But that was a couple of years ago, and they probably wouldn’t do it today.

… would make the libs there have seizures. I would love to read his blog if he did, but never let it be said that the WP was actually interested in delivering a product people actually wanted to read.

The WP would rather beg for bail out money then allow a conservative write there.

The “later revelations” were of some rather profound serial plagiarism. Come now. I wouldn’t stand by him either.

WAPO reported on Saturday, March 25, 2006; Page C01 “conservative bloggers joined in calls for his firing….Jim Brady, executive editor of Washingtonpost.com, which operates independently from the newspaper, said he would have dismissed Domenech if the former Bush administration aide and Republican Senate staffer had not offered to quit first. He said there was “enough smoke” in the allegations of plagiarism “that we needed to sever the relationship.” …

“Michelle Malkin, a prominent conservative blogger, wrote before the resignation that Domenech had edited one of her books and she had been cheering for him. “But now the determined moonbat hordes have exposed multiple instances of what clearly appear to me to be blatant lifting of entire, unique passages by Ben from other writers.” That, Malkin said, is “unacceptable. . . . And, painfully, Domenech’s detractors are right. He should own up to it and step down. Then, the Left should cease its sick gloating and leave him and his family alone.”

“Rick Moran, who runs the site Right Wing Nuthouse, wrote on the American Thinker blog: “The plagiarism of Mr. Domenech cannot be chalked up to youthful indiscretion nor to some kind of unconscious parroting of something he read before putting words to paper. . . . Ben Domenech is not the kind of writer we want representing the conservative viewpoint at The Washington Post or anywhere else.”