Month: March 2006
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O’Rourke contradicts Domenech
One more Domenech claim goes out the window in today’s New York Times: [Domenech] explained the passage that appeared to be copied from Mr. O’Rourke’s book by saying that Mr. O’Rourke gave him permission. Contacted at his home in New Hampshire, Mr. O’Rourke said that he had never heard of Mr. Domenech and did not
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The end of the Domenech controversy
He’s toast: In the past 24 hours, we learned of allegations that Ben Domenech plagiarized material that appeared under his byline in various publications prior to washingtonpost.com contracting with him to write a blog that launched Tuesday. An investigation into these allegations was ongoing, and in the interim, Domenech has resigned, effective immediately. When we
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Howard Kurtz on Domenech controversy
Howard Kurtz covers the Domenech controversy today in the Washington Post: Late yesterday, the liberal Web sites Daily Kos and Atrios posted examples of what appeared to be instances of plagiarism from Domenech’s writing at the William & Mary student paper. Three sentences of a 1999 Domenech review of a Martin Scorsese film were identical
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Media Matters on Domenech
Media Matters, like Joe Conason, is on the Domenech story, including the phony AP quote: [W]ith each hour bringing new evidence of Domenech’s racially charged rhetoric and homophobic bigotry, the time has come for the Post to end its ill-conceived relationship with Domenech. Examples of Domenech’s views include: In a February 7 post on RedState,
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Conason on Domenech’s phony quote
Salon’s Joe Conason has picked up the story of newly-hired WashingtonPost.com bloger Ben Domenech and the false quotation I exposed on Domenech’s personal blog back in 2002: [B]y Thursday bloggers had more than ideological reasons to oppose the Post’s move, as
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GOP pushes impeachment hype
The Republican Party has apparently signed on to the desperation tactic of claiming Democrats will impeach President Bush if they take back the House in 2006. This tactic, which I first documented in a column from Paul Weyrich, has gained increasing attention in recent weeks as President Bush’s approval ratings decline into the 30s. Today,
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Pointless government secrecy in NC
One of my fellow graduate students pointed me to a hilarious/disturbing local story about bizarre NC state government secrecy practices: Here are some words the N.C. Department of Labor thinks the public shouldn’t see: tomatoes, landlord, Mexicans, workers. The department recently released to News & Observer staff writer Kristin Collins its files on Ag-Mart, the
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GOP hypocrisy on politicizing the military
On Saturday, the Washington Times broke the news that Senate Democrats had distributed a memo suggesting holding town hall meetings on military bases. Such meetings are prohibited. But as I pointed out, President Bush holds obviously partisan events on military bases all the time. Rather than conceding this point, the Times simply asserted that the
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Bush denies linking Iraq and 9/11
I missed this, but on Monday, President Bush again denied linking Iraq and 9/11: Mr. President, at the beginning of your talk today you mentioned that you understand why Americans have had their confidence shaken by the events in Iraq. And I’d like to ask you about events that occurred three years ago that might
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Ben Domenech blogging at the Post
Ben Domenech is the new “Red America” blogger at WashingtonPost.com. He was apparently hired to balance the allegedly liberal slant of Dan Froomkin. I have a little history with Domenech. As a reader reminded me by email, I debunked a false quotation he published in a defense of President Bush’s false “trifecta” story on Spinsanity