White House Aide Resigns Because of Plagiarism. Newspaper didn't pay for columns. Was Goeglein paid for columns by US taxpayer? Someone grab Waxman and have him investigate this!

Real snatch and grab has been done by the Bush administration's high level aides.   Timothy S. Goeglein, who joined the president's campaign in 2000 at the behest of (you guessed it) Karl Rove and worked under him in the White House, has admitted to using material lifted from the Dartmouth Review for a column for the Fort Wayne, Indiana, Sentinel-Review though the paper says 20 of Goeglein's columns had unattributed parts of other people's work.  The Los Angeles Times (link below) describes his latest position as "special assistant to the president and deputy director of the Office of Public Liaison".

For more details see LA Times "White House aide resigns over plagiarism ".  (This is ripe and juicy enough to read the entire piece.)

Personally, I don't see why he used the clip he admits to lifting, but then again, I'm not a Republican.  To them, some big words telling people that the purpose of education is to make a person into a Borg, for our society is probably like manna from heaven.  

BTW: Mr. G  may have done Google a favor.  People may still "google" around the web for general information, but when they're searching for other people's writing to steal we could call it "goeglein' ".

And let me just say: I hope the next president's crew, can wash all the slime out of the White House. 

A Boston Globe report "Bush aide admits plagiarism, resigns " shows that plagiarism was part of a majority of Goeglein's columns for the Sentinel in the last 8 years, and that the aide's submissions had unsought and uncompensated for the 20 years in which he had been submitting them.

Hey, wait a minute!

 Who did pay Goeglein then?  Remember Armstrong Williams who was offered nearly a quarter of a million dollars to promote No Child Left Behind?  The writing that Mr. G plariarized tends to promote learning a narrow limit of skills, though the guy who wrote in the Dartmouth noted we might want to familiarize ourselves with European culture so we can reestablish our society which serves to further enrich the wealth and mostly pasty and male, in case it fails.  The plagiarized writer used an attributed quote from another writer, a Dartmouth professor.  To sort that all out check out AP Report "White House Aide Accused of Plagiarism " which has the two writings one after the other. 

(Note that suddenly understanding cultures that aren't white European is lost in this new idea of education.) 

 All three news sources linked above attribute the discovery of the plagiarism to blogger Nancy Nall a former News Sentinel columnist . The AP site offered a link and now I've passed it on.

The Globe piece linked above reports:

She [(Press Secretary Dana Perino)] said Goeglein helped establish Bush's Faith-Based and Community Initiative and his program for AIDS relief in Africa, and he also played an important role in the confirmation of Supreme Court Justices John G. Roberts Jr. and Samuel A. Alito Jr.

I have evidence on three of those four projects showing they did give taxpayer money to people who promoted Bush administration goals as did the education department for those who promoted  NCLB.  

So I'm asking at 11:52 am Saturday March 1, 2008.  Was Goeglein compensated for his writings by the US Taxpayer?

Even if he was on the job being paid by tax dollars using a computer purchased with taxpayer funds in an office we pay for, the answer is yes, so FOIAing what is on Mr. G's White House computer or any computer he used there would be another way to show that taxpayer money had been used for propaganda.  And it would make it more likely that that the White House knew about his work and approved it.

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