schadenfreude

Okay, so I don’t know how many of y’all have been following the Washington Post’s “Red America” controversy. But a quick recap: Ben Domenech is this 24-year-old screechy editor of the blog “Red State” whose idea of dialogue was calling Coretta Scott King a “communist.” (As Facing South notes, this was the kind of line used in the ’60s in an attempt to discredit her husband).

Incredibly, the Washington Post this week decided to give him his own blog.

Today he had to quit as plagarism accusations surfaced.

Lindsay Beyerstein dug up this delicious quote of Domenech’s on the Jayson Blair affair:

Jayson Blair is just one more journalistic pezzonovante [big-shot] amidst a crowd of his peers. The only difference is, he’s unashamed of his pretty little lies. In fact, he’s proud of them.

Hahaha. We’ll seeya later, Ben. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.