Box Turtle Ben Responds

[Chimichurri]

and he blames his problems on them hateful liberals.


Red America, my new blog at washingtonpost.com, has been under attack since its launch. It is a conservative blog on a mainstream media site, so many of the attacks were expected. If one bothers to read it, I believe it stands as a welcome addition to the opinion debate.

The hate mail that I have received since the launch of this blog has been overwhelmingly profane and violent. My family has been threatened; my friends have been deluged; my phone has been prank called. The most recent email that showed up while writing this post talked about how the author would like to hack off my head, and wishes my mother had aborted me.

But in the course of accusing me of racism, homophobia, bigotry, and even (on one extensive Atrios thread) of having a sexual relationship with my mother, the leftists shifted their accusations to ones of plagiarism. You can find the major examples here: I link to this source only because I believe it's the only place that hasn't yet written about how they'd like to rape my sister.

I know that charges of plagiarism are serious. While I am not a journalist, I have, myself, written more than one thing that has been plagiarized in the past. But these charges have also served to create an atmosphere where no matter what is said on my Red America blog, leftists will focus on things with my byline from when I was a teenager.

I can rebut several of the alleged incidents here. The most recent accusation, is that I stole a music review from Crosswalk and passed it off at National Review Online. In fact, I wrote both lists myself; I was one of Crosswalk's music review contributors at the time.

The Left has also accused me of foisting Sen. Frist quotes and some descriptive material from the Washington Post for a New York Press article on the Capitol Shooter. But the quotes I used were either properly credited or came from Sen. Frist’s press conference, which I attended along with many other reporters. So it is no surprise that we had similar quotes or similar descriptions of the same event. I have reams of notes and interviews about the events of that day. I also went over the entire piece step by step with NYPress editors to ensure that it was unquestionably solid before it ran.

rest of his tu culpa here:
http://redstate.com/story/2006/3/24/151255/259

Edited to include how his fellow right wingers embrace unethical behavior so long as you push the blame on someone else:
Check out the responses - tells you all you need to know about the Bushbot rational.

[Dora]

1. How does that crow taste, Ben?

Oh, and by the way, you have a feather stuck in your teeth.

[FrankBooth]

2. It's someone else's fault

This absolutely personnifies the wingnuts ... never, ever take responsibility for your actions. I'm sure some editor just inserted whole paragraphs of other people's work into poor Ben's articles. That's really believable.

Hey Ben: Go see a shrink and learn a little about projection. Or join the Marines.

[JeffR]

3. If he can rebut these incidents

Why is he resigning?

Nice to see his response is on a par with the (plagiarized) crap he was blogging.

[Iris]

4. Maybe he and Ruth Bader Ginsburg could start a support group?

[wicket]

5. So, he resigned because the charges aren't true?

That dog don't hunt.

:rofl:

[MADem]

6. They always pull out that death threat bullshit!!!

I think this little liar needs to put up or shut up...and there needs to be verification that these mean comments and threats of violence against him and "his sister" aren't coming, say, from his OWN ISP address!

Why do I think that anything other than the usual "Hey jerk, ya got busted, and ya got what ya deserved" type remarks were seeded in to make him look like what the righties do best--play the victim?

[Justitia]

7. The old "my family has been threatened" thing again? Ya Right!

Bullshit on that, just like his lying colleague, Jeff "Man Whore" Gannon.

As to the rest of it:

:cry:

:nopity:

And this is the party of "personal responsibility & accountability"???

These lying, cheating crybabies never take it like a real man and admit they got caught fucking up.

I'm sure he'll have a job writing press releases at the Federalist Society next week.

[Warren Stupidity]

8. so then the charges are false.

So his getting sacked, or his resigning, or whatever it was, was all a big mistake. I see. False charges, must quit job. Got it.

[Career Prole]

9. "While I am not a journalist", the Boy Blunder says...

...followed but one graf later by

"from Sen. Frist’s press conference, which I attended along with many other reporters"

Damn, boy, can't you keep a story straight?

One more thing...what's with this shit?

"leftists will focus on things with my byline from when I was a teenager"

When you're a graybeard with year after year of integrity piled up in your wake that defense stands a chance...not when you're barely out of your teens.

Get a real job, loser.

[Iris]

10. Would someone here like to share the Box Turtle story?

I heard an allusion to it on Sam Seder in for Al Franken today but not details.

[JohnKleeb]

12. I thikn its a reference to his old boss Senator Cornyn who famously

compared gay marriage to marrying a box turtle.

[pk_du]

13. Bennie-boy here wrote a speech for a senator complaining

how gay marriage would lead to people marrying box-turtles and no-one being able to complain it had diminished their own marrige.

[Iris]

20. So, he was trying to save us all from the box turtle-human marriages,

which would ultimately threaten the institution of marriage?

God, these people are so sick.

[pk_du]

11. Red (it somewhere else before I wrote it here) State Blog ! n/t

[Career Prole]

14. Oooh! It has comments too!

"...even if the viatrol that is spewed..."

Is it safe to smoke around spewing viatrol? :smoke:

[Plaid Adder]

17. I think viatrol is a medication you take

if your language skills are compromised and you can't maintain your own articulation.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[Justitia]

19. LOL - good one! -eom

[blogslut]

15. A non-apology apology

My how times have changed.

FOOTNOTE: The term "non-apology apology" is a reference to the term "non-denial denial"; alluded to in the book, "All the Presidents Men" - by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

FOOTNOTE FOOTNOTE: Bob Woodward and the Washington Post were once respected members of the printed press.

FOOTNOTE FOOTNOTE FOOTNOTE: "Ironic" is a song by Alanis Morrisette

[reichstag911]

16. Bennie Boy says both...

..."I am not a journalist" (¶ 4), and "I attended along with many other reporters" (¶ 6). Interpreting the words "reporter" and "journalist" as virtually synonymous, is there not a serious logical inconsistency just within this little excerpt of his excuse(s)? Is he a reporter/journalist or not? Doesn't seem up to snuff if you ask me. :think:

[Scurrilous]

18. Republican Family Values:

I am proud of you son. By: DougD

Love, Dad.

[Iris]

21. oh - "The connection was refused when attempting to contact redstate.com"

That's what happened when I clicked on the link. (I wanted to see the note from "Dad")

[mtnester]

22. The old "I did it, but I am blaming YOU" mantra n/t