oh please oh please let this be true

...if only to wipe that smug smirk off her self-righteous face:

Elisabeth Hasselbeck, conservative co-host of ABC's "The View," is being sued over accusations her best-selling diet book plagiarized another author's work. Cape Cod author Susan Hassett filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Hasselbeck in Massachusetts federal court this week, saying parts of the book, "The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide," were lifted from a book Hassett had written on the same subject. Hassett claims she mailed Hasselbeck a copy of her self-published book, "Living with Celiac Disease," in April 2008... Hasselbeck's book, which made it to The New York Times best seller list, was published in May and "includes dozens of paraphrased as well as word-for-word regurgitations of phrases and scrupulously researched factual data entries" from Hassett's book, according to Hassett's complaint. [reuters]