'Red America' Blogger Resigns (WaPo)

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/24/AR2006032401206_pf.html

'Red America' Blogger Resigns

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 24, 2006; 3:30 PM

A 24-year-old conservative blogger hired by The Washington Post Co.'s Web site resigned today, three days after his debut, amid a flurry of allegations of plagiarism.

Ben Domenech, an editor with Regnery Publishing, relinquished the part-time position hours after a liberal Web site posted evidence that he had plagiarized part of a movie review he wrote for National Review Online. Previous allegations of plagiarism about Domenech's writing for the College of William & Mary student newspaper surfaced Wednesday, but the 2001 review was the first instance found since he attended college.

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He said most of the allegations of plagiarism, from the William & Mary student paper, were from his freshman year, and that while he believes the unattributed material was inserted by his editor, he cannot prove it. "When I was 17, I was certainly sloppy," Domenech said. "If I had paid more attention, none of these problems would have happened."

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Rick Moran, who runs the site Right Wing Nuthouse, wrote on the American Thinker blog: "The plagiarism of Mr. Domenech cannot be chalked up to youthful indiscretion nor to some kind of unconscious parroting of something he read before putting words to paper . . . Ben Domenech is not the kind of writer we want representing the conservative viewpoint at The Washington Post or anywhere else."
© 2006 The Washington Post Company

Comments: This guy is an EDITOR at Regnery? Doesn't say too much about THEIR credibility eh? This is a disgrace on Ben, on WaPo, on Regnery, as well as the National Review (if you read the full article linked, he plagiarized writing for the National Review as well).

Further comment: How sweet is it to have a wingnut blogger named Moran?

[xultar]

1. Buhwawawawawawawawa!

[Nutmegger]

2. Wow, that was fast.

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

:wow::wow::wow:

[muntrv]

3. Rub the right's nose in it

they way they did it to us during the Jason Blair debacle.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. How does Jason Blair have anything to do with the left or Democrats?

[muntrv]

6. The right

was lumping Jason Blair with the left because he worked with the NY Times.

[TahitiNut]

5. Regnery Publishing is the right-wing septic tank of the publishing world

Coulter, Malkin ... you name 'em ... purveyors of political smut.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

8. I know. I wonder if they have any editors who are still in junior high?

[SalmonChantedEvening]

7. He'll be a GOP fundraiser for DECADES.

Make a splash, call it a youthful discretion, and blame liberals for all his woes.

It's textbook Rove.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

12. Yeah I guess he's like a "made guy" in their Repub Mafia now. Sort of

like the scene in "Goodfellas" when Henry Hill gets "pinched" for the first time, for dealing stolen cigarettes, as a kid. The mobsters all greet him as he exits the courthouse, like it's a surprise birthday party, the occasion of his popping his "cherry" with the criminal justice system.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

13. Excellent comparison!

He'll pull a dirty trick here and there, get noticed as the plagiarist from 06, slip away and then emerge again, during the next election cycle when thuggery is required for the GOP to win.


As if it isn't now ;)

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

9. If he was sloppy at age 17, does this mean that

THIS is sloppy seconds?

:rofl:

[DenaliDemocrat]

10. Wow! So in this country

if you do not cite your sources you get fired, but you can be a fucked up drunk and start an illegal war and 1/3 of the people will still love you?

[laylah]

11. Well THAT

didn't take long! :rofl: