WP's Froomkin + Milbank do not = Domenech

mediabistro.com: Red Faced About "Red America"?


And they thought that Comment-gate was bad...

The good folks at washingtonpost.com are once again coming under scrutiny. This time, it's over their decision to hire Ben Domenech to write the new conservative blog, "Red America." (To Wit: There are 1012 comments on the Post's "Red America" announcement as of this writing ).

DCist does a good job summing up the charges against Domenech:

Domenech is a co-founder of RedState, a conservative blog that infamously took blacks to task on the occasion of Coretta Scott King's funeral, for having a culture that is, "below what it should be." He's also a book editor for Regnery Publishing, which has given us such titles as "Inventing the AIDS Virus," a book that documents how HIV is not, in fact, the cause of AIDS. He's also worked as a political appointee for President Bush and as a speechwriter for Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and Texas Senator John Cornyn. Quite the resume for such a young fellow.

Although many take Domenech to task for his views, most seem primarily upset because they feel that Domenech is supposed to be the Post's attempt to balance Dan Froomkin and (to a much lesser degree) Dana Milbank, despite the fact that both Froomkin and Milbank are a.) not necessarily liberal b.) decidedly less liberal than Domenech is conservative b.) more experienced and qualified journalists and c.) not haunted by the same sort of ethical grey areas that Domenech is (as DCist pointed out above)....

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/online_media/red_faced_about_red_america_34261.asp

....Although many take Domenech to task for his views, most seem primarily upset because they feel that Domenech is supposed to be the Post's attempt to balance Dan Froomkin and (to a much lesser degree) Dana Milbank, despite the fact that both Froomkin and Milbank are a.) not necessarily liberal b.) decidedly less liberal than Domenech is conservative b.) more experienced and qualified journalists and c.) not haunted by the same sort of ethical grey areas that Domenech is (as DCist pointed out above)....

that he had contributed to *'s campaign in the past. He also showed a picture of himself and his wife taken with *.

We've been talking about this over here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2530469

At the end of the day, what's most stupefying about Domenech getting this gig is he's a crappy writer.