aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Friday, April 14, 2006

Limbaugh WRONG on Domenech

My mother will quote Limbaugh’s words to me as fact. Media Matters:

On the April 12 edition of his nationally syndicated radio program, Rush Limbaugh falsely claimed that after “the left-wing fringe threw a hissy fit” about The Washington Post’s hiring of Ben Domenech to write Red America, a conservative weblog on washingtonpost.com, the Post “concocted some phony excuse that the guy that they had hired was a plagiarist” and “he was gone inside of two weeks.” Limbaugh added that the allegations of plagiarism against Domenech were “a bunch of garbage [meant] to impugn his character and reputation at the same time.” In fact, on the day of his March 24 resignation, only four days after his blog for the Post began, Domenech admitted to using other writers’ work “inappropriately and without attribution.” READ ON.