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As I noted last week, the Republican Party is using its GOP.com website to encourage and enable its followers to lie in public. GOP.com maintains a set of ready-made letters for its footsoldiers to cut, paste, and automatically send off to newspapers around the country. The amoral trick to the technique is that when Republican followers send off these letters, they sign their own names as authors, making it appear to gullible newspaper editors (those three words should never appear together) that a local salt-of-the-earth actual person, not a Republican Party machine, wrote the party-boosting letter.

The plagiarized letters continue to appear in news outlets around the country. Why, just this morning Carol S. Blonquist of Coalville, Utah had her name appear falsely signed to the GOP letter in The Park Record.

I’ve often wondered why people choose to lie like this in public. Now we have the chance to find out. This morning, I uncovered a relatively old piece of plagiarism appearing in the Denver Daily News on December 27 2005.
Pastor Brian McCrorie of Lakewood, Colorado falsely claimed that he wrote the GOP-plagiarized letter that has become so widespread.

A pastor? Yes, Pastor Brian McCrorie not only signs his name to things he doesn’t write, he also tends the flock at Silver State Christian School, teaching them how to be moral Christians. Feel free to write Pastor McCrorie at 480 S. Kipling Street, Lakewood, CO 80226 and ask him what he teaches the kids in Sunday School about lying. Perhaps he can deliver a great sermon on the subject.