Plagiarist White House aide quits

The man the AP called "President Bush's middleman with conservatives and Christian groups" resigned because a blogger caught him plagiarizing.

Timothy Goeglein stepped down as deputy director of the Office of Public Liaison after blogger Nancy Nall discovered considerable overlap between a recent Goeglein column on education in the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel and this essay by Jeffrey Heart from the Dartmouth Review.

 

Comments

[Lesley]

Heh, there seems to be no shame in doing this anymore. Why just this week a brown nosing new hire at work took an Excel workbook I'd created last year (that involved considerable effort on my part), added 4 columns to one of the spreadsheets, and replaced my name with his as the author. The imbecile then emailed the workbook to me and another colleague with a grandiose introduction about the outstanding analysis he'd prepared.

I'm still trying to figure out a way to diplomatically rip him a new one...

Another colleague experienced the same treatment by an incompetent twit (no longer with us) who added one sentence to an environmental scan she'd written, then replaced her name with his on it. She made a formal complaint against him.

I really don't get it.

[petrilli]

I don't recall any paper in Fort Worth called the News-Sentinel. Google didn't show anything either. Could you provide a link?

[Cass]

I think Lindsay meant the Fort WAYNE N-S.

[Alan Bostick]

I don't understand why he quit. He was living up to the model of his mentor, Karl Rove: do whatever it takes to win, no matter how dirty or underhanded.

[mudkitty]

The Rove Playbook is outdated.