“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.”

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

The replacement conservative, which took forever to get, was Ramesh Ponnuru, and they wouldn’t give him a blog — he’s got to moderate a forum.

Now they are giving this guy a lead blog for their online site.

Most right leaning editorials are picked from a pool of talking heads like Michelle Malkin, or Bill Kristol. It would certainly be nice to see some of our bloggers in the papers, but unless we can boost traffic on the right it doesn’t seem particularly likely in the near term.