Wow! Reached yr post via anil dash and was outraged enough that I thought I’d do a post of my own. So I went searching for a Glenn Beck photo to label “real American plagarist”; but now, when I try to go back to the Beck page,it won’t open! You may have sent a a boatload of traffic his way. Or maybe folks at Premier Radio Network are trying to delete the evidence. If so, hope someone saved a screen shot before it’s too late.

What a creep. When you go to his home page there’s a scroll that says “Application of your faith will change your life.” Didn’t know “Thou shalt plagarize” was the 11th commandment.

Yep, it appears that the reverent rightwinger took the page down, but alas, he’s managed to put in its place a redirect script that can’t figure itself out.

For those who didn’t get to see it, Google was nice enough to save a copy of the plagarizing bastard’s page for us.

(And digging into the screwed-up redirect script a bit, it appears to be the page that you get whenever you ask for any page that doesn’t exist, such as this one. It is supposed to redirect the user to one of two pages, index-big.shtml or index-800x600.shtml, depending on the user’s screen width. The problem is that the script doesn’t explicitly identify the directory of the index pages, so when the user was trying to go to a page in the /news directory that no longer exists, it tries to redirect them to /news/index-blah, which also doesn’t exist, which then leads to the script firing off again… ad infinitum. So now we know that we’re talking about plagarizing bastards and web morons.)

(Jesus, I can’t believe I just did web debugging for a plagarizing bastard.)

So, is there a way to create a google bomb that will link GBeck and plagarist to the saved page?

cs,

Google will remove the cached page. It will eventually fade. However, I got a copy of it in PDF format. You can download it if you wish.

Eric

“Thou shalt spellcheck before google-bombing a plagiarizing bastard.” ;->

Site is down, can’t read it. Hey, I hope it’ll be fun :)

Heh — the plagiarizing bastard has changed things on his site around a bit, so that any link to the now-deleted post now redirects to an anti-Michael Moore site. (For those who never saw the original page, the plagiarizing bastard lifted Adam Mathes’s article verbatim except for changing the Google bomb to be against Moore.)

Seems like you’re making a mountain out of a molehill here. I think the real issue is Google’s Miserable Failure on this cybergraffiti.

Tom, calling Beck out for outright plagiarizing is making a mountain out of a molehill? Come on; you can’t be serious. The guy took someone else’s creative words and used them as his own, flat out. It would have been trivial for him to say something like “This Adam Mathes guy had a great idea; everyone should use it to push some negative traffic Michael Moore’s way!”, but he didn’t, he stole it. Truly disgusting.

Jason, I just thought “plagiarizing bastard” was a little over the top, that’s all.

There has been an extraordinary amount of plagiarism of bloggers by media outlest in the past week or so - at least the first I’ve known about for a while. A lot of it has been overseas because foreign media outlets apparently figure that U.S. copyrights can’t be enforced against them.

Some of those media outlets will be quickly learing the flaws in their theories.