Conservatives give WH plagiarist a standing ovation

So much for values.

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.

So, it's OK to plagiarize the pope.

In fact, rip off the pope, say you're sorry and you get a standing oh.

What else do you get for being a Bush Administration thief? A cushy job with a PR firm, a company car and an expense account?  

But maybe I'm being too harsh on poor Tim Goeglein. He's hardly the biggest criminal in the Bush crime family. And maybe this is just how it is now in George W. Bush's America.

Maybe I should just go with the flow.

Hmmmmm.

Maybe I could lift entire passages from Bill in Portland Maine. I could rip off all the best pootie pictures and post them as my own. I'll be a star! I'll get a standing oh at Yearly Kos. I'll be a front-pager. Woo hoo!!!!!!

OK, maybe plagiarizing pooties is a bit too much.

•  Tip jar

  I came up with the idea of posting a tip jar all by myself. Honest. I swear.

  by quaoar on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 10:01:45 AM PDT

•  Forgiveness it's a "Christian" thing.

  And about every organized religion on the Planet Thing.

  by JML9999 on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 10:02:33 AM PDT

  •  It normally is not accompanied

    by a standing ovation.

    The priest does not stand up in the confessional and clap wildly when you tell him you stole something.

    by quaoar on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 10:05:29 AM PDT

    •  Hey Write the Vatican.

      It would make a "Hell" of an addition to the catholic Mass.

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      by JML9999 on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 10:08:36 AM PDT

    •  Exactly

      The penance for your sin is remorse, it is turning from your wicked ways not wild applause by the Kool-aid drinkers who would boo Jesus if he was pushing more money for Head Start.

      by niteskolar on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 10:10:24 AM PDT

      •  LOL n/t

        by eightlivesleft on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 10:52:36 AM PDT

•  Wonder if Ben Domenech...

  ...was in the house?

  by turnover on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 10:04:00 AM PDT

  •  Ben Domenech who he

    he who?

    by JML9999 on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 10:04:48 AM PDT

•  In my book,

  a political conservative who isn't breaking the law is just a political conservative who hasn't been caught yet!

  by lyvwyr101 on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 10:04:45 AM PDT

•  So the aide in charge of

  "religious and conservative outreach" gets busted for, oh, shit, let's just call it what it is:  stealing, and  he gets a standing ovation?

  Not to start a threadjack or an anti-Christian rant, but that is the thing about religions in general that get my bloomers in a bunch.  It's the idea that you can do whatever bad thing you want, and it's ok because you're "Forgiven".  Whereas, agnostics and atheists just have to behave because it's the right thing to do.

  by pasadena beggar on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 10:10:16 AM PDT

  •  But here's the thing for me

    only Republicans get a chance to be forgiven. Has that rabid bunch ever forgiven President Clinton for his indiscretion? How many people were livid, inconsolably angry that Senator Clinton didn't leave her husband?

    It is hypocrisy and I hope there is a special place in hell for those hypocrites; I would join them just to see them suffer for eternity.

    The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men. Isaiah 29:13

    by niteskolar on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 10:16:18 AM PDT

    •  A profoundly excellent point, niteskolar.

      by pasadena beggar on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 10:26:34 AM PDT

•  Plagiarizing pootie pix???

  Biscuit is not amused, quaoar.

  

  by Crashing Vor on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 10:15:03 AM PDT

  •  I might have to rip that off

    by quaoar on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 10:16:53 AM PDT

•  Sort of a pickpocket at a Convention of Con-men!

  Hardly much to sneeze at considering the crimes committed by the Bush Regime!

  by DevonTexas on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 10:45:12 AM PDT