His Stroke Screams Righty…
Let’s play a game that I call, “Guess Who’s Masturbating.” Read the following quote and try to guess who wrote it (and don’t cheat).
Quoted three years ago, a week into the invasion of Iraq:
The people of Eastern Europe stared into the abyss of tyrannical evil for decades, and recognizing the Iraqi regime for what it is, they stand with us today. Some people may mock the fact that Poland, Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic, and other minor countries are part of this coalition — but they remember what life was like without freedom. They remember what it took to climb up from the rubble.
They remember what it was like to hear the words of Vaclav Havel (who would go on to make more than 100 official speeches, with no speechwriters), on his New Years address as first President of the free Czech Republic:
“My people, your government has returned to you.”
Soon, the Iraqi people will hear those words. The sound you hear, Saddam, is the sound of inevitability. It is the sound of your doom.
So what’s your guess? Dick Cheney? Someone else from the PNAC gang? Not even close.
Give up?
I’d like to introduce you to Ben Domenich, the 24 year-old founding father of the RedState blog and freshly hired blogger at the Washington Post.
Only someone this young and naive could actually believe the bullshit he espouses as fact. In this particular case, Eastern Europe does what they’re told, or maybe he missed the memo on the New World Order?
While I’m a huge proponent of citizen media, and completely support young Ben’s right to publish his perspective, his track record is obviously partisan, and at times, skirting an extreme position. What is WaPo thinking? Are they trying to create a loose cannon, ideological microcosm of the political blogosphere within their walled garden?
Media Matters’ David Brock seems to think so.
The thing that WaPo doesn’t get is that by hiring Ben Domenich, they’ve taken away his blogging ID; both his credentials and his independence. In their haste to capitalize on his partisan readership in this 2.0 world, they haven’t just lowered the bar — they’ve replaced it with a hula-hoop.
Aloha, WaPo.
Tags: activism, Ben Domenich, blogging, business, citizen media, David Brock, Dick Cheney, dumb, Eastern Europe, Iraq War, Media Matters, New World Order, old media, PNAC, politics, RedState, Washington Post.
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i’ve got up even more on Meet Ben Domenech.
hmmm..very interesting…I know WaPo was looking for a conservative, and, apparently they are trying to get both the youth *and* conservative crossover. It’s most def. a slap in the face to conservatives who can structure good, non-hyperbolic, and reasoned arguments (yes, there are some….)
Then again, I’m becoming more cynical these days and thinking that all political commentary, left and right, is nothing more than theater of the absurd. In times like these, when there are more minbending statements coming out of the mouth of Bush than one can count, what we really need is more reason, not more theater. Doubt that will happen any time soon. Keep the people screaming at the tv and they won’t hear anything when the neighbors are arrested as “terrorists.”
Damn, dirty liberal media!!
I’m sick of these bullshit little twerps with no life experience and absolutely no concept of historical context reading their Ayn Rand Cliff Notes and the hateful screeds of Ann Coulter and revisionist glossing of Peggy Noonan pontificating about a better world of no taxes and colored folk.
By attempting to be “radical� they are nothing more than rigidly regressive in the face of a rapidly changing world. Exploiting a fear of the future is AWSOME!!!!
Fark me. If I’d known the Post was hiring Republican idiots to blog, I’d've applied.
i don’t think they’d hire a republican with a world view. it wouldn’t be incindiary enough…
Goddammit. 24 years old? What the hell am I doing with my life. Used to be I’d get upset seeing that I was older than everybody on an NBA court. Now I’m upset that I’m older than the kids being hired at the Washington Post. Whatever. I just threw up in my mouth.
well, give WaPo six months and you won’t feel so bad. they continue to destroy their reputation.
it also appears the guy’s a plagerist.
Yeh, shit, you see this?
Oh jeez, I think this kid went to my alma matter, William & Mary. I always knew we were irredeemable. Or at least bad spellers.
i can’t even spell my alma mater… the ‘cuse. you know, WaPo is back out there looking for a replacement conservative blogger…