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Bush Man Plagiarizes

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WASHINGTON - A Fort Wayne native and White House official acknowledged Friday he [Tim Goeglein] copied large portions of an essay that appeared in a Dartmouth College publication and presented them as his own in a News-Sentinel column.
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From:
http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080229/NEWS/194943667

This is the blog of the woman who discovered the plagiarism. I hadn't heard of her before but she has a nice entertaining style if this column is any example:
http://nancynall.com/2008/02/29/copycat/#comment-164037

From her column:
... I started to read, and a name jumped out at me — “Eugene Rosenstock-Hussey,” described as a “notable professor of philosophy at Dartmouth.” Now, I’m sure Tim’s spare brain space isn’t cluttered, as mine is, with “American Idol,” the internet and what’s-for-dinner concerns. Certainly string quartets waft through his paneled study, where he reads and thinks under the mounted ibex head, far from the vulgar buzz of pop culture. Surely he can acquaint himself with notable professors of philosophy at Dartmouth while I watch the Oscars. ...
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This comment was from the reader comments section of the blog linked to above:

cavjam Says:
February 29th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
To steal someone’s ideas absent attribution is, of course, intellectual dishonesty of the basest order. To not even bother to rewrite those ideas in one’s own words is laziness at which a sloth would scoff. To ignore the probability that one might get caught displays the cerebral activity of the dead.
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I smiled at that. It seems that Mr. Goeglein is a $125,000 a year Special Assistant to the President & Deputy Director of Public Liaison. Nice going Mr. Goeglein, risk a highly paid career to scam a few bucks by ripping off real writers (based on comments from Ms. Nall's blog it sounds like at least several of Mr. Goeglein's columns contained quite a bit of copied material). It seems like Mr. Goeglein is not the brightest of bulbs but that seems not to be a disqualification for employment as a Bushco staffer.

And the mea culpa (from the Journal-Gazette article linked to above):
It is true," Tim Goeglein wrote to The Journal Gazette in an e-mail. "I am entirely at fault. It was wrong of me. There are no excuses."
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Yes, it does seem that when the foibles of a Bush man become public Bushco sometimes cuts them loose:

Admission Attributed to Bush's Ex-Aide
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/13/AR2006031301677.html

Mr. Allen was nominated by Bush for a seat on the fourth circuit court of appeals and he was second ranking official at the Health and Human Services Department but he was cut loose after being caught returning stuff he'd stolen (something he'd done 20 times or so according to the police).

There are parallels between these two cases. Both men risked successful highly paid careers to commit crimes with little financial return. Both men were social conservatives whose jobs involved interfacing with social conservative groups. And of course both men were caught and both men resigned.

I found details about the cases, especially the plagiarism case, funny, but underlying the source of my humor are significant personal tragedies for these guys. It is amazing that people who made the great investment of time and effort to establish lucrative careers would risk it all over crimes that even if successful could provide them such small benefit.
 
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Amazing how this inept man and his inept staff and inept administration beat two Democrat candidates and still has a higher approval rating than the Congress. Of course the libs that voted for the inept Nader in 2000 are owed a tremendous assist in the Bush 43 victory.

Did Joe Biden excuse his plagariam of a British politician's campaign speech as some irresistible impulse?
 
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