoroughly he ripped you off, down to the graphic. The little poem he inserted into your stolen post by the way, was taken from somewhere else. What a concept, steal from two people, put it together and it's yours!
Posted by: MagicalPat at November 23, 2007 02:16 PM (4oQn0)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 23, 2007 02:47 PM (VZv6D)
Posted by: MagicalPat at November 23, 2007 02:54 PM (4oQn0)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 23, 2007 03:01 PM (VZv6D)
The website where he is a guest poster, and it is under his blog name had a contact button that took me forever to find. To save you the trouble should you wish to write them, here it a link: http://www.looktruenorth.com/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&id=10&Itemid=138
I have not heard back from them yet, but I can understand if it takes some time due to the holiday. The site looks like a good one, and the feel I get from it is that they are honorable people who don't know they have a thief in their midst.
This may be the quickest to stop this guy. If he loses his posting privileges on a well read, decent site, he may think twice about stealing again.
Posted by: MagicalPat at November 23, 2007 03:08 PM (4oQn0)
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Posted by: MagicalPat at November 23, 2007 03:29 PM (4oQn0)
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Posted by: MagicalPat at November 23, 2007 03:38 PM (4oQn0)
Posted by: MagicalPat at November 23, 2007 03:38 PM (4oQn0)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 23, 2007 03:42 PM (VZv6D)
Posted by: Slublog at November 23, 2007 03:51 PM (kJGf+)
Posted by: MagicalPat at November 23, 2007 03:55 PM (4oQn0)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 23, 2007 03:56 PM (VZv6D)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 23, 2007 03:57 PM (VZv6D)
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/2006/campaign/congress/barrett/
I suppose we could email him, but dang, what kind of can of worms is this?
Posted by: MagicalPat at November 23, 2007 04:08 PM (4oQn0)
http://lloydletta.blogspot.com/2007/11/seventh-son-confirms-identify-as.html
Posted by: MagicalPat at November 23, 2007 04:11 PM (4oQn0)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 23, 2007 04:18 PM (VZv6D)
It just kills me that a guy who ran for congress is ripping off a friggin' magician in California to get content for his web site. I mean come on buddy, you're supposed to help the common man, not steal his intellectual property. And I use the term 'intellectual' as loosely as is legal.
Posted by: MagicalPat at November 23, 2007 04:23 PM (4oQn0)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 23, 2007 04:26 PM (VZv6D)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 23, 2007 04:31 PM (VZv6D)
Posted by: MagicalPat at November 23, 2007 04:34 PM (4oQn0)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 23, 2007 04:39 PM (VZv6D)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 23, 2007 05:11 PM (VZv6D)
That's new isn't it?
Posted by: MagicalPat at November 23, 2007 05:13 PM (4oQn0)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 23, 2007 05:17 PM (VZv6D)
Posted by: ConservativeBelle at November 23, 2007 06:36 PM (/v6Id)
Disclaimer: All opinions expressed by me are my own personal views and should not be construed in any way as reflecting the views of the RPM or the CD-7 Executive Committees.
Emphasis mine.
Posted by: MagicalPat at November 23, 2007 07:47 PM (4oQn0)
Posted by: mesablue at November 23, 2007 08:29 PM (KCOdQ)
Posted by: mesablue at November 23, 2007 08:31 PM (KCOdQ)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 23, 2007 09:28 PM (VZv6D)
Of course, they don't know that we know who he is.
By the way, he is running for Congress again in 2008. Maybe this time he'll only lose by 65%.
Posted by: MagicalPat at November 23, 2007 09:54 PM (4oQn0)
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Posted by: MagicalPat at November 23, 2007 10:07 PM (4oQn0)
So you think just because this guy is stealing you posts, that means evything in Iraq is OK now? You think that means you win in Iraq just because this guy steals you post?
Newsflash neotards: Just because he steals you post does not mean Iraq is OK. It is still a quagmire and we loose the mens every day and this doesnt mean it gets any better its just anecdotal is all.
Posted by: Sum Dum Troll at November 23, 2007 10:10 PM (HgAV0)
Posted by: MagicalPat at November 23, 2007 10:13 PM (4oQn0)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 23, 2007 10:15 PM (VZv6D)
I was never STFM. He is a shaolin master. I am working on my brown belt.
Stop changing the issue, we're here to talk about how bad the iraq war is failing.
Posted by: Sum Dum Troll at November 23, 2007 10:16 PM (HgAV0)
Posted by: MagicalPat at November 23, 2007 10:21 PM (4oQn0)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 23, 2007 10:26 PM (VZv6D)
Some of them are spammers looking for content to game search engines and suck traffic from popular blogs, others are wannabe political blogs that don't have time/talent for writing so they just rip off posts via your feeds.
Expect to see a lot more of it.
Posted by: docweasel at November 23, 2007 10:48 PM (ACIZZ)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 23, 2007 11:05 PM (VZv6D)
Posted by: mesablue at November 23, 2007 11:25 PM (KCOdQ)
Yes, but he's leaving fingerprints, DNA evidence and security camera footage all over the place.
Posted by: MagicalPat at November 23, 2007 11:31 PM (4oQn0)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 23, 2007 11:32 PM (VZv6D)
Posted by: MagicalPat at November 23, 2007 11:37 PM (4oQn0)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 24, 2007 12:45 AM (VZv6D)
Posted by: mesablue at November 24, 2007 01:44 AM (KCOdQ)
I say this because only about 2% of the populace are political Internet goobers to the point that we are.
The MN Republican party, while being completely outnumbered by the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party (yes, that is what they are called) will dump on this guy.
We could have turned him and edumacated him. I was hoping for a good flame war.
Posted by: mesablue at November 24, 2007 01:51 AM (KCOdQ)
Posted by: MagicalPat at November 24, 2007 02:05 AM (4oQn0)
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Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 24, 2007 11:53 AM (VZv6D)
Agreed. He knows what he's doing. There are links to his buddies on his other posts, so you know he knows how to do it.
Here is what I think is his problem: he is surrounded by Minnesotans that gush original material at an amazing pace. Captains Quarters, Power Line, A Shot in the Dark and Fraters Libertas are all prolific blogs. He probably just wants to play with the big boys, so he steals from others to make it look like he is creative.
The post that cuffy meigs plundered almost seems to clever to have been written by this guy to.
One begins to wonder.....
Posted by: MagicalPat at November 24, 2007 12:29 PM (4oQn0)
What the heck, we tried.
Any thoughts?
Posted by: MagicalPat at November 25, 2007 04:45 AM (CKydI)
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For all we know, they've contacted him and told him to knock it off. Perhaps the reason for the silence is to hope it all just goes away. I'd be fine with that as long as he alters his posts to reflect where he got them from.
An apology on his front page would be nice too.
Posted by: MagicalPat at November 25, 2007 12:00 PM (CKydI)
Oh, man, I love plagiarism stories! Especially the flat-out undeniable ones like this...where somebody lifts whole blogposts. How low do you have to be to steal somebody else's stuff? And how nutty do you have to be to think you could get away with it in this day and age?
The internet: my own personal freakshow. Dance, monkeys! Dance for a weasel!
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Posted by: mesablue at November 27, 2007 05:59 PM (KCOdQ)
Posted by: Bruce at November 27, 2007 06:45 PM (2q+Ss)
It's little different than these fat-cat pseudo-conservatives and their approach to "Made in the USA": Import engine from Mexico, body parts from Malaysia, Indonesia and China, slap together and ta-da: American!
Would someone please send him an invite to join the DNC? Our big tent doesn't need his type.
Posted by: redherkey at November 27, 2007 07:04 PM (kjqFg)
Mesa, all I got was a note that they were looking into it. That's all I got in the message, I haven't gotten an update unless they just sent one...nope. Nada. I won't copy the note, cuz I didn't ask permission, but that's the message I got.
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 27, 2007 07:38 PM (VZv6D)
The first I heard about this was this morning We are cutting all the posts by 7th Son from our site, his bio and denying his posting abilities until a full apology comes from him. This is not acceptable.
Posted by: Derek Brigham at November 28, 2007 12:00 PM (ifI3H)
Posted by: Sue at November 28, 2007 12:21 PM (Jol77)
What Derek said.
While I'd like to give the blogger a chance to defend himself, y'all have built a pretty tight-looking case.
While I can't speak for the entire True North ruling junta, I know that we will not stand for theft of intellectual property.
And while I'm not really familiar with Seventh Son's writing (he wasn't a regular destination), I join my junta co-member Derek in apologizing, and assuring an appropriate response.
Thanks.
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