AP's Fantasy Headline: 'Bush Resigns Because Of Plagiarism'


You can mark this as news from a moonbat's fantasy land, but the AP has made a howler of a Freudian slip in their headline about a low level Bush aide who has resigned because he plagiarized a newspaper article he wrote. Instead of saying that a Bush aide resigned, AP headlined their report "Bush Resigns Because of Plagiarism." (Image as it appeared on the CBS website)

Me thinks that the AP's headline writer revealed his unconscious desires in this goofup. AP's parapraxis merely describes what they wish was true, I'm sure. The headline topped an AP story about the aide's resignation on the 29th of last month.

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The story itself is a sad affair of a young staffer who was caught lifting portions of others' work for his own columns in the News-Sentinal in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

The News-Sentinel said an internal investigation found that 20 of 38 of Goeglein's columns published in the past eight years contained portions copied from other sources without attribution. Goeglein has submitted unsolicited, or guest, columns to The News-Sentinel for more than 20 years and he has never been paid for them, the paper said.

Well, I'd say that this fellow is in interesting company. Doris Kearns Goodwin, Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair, Joseph Biden, Al Gore, Jack Kelly, Michael Olesker, Michael Isikoff and a host of others have histories of plagiarism. Curiously enough, few of them ever resigned over their theft of others' words. And, surprise, surprise, these folks are all liberals.

So, in the end, it is bad that this fellow culled the words of other writers without giving attribution. It goes without saying that this is a bad, dishonest thing. Of course, it can be said that -- once again -- Republicans police their own, expecting far more out of themselves than Democrats and liberals do. After all, this fellow was excoriated and made to resign his position. Few of the liberals noted above were ever forced to pay for their theft. In fact, many of them went on to make even better deals for themselves with the full and fawning support of liberals everywhere. They were not forced to pay for their perfidy at all, for the most part.

Anyway, it is nothing short of hilarious that AP never realized that they had a headline stating that Bush resigned over the plagiarism of one of his low level aides when it just never happened that way.

Yep, it was pure wishful thinking on behalf of the Associated Press.

(Updated to correct that the headline was an AP mistake, not a CBS mistake.)


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It is sad that the people

It is sad that the people writing the headlines are even more biased than the reporters. This is common.

"Forget change, I want improvement!"

".... revealed his

".... revealed his unconcious desire ... "

I doubt this desire is "unconsious."  "Secret" maybe, but not "unconsious."

Factual Reporting Was Not the Priority

Their first priority was to connect President Bush to someone else's bad behavior.  My grandmother used to say, "The hole you dig for ME, could be the one YOU fall in."

Presidient Richard Cheney would be nice.

I wonder what he would do about Iran

is there a hard copy printed?

I'd love to pick up a half dozen of these in print and hide them away for my grand daughters to pull out in fifty years and put on Ebay. What a "Rumors of my death..." moment in time. :-))

No way was this an

No way was this an error...unless they have no proof-readers or editors.

This wouldn't pass muster at a Jr. High school paper - I can only conclude it to be intentional.

 

As fas as resignations go

today's  msm(Lsm) have resigned their ability to report long ago - this is just another example of their agenda - An example that hsn't been explored: the most recent polls are showing a tie in TX and OH, hwo does this affect how either candidates supporters will vote? Does barry continue, or is there a"surge" for hillbilly?

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V