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White House aide caught plagiarizing.

By Matt Corley on Feb 29th, 2008 at 1:29 pm

White House aide caught plagiarizing.

Yesterday in a column for The News-Sentinel, Timothy S. Goeglein — a special assistant to President Bush — referenced Eugene Rosenstock-Hussey, a former professor at Dartmouth College. Curious about the obscure reference, blogger Nancy Nall googled the name, only to find that full sections of Goeglein’s 16-paragraph essay were copied nearly word-for-word from a 10-year old Dartmouth Review essay by Jeffrey Hart. Confronted about the plagiarism, Goeglein told The Journal Gazette that “it is true” he copied Hart and that he is “entirely at fault.”



27 Responses to “White House aide caught plagiarizing.”

  1. desaparecido says:

    c’mon, Timmy. You gotta be more clever than that with all the internets that we have available these days.
    http://tshirtinsurgency.com/media-murder-t-shirt


  2. Max-1 says:

    .


    IMPEACH
    BUSH
    SECOND

    .


  3. joe cantwell says:

    thank you tp for giving credit to nancy nall for this. it seems the fort wayne news sentinel couldn’t be bothered to include this fact in their article.

    http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080229/NEWS02/802290342/1001


  4. belac says:

    Confronted about the plagiarism, Goeglein told The Journal Gazette that “it is true” he copied Hart and that he is “entirely at fault.”

    Has he learned nothing in his time at the white house? The answer is… ‘I don’t want to comment on that while there is an ongoing investigation.”

    Oh, Goeglein- and you were this close to that Medal o’ Freedom…


  5. Xisithrus says:

    The masters of low expectations.


  6. davemartin7777 says:

    They’ve run out of BS, now they have to steal it.


  7. swordsbane says:

    The only thing interesting or surprising about this story is the fact that the guy said, straight up “I did it.” I thought Bush taught him better. Aren’t they supposed to either deny everything or say “I don’t remember” ?


  8. Bobwurst says:

    This is a cry for help. The poor guy just wants out of the living hell that is this adminstration. He figures if he admits he did a booboo he’ll get fired.


  9. Democrat Soldier says:

    “Confronted about the plagiarism, Goeglein told The Journal Gazette that “it is true” he copied Hart and that he is “entirely at fault.” ”

    Oh, my God! Pres. Bush is going to have to fire this guy for taking personal responsibility for his own actions!

    That’s totally AGAINST what the Repubic party stands for today!


  10. hellinabucket says:

    How long has this person worked in the White House? This is the first time?


  11. Uncle Ho says:

    belac; by the standards of the Bush administration, Goeglein will still get that Medal of Freedom, in spite of, or BECAUSE of the plagarizing.


  12. hellinabucket says:

    Damn good angle Bobwurst. Watch the avalanche of plagiarism from staffers in the WhiteHouse.


  13. Nevar says:

    Goeglein has worked in the Bush White House since 2001 as the Bush administration’s liaison to religious organizations.

    His full job title is the
    Minister of Misinformation to the Ministers of Misinformation


  14. belac says:

    But Uncle Ho-
    It’s true they reward failure and stealing- but to admit something to the American people? That may be the one unpardonable sin in this administration…


  15. VerbalKint says:

    If it was a high level person, someone else would have to take the blame. But this guy is chump change, so let him take the fall.


  16. Zooey says:

    Time to bust out the medals…


  17. delafield says:

    Timothy S. Goeglein and Barack Obama have something in common. Both of them are plagiarists.

    :(


  18. Nature Rules says:

    How many hundreds of incompetent people has Bush and his admin hired?


  19. Lefty Patriot says:

    How many hundreds of incompetent people has Bush and his admin hired?

    Comment by Nature Rules — February 29, 2008 @ 2:35 pm

    Virtually all of them, from day 1. Thanks for 9/11, bushies.


  20. Bobwurst says:

    How many hundreds of incompetent people has Bush and his admin hired?

    Comment by Nature Rules — February 29, 2008 @ 2:35 pm

    Virtually all of them, from day 1. Thanks for 9/11, bushies.

    Comment by Lefty Patriot

    Let’s make it easier, how may competent people has bush hired?


  21. ralph the wonder llama says:

    Let’s make it easier, how may competent people has bush hired?

    Comment by Bobwurst — February 29, 2008 @ 2:47 pm

    Let’s see… David Kuo, and one of the White House tour guides, named Danielle.

    that’s about it.


  22. joe cantwell says:

    more fun stuff.

    jeffrey hart, the man goeglein stole from, endorses obama:

    http://digg.com/politics/Archconservative_Endorses_Obama


  23. rogernyc says:

    unreal… will it ever stop?


  24. natisman says:

    Nobody told this guy that he could blame this act of plagerizing on hooch, bad Priests, the dewey decimal system or cloth diapers. looks like he didn’t read the RePUG handbook.

    He needs to go away. he can’t be trusted.


  25. bluestatedon says:

    All Bushies believe they make their own reality until they get caught.


  26. VerbalKint says:

    Froomkin reports three other instances of plagiarism now attributed to this little Republican creep. This is the Bush administration in a nutshell: serial cheaters and liars.


  27. batteries says:

    Nobody told this guy that he could blame this act of plagerizing on hooch, bad Priests, the dewey decimal system or cloth diapers. looks like he didn’t read the RePUG asus silver m6800 battery,asus silver a42-m6 battery handbook.

    He needs to go away. he can’t be trusted.



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