Attack Dog Conservative Shows True Colors
by RonChusidHuman Events reports, Blogger Ben Domenech Strikes Back; Calls Washington Post Editors ‘Fools’. When they decide upon additional bloggers I hope they keep this in mind. Not only does he show no remorse for his plagiarism, Domenech attacks the Washington Post as they “didn’t give this a chance to either blow over or work itself out.”
This is no surprise. Attacking is all this type of right wingers know how to do. They have no concept of principles. To them all is fair in advancing their far right agenda and Domenech most likely really does not see anything wrong in his actions.
Posting a blog from someone like Domenech is not like having a conservative columnist like George Will. The conservatives who dominate the blogosphere are not conservatives in the traditional sense. These are extremists who represent the view of a tiny percentage of the American people. In the past they would have been considered way out of the mainstream as they are the descendents of the Birchers, Klan, and neo-Nazis, not the Republican Party any of us remember.
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One of the weirdest aspects of the whole thing is the persistence of the idea that the Post has a left-wing bias. Not only have they supported the Iraq invasion, but in local politics they have long been cheerleaders for the highway lobby (actually, not quite as bad recently since Lee Hocksteder became the local editorial writer). This is not just in their editorials, but it strongly affects their news coverage.
The point is made well by this letter which appeared yesterday in the Gazette, a suburban weekly owned by the Post but separately edited. It concerns a planned new light rail line through the Washington suburbs that has been put on hold by Maryland’s Republican Governor Bob Ehrlich.
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No matter how often Blair Lee says so, the daily press is not biased against Gov. Robert Ehrlich (‘‘Paybacks are hell,” March 3 column). Look at what the Washington Post — a bastion of anti-Ehrlichism as seen by Mr. Lee — doesn’t tell us about the governor.
A few weeks after playing golf with Post columnist Tony Kornheiser at Columbia Country Club in 2003, the governor told The Gazette that the Purple Line ‘‘will not go through the country club.” In its copious coverage of Montgomery County transportation issues, the Post has never found these words fit to print.
A transportation policy determined by the governor’s golfing cronies is newsworthy — and even more so when one of the cronies works for the paper that won’t print the news.
Ben Ross, Bethesda
The writer is president of the Action Committee for Transit, which promotes the use of mass transit in Montgomery County.