November 28, 2007
So anyway, I posted a new thread addressing the plagiarism(where you can see the process we went through digging through this story, its kind of a mess, which is why I wrote this). I linked to the original post, and to the plagiarized copy (screencaptured copy of the post)Pat sent me from a blogger called The Seventh Son.
As you can see, he made a few tiny changes, and used the same pic, but its pretty much my post. From there, I learned that Pat found out Seventh Son stole my post when he discovered that his own guest-post at Ankle Biting Pundits (screencaptured copy of Pat's post) was also plagiarized by Seventh Son. Seventh Son ain't subtle. And of course, he has no comments on his site, and no way to contact him. Nice, right?
Later on, I realized he also plagiarized part of a post in which Slublog, a co-blogger at Ace of Spades HQ and has his own site, linked my story (just before Pat confirmed that for me in comments). I believe Seventh Son picked up the story from Ace of Spades, as Ace has a pretty high traffic site. Here is the crossposted link from Slublog's personal site, and where Seventh Son likely lifted it at Ace of Spades, here again is the Seventh Son post in question (screencapped copy of what he plagiarized here) so you can see what he lifted.
(Funny: Cuffy at Perfunction skewers our plagiarist quite nicely)
Pat continued to dig to see what else he could find out about The Seventh Son, and soon came across where Seventh Son got into a feud with left-leaning blogger lloydletta, who focuses on news in Minnesota. What's funny is, it looks like lloydletta totally got the better of Seventh Son, and that may have prompted Seventh Son to shut down his comments and cut off contact. Seventh Son, as I'm sure you can figure out from the title of the post and the links in his blog, is also from Minnesota. lloydletta also gave us his name, The Seventh Son is in fact Michael Barrett.
We've found that Barrett unsuccessfully ran for Minnesota's District 7 House of Representatives seat in 2006 (perhaps lacking in original ideas?), and through a site called Look True North, a site for Minnesota conservatives that Michael Barrett contributes(now contributed) to, we found his bio(under Seventh Son) and discovered he was also a Vice-Chair of the Minnesota Republican Party! We confirmed this through the Minnesota GOP's Executive Committee page.
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.
(Pat pointed this out, from Seventh Son's Look True North Bio, heh* LookTrueNorth has Removed Seventh Son from their Biographies, so this is no longer there)
I'll also note, his site is linked under the Minesota GOP's Blogs section of its website, its marked as CD7 (unofficial) Blog. They may wanna rethink that, of course they may wanna rethink having such a numbskull as their Vice-Chairman. Oh, and it looks like he's a Fred supporter, Fred, I'm a supporter too, if he's part of your MN campaign, you may want to dump this chump.
Thankfully, Barrett has no problem quoting blogs, so he can't pull the "I'm an Internet Idiot" defense here, and worm his way out of this. He knows to cite blogs if he's taking quotes from them. You can see here where Barrett quotes a RedState article. So not only is he a plagiarist, he's an elitist too. Barrett has no problem plagiarizing posts from lesser known people like Pat, Slublog and I, but he gives due citation to bloggers with some status. Gotcha!
I only speak for myself here, I'll leave it to Slublog and MagicalPat to offer their own opinions. I know its my post is silly post, its what I do at doubleplusundead, I'm an Ace of Spades Spinoff-Moronblogger. I could have lived with it had he either linked me and copied my post, nicked the article I used without a hat tip, or hell even nicked a line or two, I would've let it go. But, he decided he'd enjoy credit for our posts, I think I'll enjoy goofing on him.
May I say, I think Barrett's in the wrong party...or maybe not, the mix of elitism and clumsy stupidity make him perfect material for the upper echelons of the Republican Party Leadership...maybe Trent Lott will need an assistant in his new lobbying gig.
I've tried to get in contact with Barrett through various means for the past five days, I've also given the MN GOP notice that we have this story, have received confirmation they received the notice, and are looking into it. However, I think its best that people are made aware of Barrett's plagiarism, particularly because he may be running for the House again in 2008. We may as well put this story out there, because it'll be us, or it'll be the Left, and I'd rather we police our own.
Oh, and one last thing, should Barrett decide to scrub his blog if he finds he doesn't like unwanted attention, I've screencapped everything, so I'll post those as needed. Just let me know if he's done so in comments, and I'll post my screencaps.
****Update: He totally scrubbed his blog, I've posted the parts he plagiarized. Pity. I think there's still a cache of his site, but I dunno how long that'll last, I say pity because who knows who else he plagiarized, and we may never find out.
Update: Look True North looks, doesn't like what it sees. Not in the least, I'll note the words doubleplusundead and hard work are almost perfectly contradictory...heh.
Update: Sue in comments lets me know that(screencapped Google cache of Barrett's apology) Barrett has apologized, and is hanging it up. Really, all I want is an apology and proper acknowledgement (and I'm sure Slublog and MagicalPat are the same way), he's halfway there.
He had no comments or email to send a note to, so it was impossible to contact him. Sadly for him, he made himself unavailable, and only apologized just now, because this story is getting some fairly significant coverage at this point, and I would have handled it in a quieter manner. Oh, well, his fault.
He makes the "internet idjit" defense copout a little bit, which is weak, and I address it earlier, and the "I didn't intend it for a wider audience" cop out too, which kinda sounds like "I didn't think I'd get caught". Which I'll note, he knew to quote people, he quoted RedState, so its an elitist thing too, quoting big bloggers while ignoring the more obscure ones.
Update: Minnesota GOP scrubs Seventh Son from its Blogs page.
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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 11:53 AM (ifI3H)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 28, 2007 11:55 AM (VZv6D)
Posted by: Cuffy Meigs at November 28, 2007 12:26 PM (JefgB)
Posted by: Sue at November 28, 2007 12:32 PM (Jol77)
Posted by: Cuffy Meigs at November 28, 2007 12:53 PM (JefgB)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 28, 2007 12:55 PM (VZv6D)
Lazy blogger = lazy plagiarist = lazy apology
Posted by: Cuffy Meigs at November 28, 2007 12:57 PM (JefgB)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 28, 2007 12:58 PM (VZv6D)
People of low character are pretty much automatically incapable of apologizing properly.
Posted by: lauraw at November 28, 2007 01:05 PM (L0XQ2)
I don't know the man, am not from his district, and have no tolerance for plagarism...
...but what more do you want from the guy? Public flogging? He apologized, and didn't use the lame "I didn't know better" excuse that was predicted. Yes, he screwed up. Did he intend to pass the posts off as his own work? We can't know, but it's quite likely it was an honest mistake since there's almost no original content on his blog; his explanation that it served to highlight blog posts he liked is plausible.
Is it that tough to be man enough to accept the apology?
Posted by: Hollowpoint at November 28, 2007 01:44 PM (plsiE)
I never expected a wider audience.
In other words, I didn't think I'd get busted.
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 28, 2007 01:56 PM (VZv6D)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 28, 2007 01:58 PM (VZv6D)
Like I said over at Ace's, if I were a victim of his plagiarism like sinistar, I would accept his apology only after he amended the swiped links with proper attribution.
It's not that hard; sinistar, Slublog et al. have done all the work identifying the posts in question. Barrett just needs to link them.
Posted by: Cuffy Meigs at November 28, 2007 02:02 PM (JefgB)
That being said, I have gone to posts, linked to articles from those posts, and cut and pasted some of these articles to my blog. My fault here is not properly acknowledging the original post as I should have.
except that isn't what he did, what he did do is he claimed them as his own work. He makes it sound like he just forgot to quote us. Of course, that isn't true because he changed things to make it look more like his.
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 28, 2007 02:07 PM (VZv6D)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 28, 2007 02:08 PM (VZv6D)
Good work, Sinistar, Pat, LauraW, Cuffy and Slublog.
Hollowpoint, I found myself feeling sorry for the guy, until I found his apology filled with untruths. He even says that HE requested that his links be removed from True North, but they are the ones who made that decision and didn't give him any option.
He learned a tough lesson. I hope the MN GOP or any other GOP candidates don't suffer any negative publicity over it. The bad apple shouldn't spoil the whole barrel.
Posted by: Conservative Belle at November 28, 2007 02:59 PM (2cxon)
Posted by: Conservative Belle at November 28, 2007 03:01 PM (2cxon)
I have never met Mike Barrett, but I also occasionally contribute to True North.
I whole heartedly agree with the decision to remove his posts and posting privileges; because being asked to join the influential contributors that have agreed to contribute (not counting myself among those) is a privilege.
It's a pity that Mr. Barrett had forgotten that.
Regards,
Tom "Swiftee" Swift
Posted by: TJSwift at November 28, 2007 07:34 PM (0jEeC)
"contributors that have agreed to contribute"
Ouch.
As you can see, I'm in no danger of having my writing lifted...heh.
Posted by: TJSwift at November 28, 2007 07:35 PM (0jEeC)
Sure we can. He took pretty much my whole post but omitted a paragraph,
changed a word here and there and add one sentence. Then posted it as
if he wrote it. How do I know?
Here is one example.
I wrote:
She was told to trim them back, lest the combination of a recent dry season, power lines and Santa Ana winds erupt into one of those wildfires we're famous for.
He wrote:
She was told to trim them back, lest the combination of a recent dry season, power lines and Santa Ana winds erupt into one of those wildfires they're famous for.
I point this example out because on a few blogs people defended the would be Congressman of being lazy or inattentive. But this example shows how he obviously read through the post and changed the one word that would have shown that he lifted the post since he is not from California but Minnesota, a state not really known for wild fires.
That tells me that this was no accident. It was purposefully done to make it look as if he wrote it. No lazy person goes to this much trouble, and unless his cut and paste program automatically changes pronouns from first person plural to third person plural, he is far from inattentive. He's as attentive as you can get, looking for any subtle clue to cover his tracks and hide his thievery.Posted by: MagicalPat at November 28, 2007 07:43 PM (/9YA+)
I can see why you cherish your blogging privileges at Look True North. It is an excellent site and you get to post with an elite group.
Even though I live in California, I spend a lot of time in Minneapolis, in fact I will be there next week, and I consider it a second home. (OK, Chicago is my second home, then Minne). I'm a big fan of 'AM 1280 the Patriot' and the Northern Alliance Saturday program. I often listen to it here in L.A. I try to follow Minnesota politics as I have considered moving there for some time.
All that to say... thanks for supporting the outcome. No one desired that Seventh son lose his blogging privileges, nor that he quit his own blog. We just hoped for a correction and attribution. The apology would have meant more if he had made those changes. Oh well.
Again, thanks for supporting the outcome. And also, I read some things you posted. They are top notch.
Posted by: MagicalPat at November 28, 2007 08:16 PM (/9YA+)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 28, 2007 09:04 PM (VZv6D)
I appreciate this post more than you can imagine. Barrett is just down the road from me here and was a disaster during his campaign. Oh the stories that could be told.
Republicans beware.
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