Wow... Malkin Agrees With Domenech Resignation, And Makes Me Puke...

[WillyT]

simultaneously!!!



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I cheered for Ben, the editor of my last book at Regnery, when he announced his new position. 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 thieves 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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Link: http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004834.htm

All I can say here is... :puke::puke::puke:

and...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... Hoo, boy...

:evilgrin:

[JeffR]

1. Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeebus

Why would anyone accuse her of plagiarism? Who else would want to take credit for anything that came out under her byline?

[Beaverhausen]

2. off topic

I love your Joni "Blue" avatar! One of my absolute favs!

[JeffR]

3. Thanks

Wanted to use the gatefold pic from For the Roses, but people would've needed an electron microscope to make it out.

[Beaverhausen]

4. Yeah, my boyfriend likes that photo, too

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[WillyT]

5. And What If You Got Caught, And Your Legacy Became...

plagiarizing Michele Malkin???

You'd have to leave the country for sure, LOL!!!

:hi:

[JeffR]

6. Have to leave the planet

Maybe by volunteering for the Dictator-Tot's Mission to Mars. Oops, I forgot. Another one of his promises not kept!

[Gman]

8. You'd surely be laughed out of the country!

[shenmue]

7. Who likes her?

People with no talent?

Who would copy her?

Lazy people with no talent?

[WillyT]

9. Kick !!!

:shrug:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

10. This guy is 24. He's an editor? How old was he when he edited Malkin's

"latest book"?

Doesn't sound like this guy read much except to plagiarize it. I guess Regnery doesn't have to sweat their editor's credentials when they are selling their RW Koolaid to their addicted masses who crave it.

[WillyT]

11. I'm Thinkin He Was 10 !!!

:shrug: