It looks like Domenech plagiarized Jonah Goldberg at national review. Link here:
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Domenech appears to have copied from National Review column
By Andy Zahn
Flat Hat News Editor
A Flat Hat opinion column written by former Washingtonpost.com weblogger Ben Domenech was found March 25 that is similar to two columns written by Jonah Goldberg for National Review Online.
Domenech's column, entitled "Not on my campaign trail," appeared in the Oct. 27, 2000 edition of The Flat Hat. It did not appear on The Flat Hat's online archives. Webloggers noted similarities between some of Domenech's pieces on the Flat Hat's online archives and pieces on Salon.com, by writer P.J. O'Rourke and other sources.
Within the column, Domenech writes about a hypothetical run for President of the United States. In the column, he writes about former College Writer-in-Residence Sam Kashner, who wrote an article for GQ magazine in 2000 about alleged affairs with female students.
"I wonder what Kashner would describe if he wrote himself into a novel -- 'Sporting his mature Jon Bon Jovi haircut and his even-sensitive-souls-can-have-big-pecs black ribbed T-shirt, Kashner exudes an air of jock-poet ennui -- 'Not only have I read Proust, but I can also kick your ass,'" Domenech writes.
A similar passage appeared in Goldberg's May 13, 1999 edition of the "Goldberg File," printed on National Review Online. Goldberg describes a man he sees at the coffee house where he is writing the column.
"Sporting his mature Jon Bon Jovi haircut and his even-sensitive-souls can have big pecs black T-shirt, he's reading a slender volume of poetry with convenient big print. He keeps looking at me with an air of jock-poet ennui -- 'Not only have I read Proust, but I can also kick your ass,'" Goldberg wrote.
Later in his column, Domenech writes that if he were to run for President, he would "be banned from the debates and the Sunday morning shows like a leper at the Playboy mansion."
In Jonah Goldberg's Sept. 20, 2000 column for the National Review Online, "These Things I Know," Goldberg writes a list of short thoughts and observations.
"I know it's unfair that Camille Paglia, Howard Kurtz, Peggy Noonan, and many others have praised this column and yet the Hotline bans me from its pages like a leper at the Playboy mansion," Goldberg wrote.
Earlier in the article, Domenech wrote that "Kashner's self-image ... appears to be as warped as road rash on velvet."
This passage is similar to one written in Goldberg's Sept. 20, 2000 column.
"I know 'gay as road rash on velvet' doesn't actually make sense but it sounds pretty damn funny to me."
Domenech does not attribute any of the phrases in his Oct. 27, 2000 column to Jonah Goldberg or the National Review Online.
Domenech resigned from his Washingtonpost.com blog, Red America, after allegations of plagiarism were initially raised online, The New York Times reported March 24.
Domenech could not be reached for comment.
Full text for Domenech's article, "Not on the campaign trail ," can be viewed here.
A pdf file of the printed article is available here.
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