Hasselbeck Accused of No Original Thoughts

[Are_grits_groceries]

Elisabeth Hasselbeck ripped off a woman by plagiarizing her disease material -- so claims Susan Hassett, who fired off a letter to "The View" host just before suing her.

We obtained the letter -- in which Susan claims she sent Elisabeth a book called "Living with Celiac Disease" back in April of '08. Thirteen months later, Susan says Hasselbeck published the same book with a new title: "The G Free Diet-A Gluten Free Survival Guide." Yes, the title sucks.

Susan compares chapters and lines. Here are some highlights.

Susan's Book Chapter 1: What is Celiac Disease?
Hasselbeck Chapter 2: What is Celiac Disease?

Susan's tips: "Shop in the outer isles of the supermarket."
Hasselbeck's tips: "Food in the outer isles of the supermarket."

And the comparisons go on and on.

Susan just sued Elisabeth for copyright infringement and plagiarism.

http://www.tmz.com/2009/06/23/hasselbeck-accused-of-no-original-thoughts/

Littlebit got caught??

[YOY]

1. She did it for FREEDOM!

n.t.

[Canuckistanian]

5. The brave troops fought for her right to publish that book

How dare anyone disrespect the troops like that?

[YOY]

8. And disrespecting her a Christian(tm)!!! Jesus and Hanity are disrespected too!

n/t

[ejpoeta]

2. rule number one.... if you are going to steal someone else's ideas

at least change it so it looks different. geesh.

[KansDem]

3. Maybe she didn't want to frighten the children?

:shrug:

It worked for Shrub...

[greenbriar]

4. bwahahaha leave it to a repuke to do something stupid

and not think anything about it

[SidDithers]

6. Not to defend littebit...

but if you're going to write a book about Gluten-free dieting, it makes sense to have a chapter called "What is Celiac Disease".

And "Shop in the outside aisles" is advice that most nutritionists give. That's where the fresh fruit and veggies, meats and dairy usually are, with processed foods in the middle aisles.

Now if both twit and Hasset both continually misspell "isle", perhaps that would be evidence of plagiarizing.

Sid (whose daughter is a Celiac kid)

Edit: I've got probably a dozen books about Celiac disease and GF cooking, and they're basically all the same.

[Celebration]

14. yes there IS no original book about this

I don't like her at all, but these two examples are not good ones of why the woman thinks her book was ripped off. There would have to be much, much more for me to be convinced.

[pleah]

7. Please! Nail that bimbo's butt to the wall!

I really hate that piece of shit that calls herself a woman.

[Arkana]

9. Grass is green, sky is blue, Liz Hasselbeck is an empty-headed idiot.

What else is new?

[annabanana]

10. It's not an "accusation".. . Just an observation. .

. . and a fairly obvious one, at that.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

11. I guess she figured if Cindy McCain could get away with stealing Rachael Ray's cookie recipes, she

could get away with stealing a book!

[grace0418]

12. To have original thoughts, one must have thoughts, and a brain.

Just saying.

[cagesoulman]

13. The title of the thread sounded like an ONION article.

Go ONION!