Tim Goeglein, special assistant to President Bush, resigned this evening after being caught — and then admitting to — plagiarizing articles that he wrote for a local paper. After blogger Nancy Nall revealed that Goeglein had plagiarized a recent Fort Wayne News-Sentinel column, an investigation by the paper found 20 of his 38 columns had parts that were copied. Goeglein had worked for Bush since 2001 as a liaison to social and religious conservatives and is a familiar figure to many evangelical Christian leaders.
Oh the morality of it all. Elmers to the end.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:02 pmOhhhh, the irony...
February 29th, 2008 at 10:05 pmGoddamned Christians again. Everybody hide your children and valuables.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:05 pm.
Goeglein had worked for Bush since 2001 as a liaison to social and religious conservatives and is a familiar figure to many evangelical Christian leaders.
PRECIOUS!
Now, how can we link him to Bush's lies?
.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:07 pmAin't That A Shame...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Jk1-Fq8Gc
February 29th, 2008 at 10:09 pmspeaking of plagiarism, have you guys seen that new site about obama? it actually talks about his voting record. it's at http://www.obamacopy.com. kind of scary.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:11 pmTim Goeglein, caught plagiarizing articles? That's nothing compared to the kiddie porn and KKK websites they'll also find on his computer. These wingnuts are just so predictable...
February 29th, 2008 at 10:12 pmIt's never the crime with this group it's the lack of a cover-up that gets them.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:15 pmComment by justreal — February 29, 2008 @ 10:11 pm
Boy, is THAT website a POS, or what?
Talk about a contrived smear job.
Funny, there's no way to find out who's BEHIND it... very curious...
February 29th, 2008 at 10:24 pmconsidering all of the "copy and paste" trolls that comment here is this story really a great surprise to anyone? i think not.
conservatism is conformity. conformity is plagiarism.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:29 pmOhhhh, the irony…
Comment by Zooey — February 29, 2008 @ 10:05 pm
At this point, it isn't even irony. Its pretty much by definition that "fundamentalist evangelical" equals "without morals."
February 29th, 2008 at 10:31 pmComment by justreal — February 29, 2008 @ 10:11 pm
you're right. it's a very scary smear.
thanks for the tip!
February 29th, 2008 at 10:32 pmThe political program of world dominion is wrapped neatly in the cloak of religion. Good riddance Tim! Watch out for the traffic for you're about to be thrown under the bus.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:34 pmComment by The Republic of Stupidity — February 29, 2008 @ 10:24 pm
Exactly! What a piece of shit!
February 29th, 2008 at 10:37 pmi figured it was a smear site just by the words and "tone"
of the trooll posting it...
i suggest FLAGGING it...
February 29th, 2008 at 10:38 pmi suggest FLAGGING it…
Comment by katy — February 29, 2008 @ 10:38 pm
i did.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:39 pmkind of scary.
Comment by justreal
do you have a relative who posts here?
justasking.............
February 29th, 2008 at 10:44 pmI've been watching "Illuminati Project" on YouTube. It takes some time to watch it as I'm on part 37 and each part is around 10-11 minutes long. Very interesting and very depressing as to how easy it is to hoodwink the populace. There's a really creepy part in 34 or 35 about mind control and it shows a clip of Bill Clinton getting his makeup touched up before a TV thing and he's just sitting there staring into space. Not blinking or twitching or anything as the woman is patting his face. Now knowing Bill's rep with women you'd think he'd be flirting away. He looks almost pasty. Everyone should check this series out. Definitely puts today's political events into perspective. I've never trusted the super-rich and super-powerful because that is all they care about. Being super-rich and super-powerful. And in total control of us.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:48 pmComment by Mr. Evil — February 29, 2008 @ 10:48 pm
good post. justreal = “Illuminati Projectâ€
a warning to us all.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:53 pmbush has tapped into the vast reserve of unused mediocrity and petty larceny like Goeglein and Goodling; people who would never rise to any significant or trusted position without the cover of an institutionalized badge or label, something like "lawyer,"....or christian priest....
..and , of course, aided by a thoroughly corrupt republican machine which aligns itself with and utilizes the mythos of the 'virtuous' church to defraud the nation and rend the last vestiges of our democratic ideals.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:56 pm"Don’t set out to raze all shrines – you’ll frighten men. Enshrine mediocrity, and the shrines are razed."
~Ellsworth Toohey, The Fountainhead
February 29th, 2008 at 11:02 pmComment by hanshiro — February 29, 2008 @ 10:56 pm
from the white house:
Statement by the Press Secretary
White House News
Tim Goeglein has loyally served President Bush for over seven years and worked tirelessly on his behalf to promote the President's policies. Among his contributions, Tim helped establish the President's Faith-Based and Community Initiative, and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. He also played an important role in the confirmation of Supreme Court Justices Roberts and Alito.
Today, Tim accepted responsibility for the columns published under his name in his local newspaper, and has apologized for not upholding the standards expected by the President. The President was disappointed to learn of the matter, and he was saddened for Tim and his family. He has long appreciated Tim's service, and he knows him to be a good person who is committed to his country. President Bush accepted Tim's resignation today.
February 29th, 2008 at 11:03 pmGood question, Raven.
February 29th, 2008 at 11:15 pmWhite House aide resigns [bails] over admissions of plagiarism.
Another rat jumping ship from SSBush.
February 29th, 2008 at 11:52 pmThat's a pretty novel thing... someone in the Bush administration taking responsibility for his actions. Perhaps others will follow suit? I won't hold my breath though.
February 29th, 2008 at 11:54 pmToday, Tim accepted responsibility for the columns published under his name in his local newspaper, and has apologized for not upholding the standards expected by the President.~Comment by joe cantwell — February 29, 2008 @ 11:03 pm
Always, always after they get busted do they then have the 'come ta Jesus' capitulation. Accepting responsibility isn't the same as "fessing up" after you're caught red-handed and confronted with the bald evidence of your thievery.
I'm quite unimpressed by Timmeh's 'acceptance.' Wonder in what capacity the neocon welfare machine will utilize such a willing and integrity-free dirtbag coward. The GOP never throws away a useful swindler...maybe phonebank jammer....
Diebold 'auditer?'
February 29th, 2008 at 11:56 pmHer only "took responsibility" because he was caught.
February 29th, 2008 at 11:57 pm"He also played an important role in the confirmation of Supreme Court Justices Roberts and Alito."
well, thanks, TIM.
March 1st, 2008 at 12:11 am"Will Obama “quit†now. Barack Obama — “Change you can Xerox.â€
Comment by good_golly — March 1, 2008 @ 12:10 am"
Wow, gg, you now sound like Hillary...proud?
March 1st, 2008 at 12:21 amThe problem is not Christianity but those that abuse and hide in it for monetary and political gain, thats Mammonism.
March 1st, 2008 at 12:22 amOBAMA'S TRIFECTA: FOREIGN POLICY LINE IS RUN BY TRILATERAL FOUNDER ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI -OBAMA''S WIFE LINKED TO COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
WASHINGTON DC -- Barack Obama's top economics adviser is a member of the super-secret Skull & Bones society of Yale University, of which George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and John Kerry are also members, reliable sources confirmed tonight. Goolsbee is widely reported to have told Obama not to back a compulsory freeze on home mortgage foreclosures to help the struggling middle class in the current depression crisis, as demanded by former candidate John Edwards. Hillary Clinton has advocated a one-year voluntary freeze on foreclosures. Obama has offered counselors to comfort mortgage victims as they are dispossessed, citing the 'moral hazard' of protecting the public interest from Wall Street sharks.
By adding the infamous Skull & Bones secret society to his campaign roster, Obama, who bills himself as the candidate of change and hope, has attained a prefect trifecta of oligarchical and financier establishment backing for his attempt to seize the nomination of the Democratic Party for 2008. Obama's main overall image adviser and foreign policy adviser is Zbigniew Brzezinski, the co-founder of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission, and the mastermind of the disastrous Carter administration. Obama's wife Michelle is reputed to be closely linked to the Council on Foreign Relations. Behind the utopian platitudes dished up by the Illinois senator, the face of the Wall Street money elite comes into clearer and clearer focus.
George Will, in an October 2007 Washington Post column saluted Goolsbee's "nuanced understanding" of traditional Democratic issues like globalization and income inequality; he "seems to be the sort of fellow -- amiable, empirical, and reasonable--you would want at the elbow of a Democratic president, if such there must be," wrote the arch-oligarchical apologist Will.
From Wikipedia: 'Austan D. Goolsbee is an economist and is currently the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He is also a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation[1], Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a member of the Panel of Economic Advisors to the Congressional Budget Office. He has been Barack Obama's economic advisor since Obama's successful U.S. Senate campaign in Illinois. He is the lead economic advisor to the 2008 Obama presidential campaign.' - Webster Tarpley
Sort of makes you wonder if we really do have a choice in November, doesn't it?
For the first time since I can remember, I just may not vote at all.
March 1st, 2008 at 12:23 amI have read Tarpleys stuff. As I recall he is a Larouchie.
March 1st, 2008 at 12:41 amWhat a surprise. Another liar in the Bush administration. What would shock me is if we find an honest person employed at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
March 1st, 2008 at 12:43 amObama yo Momma! How many Obamamaniacs are here tonite? Let me see your hands please!!
March 1st, 2008 at 12:50 amIt's not really lying when it's done in the name of Jesus./sarc off
March 1st, 2008 at 12:50 amJesus told me to kill...
March 1st, 2008 at 12:57 amThis is just the beginning, unless the Democrats let it die. His computer, which was seized, has info about lies told about FISA and other stuff.
His travel was paid for (against rules) by telecom companies, and there is more.
Stay tuned....
March 1st, 2008 at 1:09 amJesus told me to kill…
Comment by Mr. Evil
Jesus couldnt write Mr Evil, he could draw pictures.
March 1st, 2008 at 1:13 amI said he "told" me. Not that he wrote me a letter. But he did also draw a picture of me slaying a pig so I could enjoy my bacon.
March 1st, 2008 at 1:17 amSo this guy is working with religious fringe groups and he steals other peoples work, so does this qualify for eternal damnation?
March 1st, 2008 at 1:36 amNo, natis, unlike eating shellfish, plagiarism isn't a brimstone type sin.
March 1st, 2008 at 1:41 amNo, it simply means you are a thief. Taking and using for oneself the bounty of another.
March 1st, 2008 at 1:56 amI suppose we are going to threaten this aide with the death penalty...plagiarism - such a horrific crime.
March 1st, 2008 at 2:12 amCould we please go after the real criminals tied to the Bush crime family for once?
Funny how the troll equivalence's Obama borrowing some stock, generic phrases from a friend for a speech to copying large sections of text in 20 newspaper columns. What Obama did doesn't even fit the definition of plagiarism. But the Bush lickspittles, always grasping at straws, go to extraordinary lengths to engage in this kind of equivalencing. Note the two components to the process: attempt to establish a wrong committed by the other side, then invoke the two wrongs make a right philosophy. This particular troll is an expert at this process. The process achieves two critical objectives: a smear is delivered, and one's own wrongdoings are normalized.
Give it up, troll. Go back to headquarters and tell your leaders that the Obama smears aren't working. Polls show that he isn't being touched by your side. To the contrary, your tactics are strengthening Obama, because they play right into his strategy of tapping into disgust with your brand of sleazy politics.
March 1st, 2008 at 3:37 amWill Obama “quit†now. Barack Obama — “Change you can Xerox.â€
Comment by good_golly — March 1, 2008 @ 12:10 am
There's the fear and trepidation of the right wing, in a nutshell.
March 1st, 2008 at 3:40 amWhat did Fox O'Reilly and Hannity say about this?..I bet Fox network ignorned the whole story.
March 1st, 2008 at 8:30 amFox might hire this aide as 'religion & faith expert...' after he quit the W.House.
After blogger Nancy Nall revealed that Goeglein had plagiarized a recent Fort Wayne News-Sentinel column,....
That's the good news in this matter. Millions of politically aware Americans, with access to the Internet....keeping their eyes on those in power. The result, in this case , is a special assistant to President Bush, who is looking for another job.
We were all worried about Big Brother watching us, but perhaps, ironically, it is the other way around.
March 1st, 2008 at 8:49 amVeritas....we also have socialized medicine for Elected Officials ,government workers, and veterans.
The game that the opponents of National Health Insurance is ...playing the insured against the uninsured and underinsured.
March 1st, 2008 at 8:56 amspeaking of plagiarism, have you guys seen that new site about obama? it actually talks about his voting record. it’s at http://www.obamacopy.com. kind of scary.
Comment by justreal
Oh boy, here we go. I expect that the RNC has sent out a large troop of trolls who will be bashing Obama, questioning his voting record, his inexperience...ad nausaum.
There is no such thing as a perfect candidate. Obama has been a little too corporate for my tastes, but I believe he will make a fine president, especially if those who supported him pressure him to take a more populist view.
Every time some "concerned" person posts something like this, we need to ask them:
What are you going to do? Vote for McCain, or how about Ralph? Or why not sit home and pout because Obama is not the perfect candidate.
March 1st, 2008 at 9:22 am“Will Obama “quit†now. Barack Obama — “Change you can Xerox.â€
Comment by good_golly
Oh goody. A plagiarizing troll. How special.
March 1st, 2008 at 9:27 amFor the first time since I can remember, I just may not vote at all.
Comment by Mr. Evil
Works for me. You won't be missed.
March 1st, 2008 at 9:28 amYou have to give Goeglein credit for this much...once he was caught, he 'fessed up and did the right thing by resigning his position. Of course, if he'd been doing the right thing from the very beginning by not engaging in rampant plagiarism -- and yes, I'd call 20 out of 38 articles rampant -- this wouldn't have been necessary and the White House wouldn't have yet one more blot on its integrity. Nevertheless, despite the fact that their party loves to pontificate about the importance of taking personal responsibility, most Bush insiders seem incapable of admitting that they could ever be capable of even making a mistake, never mind admitting to wrongdoing. Perhaps if they were, their popularity rating wouldn't be quite so low -- two of the reasons why so many people despise the Bush administration is because of its predilection for doing whatever it feels like with little or no regard for the rules and disavowing responsibility for anything that goes wrong even it's the direct result of their own decisions.
March 1st, 2008 at 9:49 amTalk about a contrived smear job.
Funny, there’s no way to find out who’s BEHIND it… very curious…
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — February 29, 2008 @ 10:24 pm
Yeah, it was registered at Go-Daddy.com by a company called Domains by Proxy, Inc.
Someone wanted to hide who they really were by going through Domains by Proxy, inc. http://www.domainsbyproxy.com/
I wonder if this breaks one of their rules:
"Engage in morally objectionable activities, including but not limited to those which are child pornographic, defamatory, abusive, harassing, obscene, racist, or otherwise objectionable."
They have a link for reporting defaming or libelous statements on domains they host.
March 1st, 2008 at 9:50 amJust another Republican liar caught. We are in the Republican unreality bubble here.
I think it's a joke how Republicans keep talking about tax and spend Democrats. The Republican spend and spend record makes the Democrats look like Republicans. The Republicans are a fiscal trainwreck. If they were a household, they'd be on the verge of losing their house begging themselves for sub-prime relief!
Just look at their war of convenience in Iraq. The latest estimate is that the Iraq war alone will cost 3 to 5 trillion dollars, not to mention far more America lives than we lost in the 9/11 event which prompted the war. That's an abysmal rate of return on every count. That's orders of magnitude more than the $60 billion Republicans told us it would cost when they were selling the war. That's orders of magnitude higher than any number the Republicans are even trying to pin to the Democrats for anything. And the Republicans are ignoring the data, saying we can afford to be in Iraq for another hundred years.
Now Bush tells us we are not going into a recession. What a joke. And the Republican nominee for President, McCain, admits he also doesn't know squat about the economy.
It's beyond me why anyone would listen to the Republicans anymore. What's even more staggering is that after such a terrible record, the Republicans would be so arrogant as to harshly criticize anyone else on fiscal responsibility. The Republican electorate, their fast talking arrogant rude pundits like Rush and Coulter, and most of all their Republican leaders, need to be quiet and take a good long hard look at themselves.
In the meantime, let's bring in someone smart with a fresh approach. Let's bring in someone who is not going to spend all his energy fighting and tearing people down. Let's bring in someone who can bring us together to bring real change to the direction of America. That's what we need. That's our only hope for change. Otherwise it's status quo, and despite what the Republicans are telling us, status quo is looking pretty bad right now.
Obama '08. Yes we can!
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-02/29/content_7694954.htm
"WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Iraq war will cost Americans between 3 trillion and 5 trillion U.S. dollars, including military spending, broader economic costs and decades of benefits and medical care for combat veterans, a Nobel prize-winning economist said.
In a testimony at the Congress Thursday, Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 and a professor at Columbia University, gave his latest estimate of the war's economic impact, the Cox News service reported Friday.
The upper end of the estimate is nearly double what Stiglitz had projected just two years ago.
He attributed the dramatic increase to the continuing intensity of the war, which will be five years old by next month, and the likelihood that operations there would continue for at least another year.
The war's gravest toll has been paid in blood.
Fighting in Iraq has so far taken the lives of 3,973 U.S. troops and left nearly 29,300 wounded."
March 1st, 2008 at 9:53 amI miss the Think Fast thread on Saturdays.
March 1st, 2008 at 9:54 amI miss the Think Fast thread on Saturdays.
Comment by Marie
Well, we can make this a "Think Fast" thread. What TP should really do is to post an "open thread" every Saturday and Sunday morning. Just because they don't work on weekends does not mean that we don't need a place to post.
Huffingtonpost operates 24/7 with people there to handle trolls and anything else necessary to keep their site relevant and up to date. Why can't TP do that? Oh, I know, not enough people donate to them. Well, I would be happy to donate to them, even on a regular basis, if they would do something about the troll problem here. But, as long as they ignore the troll problem, I won't support them financially.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:00 amMedicare is not a socialized health care system. Single-payer systems in other countries are not socialized medicine. These are socialized INSURANCE program. In a true socialized medicine system (e.g. Britain), the doctors and nurses and everyone else are government employees. This is not what single-payer health care is about. We can achieve a successful single-payer system by extending Medicare to the entire population. We can transition by immediately applying it to pregnant women and children under 5, then gradually extend the system to everyone.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:02 amProfessor Stiglitz was on c-span this morning. He gave three reasons why the War in Iraq is different from past wars....resulting in its Enormous Pricetag:
The war was fought with Borrowed Money. Unlike other wars, Bush Cut Taxes. America will be paying huge interest charges for decades, if not forever.
The survival rate of injured troops has increased dramatically, because of rapid evacuation and excellent Medical Care. While this is certainly a good thing, it results in higher costs.
The war has been largely Privitized. No bid contracts and lack of meaningfull oversite has resulted in scandalous cost over runs.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:11 amThe war has been largely Privitized. No bid contracts and lack of meaningfull oversite has resulted in scandalous cost over runs.
Comment by Badger — March 1, 2008 @ 10:11 am
This is a Republican war for profits, not a war to defend America. It's as sipmple, and evil, as that. Killing hundreds of thousands if innocents to maintain the flow of money into a few pockets. Bush=Hitler is unfair to Hitler. Hitler was nuts. Bush is just out and out evil.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:17 amThe aide will be working at Faux by the end of next week.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:43 amBilbo, Didn't TP do that a long time ago? I don't remember when it stopped. It may have been due to the trolls.
I don't like to post off-topics, even though I do so at times anyway; yet, if I criticize trolls for posting their nonsense off-topic, I feel a bit hypocritical when I do it.
TP could solve my moral dilemma with an open thread on weekends but first they'd have to figure out how to eliminate the trolls who would most certainly take it over.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:48 amThis case also illustrates the Luddite nature of conservatives. Helllllo? Google? When trolls plagiarize in the comments here, it takes literally seconds to determine where they stole the text (usually wingnut blogs). Like the dumbest of thieving college students, people like this can't figure out how easy it is to prove they've stolen the material . . . or said what they claimed they never said (in front of a camera, no less).
Perhaps it's just simple stupidity, I dunno.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:50 amfirst they’d have to figure out how to eliminate the trolls who would most certainly take it over.
Comment by Marie — March 1, 2008 @ 10:48 am
that responsibility falls to us, the TP "community", first...
not enough people are flagging... OR the flagged amount needs lowered...
but i would really enjoy an "open thread" also...
March 1st, 2008 at 11:07 amHow can a man that is so completely surrounded by all manner of criminal behavior/corruption not know what's going on? Plausible deniability? Yea right! One or two instances of criminal behavior could slip by the all-knowing almighty Commander Guy - that I could buy. The amount that comes out of the White House now? Nope - I'm not buying that. There's too much of it to miss. If the White House was a restaurant it would be shut down for health and safety violations. 404: Restoration Of Honor And Dignity Not Found.
March 1st, 2008 at 11:08 amgummitch, i swear, sometimes the righties just don't get it...
that microphones, and cameras, and recording devices actually
DO record and document...
technology! scary stuff!
March 1st, 2008 at 11:13 amOh Wow! Holy Cow!
This guy will just surface somewhere else, placed there by his current employer - the Bush administration and GOP.
These people have no shame!
Liberals/Democrats are just plain better people than conservative/republicans.
March 1st, 2008 at 11:30 amThere’s the fear and trepidation of the right wing, in a nutshell.
Comment by Lefty Patriot — March 1, 2008 @ 3:40 am
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There is a lot of fear on the left wing, too. The majority of Democrats did not vote for Obama in the primaries.
March 1st, 2008 at 12:02 pmHe "accepted responsibility"? He was fired.
March 1st, 2008 at 12:46 pmWhat's worse - plagiarism or making up stories like Jayson Blair did? Or the WMD fantasy Bush & Co. used to get their war on?
Can we be sure Tim Goeglein has resigned (i.e., no longer on the tax-payer's payroll)?
Loyal Bushies, once caught and publicly disgraced, tend to 'resign' or get 'fired' but actually just are laying low while they are still on the payroll or transferred to another political position, hired as a contractor for the administration or farmed out to a Republican Conservative think tank.
March 1st, 2008 at 1:08 pmTimmy could be anywhere. Criminals always have a lot of options, he could be anywhere, he might be taking some time off until it's time to go down to Talahassie and count ballets.
March 1st, 2008 at 2:24 pmIf it hadn't been for someone outside the bubble discovering these serial plagiarisms, no one would ever have noticed given the audience these materials were produced for - they're too damned stupid to know when they're being lied to.
March 1st, 2008 at 2:33 pmThe special assistant to President Bush
March 1st, 2008 at 3:25 pmplagiarise and the president can't put to words together...
It must be a relief not to have to set the alarm to go to work in the White House. Working for that rodeo belt buckle wearin' hell of a cowboy from Connecticut. Despite what anybody says Bush can put two words together; nook and lear. Good choice though, to resign. I can hear the chorus in the background...another one bites the dust. I can't wait until the head maggot heads for ranch and the village so they can have their idiot back. I am hoping for more resignations this week.
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:06 pmMy next best choice for a resignation would be dark dick, I can't shoot shit cheney. I'm jus' sayin' is all.
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