Yesterday we noted that popular syndicated talk show hosts Walton and Johnson of the Texas/Louisiana/Mississippi area plagiarized one of our posts on their website.  We followed up yesterday evening by posting a nasty email one of our readers got from Walton & Johnson in response to an inquiry about the swiped post.

Today another reader got a nasty email response from the plagiarizing duo:

We answer 300 emails per day....sometimes you don’t get to cross all of the T’s and dot all of the I’s.... Sorry I answered this on at all. This kind of rudeness deserves no reply. So don’t bother sending anything back. We don’t plagiarize anything. PS Fuck off.

Our reader responded with this:

HAH! Yeah, you don’t plagiarize anything...except entire articles written by others that you pull from blogs and post on your site, adding some text to make it your own!! Ridiculous.

Walton & Johnson did, in fact, plagiarize a Say Anything post.  This is from the original post in question here on Say Anything:

There wouldn’t be the freedom to critisize the way they do things. Threats and intimidation and even murder would be the price you’d pay if you dared speak up.

There would be no compromise. You’d have to follow in rigid lockstep with their dogma or accept a status as a second or third class citizen. If you wouldn’t or couldn’t become a “made man” you’d have to pay the vig, a tax just to live.

Your women would become property. Crime syndicates are notoriously male oriented, often to the point of mysogyny. A woman’s place is to do what she’s told when she’s told to do it. It can pretty rough on her if she doesn’t.

The world wouldn’t put up with any of that if it were the mafia trying to take over, so I’m wondering just how it is that Islam, with its blatant thuggery and downright viciousness, is being allowed to bully its way into the lives of so, so many.

This is from the Walton & Johnson post:

There would be no compromise. You’d have to follow in rigid lockstep with their dogma or accept a status as a second or third class citizen. If you wouldn’t or couldn’t become a “made man” you’d have to pay the vig, a tax just to live.

Your women would become property. Crime syndicates are notoriously male oriented, often to the point of misogyny. A woman’s place is to do what she’s told when she’s told to do it. It can pretty rough on her if she doesn’t

The world wouldn’t put up with any of that if it were the mafia trying to take over, so I’m wondering just how it is that Islam, with its blatant violent crime, mass murder, and downright viciousness, is being allowed to bully its way into the lives of millions around the world who want no part of their cult of death.

Note that while most of the two excerpts are identical, there are a few minor changes near the end.  This indicates that this was no mere “I reproduced the post but forgot to put in a link” error.  Someone copied our post, changed it a tiny bit, and then re-posted it on another site as though it were their original work.

That’s not just a mistake.  That’s theft, pure and simple.  If Walton & Johnson had fixed this error when it was brought to their attention we wouldn’t be making a big deal out of it, but to blow this off as though it doesn’t matter is just plain arrogant and disrespectful.

Walton & Johnson would have you believe that we’re just obscure bloggers that nobody cares about.  While we’ve never claimed to be any sort of media moguls, that doesn’t excuse their thievery.

Update: By the way, check out the theme on the front page of their website now:

“Islam and The Mob?” Gee, I wonder where they got that.