Mmmm... Irony...

As some of you may be aware, conservative writer Ben Domenech resigned today from his less-than-weeklong stint as a blogger for the Washington Post after (multiple) allegations of plagiarism. He's been forced to address the issue, but as it happens, this isn't the first time Ben has felt compelled to discuss plagiarism. Here’s what he had to say about Jayson Blair in his personal blog back in 2003:

Jayson Blair sells his story, a fact that upsets me even more than Stephen Glass’s return through The Fabulist. Glass at least served a period of penance, like Marv Albert or something. Blair wants to go straight from getting shredded in the NYTimes to climbing the NYTimes bestseller list. While I’m not quite on the same level as Goldberg's righteous anger, I do feel that there should be no quarter given to Blair's vile lies. And I think that this whole affair finally signals that the New York Times deserves to be ignored as a source for legitimate news -- the Washington Post can replace it as the newspaper of record.

That’s great! Especially the bit about the Post. It's not the only time that he rails against plagiarists in his blog (look through here and here for examples). So you’d think he’d be remarkably contrite given the circumstances... Or not. Take a look at his statement about the his current situation over on Red State.

Weak. For those of you who aren't too inclined to click over to Red State, you can basically sum up his response by quoting Homer Simpson:

This is everyone’s fault but mine.

Good to see the culture of personal responsibility is alive and well in America...