White House Plagiarist Gets Standing Ovation From Conservative Crowd

White House Plagiarist Gets Standing Ovation From Conservative Crowd

Examiner   |  Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin   |   March 6, 2008 09:22 AM


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Tim Goeglein has had a tough week, but he still has friends in the "right" places. The former White House aide in charge of religious and conservative outreach resigned late last week after admitting he plagiarized pieces he wrote for the News-Sentinel of Fort Wayne, Ind. Goeglein took passages from Pope John Paul II and Dartmouth professor Jeffery Hart, among others.

But Goeglein is still embraced by the conservative community. At the weekly meeting of center-right leaders at American for Tax Reform on Wednesday morning, he received three rounds of applause from the packed room, including one standing ovation, as he asked for their forgiveness.


 
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so much for the moral superiority of the right wing. it seems they can screw puppies, naked on main street at high noon, and as long as they ask forgiveness, everything is hunky dorry. i guess the only thing to engender moral outrage in the right is a blow job. makes you wonder where their mind is at

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:51 PM on 03/06/2008

Typical "values" neocon.

Not an original thought in his head, and utterly incapable of crediting a source.

Professor Hart oughta sue the asshat!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:06 PM on 03/06/2008

"Ladies and Gentlemen, fresh off his dismissal of 16 counts of Criminal Sexual Penetration with a minors of various ages and genders, lets have a big standing O for...a republican!!!"

"Ladies and gentlemen, this person, this low life, this pork barrel, tax-and-spend, tree hugging democrat had (gasp!) a huge electirc bill !!! Lets ridicule him and deny any of his accomplishments so we can feel smug and self righteous."

It must be rough to be a republican. You have to somehow consider yourself a moral person while supporting completely immoral people and causes. Not sure how they doi it.

On another note, has anybody out there noticed that there computer slows down dramtically when you come to this site? Not to be paranoid...well, to be a little paranoid, but Huffpo seems to be the only site where my computer slows down to a crawl. Anybody else? Please write me at:

bendersky@earthlink.net

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:05 PM on 03/06/2008
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I seem to remember the Impeached one , who used his position of power to have sex with a subordinate, who was disbarred, getting many standing Os from the prograssive side

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:30 PM on 03/06/2008


But...but...but...BORING!

Time to replace that horse, rwe.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:08 PM on 03/06/2008

Seriously, if the best you can do is whine that Clinton got a blowjob, it's time learn that when you're dead, lie down.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:53 PM on 03/06/2008

I don't see the big deal, the Repub. party figured it out a long time age the, the people do not matter or remember. They say what they want when they want.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:47 PM on 03/06/2008
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These people demand to be lied to anyway.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:38 PM on 03/06/2008
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They gotta keep the unreal real.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:48 PM on 03/06/2008

Ah, so that's what our Labor Secretary spends her time on. I've wondered how she fills her days, since she certainly isn't interested in the nation's labor force. Mitch was probably in the men's room.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:30 PM on 03/06/2008
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Two Words

Loyal Bushies

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:08 PM on 03/06/2008
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Wonder if the guy in this story (Reep biggie) will get a standing O as well:

On February 1st of this year, National Republican Campaign Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) abruptly released a statement about recently discovered "irregularities in our financial audit process." That was it: no details about whether money might have been stolen, just word that they'd seen fit to bring in the federal authorities.
The details, as they've come, have been embarrassing for the committee in charge of getting Republicans elected to the House (which was already hurting in comparison to its Democratic counterpart before all this began).

According to The New York Times this morning, It all began to unravel when Rep. Mike Conaway (R-TX), a CPA, asked to meet with the audit firm that was supposedly checking the NRCC's books, an idea that apparently no one had had for several years. Christopher Ward, then the NRCC's treasurer, finally relented, but then chickened out 30 minutes before and fessed up that there actually hadn't been any audits.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:14 PM on 03/06/2008

Holy crap! They're stealing money from THEMSELVES NOW?

ROFALMAO!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:11 PM on 03/06/2008

Remember this next time you hear some right wing pin head
on Fox laying into Doris Goodwin.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:41 AM on 03/06/2008

Plagiarizing for Jesus is not, I repeat not a crime. The looks on those faces are more of relief,ie'Whew thank God..only plagiarism. At least it wasn't molestation, or taking bribes from Defense Contractors, or shoplifting at Target."

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:31 AM on 03/06/2008

I trust his supporters will send him on an all-expenses-paid trip to the place that cured "PastorTed" Haggard of homosexuality.

Curing the kid of plagiarism is really a very tiny miracle compared to what this outfit accomplished with Pastor Ted.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:30 AM on 03/06/2008
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Values! Values! Values! These people don't have a clue. The Republican Party is possessed by thieves, liars, hypocrites, and thugs...oh I'm sorry that's the Nazi Party.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:26 AM on 03/06/2008

Wow. Those Republicans will 'lockstep' behind any illegal or unethical act, won't they? That's just plain scary--and it should disqualify all of them from holding office.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:17 AM on 03/06/2008
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They applaud thievery like good republicunts

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:10 AM on 03/06/2008

Anyone brave enought to be on the right side of both Freedom and God cannot be charged with any crime in a post 9/11 world!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:44 AM on 03/06/2008
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