This must be the Xerox that Hillary was talking about.

The following was in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:

“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.”

He said he wrote to the author of the essay, Jeffrey Hart “to apologize, and do so categorically and without exception.”

http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080229/NEWS/194943667

Watch 'em spin it this way: "Yeah, but Tim Goeglein apologized. Barack Hussein Obama didn't."

Hart, in turn, should be apologizing to Strauss, who first formulated the Athens vs. Jerusalem dichotomy.

And Strauss should be apologizing to a whole lot of people, and for larger matters than mere plagiarism.

The best twist in this story? Jeffrey Hart himself has endorsed Obama.

What a moron. Goeglein must have figured the people in Ft. Wayne don't use the internets.

That NYT article on Timmy sure is fawning. He should have no illusions though. He was assigned the fundies in lieu of Rove because Rove hates dealing with the fundies (except as a wedge).

Remember this?

Rove Demands ‘Just Get Me A F—ing Faith-Based Thing. Got it?’

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/12/rove-faith-based/

I'm an Obama supporter. As I have noted in other posts, I have given money to his campaign.

This is, by far, a worse transgression than the allegation against Obama. No, scratch that, it IS a transgression, where the allegation of plagiarism against Obama was simply not true by any reasoned definition of plagiarism.

That said, I have to give kudos to Goeglin for straight out admitting he is wrong for doing this and abjectly apologizing to Hart. No wishy-washy behavior at all. I may have an infinite list of issues I disagree with him on. He may, as a member of this WH, committed violations of the law and the Constitution. I am NOT saying he did; I'm just saying as a member of this WH, I think anything is possible. However, it is a rare thing for someone caught like this to immediately own up to it, ESPECIALLY if they work for George Bush the Younger.

Frankly, as things go, he is a nobody. He's been embarrassed (it appears). Let him go back to obscurity to lick his wounds. Now, if he decides to run for Cognress in say 10 years or so, it will be a perfectly legitimate point of contention, but to maintain our credibility, we have to give credit even to those we despise for taking responsibility for their actions.

Note that Goeglein appears to apologize for just one instance of plagiarism.

Not for being a serial plagiarizer as the folks at Nancy Nall's blog are discovering.

I think that gunpowder, invented in China, has something to do with the rise of the West. Isn't it time to drop this whole East-West dichotomy as a confusing illusion? But then, many "conservatives" seem to treasure confusing illusions over reasoned discourse.

tcement reminds me of my favorite phrase about the US..."The only country that went from babarism to decadence without any civilization in between..."

Not totally true, but true enough...

Rekishiska: I'd give more credit to the Mongols, who defeated, sacked, and destroyed Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid caliphate, in 1258. They did so much damage to the Muslim world that it never really recovered.

His salary is $118K. From

Goeglein, Timothy S
Special Assistant to the President
and Deputy Director of Public Liaison

118,000

Tim Goeglein, deputy director of public liaison and the White House's point man with evangelical Christians ( From )

Well, Mr. Evangelical, what does God say about stealing other people's words and using them as your own?

"Neither shall you steal."

"Don't let the "little fox" of stealing be one of the things that would bring dishonor to the Lord. From

He's dishonored Jesus Christ, his professed lord and savior.

Look at these bible references on the subject of stealing.

Did he steal toys as a child; and did the FBI "background" investigation miss this:

A child may begin a lifetime of petty theft by justifying the stealing of a toy from a "better off" playmate because "he has lots of toys and won't miss this little one."

Stealing to acquire the objects of our worship is spiritual adultery and idolatry against God.

His $118,000 salary:

We are to gain property and possessions by honest work and/or inheritance from those who have the right to give them.

Stealing is totally against the grain of God's way of life.

He lacks the mental capacity to develop his own skills:

Stealing frequently has its genesis in a desire to have something one has no money to purchase, or the unwillingness to work patiently until one does.

- Why was he not willing to spend some of his $118,000 salary to pay for specialized education, and increase his writing/critical thinking skills?

We have the White House buffoons attepting to pretend that they, as the "close advisors to the President," are in a superior position to lead america. Yet, their ideas of corruption, lying, and deception, are behind their inability to create.

who are we to fear these buffoons in the white House when their blabbering non-sense isn't connected to God's will, but the opposite: Lifted from the writings of others? If their ideas had merit, why wouldn't they source those materials? But the buffoons in the White House deceive, asking that we believe they have some higher "moral compass" which we discover they've also stolen and corrupted.

On issues of impeachment, we have no fear in challenging them, their poodles, or their excuses. They are morally decadent, not with God, and bring discredit upon themselves and their religion.

I'm guessing that this instant acknowledgment and apology is intended to stop us all googling him before someone turns up something REALLY crazy.

Guess who was involved with the PR blitz to CNN on Harriet Miers? That's right, Mr. "I like to steal" Timmy-boy.

Why were there problems with the Miers' nomination. Because when someone is a thief, and they think it is "A-OK" to lie and steawl, they're not going to think to ask someone else about moral issues:

I cannot imagine that Karl Rove or Tim Goeglein or anyone at the White House would even ask her questions dealing with her views on, for example, abortion or gay marriage, or any of the social issues. ( From )

From all accounts, it appear nobody bothered to ask Miers about questions about morality, ethics, or the law. This is why Congress is there: To check the absurd statements of people like Tim who like to lie, steal, and violate the law.

TItle 17:

- How much money was Goeglein paid?

- Why didn't he tell the publishers that the copyright notice attached to his articles, which had plagiarized other work, was a subsequent offense?

- Did Goeglein secure any copyright benefits by attaching a copyright to his work when he knew, or should have known, the attachment of that copyright to his plagiarized work was a subsequent offenses under Title 17?

Discovery: All of the White House computers used to create this plagiarized work can be seized by the FBI. Section 509

- What is the DOJ AG's position on this FBI asset seizure of the White House computer system?

- Where are the emails which Goeglein sent related to this plagiarized material?

Tim was connected with opening up the Chinese market. Guess who was targeted for music piracy?

Now we know why Tim wanted the Chinese to get full access: So they could do what Tim was doing: Stealing other people's work.

Goeglein: "I love people. I love policy, and I love politics." From via Digby.

A new one: "I love plagiarism."

What's interesting about his plagairism, is that he's not going to distant history, but lifting material from within 30 to 60 days of its first publication.

He majored in Journalism.

Plagiarism is Fraud [ snipurl.com/20ou4 ] prompting student suspensions without credit [ snipurl.com/20ou6 ].

Remember those bogus FEMA briefings? Public relations society of America ethics [ snipurl.com/20ou7 ] :

HONESTY

We adhere to the highest standards of accuracy and truth in advancing the interests of those we represent and in communicating with the public.

As originally written [ snipurl.com/20ou3 ]

“At the end of the day what makes us the greatest country in the history of man is always to remember from where our freedom derives,” Goeglein said. “At the end of the day, it is God Almighty himself who blesses the United States of America.”

Flashback, rewritten:

“At the end of the day what makes us the greatest country in the history of man is always to remember from where our freedom derives,” Goeglein said. "From the inalienable right to steal, lie, violate the law with impungnity, and blame someone else."

“At the end of the day, it is God Almighty himself who blesses the United States of America, but don't ask God about stealing, because I do that too.”

Visionary [ snipurl.com/20ou0 ]:

Googledim spoke of Saddam's and Sharon's new Christian faith and said that it is "God almighty Himself who blesses the United States of America and these CIA assets."

For the buffoons working in DoJ, there is no statute of limitations problem.

- How's that DoJ workflow going?
- Why aren't you getting on this?
- What excuse are you giving to not respond?
- Why are you making excuses to "think about" something that is a clear, admitted violation?
- You want to be subpoenaed before Congress -- again -- to provide answers?
- What does it feel like to work in an organization that has lost public confidence and appears to enable war crimes, Geneva violations, and abuse of the US Constitution?
- Do you enjoy working for DoJ despite it appearing to be a threat to this Constitution, and our way of life?
- What does it feel like to work for an organization that will not fully let you do your job, not assert your oath, and actively thwarts efforts to enforce the law?
- How does it feel to wake up, drive to work, and sit at your computer reading more evidence that your collective incompetence does more to threaten the US constitution that a lone person wandering the streets in Baghdad?
- Why are you, as an employee in DoJ, holding any pride in what you do, when your work is connected with excuses to not fully enforce the law against your war criminal-peers in the legal profession?

If DoJ staff does not prosecute this case, then the public has a reasonable basis to conclude that the DOJ Staff counsel does not respect the court's direction, 194 Fed. Appx. 393.

If DoJ refuses to prosecute, we'll have to reconsider whether DOJ Staff consider copying and pasting from cases is or isn't "OK". DoJ AG seems to think war crimes like prisoner abuse is "OK"; it means nothing for DOJ Staff counsel to ignore plagiarism:

"While our legal system stands upon the building blocks of precedent, necessitating some amount of quotation or paraphrasing, citation to authority is absolutely required when language is borrowed. [ 194 Fed. Appx. 393. ]

Advisory to all legal counsel, including the stupid ones working for the United States Department of Justice, as staff counsel to DOJ AG:

"We made it very clear to Mr. Little during oral argument this behavior is completely unacceptable and reiterate it here as an admonishment to all attorneys tempted to "cut and paste" helpful analysis into their briefs.

[ 194 Fed. Appx. 393 ]

- How's that "cutting and pasting" going DoJ staff on those workflows?

- Did you remember to include all the talking points, and citations from the media messaging firms/contractors you use to issue public statements about war crimes, prisoner abuse, and copyright?

- Did you remember to cite the NSA's illegal surveillance as the source of that media message you've issued to dissuade oversight of the DOJ on issues of illegal warrants?

- Is there evidence within the DOJ Staff counsel emails that they have not adequately cited material they've gleaned through private discussions with non-DoJ personnel?

- Has DoJ OPR reviewed to what extent, if any, DoJ Staff have used outside information from lobbying groups when establishing DoJ AG policy on issues of Geneva, waterboarding, and war crimes?

- Is it the view of DOJ Staff on issues of war crimes and FISA violations that it can take words from telecom lobbyists and provide those to the media as if they were DoJ policy, but not cite the legal arguments which violates Geneva?

471 U.S. 539 [ unauthorized use of quotations from unpublished work outside "fair use" ]

- How many times have DoJ-RNC staff counsel threatened the media with a lawsuit if the media published evidence on memoranda showing the DoJ-RNC connected entity was engaged in illegal activity?

- Has the copyright statute been improperly used to dissuade open publication of memoradna from RNC-DoJ connected entities to stifle public speech, dissuade oversight, or avoid Congressional review of evidence linked with illegal activity by the DOJ-RNC staff counsel?

495 F.3d 906 Let's review the basis for his original hiring: Was it based on other fraudulent activity?

- Was any of Goeglein's "reputation" within the EOP, RNC, or OVP linked with a writing ability which did not exist?

309 U.S. 390 Tim could be liable for all profits earned from his plagiarism.

510 U.S. 517 Goeglein could be liable for attorney costs for those who have been infringed. How's that liability insurance, Tim? Someone stupid enough to copy others' work would "most likely" have "thought about" getting insurance, right? Oh, we're going to hear more of the, "Tim was a victim"-argument, as we heard with the Libby case.

Don't worry Tim, as long as the President isn't subject to impeachment and not removed, there's a good chance you could get a presidential pardon. Lying about a CIA agent's name, "No big deal." Your boss will likely write this one off with a good laugh. Plagiarizer In Chief Tim.

For me it is not the plagiarizing, but the fact that he was plagiarizing a Nixon era speechwriter that really hits me. These people are probably worse than Nixon, but given what they learned the first time around, they aren't going to get caught this time. As conspiracy theories are too far fetched to buy in to, having an event like 911 to change the rules of the game must go down in history as one of the most convenient coincidences ever.

I am now reading Greenspan's book. His discussion of the Nixon and Ford administrations gives a nice historical context to the folks in power now. In Chapter 11 he goes pretty much says the political side of the machine is running the Bush administration and they've screwed it up completely. I know this is obvious to most of the world, but it is nice to see influential republicans saying it too.

Whoever is the next president will be lucky to make it through a second term because things are going to falling apart on several fronts (economy, foreign policy etc.) and it will be difficult to right the ship without austerity measures on top of reigning in military spending. This makes some of the promises of the Democrats appear hard to fulfill such as limiting international trade and/or increasing social benefits. It is so messed up right now that they will need the smartest people available to turn things around.