March 28, 2006 by s.z.

The Greatest Pro-Gun Movie Ever, Part 2

In just a minute we'll get to second part of Scott C's summary of Red Dawn (although he gave me the whole thing last week, I am serializing it in an effort to make Scott the Charles Dickens of his time, and to make my life a lot easier).  But first, I thought we should take a minute to contemplate the fate of poor Ben Domenech's successor at the WaPo.

Or rather, let's read an bit from D. R. Tucker's Human Events Online piece, "What Will The Left Do To Ben Domenech's Replacement?"

Yes, thanks to liberal bloggers uncovering numerous instances of plagiarism, Domenech is gone from Washingtonpost.com after less than a week. Yet how pathetic is it that the biggest victory the left can celebrate in some time is not an electoral or policy triumph, but the public humiliation of a 24-year-old pundit?

Young Ben has written for HEI, so you can see why they'd be kind of defensive about the whole Ben debacle.

There is talk that Washingtonpost.com plans to replace Domenech with a conservative with a superior journalistic history. I hope he or she is prepared for a left-wing onslaught twice, if not three times, as intense as that which greeted Domenech.

Because liberals are just plain mean, and will attack young conservatives FOR NO REASON AT ALL, like they did to Ben, and to his role model, JimJeff Gannon Guckert.  They probably hounded Milli Vanilli out of the music world, just because they objected to the conservative message behind "Girl, You Know It's True."  In fact, they'd probably object if JESUS HIMSELF were hired by the Post in order to balance out the lying, depraved, anti-Bush liberal slant which the mainstream media takes on every story.  That's just the kind of bastards they are.

BTW, via HEI, I found this photo of Ben when he was a panelist at a conference on blogging hosted by the House Republicans (Ben's fellow panelists included Captain Ed from Captains Quarters, among others).  Per HEI, the conference was held in order to teach Republican staffers how to use bloggers to disseminate their talking points.  House GOP Conference Vice Chairman Jack Kingston (R-GA) and his “Theme Team,” a group of 85 Members "responsible for helping articulate the House Republican message," convened the workshop.  Kingston was quoted as saying that "the blogosphere is poised to become the next big thing in the GOP communication machine’s armada." 

So, you can see why young conservative might feel justifiably confused (and put upon) when they get jumped on by their own side after they get caught plagiarizing -- after all, isn't just copying the words of other conservatives simply a sign of being "on point" and exercising party discipline? I mean, geez, if the Right keeps rewarding its young for lock-step conformity of thought, why does it quibble about the sources of the words that its prodigies are spouting as their own?

But anyway, back to Mr. Tucker's question about young Ben's replacement -- what WILL the Left do him or her?  (IMHO, probably Google the poor conservative to within an inch of his or her life, because it's what those commie/hippie bastards do.  And if the Post hires one of the pundits suggested by Sadly, No!, undoubtedly mock the newbie soundly, as a sign of affection.)

But in any case, I hope the Post vets the new kid thoroughly by testing his or her knowledge of Red Dawn.