Earlier this month, a Washington Post freelance reviewer alerted the paper to numerous similarities between material in "Seeds of Hope" and passages on Wikipedia and on websites for organic tea and thehistoryof tobacco.
Mr Santelli's televised rant against bail-outs has gone down in history as the birth harangue ofthe tea-party movement, which went on in double-quick time to capture the Republican Party and yank the whole of American politics sharply to the right.