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Well That Was Quick
Benny, we barely got to know you, and now
it's time for Adios. Don't let the door hit your ass on your way out.
What a week he had, though. Hired by the
Washington Post to write their new right wing blog Red America (you gotta
have that balance), Ben Domenech raised a howl of protest in his few short
days on-line. The particular line that initially got him such rapid
attention was one - that he wrote before joining the WaPo - in which
he called Coretta Scott King a communist. Jokingly, of course.
Check out this guy's twenty-four hours.
(Okay, more like twenty, but I bet he's doing something exciting right now).
Late afternoon yesterday, bloggers such as the
Daily Kos
started printing examples of Domenech's plagiarism. Word up, Ben. If you
want to steal a line, try something like "'I love
you," she said'. Lines like "Parties
with themes, such as "Las Vegas Nite" or "Waikiki Whoopee." Parties at which
anyone is wearing a blue velvet tuxedo jacket."
are a little harder to get away with.
This morning,
Howard Kurtz had a piece wherein Post on-line editor Jim Brady defended
the hiring of the RedState.com
writer, and said that it was no surprise that liberals objected to his
presence. "We were completely unrepresented by a social conservative voice."
Let's check back with Brady this afternoon...
What? Domenech has
resigned? For plagiarism? What a shock. Do you have a feeling that Kurtz
didn't bother to check out the emerging story even though he references it
in his own piece? And that Brady didn't even know about it till he sat down
to read Kurtz (who moments ago filed
this report) and see if he was properly quoted?
Whole lot of people gotta be thanking God
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