Following in the steps of Newsmax’s Ronald Kessler, CNSNews.com’s Penny Starr joins in the mea-culpa rehabilitation — and book promotion — tour of of former Bush administration aide Timothy Gogelein.
Starr establishes the soft, non-challenging tone for her Oct. 19 article in the very first paragraph:
Sitting in his Washington, D.C., office surrounded by dozens of photographs and memorabilia documenting his successful career as a political liaison, Timothy S. Goeglein looks younger than his years and welcomes his guest with a smile.
After that, Starr breezes through Goeglein’s mea culpa over his history of plagiarism that resulted in his resignation from the administration, and gets right on to touting how “Bush’s Christian faith influenced the policy decisions the president made over the course of his two terms in office.” Starr is clearly not going to question Goeglein’s story, nor (like Kessler) is she going to do any sort of checking to see if Goeglein committed any plagiarism in his book.