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J. Hutton Pulitzer Plagiarizes Majority of Blog Post About How Creative and Original He Is

11/29/2015

 
In case you were wondering what explorers, inventors, and U.S. Presidents have in common, I wanted to point you in the direction of a recent post by J. Hutton Pulitzer titled "What do Presidents, Explorers and Inventors Have in Common?"  Pulitzer has answered your question with a list of "elite who happen to of haven been or currently are famous explorers (whether explorers of land, new frontiers or futuristic technology) who also happen to be accomplished inventors."  If you've been following Pulitzer's misadventures, you will probably not be surprised to see that he has placed himself among those elite, brave, creative inventors/explorers who have shaped our world:

"Seems the same school of thought and brain genius that enables one to seek adventure and tackle things others don’t even dream of doing is the same common thread to inventing ideas that change society and lead to a better way of life and productivity."

I'm not sure if Pulitzer counts the capacity for shameless plagiarism among the "brain genius" powers that he feels place him in the upper echelon of human creativity, but this post of his demonstrates it out the wazoo.  As someone who grades a lot of papers and is now unfortunately familiar with Pulitzer's writing style, the cut-and-paste was easy for me to spot.  This post gets a big fat zero for the shameless, intentional use of unattributed content. 

Here is a snippet of Pulitzer's text (I have bolded the portion of it that is his original writing):

"Besides being credited as the “inventor” and “Commander” of our nation, George Washington played a role in establishing the U.S. patent system. But why was he interested in inventing at all? Washington ran into a man named James Rumsey at an inn where both were staying. Rumsey showed Washington a model of his invention: a mechanical boat that could propel itself upstream by grappling on the bottom."

Here is text from the website InventHelp.com: 

"Besides being credited as the "inventor" of our nation, George Washington played a roll in establishing the U.S. patent system. But why was he interested in inventing at all? Washington ran into a man named James Rumsey at an inn where both were staying. Rumsey showed Washington a model of his invention: a mechanical boat that could propel itself upstream by grappling on the bottom."

So . . . yeah . . . add two words at the beginning and call it good, right? Pulitzer goes on to plagiarize sections about Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt from the same site.  Then he cuts and pastes unattributed text from Wikipedia for his section on "
modern day examples of this rough and tumble, yet inventive crowd," including lifted descriptions for Richard Branson, Steve Fossett, and Elon Musk.  

Pulitzer inserts himself in the "brain genius" lineup between Branson and Fossett, claiming that he "has accomplished more historic re-discoveries than any historic or modern explorers."

I'm not even sure what that means, but at least it's original writing.


Nowhere in Pulitzer's blog post (or anywhere on the page that I can see) are there any attributions of any sources for his text, not even in the most general way. There is what appears to be some kind of attribution at the beginning ("Original Publication Date November 19, 2013 -Washington, DC – Fun facts in History.  Tom Velasquez   Reprint Rights Granted") but I don't know what it's supposed to refer to.

Unless Pulitzer wants to claim that he wrote or owns the content on Wikipedia or InventHelp.com (no claim of his would surprise me at this point), I suggest that he add some. If he admits that he was intentionally trying to pass off the writing of others as his own and can convince me that he has learned from his mistake, I may let him turn in the assignment for up to half credit.  Otherwise, he gets a straight up "F" and I'll refer the case to the Office of Academic Dishonesty.  That's going to be a tough one to explain to his parents over the Christmas break. And to the World Creative Elite Inventor/Explorer Club Membership Application Board.
Hutton Pulitzer
11/29/2015 06:23:06 pm

Up to your same old stunts eh Andy, trying to get some page views off of my celebrity status once again? I have no time for this non sense. I have a geriatrics water aerobics class to attend.

Rose McDonald
12/20/2015 04:43:06 pm

Celebrity status? Oh, kind of like those paragons of truth and reality the Kardashians? BTW, it's nonsense, not non sense. No one takes you seriously anyway, but you could at least try to spell words correctly.

Dan
11/28/2016 06:27:25 pm

Who's this Pulitzer? :-) Nobody in the real treasure hunting world knows who he is or will admit they do. I know three people that won't even admit to anything to do with him out of fear "They'll soil their hard earned reputation." One gentleman in Arizona called him "The Ron Popeil of cache hunting." Not my words, but from a pro.

Andy White
11/29/2015 06:57:58 pm

Thanks for taking time out of your busy copy-and-paste schedule to drop by, if only to tell me that you don't have time to drop by.

Lori Noseworthy
11/30/2015 04:06:57 am

Feel free to add me on FB, I have so much information and Screen Shots of the nasty stuff he has said and done. Enough to fill a book. :) You are amazing, I love how you piss him off. ..lol

Felipe Gomez
11/30/2015 01:19:38 pm

I heard he found the Titantic...swam all the way to the bottom on one breath

Andy White
11/30/2015 01:37:56 pm

Take that, George Washington!

Ron
12/4/2015 08:21:46 pm

What! J Hutton, you disappoint me yet again. Here I was thinking that at least you make up the stuff you try and pass off as you own original research and now I find you aren't even doing that. Bad Treasure Hunter, bad. Go. Sit in your basket.

R. Namcsha
12/26/2015 05:12:45 pm

So glad the Oak Island guys dropped this goon before he could waste any additional air time!


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