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It’s All Over Now, Benny Blue
It’s too bad, really. If he weren’t a plagiarist, I’d have no problem with WaPo hiring a wealthy, politically-connected 24-year-old to blog on behalf of blue-collar heartlanders. In fact, the entire concept is so hilariously weird that I’m kind of sad we won’t get to see it play out.
Gavin and I will give our suggestions for potential replacements later today…
UPDATE: 3Bulls! steps down as well. It’s a sad day for Internets journalism.
teh l4m3 said,
March 24, 2006 at 20:02
Hmm… White heterosexual male, politically connected, young and hip and savvy, and of course, socially conservative…
Why not what’s'isface? James Dobson Junior?
Brad R. said,
March 24, 2006 at 20:03
Pastor Swank is the frontrunner, IMHO. but JD Jr. isn’t a bad idea either…
mr. x said,
March 24, 2006 at 20:06
Career change for Ben, how about the new head of the Federal Department of Journalistic Integrity?
Yosef said,
March 24, 2006 at 20:15
Breaking news at 3Bulls!
gjdodger said,
March 24, 2006 at 20:23
“kaye” “grogan”–because! When she “quotes” “somebody else”;–she at least “knows” to use “quotation (marks!)”
Clif said,
March 24, 2006 at 20:24
Poor Ben. Not only kicked out of WaPo but his old home Red State has just gone up in flames as well. All that’s left is an “Internal Server Error” Page where the site used to be. Shucks.
Brad R. said,
March 24, 2006 at 20:24
“kaye” “grogan”–because! When she “quotes” “somebody else”;–she at least “knows” to use “quotation (marks!)”
And… uses, “them” even — when she’s, “not.”
Clif said,
March 24, 2006 at 20:27
My vote is for Hans Zeiger to take Ben’s job. He’s equally crazy but too stupid to figure out how to plagiarize something.
gjdodger said,
March 24, 2006 at 20:37
and why is joe biden the only biden in a thousand generations not to be included among these nominees?
MCH said,
March 24, 2006 at 21:38
This is Teh Phatness. I’m just feasting on the Schadenfreude over here.
windy said,
March 24, 2006 at 22:03
Awww, poor thing. Do you think someone should go over there to make him “feel better”? I’ve heard those Latino boys are hot lovers.
tom said,
March 24, 2006 at 22:16
Yeah, it’s always funny to watch the shit splatter, but I gotta say the timing kinda sucks.
I mean, he didn’t even get to do an online chat! And I was SOOOOO looking forward to that.
Oh well. Boo hoo.
Vladi G said,
March 25, 2006 at 0:28
Plagiarism I can live with. But anyone who admits to writing this ought to be strung up and hung. Motherfucker listed a Creed album among the things he wanted for Christmas. What a chumpnugget.
jeff-perado said,
March 25, 2006 at 11:25
Is it just me, or does that “chumpnugget” (I like that one Vladi — I may have to plagarize it) remind anyone else of Andrew MacCarthy circa the “Weekend At Bernie’s” era???
gus said,
March 25, 2006 at 14:07
In his defense, he either stole or originally wrote, “Never trust a male cheerleader”.
And he was right. Or the one he stole it from was right.