Michael Moore's (poached) pledge

Not sure how much press this will get, but Michael Moore's pledge ("By Michael Moore") has at least been published in the LA Times opinion section. It's a thought-provoking read... but as it turns out, it wasn't his thoughts it started out as.

In a reddit posting that links to the pledge (which is how I came by it), the following comments are made:

tokenbondboy 17 points 7 hours ago
Didn't he just plagiarise that from someone? I swear I read a somewhat shorter version of that last week.

joshwa 16 points 5 hours ago
yep, he plagiarised it:
http://reddit.com/info/qqgf/comments
I know the original author personally, in fact.

And that link points back to the source article here. "The Witch" and MM both have good, but different points. The main issue, though, is that MM and/or the LA Times never even gave credit when MM clearly had seen this in some version and simply tweaked it to his own version. All it would have taken was a "This [source] has been floating around the web - here's my version..."