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Ben Domenech’s Detractors Suck!
RedState characterizes them as such:
Those blogs attacking the Washington Post and Ben are so hate filled and envious, they refuse to accept Froomkin as one of their own.
Hmmm….do any of you think Donklephant is hate filled and envious?
Okay, I admit, I am filled with hate and envy.
Damn, they got me.
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11 Responses to “Ben Domenech’s Detractors Suck!”
I thinnk the Wash post is allowing Ben D to screen messages. I’ve sent messages asking why aren’t Republicans more upset at what has occured over the past 5 year and the lack of conservative values coming from the Bush White House; all the pandering to select interest groups. I’ve asked why crititicism of Republicans is limited to MccAin when its known Republicans where pressured to vote for legislation backed by the WH that wasn’t remotedly conservative.
None of my messages have been placed on the blog. I emailed Wash Post executive editor to ask if messages are being screened. I got a auto-reply. I’ve been blocked from Redstate.org for about 2 months. I’ve been blocked from several politically right blogs. They aren’t interested in debate, just cheerleading I realize that now.
It’s disappointing that WashPost would allow this type of screening. It’s been an eye opener that this blog has allowed all my post and put up with my ranting not a single one has been blocked. I’m ignored alot (smile) but I’m allowed to have my say.
Actually, I think Ben Domenech is a blessing for the left. Ben is, to put it mildly, an idiot. He is one of the worst voices conservatives could have hoped for in a major newspaper. He merely confirms every stereotype of Republicans as arrogant, proudly incompetent, corrupt extremists. It’d be like the Washington Post giving Michael Moore a blog. Imagine what that would do for the right? Who would possibly be convinced by his idiocy? Somehow I think liberals demanding Ben get axed are like those who blasted Harriet Miers. Be careful what you wish for.
my wife and i were talking last night about the current spate of right wingers characterizing all who gainsay them as “angry.” in our search for a moniker grounded more in reality — ie, how do we really feel — than in projection — ie, how do they want us labeled — we settled on “disappointed.” i won’t speak for her, but speaking for me, well, i’m pretty disappointed. i don’t hate everything about bush (although i will admit that the arrogant frat-boy thing has left me cold since day one). and i don’t think of bush as the embodiment of the conservative movement (i have conservative friends and relatives). policywise, there’s good and bad on both sides of the aisle. so why am i disappointed? because our national conversation about the experiment we call america has reached a cul de sac. we are circling around inside it hurling epithets at one another like teenagers looking for action on a boring saturday night. who will break us free? the first task of the mighty middle, i say, should be to agressively change the nature of our public discourse. no, i’m not angry. just really disappointed. i want to get out of my circling car and go do something else.
sorry. i forgot where i was. moderate voice, not mighty middle. mea culpa.
Elrod: Have you read Brad deLong’s stuff on this? It’s hilarious.
And yes Justin, you are obviously a seeting cauldron of rage and resentment …
rael:
Well articulated comments.
“Disappointed” is probably as good a word any to also describe my feelings on the whole morass that the political scene has become in this country. Disappointed and unfortunatly rather tired of the whole affair.
Tired because it seems like the prospects getting out of the circling car anaolgy you used don’t seem very good for at lease the medium term. It feels like we are going to keep circling until at least 2009. After that who knows?
I guess all one can do is keep trying to stir the Mighty Middle to greater action and hope for some return to something akin to sane, responsible politics.
I read an article by James Fallows in the Atlantic Monthly that predicted a third party president would be elected in 2012. He also predicted this individual’s term would be a failure because of the problems created prior to his election. Sounds like a pretty good prediction to me.
wonder what redstate will now say….now that domenech has been proven to be a plagerist
the wingnuts time is at an end
let redstate keep banning those with opposing views from posting on their site….its so nice to live in a tiny little bubble.
Bacci40 – you do know that the Lefty blogs do the same thing!
Holly, maybe you should specify what “Lefty blogs” do the same thing, instead of making such a sweeping indictment.
At Oh!pinion I welcome opposing views as long as they’re not just so much name calling, foul language and/or bashing of other commenters.
My general impression is that liberal and progressive blogs are much more likely to accept comments at all than right-wing blogs. As for opposing views, I can’t recall visiting a liberal/progressive blog that didn’t have some.
I can tell you my only experience having a comment of mine deliberately deleted was at the Blogs For Bush site a couple of years ago. I hadn’t done anything to violate their stated comments policy. What I did do was provide some factual debunking of points made in a post, including a couple of links to where others could verify what I was saying.
When I saw my comment had been removed, I rewrote it without the links and asked why. The rewrite was removed, too, with no response.
This led me to believe the site was a paid political campaign operation, not just a group of Bush supporters who decided to start their own blog. But that’s only speculation; I can’t prove it.