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UTUSN

(70,691 posts)
Fri May 29, 2020, 10:17 PM May 2020

Meegan McCAIN's dad-in-law got a rap on the knuckles, but her Federalist hubby is a pip!1

So one thing (minor news about Douglas DOMENESH) led to another (reasearching to find out how big a deal I have to worry about), and then I had an eye-opening (for me) result, about his son/Meegan's hubby.

The big epiphany for me was finding out what a big scoundrel the wingnut McCAIN hubby is, given her being a princess and her drooling over what a wingnut love she found for herself, and that The Federalist, which I had the image of as being a big wingnut boogeyman running the wingnut machine, is just a dirty little wingnut lego thing.

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https://www.mediaite.com/politics/investigators-say-douglas-domenech-abused-government-position-to-get-son-in-law-job/

Investigators Say Douglas Domenech Abused Government Position to Get Son-in-Law Job

.... ... “Domenech reached out to a senior EPA official in person and later by email in 2017 to advocate for the son-in-law when he was seeking a job at the agency.”

“Investigators said Domenech also appeared to misuse his position to promote a second family member’s wedding-related business to the same EPA official, who was engaged at the time,” AP continued, noting, “It’s the second finding of ethical violations in six months against Domenech.” ....

...however there were reportedly no criminal violations.

“Domenech was required to undergo additional ethics training as a result of the investigations into his conduct,” AP reported, adding, “No further disciplinary action was taken.”


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Domenech
Ben Domenech

.... In 2006, Domenech was hired as a blogger by The Washington Post, but resigned three days later after verified plagiarism in prior work.[4] ....
His father, Douglas Domenech, held several mid level position in the (Shrub) Bush administration, as a political appointee, at the time.[8] Ben Domenech subsequently worked as a speechwriter for Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson. ....
... speechwriter for United States Senator John Cornyn (R-TX); and as an editor at Regnery Publishing, where he worked on books by Michelle Malkin, Ramesh Ponnuru, and Hugh Hewitt.[9] ....
... (criticizing OBAMAcare, funded by tobacco, bashing climate change, 2009 organized Tea Party march, blah blah) … ….
2006 Red America (resigned over multiple plagiarisms) ….
Payments from Foreign Agent
2013 … removal of his work from The Washington Examiner and The Huffington Post … ….
Other controversies[edit]
Domenech was caught at least once for allegedly fabricating a quote. A June 20, 2002, Spinsanity.org entry demonstrated that Domenech made up a quote he attributed to Tim Russert in order to defend President Bush.[40][41]
In a 2010 post written for CBS, Domenech wrongly described Supreme Court Justice nominee Elena Kagan as potentially the "first openly gay justice." … ….
… 2017 … The Federalist … publishing an opinion piece … defending Roy Moore… ….
On February 21, 2018, Domenech sparked outrage after he called survivors of a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School a "bunch of idiots".[47] In July 2018, on the day that the Special Counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election indicted 12 Russian agents, Domenech spread information from a hoax version of the indictment documents. … ….
… 2019 … McCain … and (Seth) Meyers discussed McCain's highly contested and controversial accusation that Rep. Ilhan Omar was anti-Semitic. Shortly thereafter, Domenech posted a number of crude tweets targeted at Meyers, … ….

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Meegan McCAIN's dad-in-law got a rap on the knuckles, but her Federalist hubby is a pip!1 (Original Post) UTUSN May 2020 OP
Since The Federalist Society seems to be picking all our judges now, Snarkoleptic May 2020 #1
Has always been that greed is at the rotten core of Wingnutism UTUSN May 2020 #2

Snarkoleptic

(5,997 posts)
1. Since The Federalist Society seems to be picking all our judges now,
Fri May 29, 2020, 11:18 PM
May 2020

I want to know who the fugg is funding them.
How much of their funding is from foreign donors?
#WhoFundsFederalist

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