Ben Domenech Resigns

[indy_azcat]

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/washpostblog/

:bounce:

[mattclearing]

1. That didn't take long. n/t

[supernova]

2. That was quick.

[Hissyspit]

3. No surprise.

He had become a liability.

[central scrutinizer]

4. aww, don't go away mad

just go away

[Orrex]

29. Hey! You're plagiarizing Mötley Crüe

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Of course, who can blame you for tapping such a font of pithy wisdom?

[wicket]

37. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

"Girl, don't go away mad, girl, just go away!"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[CatWoman]

41. I'll ditto that

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[grasswire]

5. isn't this latest breaking news?

Yippee!!

[Stephanie]

6. I believe it is!

ha ha ha ha ha! :rofl:

[indy_azcat]

10. I agree, but it 'tis a blog-ish link ;-)

still fun... maybe Skinner et al will let 'er slide.

:shrug:

[Beelzebud]

7. I left a message on their comments section.

Same handle as I use here. Told them they should convene another hearing on blogger ethics. :D

Then I told them their credability was shot.

[BrklynLiberal]

8. I wonder what ignorant,narrow-minded, foul-mouthed, political hack

they are going to choose as a replacement?

[Swamp Rat]

48. Whoever it is, let's dig up all the dirt on 'em too.

:D

Let's get criminal repuke reporters fired! :bounce:

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[Jara sang]

9. I wonder if he'll put WP on his resume?

Fucking rat asshole, good riddance.

[centristo]

11. bwahahahahhaha

another one bites the dust. Is anyone keeping track of how many Repubs have resigned from posts, private or civil, in shame? It's almost too many to count.

[RobertSeattle]

12. Hey Hey Hey, Good Bye...

Hate it when I agree with Michelle Malkin...

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004834.htm

[klook]

47. "...the Left should cease its sick gloating

and leave him and his family alone."

Hmmm, maybe she's right....

Naaah! :evilgrin:

[muntrv]

55. Why Michelle?

You and your fellow repukes were gloating during the Jason Blair debacle.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

57. I don't think this is an apt analogy, as far as I know Blair did not

promote any particular political ideology, unlike this guy.

[TexasLawyer]

13. "Sunshine is the best disinfectant."

[Beetwasher]

14. Ha Ha! What a Douche!

:rofl:

[warrens]

15. You gotta see their defense of the pinhead

Evidently, all those people he stole from gave him permission, but the dog ate all the permission slips.

"And now those opposed to Ben have googled prior writings that on the surface appear suspicious, but only because permissions obtained and judgments made offline were not reflected online by an out dated and out of business campus newspaper. But that's all the opponents want - just enough to sabotage a career, though in the process they will sabotage themselves. Facts have no meaning. Only impressions have any bearing on this. The charges of plagarism are false, meant to bring down a good and honest man. The presented facts to prove plagarism are specious -- products of shoddy work. One could easily think the producers of 60 Minutes II were behind them."

For a good laugh, read the whole thing. Us liberals are shooting ourselves in the foot because now the mainstream will never hire another blogger! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. No, asshole, another plagiarizing hatemongering pinhead blogger.

http://redstate.org/story/2006/3/23/22434/5436

[Stephanie]

18. Someone needs to send that to PJ O'Rourke and ask for a response

The WaPo, perhaps.

[MADem]

25. Crap, he slept through the "footnotes" portion of his "College Writing"

class, apparently!!!

Gee, I might try to use that logic--"Look, man, Tolstoi GAVE ME PERMISSION to copy WAR AND PEACE!" Think it'll work???

I especially love where they blame THE NEWSPAPER for his transgressions!!

The only idiot who sabotaged this idiot's career was the idiot, himself. But ya gotta love the pretzel-like logic they use to defend him...he must have compromising Polaroids, or sumptin'!

The wounded angst in the post, and the comments that follow, are a delight to behold, certainly. There isn't much that is funnier than a whining rightie!!!

[displacedtexan]

28. I got a server error when I clicked your link.

Is Red State offline?

[indy_azcat]

30. looks like the server got overworked

some interesting reads over at dailykos tho:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/3/24/13724/1544

[warrens]

38. Worked for me when I clicked

Maybe it's getting too many hits...

[Boomer]

43. Ignorance masquerading as indignation

Quotes, with or without permission, are clearly marked as quotes and have prominent attributions to the source. Only the length of the quote raises issues of copyright legality.

Quotes without markup and without attributions ARE PLAGIARISM.

[liberal_patriot_md]

49. Is it just me, or is it funny that those pinheads can't spell "plagiarism"

never mind identifying it.

[rucky]

56. maybe they should start cribbing from the dictionary. n/t

[klook]

50. So now they support open-source?? (eom)

[ClintonTyree]

64. That's rich, "Facts have no meaning".

In a way, I guess they're correct, Facts certainly haven't gotten in the way of the GOP's rise to power and reign of terror. 'The presented facts to prove plagiarism as specious--products of shoddy work". :wtf: Let me get this straight. It's the people who caught him plagiarizing that are at fault, not the plagiarizer himself? :eyes: OK.......! The good old "responsibility" party strikes again. :puke:

[BuyingThyme]

16. Here's his sign-off:

I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. What light through yonder window breaks. Call me Ishmael. Seacrest out!

[Stephanie]

20. lol!

:rofl:

[Coexist]

31. OMFG!

Damn funny people here today.

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[IselaB]

33. LOL

[SidDithers]

40. Heheheh...

:applause: Very clever and very funny. :applause:

Sid

[Catrina]

51. He might consider joining the military

Send that boy some recruitment forms and let him do his whining over there so we don't have to listen to it here!

[katty]

53. LOL! good riddens to that nasty piece of work!

[Dem2theMax]

60. I'm always late to the party.

Thank goodness the jokes are still here when I arrive.

I LMAO at your post. Bravo! "Seacrest out."

[Nostradammit]

61. Perfect! LMAO!

:rofl:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

65. LMAO!!!!

Seacrest out hehehehe :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[glitch]

17. Great - now what about the ass that hired him? nt

[merbex]

19. I linked over there(thanks!) and left a comment

Hey, Washington Post -

Do you have to wonder why newspaper readership is down?

[finecraft]

21. "in order to maintain our journalistic integrity." HA!HA!HA!

Nice try guys, but the Washington Post hasn't had any journalistic integrity in a long, long time. After this stunt, I put the Post in the same class as "The Enquirer".

[NightOwwl]

54. Hey! The Enquirer gave us the classic "Bush's Booze Crisis."

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/63426 :rofl:

I gotta say, after this episode, The Enquirer has a hellavu lot more journalistic integrity than WaPo.

[Pithy Cherub]

22. Was the 'long goodbye' plagarized by Ben too?

:rofl:

[Dora]

23. SHORTEST. CAREER ARC. EVER. -or- ""What's Next for Ben?"

My gods. This boy isn't yet 25 and already he needs career rehabilitation. What's next for our young anti-hero?


Pumping slurpees?
Selling oranges next to the freeway in LA?
Asking, "Do you want butter on that?"

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[madame defarge]

34. Pairing up with Jeff Gannon... n/t

[Midnight Rambler]

35. Fox News, of course

n/t

[ozymandius]

24. In tribute to Ben, I offer my own personal take on the matter:

Ben Domenech Resigns

In the past 24 hours, we learned of allegations that Ben Domenech plagiarized material that appeared under his byline in various publications prior to washingtonpost.com contracting with him to write a blog that launched Tuesday.

An investigation into these allegations was ongoing, and in the interim, Domenech has resigned, effective immediately.

When we hired Domenech, we were not aware of any allegations that he had plagiarized any of his past writings. In any cases where allegations such as these are made, we will continue to investigate those charges thoroughly in order to maintain our journalistic integrity.

Not copied and pasted from someplace else so stop saying that!!!

[Brazenly Liberal]

39. hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!

brill!

[Coexist]

26. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

ha ha ha ha ha ha!

[formercia]

27. Take no prisoners

only their dogtags for souvenirs.

[Stephanie]

32. damn straight

[VOX]

36. Gee, what'll the WaPo do for "balance" now? Hire Drudge?

As for Domenech, good riddance to really bad rubbish! :grr:

[Catherine Vincent]

42. He's being "gannonized" :-)

Conservative Blogger Getting "Gannonized"
Ben Domenech, welcome to my world! Editor & Publisher has a story about Lefty bloggers' reactions to the Washington Post trying to introduce a little balance to its hopelessly liberal newspaper. The same folks for whom "diversity" is a religion, have begun the smear campaign against someone who has a point of view they disagree with. It's just another attempt to take down a conservative by any means necessary. I expect this to get very, very personal.
Posted by jeffgannon at 09:09 AM

[IselaB]

44. Is that an actual quote?

Do you have a link?

[Catherine Vincent]

52. Yes, that's guckert's own words. It's from his blog....jeffgannon.com

[tanyev]

58. Priceless!

"It's just another attempt to take down a conservative by any means necessary."

Those durn Lefty bloggers. They disagreed with Gannon's point of view and they forced him to pose for nude pictures and sell himself online for sex. Is there nothing to which they won't stoop? Heaven help us!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

63. Yeah what a low blow for those lefties to shine a light on our plagiarism

and fake news!

[Roland99]

45. AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!

[UTUSN]

46. WoooooHOOOO - chennee-ing a-hole! n/t

[number6]

59. ha ha

:bounce: ;)

[gatorboy]

62. He's not old enough to resign.

Let's just say he quit. :P

[Roland99]

66. National Review found several more cases of plagiarism!!

http://corner.nationalreview.com/06_03_19_corner-archive.asp#093326

[RagAss]

67. another Fucking Punk.... Piece of Shit.....Fuck him...

[formercia]

70. Another road kill on the Information Superhighway

road pizza deluxe.

[Jade Fox]

71. Domenech is much creepier than people realize...

He wrote this under a pseudonym on a conservative blog:

"People who are poor and black are a drag on society. We would all be better off if there were fewer of them. Since we have, with little success, spent trillions of dollars over the past several decades trying to make poor blacks non-poor, it is time we recognize that there are more efficient means of eliminating the drag. Stated so bluntly, many readers might find that way of putting the matter morally problematic. The extermination of anti-social elements does, after all, have a somewhat controversial history. One thinks, perhaps inevitably, of the Holocaust....."

Exterminating anti-social elements is "somewhat controversial"???? Geezus.

http://www.redstate.com/story/2005/9/30/123649/894
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/to-jim-brady-the-wapo-s_b_17854.html