But She’s Been Such A Paragon Of Journalistic Integrity!

Celebrity biographer Kitty Kelley is being sued by an Alabama writer who claims that she plagiarized parts of her recent book on the Bush family from an article he wrote for a web site. Kelley’s publisher doesn’t deny that parts of the article were reproduced verbatim in the book, but claims that “it was not protected by copyright, was of minimal scope, did not damage Mr. Wilson and was covered under the legal doctrine of ‘fair use.'”