Ex-White House Jesus-Freak-In-Charge Caught Plagiarizing The Pope

So Nancy Nall outs this guy for plagiarizing a couple of columns. Then her commenters find out he’s done it in more than a couple. Many more, in fact. Then Tim Goeglein, the plagiarizer in question, makes a mea culpa. Then he resigns after the Dear Leader says it’s a damn shame he didn’t live up to the high ethical and moral standards set by the Bush “administration.”

But it gets better. Now some newspaper in one of those flyover states - starts with an “I” I think - caught Goeglein lifting lines from … The Pope. Is nothing sacred?

And I thought conservatives didn’t believe in recycling.

Notes From the Crater [nancynall.com]

Comments

[tata]

Can we kick out the Pope for plagiarism while we're at it? I'm still not over that Inquisition thing.

[mandt]

Hey, by Republican standards it's not plagiarism----just copying forward.

[Marcus Aurelius]

As punishment, he has to wear the pope's hat in public for a week.

[onstance]

I just saw the story by M. Thomas Eisenstadt on the Goeglein thing - turns out that Goeglein not only plagiarized the Pope, but went so far as to crib from Jeffrey Hart, who himself had plagiarized. Down the rabbit hole!

[elliot]

That M. Thomas Eisenstadt comes up with some real zingers. Republicans just love to blame the victim, don't they? It's the Iraqis fault we invaded them. And it's Jeffrey Hart's fault that Goeglein plagiarized him. Give me a break.

[oyster]

Just when you think it can't get any more pathetic, we have a descent into Pope plagiarism.

[stevo]

I think the real clincher that it was stolen from the Pope was the sentence that read, "as head of the Catholic church..."

[Batocchio]

Wait 'til John Hagee hears about this!

;-)

[Thomas Mc]

Republicans are the most amoral people on the planet.

[ohdem]

Remember the old-joke warning, "Stop me if you've heard this...? All right-wing columns should start with the disclaimer: Stop me if you've read this before...