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What's that word Michelle Malkin always uses? "Schadenfreude-licious"? Something like that.

Anyway, we like that as a one-word description of this story.

It seems that the attorney for Silversun Pickups (yes, that's a band that you have never heard of) did a little excessive "borrowing" when calling on Mitt Romney to stop using the group's song "Panic Switch" at campaign rallies. Her name is Tamara Milagros-Butler, and her "cease and desist" letter to the Romney campaign looks awfully similar to a letter written on behalf of Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh. That was another "cease and desist" letter which, oddly enough, went to Congressman Joe Walsh (same name, different political philosophies) about two years ago.

The Hollywood Reporter has excerpted whole paragraphs from Milagros-Butler's letters and the letters sent on behalf of Walsh. The similarities simply cannot be denied.

Ms. Milagros-Butler doesn't even attempt a denial:

Milagros-Butler herself acknowledges the situation and says that her boss raised the issue with her last night after the letter came out.

"When I needed to write a cease and desist letter, I did what almost any contract lawyer does many times day and I looked at historic forms," she says. "I simply loved the tone of this language (in the Walsh letter). And geez, I looked back when my boss raised the issue and ran a red-line comparison. While the language isn't precisely the same, I borrowed liberally from Peter's letter."

Some think it's brazen for a writer to lift several paragraphs from a tiny publication like The New Yorker and hope nobody would notice, as suspended columnist and TV host Fareed Zakaria recently did. But what about someone who is accusing one of the nation's most prominent figures of theft. Doesn't that situation beg for some originality?

This campaign just keeps getting better...

(The Hollywood Reporter)



 

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