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TWO Calls Plagiarizer A Perfect Fit To Serve As Focus on the Family’ Top DC Lobbyist

Rove Prot?©g?©, Tim Goeglein, Will Now Spin Fiction For Focus, Says TWO

NEW YORK — 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 prot?©g?©, 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’ true character,” said Truth Wins Out’ 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.” (Read More)