Daily Kos has a fabulous link to a story published by Domenech in the New York Press, in 2001, which has an entire section obviously lifted from a front page article in the Washington Post from 1998. (the section lifted is from the story about Frist).

Here's Domenech's article:

http://www.nypress.com/14/29/news&columns/feature.cfm

Here's the Post article

(Start with the section entitled, The Dirksen Building

'This May Be the Gunman')

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/shooting/stories/capitol072698.htm

You write a letter attacking young Domenech for stealing content from other writers and then to promote the hit piece on him, you steal a copyrighted photo from his personal site?

Way to take the moral highground there, Salon.

Just regigned

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Ben with-the-unpronounceable-name is the sort of worthless little right-wing fraud that the universities have been turning out in nauseatingly huge numbers in recent years. This problem isn't of recent origin: like everything else that stinks about contemporary America it goes straight back to Bush the Father and Reagan.

Of course he's a plagiarist, a liar, and a Nazi (albeit a gutless and unimaginative one). So, unfortunately, are immense numbers of his supposedly educated contemporaries. The cities are swarming with these lice. Indeed, the eldest of them are now the majority of the so-called "senior" press corps. The ground was prepared for this infestation during the great academic purge of the late 1970s and early 1980s, when, in precise contrast to the official right-wing lie, university faculties rose up as one to ensure that nobody to the left of Major-League Baseball would make it past graduate school.

The crypto-Republican frauds and hypocrites who entered academia then have cultivated the current generation of moral termites, of whom little Unpronounceable is only the latest, and probably not the worst, example.

I vividly recall a professor friend of mine--nominally a Democrat--proudly declaring, circa 1980, that he did not consider himself an "intellectual"; that anybody who would so characterize himself was no better than Pol Pot; and that one of his most important tasks as an educator was to weed these "intellectuals" out (by fair means or foul) before they had a chance to influence public life. This was an era when right-wing graduate students in English brought cookies to seminars on Samuel Johnson in order to affirm a "family atmosphere" they felt was being threatened by the presence of known socialists and/or gays in their classes.

Little Ben Thing, the plagiarist, is the inevitable result a quarter-century downstream.

Will the Post can his ass, as he so richly deserves? Of course not. The Washington Post has no integrity of any kind, and hasn't had any since before Bob Woodward became a Republican. The reason why this is so is that there is no integrity anywhere in the current infrastructure of American cultural life. These people don't have to be intimidated: they WANT to submit.

We shouldn't be worried about little Ben himself--there are a million others where he came from. What we should worry about is the intellectual global warming that has allowed his kind to proliferate. It's of a piece with the imperialistic incompetence that led to the war in Iraq, and that will sooner or later cause the United States to go the way of the Former Soviet Union.

Won't all the little guppie-like clones be opening and shutting their ugly mouths in outrage then?

Ben Domenech Resigns. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/washpostblog/2006/03/ben_domenech_resigns.html

“…He linked to another page on his site that showed a very peculiar version of what was supposed to be an AP article in the Boston Globe on the New Hampshire debate, dated Jan. 7, 2000.”

“…Nexis shows no AP story in the Globe or anywhere else that includes the quote used by Domenech.”

I find your article strange. You build this intriguing story, but then leave it hanging, unresolved. Whatever side readers may be on, they’re sure to be let down. So I want to know, was the Globe/AP article he posted on him website real or not? And, what made his article “peculiar”? You can’t just say that without some elaboration.

I don’t know what to think about the blogger Domenech, but your article appears to be poor reporting (and ethics) that raise innuendo and resolves nothing – and doesn’t acknowledge its incompleteness.

Mr. Domenech resigned only momments ago - too bad, it was too much fun reading all of the comments over at WaPo.com. Now the movement is to get Herr Brady to resign for being the imcompetent boob that he is. Well, we can always hope...

Harty :~)

What? With a little leg-work Domenech could have found actual video of the quotations in question? What do you think he is - a journalist?

Forget about it. In the name of "balance" and "objectivity" (but really to avoid criticism) - the Washington Post will let this partisan hack keep his job.

And the worst thing about all of this? That stratgey won't work. Despite the fact that an unqualified, unethical Republican water-boy was "affirmative actioned" into the Washington Post, the right wingers will still whine and cry like a bunch PoMo English professors about how marginalized they are.

Ha! I'm stupid! The guy resigned. Who'd a'thunk it?

Don't let the door hit you in your flabby fascistic butt, buttboy. I'm sure there's a job greased for you at Fuxxsnooze. Hope you enjoyed your fifteen minutes, Has Ben.

Here in L.A., we have Max Boot. Okay, he's a little better than Domenech, but he's a blithering idiot, a Bushie who'll say anything including that water runs uphill to rationalize the administration's foolishness and corruption. But that's the point. The L.A. Times HAS to put someone on their op-ed page to create "balance." So they put a jerk like Boot and we all laugh up our sleeves. (Sure, there are people who think Boot is writing pure gospel, but those are lost souls anyway.) Same with the WP and Domenech. There are articulate, thoughtful conservatives out there doing some pretty decent writing, but that's not who you carry at an essentially liberal paper. You create "balance" by showcasing the more common variety conservative pundit: spittle-spraying, dishonest, so tangled up in the falsehoods and bunglings of this administration that he/she is reduced to name-calling and innuendo. I wish they'd left Domenech at the WP.