President Bush's social and religious liaison who sometimes writes guest columns for an Indiana newspaper was forced to resign Friday after a blogger discovered that he plagiarized. From the Pope.
Tim Goeglein had been working for the Bush administration since 2001 and was a top aide for Karl Rove. He was largely credited for garnering the evangelical vote in 2004, according to the New York Times. He had been writing columns for the News-Sentinel in Fort Wayne, Ind., for more than a decade.
He plagiarized from an array of sources (the Pope is obviously my favorite), and an internal investigation revealed that 19 of his 38 guest columns over the years contained plagiarized material.
A former columnist for the News-Sentinel broke the story in her blog.
Pulled straight from her blog:
Well I guess if you're gonna plagiarize, there's really no one better to pull from than the Pope.On April 6, 2005, Roger Cohen wrote in The New York Times: “It was based in the belief that, as he (the Pope) once put it, ‘a degradation, indeed a pulverization, of the fundamental uniqueness of each human being’ was at the root of the mass movements of the 20th century, Communism and Fascism,”
In a column published Oct. 18, 2005, Goeglein wrote: “A degradation and pulverization of the fundamental uniqueness of each human being was at the root of the 20th century, the twin evils of communism and fascism.” No attribution is given to the Pope or to Cohen in the column.
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