More invective from Domenech
March 23, 2006 2:01 pm ET
SUMMARY: Dragonfire, Drexel University's interactive online journal, catalogued further inflammatory comments made on the Republican community weblog RedState by "Augustine," which is reportedly the pseudonym used by Ben Domenech, the Republican activist hired to launch the Red America weblog on washingtonpost.com.
In a March 23 column, Alex Koppelman, arts and entertainment editor for Dragonfire, Drexel University's interactive online journal, catalogued further inflammatory comments made on the Republican community weblog RedState by "Augustine," which is the pseudonym reportedly used by Ben Domenech, the Republican activist hired to launch the Red America weblog on washingtonpost.com. These include the following:
- Washington Post writers Dan Froomkin and Dana Milbank "often lapse into the foolish spew of DNC [Democratic National Committee] shills."
- Conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan, who is gay, "huffily quits the Republican Party every three months, and the Roman Catholic Church every six" and "perhaps ... needs a woman to give him some stability."
- Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of 2004 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry, "ends up looking like an oddly shaped egotistical ketchup-colored muppet" and is "a modern day Miss Havisham, shawl and all."
- Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore is "Fatty Fat Fat Fat," a "blimp that crashed into the Fleet Center [in Boston and] caused nearly $16 million in damage."
- The Republican senators who joined an agreement averting a Senate showdown over the use of filibusters on judicial nominations are "spineless wussyboys." "[T]he hypocritical Lindsey Graham, a less virile John Edwards" has "already shown a propensity to sell out his party for camera time and a bottle of hair gel," and "staff puppet Lincoln Chafee['s] ... cranium would explode if he had one actual substantive thought."
- Televangelist Pat Robertson is a "Whacked Out Loon" and "a senile, crazy old fool."
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"Televangelist Pat Robertson is a "Whacked Out Loon" and "a senile, crazy old fool.""
Can't we agree with him on this one? I'm not a big fan of Domenech, but he pegged Pat pretty good I think!
Tw0-faced Domenech seems to be taking after old Bill by playing both the bully and victim. He lashes out at everyone who attacks him, yet has a long history of making imflammatory comments of his own.
Typical Hypocrital Republican (THR)
An offensive comment is
"Black people belong in service sector job."
"Women shouldn't be allowed to vote."
Michael Moore is "fat, fat, fatty fat..." or "Andrew Sullivan needs a woman to add stability to his life," I believe qualifies as funny (or at least an attempt to be). Lighten up guys, I'm sure the guy will actually say some genuinely dumb things, and when we go after stuff like this we play to the "liberals have no sense of humor," stereotype.
when you conservatives blow your gaskets at the slightest demonstration of the truth of the matter.
Oh... yeah... humorless liberals, huh. Look at all those conservatives with well developed sense of humors, like... er... uh... huh...?
clearly you are the judge of what is offensive. In the future, whenever MMFA posts examples of questionable statements from media members please make the initial post and let everyone know whether or not the remarks are offensive. This will save everyone the trouble of posting their thoughts if it passes your test. Thanks for the lesson!
Please don't encourage him.
Sorry, Ileangood, but this is not very funny stuff. Idiotic, yes. Stupid, yes. Tolerable? Not really. Why should anyone put up with that kind of drivel from a famed news organization such as the Washington Post?
I disagree with the senile reference, other than that Dumbenechhh is right about Pat.
Domenech lacks the maturity and experience to be writing a regular political column for a newspaper, let alone a major, influential publication like the Washington Post, even if it is online and not print.
Why is the Post doing this? Is there a lot of money to be made in inane blogs?
There is little money to be made in this.
The reason why the Post is doing this is because they are gullible and easily fall prey to the rediculous claims by the far-right that the media is "too liberal." When right-wing nuts call the media too liberal, people like the Washington Post and other MSM believe it without question.
Therefore, because we overly sensitive liberals constantly feel the need to take the high road on everything and always be "fair", we give in everytime some far-right wackjob cries foul over media bias. The result is overreaction by the "liberal" media by going out and hiring some arrogant right-wing hack job to counterbalance the false, manufactured belief that the media is controlled by the left.
If the tables were turned and the media was controlled by the right, would they do the same thing? I for one highly doubt it.
Sounds like just a lot of "O'Reillyish" personal attacks/name-calling to me.
The ONLY positive I suppose is that Domenech is "fair&balanced" in spewing at BOTH the Left&Right.
I did not see an answer to my question yesterday, and you (Media Matters) did the same thing today.
The link in this story from the "psuedonym" only goes back to your previous story. But your previous story offers no proof that I have seen that even casually links "Augustine" to Ben Domenech.
Do you not have some research that you can point to that documents the link between his online screen name and he himself?
This seems very weak documentation that it was him that did that.
Now, that does not mean that I don't believe that it was Domenech that is Augustine. I am more than willing to believe that it is him. I just don't think that you have documented that fact effectively. In fact, from what I have read, you have not tried to document it at all.
Why is that?
deny being augustine. seems that would end the whole thing quickly.
[link to www.editorandpublisher.com]
He admits to making the comments that Augustine made.
But there is even bigger news.
He is a plagiarist.
[link to www.dailykos.com]
DailyKos has documented several examples of his plagiarism, and so have other sites. It looks like he even stole from The Washington Post. He's a kid. He's an untrained journalist who did not deserve the job. Of course it's even worse that The Washington Post thought that they needed/wanted to hire him to 'balance things out.'
They are taking odds as to when he will be gone from the Washington Post blog job.
Pat Robertson speaks to God and gets the straight skinny. He's the only one that knows for sure what's going on in the world because he's the only one with a "purple" phone, a direct line to Almighty God. I can't wait to find out the results of the November elections. Pat should be announcing that any day now. I'm betting that God wants a big conservative sweep. As soon as my phone gets reconnected, (if you don't pay the bill they disconnect it) I'm calling him and find out the results of the, 2008 presidential election. Bush said, "my successor" will straighten out the mess I've made. I'm sure he was thinking in terms of a Democrat, somebody to blame for his stupidity. We'll see how God feels about that. Only Pat knows for sure who that will be. There's a better than average chance things are so bad that even God doesn't know what to do. Not to worry about what God doesn't know. We have Pat with his tax free, tax deductible "gifts to God" to keep us on the path of righteousness. Pat will lead us with the light from above, (the sun) to guide us through these troubled times.
I guess we can find a little common ground with Domenech on your last bullet.
Ann Coulter has advocated in the past the killing of Americans, assassinating a president (or some veiled wording to that effect) and is a 100 times more vial than this 24 year old little punk kid that was canned by the post. Yet she is given credibility and a forum on basically all of the cable networks? What gives? There should be a concerted effort to remove her as well... although, as far as I know she has not plagiarized (I could be wrong). Maybe the market will take care of little Ann when the Republicans get their ***es handed to them in the mid-terms. When that happens hopefully real conservatives will stand-up and clean their own house of the likes of Coulter and the dozens of other who spew her brand of hate.