Gentle

Ben Domenech didn't last his first week as the Right Wing blogger in a brand new Washington Post online feature, Red America.

Seems the Post needed balance for White House Briefing blogger Dan Froomkin. To my eyes Froomkin is a journalist who mainly pulls from published news and public quotes, and analyzes the situation in terms of political power, more scorekeeping that moralizing. But you know that Blame Game crowd, they like slapping on labels, the quicker the better. A Reality-Based journalist gets called (shudder) a Liberal.

How out of control is the Post? To balance an independent journalist they hire a 24 year-old Republican Bush crony. Yes, the youngest on record!

A former contributing editor to National Review Online, Domenech later became what he calls "the youngest political appointee of President George W. Bush."

The punk even had the gall to Red-smear Coretta Scott King on the day of her funeral. Y'know, for sentimental reasons.

Sadly, it turns out Gentle Ben is a serial plagiarist.

Looks like an attempt at a face-saving resignation offered by the Post. And what's the first thing Ben does when he leaves? Blames other people. By the end of the day I guess he had gotten his ass handed to him, he finally apologizes, but really only to his cohorts, and the editors and publishers he cheated. Not to his readership or the writers he ripped off. And to top it off he does the age dodge.

Let's make one thing perfectly clear. This is not a guy to be trusted. Ever. Not in print. Maybe in housing if he goes off and does a Jimmy Carter for a decade. Chickenhawk should just enlist if he wants his conservative blogger friends to even give him the time of day.

So a former Bush operative is caught in a lie.

Imagine that.