“He [Turnbull] doesn’t charge that the quotes are untrue or inaccurate,” Fake Edelman said in a phone interview this morning. “This seems more like a coordinated attack by people who have a strong opposition to the political and ideological issues presented. Turnbull and his henchmen are cowards, afraid to take me on with the merits.”

Meanwhile, the situation has ignited a firestorm within the online community. Copyright and intellectual property rights are THE "third rail" of Internet issues.

Strumpette spokesman Fr. Brian Connolly released this statement:

"According to Harvard’s Writing with Sources manual, plagiarism 'is passing off a source’s information, ideas, or words as your own by omitting to cite them; an act of lying, cheating, and stealing.' The manual suggests that a passage found quoted in another scholar’s work should be cited as ‘quoted in’ that scholar. But it does not explicitly state how to source such a passage when one has returned to the original source to check the citation.

We've launched a thorough investigation and intend to review this matter fully. Until such time as we can make a final determination, we are suspending Fake Richard Edelman without pay."

More as this story develops.