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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The Punk and the Punked&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Who has it worse? &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Domenech&quot;&gt;The Punk&lt;/a&gt; or the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.washingtonpost.com/washpostblog/2006/03/ben_domenech_resigns.html&quot;&gt; punked?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you are a media analyst who is NOT &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/23/AR2006032301991.html&quot;&gt; Howard Kurtz&lt;/a&gt;,  you tend to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7BE646CDE5%2D3076%2D4AEF%2DBD41%2D38C3E721A095%7D&amp;amp;dist=newsfinder&amp;amp;siteid=google&amp;amp;keyword=&quot;&gt; pity&lt;/a&gt; the punked.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you are a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.krempasky.com/&quot;&gt;friend&lt;/a&gt;of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Domenech&quot;&gt;punk&lt;/a&gt;, who is now as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.redstate.com/story/2006/3/24/231749/503&quot;&gt; red of face&lt;/a&gt; as you are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.redstate.org&quot;&gt; red of state&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
, you defend both the punk and the mother of the punk.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you are an &lt;a href=&quot;http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2006_03_19_patriotboy_archive.html#114301560464637680&lt;br /&gt;
&quot;&gt; enemy&lt;/a&gt; of the punk,&lt;br /&gt;
you seem to think you know something about the supposed link between home schooling, parenting and the sex drive of the punk.&lt;br /&gt;
If that is true, then one has to ask: Does it take a punk to know a punk?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you are simultaneously &lt;a href=&quot;http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004834.htm&quot;&gt; a friend, and an enemy, of&lt;/a&gt; the punk, you are just thrilled that you are not the one who was punked. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you are the punk&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_P._Keaton&quot;&gt; alter-ego&lt;/a&gt;,  you actually want to remind the punk that a real Republican is not about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bendomenech.com/blog/&quot;&gt; Lord Almighty&lt;/a&gt;-but the almighty dollar. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you are the previous admirers of the punk-the ones who called him &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20407-2000May7.html&quot;&gt; &#039;a rising star&#039;&lt;/a&gt; and &#039;&lt;a href=&quot;http://flathat.wm.edu/story.php?issue=2006-03-24&amp;amp;type=1&amp;amp;aid=28&quot;&gt; &#039;the next George Will,&#039;&lt;/a&gt; then it&#039;s your websites that have us all punked. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you are the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/3/23/181857/404 &quot;&gt; exposers&lt;/a&gt;of the punk,&lt;br /&gt;
You are simply shocked that it&#039;s you-and not the Washington Post&#039;s researchers who have uncovered the punk. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And if you have been plagiarized by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/03/24/domenech/index_np.html&quot;&gt; the punk&lt;/a&gt;, then you are the only sick f@&amp;amp;ks to find it flattering to be plagarized by a punk&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you are the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com&quot;&gt; employers&lt;/a&gt; of those punked, you&#039;re reaching out to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/03/24/brady/index_np.html&quot;&gt; your media elite friends&lt;/a&gt; to cover the asses of those who employ the punked. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But if you are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bendomenech.com&quot;&gt;the actual punk&lt;/a&gt;, you should know that you have reaped what you have sown. Only a total punk would stoop so low as to insult a black Christian-let alone-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.redstate.com/comments/2006/2/7/203823/5583/190#190&quot;&gt; THE BLACK CHRISTIAN.&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And to you-the &lt;a href=&quot;http://mediamatters.org/items/200603210015&quot;&gt; the actual one punked&lt;/a&gt;, two things when hiring: Know how to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/3/25/0509/94781&quot;&gt; Google&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;
And require proof of  a college degree.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For as any of us who have done it know, the actual exercise of college, with its &lt;a href=&quot;http://dispatch.fandm.edu/read.php?id=546&quot;&gt; &quot;bureaucracy and bullshit&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (note to the punk: this is a process known as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wordreference.com/definition/attribution&quot;&gt; &#039;attribution&#039;)&lt;/a&gt; is essential training for anyone who is working in the business of original thought and details.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;P.S. To the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com&quot;&gt; punked&lt;/a&gt;, next time, hire &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hughhewitt.com&quot;&gt; Hugh Hewitt&lt;/a&gt;, who is a bit of a punk, but an actual conservative/journalist/blogger who is less likely to punk.&lt;/p&gt;
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