Terry McMahon's Awesome Blog

You may have heard about the recent imbroglio whereupon the Washington Post website hired a conservative blogger named Ben Domenech to write a "Red America" blog. Guess who was hired to write "Blue America"? That's right: no one! Bitter liberal bloggers decided to take a closer examination of the record, and they found about ten articles by this Domenech kid (he's younger than I am) lifting entire paragraphs whole cloth. Now, adding a slanted blog to your theoretically objective website with no counterpoint isn't particularly damning for a fine institution like washingtonpost.com, apparently, but journalistic plagiarism, by necessity, involves stealing another reporter's work. What if that reporter didn't feel like doing work that day, but spent a couple hours coming up with something anyway?

So Domenech resigned Friday, I guess after realizing he wanted to spend more time with his nonexistent wife and kids. Fortunately he framed the real issues going on here:

To my enemies: I take enormous solace in the fact that you spent this week bashing me, instead of America.