bloggo ergo sum

The editors at RedState.org have completely lost it. One of their brethren, who was hired by the Washington Post to tend to a conservative blog of theirs, was recently outed for plagarism. His name is Ben Domenech. I’m sure he’s a nice man. I’m sure he’s a brilliant writer. I’m sure that he’s sorry.

But that doesn’t change the fact that he’s been caught in the act of plagarism.

His leftist critics (there aren’t really many liberals left in the world, after all) unjustifiably demonized him for the two days leading up to the revelation of his mistake. It was completely irrational, mean-spirited, and disgusting.

The RedState editors, however, have completely and totally lost control of their emotions. They are banning people left and right simply for making observations that happen to be critical of Domenech, or of them. Suddenly, RedState is not welcoming to various viewpoints, and it is being ruled over by a bunch of seemingly emotional adolescents. It has left a mightily bitter taste in my mouth. I got banned, temporarily, for pointing out that “Thomas” was overreacting to another member’s comments, and pointing out that this other member (“mcg”), was correct in his assertions. No matter. They don’t listen.

I won’t forget, and my respect for redstate has definitely been lowered a notch.