skippy the bush kangaroo: right handed compliment?

Friday, March 24, 2006

right handed compliment?

we must congratulate mr. domenech on the beginning of what we suspect will be a long and prominent career in republican politics. just as founder’s stock in a failed start-up has become a derigour line on a silicon valley resume, utter failure and proven mendacity has for this generation’s republicans become the litmus test of ideological purity – consider aWol. mark our words, we’ll be seeing the red state diaper baby’s name on a ballot before too long.

but as he entires the wilderness years of his political life, we must pause to thank ms. malkin for her vote of gratitude to the bloggers who did what the ~~washington post~~ fishwrap, inc.,* could not – check ben’s resume. when ms. malkin decided to dump young ben, she wrote the following:

i cheered for ben, the editor of my last book at regnery, when he announced his new position. i criticized unhinged bloggers on the left who leveled vicious ad hominem attacks against him. it's clear, as the good folks at red state (which ben co-founded) note, that his detractors were on a search-and-destroy mission from the get-go.

she cheered for ben, the erstwhile editor of her latest book? for our part, we’d be going through the galleys with a magnifying glass, if we had just found out that our editor was a serial plagiarist. michelle must expect almost as much from her editors as national review online or fishwrap, inc., ben’s most recent editors, expect from their writers. what do they pay editors at regnery anyway? – because it sure doesn’t look like the work’s too hard.

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.

funny how the moonbat hordes and unhinged bloggers on the left were the ones who did the work to discover the…what’s the word?…facts. or not so funny, when we recognize that michelle had never thought to check out ben’s bonafides – nor had anyone else in the land of truthiness, – including fishwrap, inc.,

[--snip--] then, the left should cease its sick gloating and leave him and his family alone.

ah well, michelle, don’t you know, we in the reality-based community would have to eschew the examples of blog-triumphalism that the reds have gilded for us the last few years to leave little ben alone. and if we did, how would you be able to say, “he’s paid for his mistakes,” when you dry him off and run him back at us again (just like you did for aWol, back in the day)? oh, we suppose some reds will say he's paid his dues, anyway, no matter whether blue bloggers let ben down gently or not. after all, it's ok if you're a republican.

*no disrespect to fishwrap intended

posted by Pudentilla at 1:09 PM |