New 'Wash Post' Blogger Domenech's appointment bit the dust

[ProSense]

Conservatives Show 'Wash Post' Blogger The Door

By E&P Staff

Published: March 24, 2006 12:30 PM ET

NEW YORK A two-day effort by liberal bloggers to find, and publicize, numerous examples of plagiarism committed by Washington Post blogger Ben Domenech culminated today in calls that he give up his new position--from some of his conservative supporters.

Hours later, he resigned his post.

One of his critics, most dramatically, was columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin. As an editor at Regnery, Domenech handled her most recent book.

Conservatives had hailed Domenech's appointment to write the Red America blog. "I cheered for Ben, the editor of my last book at Regnery, when he announced his new position," Malkin wrote on her Web site today. "I criticized unhinged bloggers on the Left who leveled vicious ad hominem attacks against him. It's clear, as the good folks at Red State (which Ben co-founded) note, that his detractors were on a search-and-destroy mission from the get-go.

"But now the determined moonbat hordes have exposed multiple instances of what clearly appear to me to be blatant lifting of entire, unique passages by Ben from other writers. It is one thing to paraphrase basic facts from a wire story. But to filch the original thoughts and distinctly crafted phrases of a writer without crediting him/her--and doing so repeatedly--is unacceptable in our business. Some of the cases occurred while Ben was in college; he is blaming an editor for these transgressions. But at least one other incident involved a piece he wrote for NRO after he graduated. The side-by-side comparisons of these extensive passages is damning.

"I certainly understand the impulse on the Right to rally around Domenech. But I can't ignore the plain evidence. And the charges can't be dismissed as 'lies' or jealousy attributed to Ben's age. As someone who has worked in daily journalism for 14 years, I have a lot of experience related to this horrible situation: I've had my work plagiarized by shameless word and idea thiefs many times over the years. I've also been baselessly accused of plagiarism by some of the same leftists now attacking Ben.

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[Jackpine Radical]

1. Hmmmmn---Time for a closer look at Michelle's worK?

"I've also been baselessly accused of plagiarism..."

Where there's smoke...

Just more proof that the psychopathic bastards who populate the American right will lie & steal whenever they think they can get away with it.

[LittleClarkie]

2. How can you rail against ad hominem attacks

when you're right in the middle of engaging in them.

Or is being identified as part of an unhinged moonbat horde not an attack?

[emulatorloo]

3. More classic Republican projection: call others what you are yourself EOM