comment from Kos writer about the 3 day wonder boy journalist, if you can call him that.
Daily Kos: State of the Nation: "Ben Domenech did not get his position at the Washington Post based on merit. He got his position because of connections. He was home-schooled in part because his family--unlike most American families--could maintain a comfortable living with only one parent working outside the home. He got in to William and Mary, but he did not come close to graduating. (And given his penchant for plagiarism, one would have to wonder if intellectual thievery prompted a forced departure from William and Mary.) Nevertheless, despite no degree or significant life accomplishments, he got some patronage jobs in the Bush administration, no doubt because his father is an upper level GOP apparatchik. He has gotten bylines over at that bastion of heartless blue bloods, the National Review Online. He was a founder of Redstate.com. (And can you believe those clowns have shut down comments from new members, banned anyone who criticizes Domenech, and are actively defending this thief?) And he parlayed all those connections in to getting the Washington Post gig while still in his mid-20's.
Would anyone recognize a similar career trajectory of some schmoe from a working class community outside the DC/NYC/Boston/LA/Bay Area metro areas, who went to a state university, got great grades, but whose blue collar parents didn't have the connections of a Ben Domenech? Especially within the context of the current GOP, somebody with that background (and whose family wasn't tightly connected with politically powerful religious leaders) might as well be a feral child. Even with a college degree, intelligence, industry, drive and maybe some experience, somebody without the connections of a Ben Domenech almost certainly would not get the opportunity to work in a presidential administration, write for a major opinion magazine, and be awarded an opinion gig at one of "