Bryan Fiedler

Barry Fiedler is a blogger, and is proud to say he is both a libertarian and conservative. (The two are non-inconsistent, but rather virtually essential for each other.)

I just got home from Pittsburgh and was late heading out the door for an event in D.C., but I can’t let this blog sit silent about the plagiarism debacle now engulfing young conservative Ben Domenech, the Washington Post’s “Red America” blogger.

I cheered for Ben Domenech, the editor of my last book at Regnery.. I criticized unhinged bloggers on the Left who leveled vicious ad hominem attacks against Ben Domenech.

But now the determined moonbat hordes have exposed multiple instances of what clearly appear to me to be blatant lifting of entire, unique passages by Ben from other writers. It is one thing to paraphrase basic facts. But to filch the original thoughts of a writer without crediting him/her–and doing so repeatedly–is unacceptable. Some of the cases occurred while Ben Domenech was in college; he is blaming an editor for these transgressions.