spoon_jenkins
03-24-2006, 09:59 PM
Has anyone else been following the story of Ben Domenech? It hasn't been getting the Jayson Blair treatment.
Domenech was a conservative blogger at a RedState.com and a National Review Online contributer. He was hired by the washingtonpost.com to be a blogger.
Turns out the guy is rampant plagiarist. Folks in the left-wing blogosphere uncovered tons and tons of examples. So he was forced to resign.
The really disturbing thing is the response from the conservative masses at RedState.org. Domenech posted onRedState (http://www.redstate.com/story/2006/3/24/151255/259) discussing his resignation. Yet he can't manage to stop lying, claiming for example, that a piece he wrote acknowledged that it took text from the work of P.J. O'Rourke when no such disclaimer ever appeared. He has the nerve to attribute his plagiarism to the editors of his college newspaper, yet the plagiarism followed him to his later jobs. Much like Barry Bonds, he demonizes the whistleblowers who caught him cheating.
The really disturbing thing is the response from the conservative masses at RedState.org. They pat the blatant plagiarist on the back, yet accuse those who called him out of "lynching" and "McCarthyism." Has it come to the point for so many in the conservative base where they praise a rampant liar who gets caught just because he's one of them and bash anyone who uncovers the guy's iniquity? Will conservatives now snicker about RedState.com and NRO like they do about NYT because of Jayson Blair? Will the media cover this like they did Blair?
Domenech was a conservative blogger at a RedState.com and a National Review Online contributer. He was hired by the washingtonpost.com to be a blogger.
Turns out the guy is rampant plagiarist. Folks in the left-wing blogosphere uncovered tons and tons of examples. So he was forced to resign.
The really disturbing thing is the response from the conservative masses at RedState.org. Domenech posted onRedState (http://www.redstate.com/story/2006/3/24/151255/259) discussing his resignation. Yet he can't manage to stop lying, claiming for example, that a piece he wrote acknowledged that it took text from the work of P.J. O'Rourke when no such disclaimer ever appeared. He has the nerve to attribute his plagiarism to the editors of his college newspaper, yet the plagiarism followed him to his later jobs. Much like Barry Bonds, he demonizes the whistleblowers who caught him cheating.
The really disturbing thing is the response from the conservative masses at RedState.org. They pat the blatant plagiarist on the back, yet accuse those who called him out of "lynching" and "McCarthyism." Has it come to the point for so many in the conservative base where they praise a rampant liar who gets caught just because he's one of them and bash anyone who uncovers the guy's iniquity? Will conservatives now snicker about RedState.com and NRO like they do about NYT because of Jayson Blair? Will the media cover this like they did Blair?