Domenech Reaction Roundup
I expect we’ll be hearing from just about everyone on this one. Here’s a few:
The Instapundit: I think they should replace him with Bill Hobbs — experienced journalist and blogger! Or maybe Bill Quick, though he’s not exactly Red.…
Adam B at Daily Kos:…[R]ecent events make clear that those of us who write about politics online do have standards and ethics, and we will enforce them vigorously.…
Stephen Spruiell at NRO’s Media Blog:Adding a conservative blog was a smart editorial decision to widen the variety of viewpoints on offer at Washingtonpost.com — not a “sop to the right.” But jettisoning that blog, and thereby limiting the viewpoints on offer, would indisputably be a sop to the left.…
Augustine (that is to say, Domenech himself) weighs in:
The truth is, no conservative could write for the Post without being subject to the gauntlet of the liberal attack machine. There is no question in my mind that any RedState contributor writing for this blog would have found leftists delving through his high school yearbooks and grade school book reports in an effort to discredit and defame him. And if you too were a sloppy teenage writer, your errors or the errors of others would’ve been exploded.
I have a great many friends who are willing to stand and defend me on this. I appreciate their support. I have enormous respect for Jim Brady and the vision he has at WPNI. But while the folks at washingtonpost.com understand my position and are convinced by my arguments on many of these issues, they also feel that the firestorm here will only serve to damage us all, and that there is no way this blog can continue without being permanently tagged to this firestorm. Therefore, I have resigned this position with washingtonpost.com.
This is a shame. As you all know, I am a conservative, but not a partisan – I believe had this blog been allowed to continue, it would have been a significant addition to the Post’s site. The Post showed bravery by including a conservative voice, and I hope they continue to seek that balance.
While my blog was only alive for a week, it did have one result that was encouraging. If the change of heart described here continues, it will all have been worth it.
To my friends: thank you for your support. To my enemies: I take enormous solace in the fact that you spent this week bashing me, instead of America.
The Flat Hat of William and Mary, source of one of the more glaring plagiarism examples, has a related editorial today…
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