Conservatives vs. The Real World

8:03 pm EST March 23rd, 2006 | Politics | 12 Comments

Once again, we have an instance of a conservative’s bubble deflating as the real world refuses to conform to their fantasies. Ben Domenech was in good with the right-wing establishment, able to edit the ravings of Michelle Malkin for Regnery, then moved on to Redstate where there were a bunch of nodding heads agreeing with his characterization of the King family as communists and blacks as subhuman. So when they realize they’ve got the Post at a vulnerable spot, after a concerted campaign to convince the pro-war paper that its somehow liberal for having a columnist who doesn’t lick Bush’s boots – he’s got his “in”. This will be easy, he thinks, coming from the right-wing home schooled world, where anything not conforming to his world view is simply shoved out of the way. This will be like everything else to this date, easy as pie.

But you see, outside of the right-wing cocoon, that universe where up is down and down is up, it isn’t okay to attack whole races of people, it’s not cool to be a blazing ball of hatred and bigotry, it’s not playing by the rules to simply copy your work (Mom never noticed, so why would Google?).

The real world is knocking on Ben Domenech’s door. Will the Washington Post shove him out of his bubble?

UPDATE: Domenech also plagiarized for a review he wrote for the National Review. Wonder what Jonah Goldberg thinks about that?

>> Salon: A portrait of the blogger as a young plagiarist (the folks at Salon have set it up so when you visit from Odub.com you won’t get their ads)
>> RedState is going to the mat for a plagiarist and apparent bigot. Conservative values, folks.

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12 Responses to “Conservatives vs. The Real World”

  1. Don Surber says:
    March 23, 2006 at 9:03 pm

    The Post Farked Up With Domenech

    It is hard to keep up with all the new lingo. “Domenech” must be a new euphemism for fark because by adding Ben Domenech to its online offerings, the Washington Post farked up.

  2. Semanticleo says:
    March 23, 2006 at 9:03 pm

    My perverse BushHate compels me to revel in the rabid minions
    who mindlessly champion the cause of the Idiot Bastard Son.

    If Malkin and Domenech did not exist, I would have to create them
    for my own entertainment.

  3. Robert McClelland says:
    March 23, 2006 at 9:03 pm

    I don’t see what the big deal is here. The WaPo just wanted to add a blogger who embodied core redstate values and their selection of a lying, racist plagiarist hit the bullseye.

  4. SaveFarris says:
    March 23, 2006 at 10:03 pm

    He plagiarized something? Wow, I guess that means he’s qualified to be Senator of Delaware.

  5. Oliver Willis says:
    March 24, 2006 at 12:03 am

    So, you’re saying plagiarism is okay? Because Sen. Biden got drummed out of the presidential race for those accusations, so there were repercussions. But I know this is the Bush era and Things Are Different ™.

  6. JWG says:
    March 24, 2006 at 12:03 am

    I think it’s great that the internet can flush out things like this. However, this is obviously not a liberal/conservative issue. It will be an embarrassment for conservatives who took glee in the liberal screams when Domenech was hired by the WaPo. But clearly people of all political stripes resort to the intellectual crime of plagerism. Get rid of them with as much humiliation as possible and move on with the debate of ideas.

  7. duros62 says:
    March 24, 2006 at 11:03 am

    Wow, Dugger, look. A conservative blogger using copy & paste to state opinions not his own!

  8. Dugger says:
    March 24, 2006 at 11:03 am

    duros,

    Don’t be bitter. You’ll do better later on – as some of that anger subsides.

    OW,

    Your history is a little incomplete. Recommend reading somebody other than Doris Kearns Goodwin.

    For some strange reason you went to passive voice to describe liberal Democrat Biden’s problem with plagiarization – as if the mainstream media and Americans made him a pay a price. He failed (withdrew) to win the DEMOCRATIC nomination in 1987. Your side liked (chuckle) Tank Commander Dukakis better (another liberal Democrat who was probably more responsible for exploiting Biden’s plagiarism incident than anybody)

    Dugger, Still sick of all of this shoddy conservative scholarship, now reading praised liberal historian Bellesile’s “Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture”

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    March 24, 2006 at 12:03 pm

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  10. duros62 says:
    March 24, 2006 at 12:03 pm

    Not bitter at all. Mildly amused, that’s all. :-)

  11. mjb says:
    March 24, 2006 at 1:03 pm

    “Your side liked (chuckle) Tank Commander Dukakis better (another liberal Democrat who was probably more responsible for exploiting Biden s plagiarism incident than anybody)”

    Of course, because it was during the Democratic primary season. If Biden had won, Bush would have hammered on it, so what’s your point? At least when the conservatives would have inevitably defended Bush by saying that “Dukakis started it” they would have been correct that time, unlike the Gore/Willy Horton lies.

    I just went way down the hypothetical hole there, sorry.

  12. Dugger says:
    March 24, 2006 at 3:03 pm

    Mjb,

    So even though a Dukakis operative is credited with exposing to the media Biden’s plagiarization, it was Bush senior’s fault?

    You know, it was really Biden’s fault. Just as whatever Domenech (now gone) did way back when is his fault.

    Dugger