No he wasn’t. He was a plagarist. Is Brit Hume? And as someone whose written for both a campus newspaper and graded undergraduate papers, let me tell you all about campus ethics guidelings. Seriously, do you want to talk holier than thou? I’ve been writing films reviews large and small for nigh on a decade. In the hundreds and hundreds of reviews and essays I’ve written I have never once plagarized the work of others, not in all the long dark nights when the words weren’t coming up against a hard deadline in the morning. Ya, writing film reviews is easy unless your heroes are James Agee, Manny Farber and Pauline Kael, film critics who were also great writers period. The lynch mob only won, Dugger, because Ben gave them the rope.

All of you holier than thou leftists yammering that the only reason you tok partin in a big money effort to get him fired was that he was not a real journalist, please explain the failed Brit Hume lynch mob? And tell me again about freedom of speech on campuses - run by leftists.

Dugger

I felt ‘magnificent’ was too complimentary, unless you mean as;

“a dead mackeral shines at midnight”

Let’s see the evidence that Dom was brainwashed by a Stalinist cabal Manchurin Candidate-style and forced to plagarize article after article and then, after he was found out, forced to deny it with ludicrous lies. Then I’ll agree that he was “silenced.”

The WaPo would have kept Dom no matter how much of a stink the lefty bloggers raised because that’s exactly what they hired him to do: Create a controversy that would prove to the right that the WaPo was not, itself, liberal. That became untenable when it was revealed that their guy was a thief. Plain and simple, that’s what a plagarist is. And he did it repeatedly.

Defending him on free speech grounds is so monumentally ironic it would be disgusting if it weren’t so hilarious. A voice was silenced? Who’s voice? He stole the voice of other writers and passed it off as his own. It’s the cardinal sin of journalism and writing in general.

Face it Dugger, this idiot silenced himself the first time he passed off someone else’s wirting as his own. And the second time, the third time and every time after that.

Semanticleo: arguing with Dugger is pointless. He either knows damn well nobody has trod upon Benny-poo’s freedom of speech and is trying to get our goat, or he really is too dumb to understand this. I suspect the former. My father is a neocon and loves doing this crap to get a rise out of folks.

Check. I meant to raise it in connection to my question about Fox having a liberal commentator to balance O’Reilly. Dugger seems to think he should be able to demand that the WaPo have a conservative columnist. Well, I want to see a liberal opinion show on Fox. Any difference?

Dugger;

Instapundit blogs at MSNBC and has a regular column there.

Do you hear anyone ranting on about him?

Many feel he is a stealth Neocon, in spite of his apparent pro-choice
and pro-gay positions, yet there is no Hue and Cry. Why?

Is it because he has some gravitas and credibility?

The Wapo move to pander to the right wing is not about balancing the
scales. If it were some measure of vetting would have taken place
before the choice was made. No, the knee jerk right wing pushed this
issue so hard that Wapo screwed up. Talk about pressure groups.

There is much more fear of conservative pressure groups than there is
leftist. Those scales need to be balanced and that is part of what
occured here.

I believe the word you were looking for was comedy.

and

Rove, you magnificent bastard…
frame1
 A conservative voice silenced.
To quote from another thread..”Say it soft and it’s almost like praying”

And what was Milbank doing in his orange hunter s outfit
Being funny. Look it up. By your measure Jay Leno was being right wing when he did Clinton jokes. I thought they were funny and fair game.

Why exaclty, is the WaPo or any newspaper obligated to present a “conservative voice” in its editorial sections? Where’s the liberal host to balance O’Reilly on Fox (and fer chrissakes don’t you dare say Alan Colmes)? Dugger, would you like to go back to the days of the Fairness Doctrine? I’m all for it. It’s conservatives, under Reagan, who killed it.

I know that pointing this out to the trolls on this site is a waste of time, but here goes. Fromkin and Milbank may have liberal views, but they are still professional journalists not part of the democratic establishment; not on the DNC payroll, etc. The counter part to them would be a journalist with Conservative views who isn’t on the RNC payroll, etc. Surely there must be some out there. Hiring this connected kid with no credetionals and no experience should be viewed as a slap in the face to all the conservative real journalists out there that should have been considered for the job.

 A top producer at ABC NEWS declared  Bush makes me sick

I’ll see your producer and raise you Carl Cameron.

Oh yes, we’ll never hear from Ben again. Delicate and intense like a whispy candle flame, Ben’s voice has been snuffed out. Alas, poor Box Turtle Ben, we hardly knew ye.

It was never about silencing right-wing opinion.
Listening to Air America all day, and reading liberal blogs all day, the one thing I heard from everyone was how there are plenty of credible conservative journalists out there who could have done this, why this tool?

“He was clearly a partisan shill ”

He was hired in recogniton of his partisanship. And what was Milbank doing in his orange hunter’s outfit on the left wing Olbermann show - if not being clearly parisan?

And if a man/teenager does something wrong in his youth, is he still that today? Is that what we are saying, boobies? How about an ex Klansman for starters? How about all the left wingers with flings with radical left wing orgainizations in their youth? Is that the standard?

OW, You called for him, no ’screamed’ for him to be fired. Do you now seriously pretend the reason you did that was your altruistic concern for the generic problem of plagiarization by teenagers.

garth,

It is exactly and only about partisan politics. Nothing else. What was what Milbank did on Olbermann?

mjb, Please. The left screamed for him to be fired. Re that position he was hired for, he has been silenced. And I have no doubt the radical left would silence just about every dissenting voice in America from the right if they could - after all ‘they really know whats best for the people and they are smarter than idiot Red Staters’. Its what you’ve done at universities where you have total control.

Semant,

You joke because I expect you see no problem. If I were you I would be uneasy about political pressure groups silencing dissent. Your answer is that its OK becasue there is still some dissent out there.

Look at the universities. Speech codes. Can’t say anything that makes a left wing constituency feel ‘uncomfortable’. Look at the campaign against Fox News. Remember OW and Media Matters trying to get Brit Hume fired. Yeah, hilarious.

Read the history of the Boston Herald non-TV station.

Still haven’t heard a name from progressives. Who from the real right, not your pretend right, would you not call to be fired/silenced? Or is it your intent that WaPo kill the balance idea altogtether.

Dugger, This is why I can never be a leftist

Sorry Dugger.

I won’t be happy until all right wing purveyors of truth are purged from
the Liberal Biased Media so that no balance in reporting the news can
ever rear it’s ugly head. The Lefties must control all information with
any means available.

Rove, you sonofabitch, we read your book!!!!!