Well It’s Just a Simple Fact

February 29th, 2008 by TRex @ 3:22 pm| Posted in GOP Cargo Cult, kegadoru konservatives |

They’re never, ever going to learn, are they?

Timothy S. Goeglein, a top White House aide who is President Bush’s chief liaison to religious groups, has admitted to plagiarizing a column he wrote for his hometown paper, the Fort Wayne (Ind.) News-Sentinel.

Goeglein is a special assistant to the president and deputy director of public liaison. He previously worked closely with Karl Rove and during the 2004 election was Bush’s chief emissary to conservative political groups.

Sylvia A. Smith writes in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette: “A Fort Wayne native and White House official acknowledged Friday he copied large portions of an essay that appeared in a Dartmouth College publication and presented them as his own in a News-Sentinel column.

“‘It is true,’ Tim Goeglein wrote to The Journal Gazette in an email. ‘I am entirely at fault. It was wrong of me. There are no excuses.’

We’re going to have to mandate that all home school curricula and academic jack-shacks like Liberty University include rigorous teaching with regards to intellectual theft and plagiarism. This is getting ridiculous.

  1. 12 Responses to “Well It’s Just a Simple Fact”

  2. By punaise on Feb 29, 2008 3:37 pm |

    Jane’s Zed Diction…

  3. By Steve on Feb 29, 2008 3:51 pm |

    I was hoping that there would be a tie-in to a fundie university.. no luck…BA Indiana Univ.

  4. By Bil on Feb 29, 2008 3:55 pm |

    “I am not a crook”…

  5. By burnspbesq on Feb 29, 2008 4:12 pm |

    Steve said

    I was hoping that there would be a tie-in to a fundie university.. no luck…BA Indiana Univ.

    I’ll bet he thinks Kelvin Sampson was unfairly railroaded.

    “What’s the big deal? All he did was break the same rule over 500 times.”

  6. By ironranger on Feb 29, 2008 4:29 pm |

    Oh man, these people have absolutely no imagination or original thoughts. I think many of them are so accustomed to parroting talking points, they forget there is such a thing as plagiarism in the real world & that people do notice.

  7. By madmommy on Feb 29, 2008 4:58 pm |

    Same shit different day. Really boring, these people. The only originality they seem to be able to come up with is in the various ways they embarass themselves in sex scandals. Blech!

  8. By sharonlee on Feb 29, 2008 5:09 pm |

    mm–”Same shit different day.”

    This could well be the slogan for the rest of this political season.

  9. By TRex on Feb 29, 2008 5:51 pm |

    Fresh thread!

    http://www.iamtrex.com/?p=439

  10. By Bob in AZ on Feb 29, 2008 5:53 pm |

    Well he DID admit it. Puts him several steps above the typical excuse-a-minute Repugnant on my scorecard.

  11. By tejanarusa on Mar 1, 2008 12:35 am |

    Eek! Indiana Univ! How dare he come from my school?
    Any hope it was IU-Ft Wayne, not Bloomington? (Actually, I haven’
    t checked to seee if there is an IU Ft Wayne…)

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