WaPo blogger Domenech: Coretta Scott King was a communist

Republican activist Ben Domenech, recently hired by The Washington Post to launch the Red America weblog on washingtonpost.com, called the late Coretta Scott King a communist, as noted by The News Blog. In a February 7 post titled "With Regard to Today's Funeral Political Rally," RedState.com blogger "Blanton" condemned King's funeral as a political rally for the left while claiming that he has "a clearer understanding of why the culture of so many black Americans in this country is below what it should be and is capable of being." Domenech responded to Blanton's post under his reported pseudonym "Augustine," titling his comment "The President visits the funeral of a Communist."

As Media Matters has noted, while Domenech's partisan Republican credentials are well-established -- he served as a speechwriter for former Bush administration Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and for Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and is a co-founder of the partisan blog RedState.com -- his journalism credentials are much thinner, seemingly limited to writing for conservative publications such as Human Events Online, National Review Online, The Washington Times, and The American Conservative during his teen years.

In his introductory Red America post, Domenech criticized the Post's editors and the "mainstream media" in general for, among other things, "treat red state Americans as pachyderms in the mist," being "slow to recognize the growth in conservative America," and failing to recognize "the greatest pro-gun movie ever" (the 1984 Patrick Swayze/Charlie Sheen vehicle "Red Dawn"). As recently as March 2, "Augustine" trashed former washingtonpost.com editor Dan Froomkin -- who now writes the Post website's "White House Briefing" column -- on RedState.com, writing that Froomkin's "status as leader of the hack is without compare." "Augustine" also attacked Democrats as "The Party of Death" in a January 24 entry on abortion.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200603220006

Oh, I forgot fighting for civil rights for the evil minorities makes one an evil communist.

All communists support civil rights.
Coretta King supported civil rights.
Therefore Corretta King was a communist.

Quite logical if you flunked logic 101.

Can I get a job bloggin for the WaPo where I get to call the President and the rest of the vile cabal a bunch of theocratic fascists?

So it must be.

Seriously, this was a constant harp by the right wing during the whole civil rights movement

I hope the Post gets totally humiliated for this. Hilarious.

that most people do not even know what a communist is. They just have this notion that it is a bad, bad thing. I'll bet you 90% of them couldn't explain communism. I'll bet if they learn what it is, they'll think to themselves, well, gee, that doesn't sound all that dangerous or bad. Growing up in the 1950s, I had the same reaction to the word "communist" - until I found out what it really meant. The right wing is doing much the same to the word "liberal," by making it sound very bad and obscuring the definition of the word.