Wow. Goeglein was fired from his job at the White House too. Oh, excuse me, he “resigned” but we all know what really happened, don’t we?

I think it’s been a rather bad day for him. As you’d expect, I wholeheartedly agree that plagiarism should have serious consequences. I just didn’t realize that the Bush White House would actually levy them against someone serving in Bush’s office.

Heck, Goeglein’s already suffered as much in consequences at the White House as Scooter did — for committing treason in the Plame case I might add.

If you’ve been following the saga of Special Assistant to the President Timothy Goeglein today (also here and here), you probably know by now that the editorial team at his hometown newspaper has fired him as a columnist for plagiarism.

Wow. I have undergraduates try that all the time — and I catch them when they do it.

In fact, I now require all undergraduates to submit their papers in electronic format through a plagiarism-detection website.  Read more