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Your Logo Here and Domenech's plagiarism of P.J. O'Rourke's "Modern Manners" (also broken by dkosser
Oregon Guy:
O'Rourke, p.176: Office Christmas parties * Wine-tasting parties * Book-publishing parties * Parties with themes, such as "Las Vegas Nite" or "Waikiki Whoopee" * Parties at which anyone is wearing a blue velvet tuxedo jacket
BenDom: Christmas parties. Wine tasting parties. Book publishing parties. Parties with themes, such as "Las Vegas Nite" or "Waikiki Whoopee." Parties at which anyone is wearing a blue velvet tuxedo jacket.
O'Rourke: It's not a real party if it doesn't end in an orgy or a food fight. * All your friends should still be there when you come to in the morning.
BenDom: It's not a real party if it doesn't end in an orgy or a food fight. All your friends should still be there when you come to in the morning.
and more from dkoser QuickSilver:
notice Ben Domenech's subtle revisions in P.J. O'Rourke's version, we have this:
Small Parties
Small parties are very easy to plan. An old Supremes tape, a gram of cocaine, a fifth of Stolichnaya, and some copies of Penthouse from the 70s when it was really dirty make for a perfect small party without the bother and complication of guests.
Large Parties
Large parties require much more than a gram of cocaine and, usually, other people besides yourself.
Ben Domenech -- apparently lacking any compunction about stealing most of O'Rourke's words but wanting to update his prose nonetheless -- cuts the Penthouse reference and the first mention of cocaine:
Small parties are very easy to plan. An old Supremes tape, a case of beer, a fifth of Stolichnaya and a pack of cigarettes make for a perfect small party without the bother and complication of guests.
Large parties require much more than a gram of cocaine and, usually, other people besides yourself.
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dkosser silence then found more:
For those who are out looking, this isn't an isolated example either.
From a Ben Domenech review of Bringing Out the Dead:
Instead of allowing for the incredible nuances that Cage always brings to his performances, the character of Frank sews it all up for him.
But there are those moments that allow Cage to do what he does best. When he's trying to revive Mary's father, the man's family fanned out around him in the living room in frozen semi-circle, he blurts out, "Do you have any music?"
From a review posted on salon.com, published about a week earlier:
Instead of allowing for the incredible nuance that Cage always brings to his performances, the character of Frank sews it all up for him. ... But there are those moments that allow Cage to do what he does best. When he's trying to revive Mary's father, the man's family fanned out around him in the living room in frozen semi-circle, he blurts out, "Do you have any music?"
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Atrios then goes out and finds more:
Epidemic. Box Turtle.
The most important co-stars in the Bond movies are the spy's toys. These films usually have the audience applauding for the stunts and this episode of the superspy saga is no different. There's plenty of action and vehicles to enjoy, like the helicopter with a super-sized chainsaw attached, which cuts through cars and buildings, and a sleek, one-man boat with jet afterburners that looks like something custom-made for Batman.
Steve Rhodes:
The most important costars in the Bond movies are the spy's toys. These films usually have the audience applauding for the stunts, and this episode of the superspy saga is no different.
The best of the bunch in THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH is a sleek, one-man, black boat complete with jet afterburners, which looks like something custom-made for Batman. The vehicle even has the ability to dive underwater briefly while the driver holds his breath. It can turn into a car as well, all the better to engage in a typical Bond demolition derby.
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Also, atrios posts this example found by Athenae at first draft:
Box Turtle:
At its best, "The Bachelor" skews the absurdity of any human relationships < even the successful ones. As terrified as Jimmie is of losing his freedom, Anne is equally worried about becoming like her parents < who, it turns out, are an older couple nauseatingly and demonstratively still in love with each other.
Salon:
At its best, it skews the absurdity of any human relationships -- even the successful ones. As terrified as Jimmie is of losing his freedom, Anne is equally worried about becoming like her parents -- who, it turns out, are an older couple nauseatingly, demonstratively, still in love with each other.
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then dkosser silence strikes again showing that he has plagiarized from the National Review:
It isn't just Ben Domenech's student work that is plagiarized. His later plagiarisms aren't quite as obvious, but there's a movie review that Ben Domenech published in the National Review which is particularly obvious.
Ben Domenech wrote:
Translucent and glowing, they ooze up from the ground and float through solid walls, splaying their tentacles and snapping their jaws, dripping a discomfiting acidic ooze. They're known as the Phantoms, otherworldly beings who, for three decades, have been literally sucking the life out of the earthlings of the human. They are swollen, insectoid, the nightmare descendents of Lovecraftian grotesque -- if only the filmmakers had created a plot that was as memorable.
Steve Murray, writing for the Cox News Service, wrote:
Translucent and glowing, they ooze up from the ground and float through solid walls, wriggling countless tentacles and snapping their jaws. They're known as the Phantoms, alien thingies that, for three decades, have been sucking the life out of the earthlings of "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within." Swollen nightmares from a petri dish, they're the kind of grotesque whatsits horror writer H.P. Lovecraft would have kept as pets in his basement.
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dkosser Oaklader then writes about even more examples pointed out by fellow dkosser Tao where he plagiarized from, guess where, the Washington Post:
These are from a news story he wrote at Flat Hat, and the Washington Post story he stole them from.
Domenech:
Officials representing the Justice Department announced Wednesday Attorney General Janet Reno had decided someone from outside the department and the FBI should lead a new investigation into the actions of the FBI prior to the assault on the compound.
WaPo:
...officials said Attorney General Janet Reno had decided that someone from outside the department and the FBI should lead a new investigation into the use of potentially incendiary tear gas cartridges by federal agents during the final assault on the compound.
Domenech:
An FBI official also said that on a videotape obtained from the headquarters of the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team in Quantico, a team member is heard being granted permission by a superior to fire flammable military tear gas into the compound more than four hours before it burst into flames, killing 76 people inside.
WaPo:
An FBI official said that on a videotape, a Hostage Rescue Team member is heard seeking and being granted permission by a superior to fire potentially flammable military tear gas more than four hours before the Branch Davidian compound burst into flames, killing 76 people.
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More at Obsidian Wings, about plagiarizing AllMoviePortal.com:
Ben Domenech:
"In this sequel, Woody (Tom Hanks) gets snatched at a garage sale by a bad guy, Big Al, voiced by Wayne Knight (Seinfeld's Newman, forever destined to play the role of an overweight jerk). Unbeknownst to most everybody else, Woody is now a valuable collector's item, part of a set of '50s Western-themed toys being put together by an unscrupulous dealer. He intends to sell the toys to a museum in (where else?) Japan. (...)
Woody's old gang < Rex, the timid dinosaur (Wallace Shawn), Hamm the piggy bank (John Ratzenberger), Slinky Dog (Jim Varney) and Mr. Potato Head (Don Rickles) < leave the security of Andy's bedroom to rescue their pal, led by the intrepid Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen)."
AllMoviePortal.com:
"In this sequel, Woody gets snatched at a garage sale by a bad guy. Unbeknownst to most everybody else, Woody is now a valuable collector's item, part of a set of '50s, Western-themed toys being put together by an unscrupulous dealer.
He intends to sell the toys to a museum in (where else?) Japan. (...)
Woody's old gang -- the timid dinosaur, Hamm the piggy bank, Slinky dog and Mr. Potato Head -- leave the security of Andy's bedroom to rescue their pal, led by the intrepid Buzz Lightyear."
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Then Atrios returns with Domenech's recommended music list that looks a lot like crosswalk.com's:
PS as rogun explains below, Domenech has a link to the crosswalk article from bendomenech.com, saying that he wrote it. However, one should note that the article on crosswalk *does not* have his name as the author [in fact, it doesn't have anyone as the author]. For the moment I'll keep this example up unless someone who knows better can me whether this is indeed plagiarism or not. Also, please note that the National Review article is written to make it sound like an independently made list as created by the National Review staff.
Update: slv0000 has noted below that Domenech wrote a U2 review on crosswalk which uses much of the same language that is used to describe the album in both the crosswalk and National Review lists. However, as I've also stated below, just because he wrote it on crosswalk, does that make it ok for him to copy it on the National Review without saying he did? I'm not sure. Again, perhaps someone who knows more about what exactly constitutes plagiarism in journalism can tell me.
Domenech
All That You Can't Leave Behind is a rediscovery of U2's anthemic abilities, with crunching guitar riffs and soaring electric vocals that beg to be sung along to in a speeding convertible, top down and speakers cranked to 11.
crosswalk.com:
It's a rediscovery of the band's anthemic abilities that begs to be sung along to in a speeding convertible, top down and speakers cranked to 11.
Domenech:
Jakob Dylan & co. follow-up 1996's Bringing Down the Horse, one of the greatest rock releases of the decade, with a beautifully crafted and graceful album, a return to the introspective variety of American rock that's been sorely lacking in recent years.
crosswalk.com:
It marks a new level of maturity for the Wallflowers, and a return to the introspective variety of American rock that's been sorely lacking in recent years.
Domenech:
The Jayhawks newest album, Smile, shows why you should start paying attention to these gadflies of alt-folk: while retaining only brief smatterings of their countryish roots, the Jayhawks have created an album abundant with the deceptive acoustic hooks, dazzling ballads, and wonderfully thick choruses of the best of pop music.
crosswalk.com:
But their newest album, Smile, shows why you should start paying attention: Retaining only brief smatterings of their country roots, the Jayhawks have created an album abundant with the deceptive acoustic hooks, dazzling ballads, and wonderfully thick choruses of the best of pop music
and thats just 3 of the 10 albums that crosswalk.com lists.
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dkosser sockeye then comes up with more examples on his diary:
Box turtle, Nov 99:
While Bowie has warned against seeing these songs as autobiographical, they largely concern a man of his age in bittersweet review of the passing years.
Q. magazine, Nov 99:
While Bowie has warned against seeing these songs as autobiographical - although they largely concern a man of his age, in bittersweet review of the passing years - they at least sound inhabited.
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Box turtle:
Woody's old gang < Rex, the timid dinosaur (Wallace Shawn), Hamm the piggy bank (John Ratzenberger), Slinky Dog (Jim Varney) and Mr. Potato Head (Don Rickles) < leave the security of Andy's bedroom to rescue their pal, led by the intrepid Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen).
Liz Braun:
Woody's old gang -- the timid dinosaur, Hamm the piggy bank, Slinky dog and Mr. Potato Head -- leave the security of Andy's bedroom to rescue their pal, led by the intrepid Buzz Lightyear.
Box turtle:
The English are uniformly and broadly portrayed as villainous louts, and today's four-letter oaths sound laughably anachronistic coming out of 15th-century mouths.
Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News:
The English are uniformly and broadly portrayed as villainous louts, and today's four-letter oaths sound laughably anachronistic.
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I think this is all that is currently out there (its still quite a bit) but if you find anything i've missed, please tell me and I'll add it.
PS: Salon is none to happy about being plagiarized, thus shooting down claims by RedState that he had somehow gained permission to copy the reviews and, well, forgot to note that he got permission.
The Salon piece also points out the fact that Domenech apparently made up quotes by Tim Russert in order to defend Bush
PSS: TealVeal wishes me to remind everyone that, while Domenech went to William & Mary and wrote for one of their stupid papers, he left after his third year.
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Update [2006-3-24 2:9:55 by FleetAdmiralJ]: Another example of plagiarizing off the Washington Post, from dkosser pb:
I just found one where a Ben Domenech plagiarizes an article from Page A1 of the Washington Post.:
WaPo:
In his shirtsleeves, Frist gets out of the car and sprints onto the Capitol grounds, past police and camera crews, tourists and reporters, and into a ground-floor door.
A security guard puts his hand up to stop Frist, then realizes who he is.
A man is being wheeled out on a stretcher.
"This was Chestnut," Frist recalls. The officer has massive head trauma. His heart has stopped. He can't breathe. The Capitol physicians have put in a breathing tube.
"You've got to get air into the lungs, you have to compress on the chest," Frist remembers. "I had a medic compressing on the chest, as I was ventilating through the breathing tube, squeezing the bag."
By now, Frist is in the ambulance with his patient, stabilizing him, getting his heart beating again. Three medics are there by now, so Frist sends the ambulance off. He already knows it is a losing battle. "This severe a head trauma, I have seen nobody survive," Frist recalls.
Domenech:
In his shirtsleeves, Frist got out of the car and sprinted onto the Capitol grounds, past police and camera crews, tourists and reporters, and into a ground-floor door. A security guard put his hand up to stop him, then realized who he was.
"Where is it?" asked Frist.
The Senator looked down the hallway into unadulterated carnage. Desperate staffers were tending to an officer with a gaping gunshot wound in his chest, blood pooled on the floor. Frist noticed another man being wheeled out of the Document Entrance on a stretcher. It was Chestnut. Frist, helping the medics carry the stretcher out the door, became a doctor, not a politician, and saw: massive head trauma, a stopped heart, the man unable breathe.
"You've got to get air into the lungs, you have to compress on the chest," he yelled over the sirens. The Capitol physicians put in a breathing tube. A medic started compressing Chestnut's bloodstained chest as Frist ventilated air through the breathing tube, squeezing the bag. He helped them load the stretcher into the ambulance, then stayed until Chestnut was stabilized. Frist sent the ambulance off knowing that Chestnut was fighting a losing battle.
"This severe a head trauma, I have seen nobody survive," Frist would tell The Washington Post afterward.
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Update [2006-3-24 4:5:24 by FleetAdmiralJ]: Zipzagger at Media Village have found yet another plagiarism example:
It's a music review he published while at William & Mary on Counting Crow's "This Desert Life." Take a look.
From Ben's piece:
At times on "This Desert Life" Duritz could be more succinct ‹ especially on "I Wish I Was a Girl," in which he rambles far too long about movies and honesty. But on "Speedway," all his circling themes about coming and going, loving and losing, Hollywood and the heartland come together.
From James Hunter's Rolling Stone review:
At times on This Desert Life, you really wish he'd get more succinct -- especially on "I Wish I Was a Girl," in which he goes on and on about movies and honesty. But on "Speedway," all his circling themes about coming and going, loving and losing, Hollywood and the heartland come sizzlingly together.
There's a lot more than just those instances if you follow the links, but you get the point.
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Update [2006-3-24 11:1:27 by FleetAdmiralJ]: Good morning. As I figured, at least one more example of, erm, unoriginal work would show up this morning. This time brought up by Tao below:
Ben Domenech, on NRO:
In a study of teen girls' attitudes last year, young women characterized Spears as someone whom they probably would only want in their social group because she'd attract the guys. The idea was that she was dirty and it might rub off, a view that even seemed to be supported in reality. When Sabrina the Teenage Witch star Melissa Joan Hart began a much-publicized friendship with Spears, within a month or two Hart shed her goody-goody image and had shown up barely clothed on the cover of the men's magazine Maxim.
Salon.com:
Or when, as a study of teen girls' attitudes last year reflected, young women proclaimed that they didn't actually like the No. 1 girl act of their time and demographic. When questioned, during this study, about what celebrities they'd like to hang out with, they had pricelessly characterized Spears as someone whom they probably wouldn't want in their social group, but then amended it: OK, they might, but only because she'd attract the guys. (The idea was that she was dirty and it might rub off, and it even seemed to be supported in reality: When "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" star Melissa Joan Hart began a high-profile friendship with Spears, within a month or two Hart had shed her goody-goody image and shown up barely clothed on the cover of a lad magazine).
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Update [2006-3-24 11:6:47 by FleetAdmiralJ]: Thanks to the tip below to sockeye. Apparently the William and Mary paper that Domenech worked at are themselves none to happy that they had plagiarized work in their newspaper:
From The Flat Hat:
Late Thursday evening, several widely-read internet weblogs reported that a former College student plagiarized at least two articles while he worked as a writer for The Flat Hat. According to the websites Daily Kos and Atrios, phrases and full sentances of these articles were similar, and in some cases identical, to those of other authors. Ben Domenech, a student who enrolled in the College in 1999, is currently a blogger with Washingtonpost.com. While Domenech deserves the benefit of the doubt until all of the facts are known, if true, his actions would be deeply offensive to us as journalists and as students.
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