Ben Domenech’s college paper weighs in.
By on Mar 24th, 2006 at 11:27 am
Ben Domenech’s college paper weighs in.
Editorial in the college newspaper where the Post’s new blogger apparently published multiple plagiarized columns: “If true, his actions would be deeply offensive to us as journalists and as students. … Acting with integrity requires constant care, but the rewards are well worth it, and the consequences for failure almost unbearable.”
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin calls for Domenech to step down.
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Poor Ben…his world is crumbling down….
Just like the Bernie Kerik debacle
IT PAYS TO THROUGHLY VET YOUR NEW EMPLOYEES….
Whoops I forgot I am talking about etically challenged Republicans …..
March 24th, 2006 at 11:33 amis this the post or the ny times…both are really looking to be taking a page from washington (no follow through)
truthiness, its a bitch
March 24th, 2006 at 11:39 amDoes the Post give out medals?
March 24th, 2006 at 11:41 amThis is truly saddening. Ben is fine person and excellent blogger and the left has immediately gone into attack mode. Why are you so scared of people who don’t share your values? It’s very telling of liberals.
March 24th, 2006 at 11:53 amThat’s it, blame the messenger. Ben has set himself up as a target.
March 24th, 2006 at 11:58 am#8 – I don’t agree with you and I pity your beliefs, but in no way do I feel threatened by you. I am secure enough to deal with the other side of the aisle.
March 24th, 2006 at 12:02 pmBen Domenech uses Democrat when proper usage would dictate Democratic. As in Democrat senator instead of Democratic senator.
March 24th, 2006 at 12:03 pmRight wingers, Tom DeLay most prominent among them, are forever doing this as a slur. It just makes them sound ignorant.
And no, Interesting, liberals don’t share his values. To share values with someone, the other person has to have some. And this plagiarizing, low rent punk doesn’t have a lick of values.
what are we supposed to ignore that he steals others words, interesting, why do you support thieves?
a fine person is a plagerist? not in my book
March 24th, 2006 at 12:11 pmWow. Hell froze over if Michelle Malkin is against this Wanna-be…
March 24th, 2006 at 12:16 pmI pity your beliefs, but in no way do I feel threatened by you. I am secure enough to deal with the other side of the aisle.
Comment by Interesting — March 24, 2006
Then why comment? Obviously you do feel threatened, just be honest and admit it.
March 24th, 2006 at 12:17 pmBravo, WaPo !! You picked a REAL winner this time. And, Ms.Malkin, I will indulge in my “sick gloating” just until the “righties”, such as yourself, stop bringing up Bill Clinton. You make the call.
March 24th, 2006 at 12:19 pmWhat’s your favorite memory of the Wapo Ben Domenech era?
March 24th, 2006 at 12:21 pmI hope Ben is stocking up on Wapo office supplies, cause he’ll be out the door by this time next week. I wonder if he’ll include this little stint on his resume?
March 24th, 2006 at 12:22 pmI’m very uncomforatable thinking I agree with Michelle (I’m gonna hire me some cheap undocumented housekeepers) Malkin.
But, I will accept her help in this matter. See Intersting. We aren’t all afraid to hold hands with righties. Now if Ann Coulter comes out and says Ben has to go, I’m cutting my arms off, so I don’t have to hold hands with that sucubus… Even I have my limits.
btw – interesting, you have yet to agree that what he said was incorrect or plagerism, you just keep saying what a nice guy Ben is. Is that defense a good one? Could Gobbels have used a quote from Hitler saying what a “nice” guy Gobbels was as a defense at Neurenburg? No, it wouldn’t help him much. As with your usage, being nice or smart isn’t a reason to excuse slander and plagerism.
March 24th, 2006 at 12:23 pm16- It would have to be yesterday- by default.
March 24th, 2006 at 12:26 pmPolitics does indeed make strange bedfellows if I can find myself in agreement with Michelle Malkin. I just hope someone will stop me if I start thinking internment camps, well, maybe they weren’t so bad… Nah, screw that.
March 24th, 2006 at 12:29 pmWell it is good to see Malkin recognizing “the plain evidence”. I hope to see this pattern continue.
March 24th, 2006 at 12:35 pm#6 What is saddening? The way he stole from other authors or the way he stole money from WaPo by not working for his buck? Aren’t you insulted? I mean, what is all the hubbub about media and honesty?
March 24th, 2006 at 12:36 pmThis is truly saddening. Ben is fine person and excellent blogger and the left has immediately gone into attack mode. Why are you so scared of people who don’t share your values? It’s very telling of liberals.
Comment by Interesting
Scared?
No I WANT to debate him one on one… he is to SCARED to do it. He does not have the brains to back up his inflated chest and he knows it. MOST of what we attack has NOTHING to do with values… it has to do with .. DATES, NAMES, EVIDENCE, FACTS, SIMPLE LOGIC, PICTURES, VIDEOS, TRANSCRIPTS… and STILL you lame brained righties do not absorb this info and process it …INSTEAD …you turn right around and say the SAME stupid bullet points over and over and over and over and bahhh and bahhh and bahhh …the sheep are coming home!
March 24th, 2006 at 12:36 pm#9 Who are you trying to convince? We don’t want to threaten you. What would make you come to that conclusion? What thought patterns brings you to think we are threatening and Ben the plagierist is good people? Doesn’t that sound obtuse to you? I mean no threats, I don’t want to hurt you. It’s okay; don’t fear what you don’t understand. We come in peace.
March 24th, 2006 at 12:39 pmD*MMMNNN,
Is there ANYTHING associated with the criminal Bushite junta that isn’t ROTTEN?
…Domenech worked for Bushiva…
…how dare that scurvy b*tch Michelle Malkin pretend to be outraged…
…and call for Domenech’s “stepping down”…
…one can’t possibly “grow” ethics overnight…
March 24th, 2006 at 12:46 pmThanks for the pointer. I appreciate the sentiment of the editorial staff, but I couldn’t help noticing that the editors need an editor: “sentances”, “newsaper”, “It ensures our community of trust”, “strenghten”. . . At least they have their hearts in the right place.
March 24th, 2006 at 12:47 pmDon’t let him resign. This is too much fun. It should go on for at least another week or until the mainstream media picks it up, e.g., the NYT.
March 24th, 2006 at 12:50 pmMove over Stephen Glass and Jayson Blair! You’ve got a new, right-wing buddy in the young journalists’ Hall of Shame. Except they were creative and made stuff up. You couldn’t be bothered, and just stole others’ ideas.
March 24th, 2006 at 1:02 pmWhy are you so scared of people who don’t share your values? It’s very telling of liberals.
Comment by Interesting #6
dis’Interested,
Are you in the Rip Van Winkle family?
…it’s what your political beliefs (translated: voting for incompetent, corrupt, TREASONOUS Bushiva and L’il Dick….TWICE!)…
…have done to RUIN this country’s poor/middle working class, military, treasury, global reputation, credibility, education, infrastructure, environment, confidence in our government, unity, faith in and concern for HUMANITY in general…
…and your UNWILLINGNESS to admit you’ve fu*ked up royally, and hold those bast*rds accountable…
…that scares the living daylights out of us…
…why have you turned your backs on your country for a cowardly deserter, deferment kings, and draft dodgers?
…why do you hate our way of life (and support Bushiva’s illegal DOMESTIC wiretapping)?
…why have you ignored the major tenets of Christianity and become hypocrites…
…always spouting off about being PRO-LIFE, when you support:
…the death penalty…
…mass murder/maiming of innocents and war profiteering in Iraq, masquerading as
the “war on terror”…
…and the don’t abort ‘em but don’t support ‘em ideology?
Now THAT”S sad…
March 24th, 2006 at 1:03 pm#23 – It’s “Interesting” that the poster “interesting” seems to have no interest in actually debating the issue, but only in broadly labeling anyone who doesn’t worship at the “cult of personality” shrine of Republicanism.
One can only assume that s/he’s a drive-by-poster who makes a few retorts that parrot the ultra-radical-right-wing-nut talking points and then is gone before having to defend the straw-man argument of his post.
March 24th, 2006 at 1:15 pmAt Agitprop, we suggest Ben plagiarize this …
March 24th, 2006 at 1:15 pmBen Domenech uses Democrat when proper usage would dictate Democratic. As in Democrat senator instead of Democratic senator.
Right wingers, Tom DeLay most prominent among them, are forever doing this as a slur. It just makes them sound ignorant.
Bush did the same thing just the other day at the WH press conference. It struck me as silly of him to say it as a pejorative because it made him sound as you said, ignorant:
“I did notice that nobody from the Democrat Party has actually stood up and called for getting rid of the terrorist surveillance program,” Bush said.
March 24th, 2006 at 1:17 pmHey- was this guy a Bush appointee? I wonder if they “recommended” him for the job?
March 24th, 2006 at 1:32 pmHey, guess what guys?
We’re “moonbat hordes!”
Whatever the heck that means.
March 24th, 2006 at 1:33 pm#6 – Interesting, click on this link and read (it’s Daily Kos, but don’t be scared), make sure you check all the links in the story:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/3/23/181857/404
I don’t think you’ll be so proud of your fine blogger…
March 24th, 2006 at 1:35 pmoff topic – but really important news —
sam on franken was talking about matthews on imus this morning…
seems chrissy has woken up, smelling the coffee…
waiting for the clips at crooks and liars…
sam was asking listeners what they thought could have brought on this sudden change, a caller suggested that because his brother was running for office, matthews had to distance himself from bush, as are a lot of other repugs…
March 24th, 2006 at 1:36 pmanother said he wasn’t sure to be glad about it, or mad at him for waiting so long to come clean…
that’s where i stand….
interesting said:
the left has immediately gone into attack mode. Why are you so scared of people who don’t share your values? It’s very telling of liberals.
oh yeah, and ken starr and the republicans NEVER did that, did they? exactly when did you republicans become so sensitive?
democrats are in attack mode because theyve spent YEARS being attacked. now that the republican weasels are showing signs of falling on their faces, excuse us for helping with a slight push.
March 24th, 2006 at 1:36 pmMaybe one of the original authors will file suit for copyright violation. I am open to the ideas on both sides of the aisle, but I don’t need to listen to one who uses illegal acts to make his point.
March 24th, 2006 at 1:39 pmhey – sam just announced – breaking news!
March 24th, 2006 at 1:40 pmdomenech just resigned…
Nani-Nani-Boo-Boo, He stepped in the Doo-Doo! It is to laugh- HA! HA!
March 24th, 2006 at 1:52 pmDidn’t anyone check his resume`?
March 24th, 2006 at 2:06 pm#41 – He probably didn’t list plagarizer on his resume. ;-)
March 24th, 2006 at 2:30 pmI’ve never seen a thread get so old so fast. Man, that was great.
March 24th, 2006 at 3:21 pmWhat’s with the ‘leave him and his family alone’ quote by MM? She’s trying to make it sound like the lefty blogosphere invaded his home or something.
March 24th, 2006 at 5:09 pmBoo-hoo, lefty bloggers attack us, we never attack them! They’re so mean! Boo hoo!
March 24th, 2006 at 9:06 pmWho is this Ben Domenech clown? Never heard of him.
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