White House Learns From Obama, Horribly Plagiarizes Something

The White House, perhaps impressed with Barack Obama's success, has plagiarized his greatest asset:  plagiarism . Timothy S. Goeglein -- a special assistant to President Bush -- referenced Eugene Rosenstock-Hussey, an elitist Northeastern ex-professor at Dartmouth College, in a column he penned for the News-Sentinel newspaper. After referencing this guy, Goeglin decided to plagiarize an entire 10-year-old essay someone else had written about Rosenstock-Hussey. Why has Barack Obama not apologized for this?

A lady blogger named Nancy Nall discovered this with Google yesterday, and documents it pretty well on her lady blog. This is what happens when you believe in "Hope."

Horrendous plagiarizer Tim Goeglein:

It can hardly be challenged that the United States of America is part of the narrative of European history. Europe is overwhelmingly the source, and some parts of Europe more than others: Our language, literature, legal tradition, political arrangements derive, demonstrably, from England. This Britain-America connection is central.

There have been many ways of answering the question: What is Europe? A handy way to think of the matter is the paradigm of "Athens" and "Jerusalem." In this paradigm, those terms designate both the two cities we have all heard of but also two kinds of mind. The tradition designated "Athens" is associated with philosophy and with critical exercise of mind, with reason. The tradition associated with "Jerusalem" is associated with monotheism, with faith.

Scholarly 10-year-old essay by Jeffrey Hart:

It can scarcely be challenged that the United States is part of the narrative of European history. It owes little or nothing to Confucius or Laotse or to Chief Shaka or to the Aztecs. At the margin it owes a bit to the American Indians, but not a great deal -- corn, tobacco, some legendary material. But Europe is overwhelmingly the source. And some parts of Europe more than others: Our language, legal tradition, political arrangements derive, and demonstrably so, from England.

There have been many ways of answering the question, "What is Europe?" But a handy way to think of the matter is the paradigm of "Athens" and "Jerusalem." In this paradigm, those terms designate both the two cities we have all heard of, and also two kinds of mind.

The tradition designated "Athens" is associated with philosophy and with critical exercise of mind. The tradition associated with "Jerusalem" is associated with monotheism.

We did not read either of those, but since the lady blogger says they're the same, then so it is. Shame on Barack Obama for inventing plagiarism. We expect to hear much more about this "culture of plagiarism" in an afternoon Clinton memo.

 Copycat. [Nancy Nall via Think Progress ]