NEW WANKER AT WAPO

To get you up to speed, the online WaPo hired a twerp from wingnut blog RedState to wrote a column for them. Here's how the WaPo announced it:

New Blog: Red America
Posted at 04:01 PM ET, 03/21/2006

We've launched Red America, a new blog by Ben Domenech that will offer a daily mix of commentary, analysis and cultural criticism.
Domenech is a co-founder of RedState, a Republican community blog, and an editor at Regnery Press. He worked previously as a speechwriter for former HHS Secretary Tommie Thompson, as chief speechwriter for Texas Sen. John Cornyn and as a contributing editor to National Revew Online.

This has generated quite a bit of negative commentary on liberal blogs (see here, here and here for just a few examples) but there's a new twist to the story: Ben is an habitual plagiarist.

Atrios reports several clear examples (here, here and here) and I sent an e-mail to the WaPo Ombudsman, Deborah Howell, to let her know about these new discoveries. The real question is: What will the WaPo do now? Can they afford to admit that they hired a worthless wanker with only minimal background checking? Will they ever let us know how this clown got the job in the first place?