Plagiarizer To Run Focus on the Family’s DC Lobby Shop

[meegbear]

Truth Wins Out (TWO) today called Tim Goeglein a perfect hire to be the lead Washington lobbyist for Focus on the Family. He resigned from the Bush White House on Feb. 29, 2008, after ex-Fort Wayne News-Sentinel columnist Nancy Nall discovered that Goeglein, while he wrote guest columns for the newspaper, had plagiarized 19 of 38 columns. According to the Colorado Independent, he had used the works of such luminaries as the Dartmouth Review, Nixon speechwriter Ben Stein and the Pope without credit.

A Rove protégé, Goeglein worked in the Bush White House in 2001 as chief liaison to socially conservative religious groups. The New York Times says that Goeglein was influential in decisions on a range of questions important to that constituency, including stem cell research, abortion and faith-based initiatives.

“Instead of hiring a writer with a Pulitzer Prize, Focus on the Family hired one who plagiarized, which reveals the organization’s true character,” said Truth Wins Out’s Executive Director Wayne Besen. “Goeglein seems well qualified to work for an organization known for distorting research and confusing fact with fiction. Already the ‘Master of Misquote,’ Goeglein won’t need on-the-job training.”

Focus on the Family is no stranger to controversy surrounding the group’s honesty and integrity. In the past two years, at least seven researchers have accused the organization of manipulating or cherry picking their results to back their anti-gay teachings. Letters and videos documenting the concerns of these respected professors can be viewed at TruthWinsOut.org.

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http://www.truthwinsout.org/pressreleases/two-calls-plagiarizer-a-perfect-fit-for-focus-on-the-family/

[whistler162]

1. So did the 2008 electorate!

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE3DB143FF93BA2575AC0A961948260

"Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., fighting to salvage his Presidential campaign, today acknowledged ''a mistake'' in his youth, when he plagiarized a law review article for a paper he wrote in his first year at law school"

This a non-issue.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. Nice try

Tim Goeglein, an alleged 'Christian' plagerized 19 out of 38 columns he published for pay. Half of his work was stolen. Half of his paid work. Christian organization. Goeglein claims moral superiority for his organization. A liar, cheat, theif and plagerist.
You see Biden that way? Really?
You really think that people should not be held to their self proclaimed high morality, and that they should be allowed to merely spew attacks upon othtes, while they are held to no standards themselves? Really? You think that?
Why?

[bluedawg12]

4. That's rich, defending the FotF here. Really funny stuff.

:rofl:

[MineralMan]

2. Typical for

Fuck Up The Family™ and its valuesless leader.