Ben Domenech Biography
Ben Domenech is a writer, blogger, editor, and television commentator from the United States known for being the co-founder and publisher of The Federalist, as well as the host of The Federalist Radio Hour and the author of The Transom, a daily subscription newsletter for political insiders. He is also one of the co-founders of the RedState group blog.
How old is Ben Domenech? – Age
He is 39 years old as of January 1, 2021. He was born in 1982 in Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.
Who is Domenech’s father? – Family
He is the son of Jeanne Schram and Douglas Domenech, who worked as the White House Liaison for the United States Department of the Interior, the Secretary of the Interior’s Deputy Chief of Staff, and the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular and International Affairs.
How many Times has Ben Domenech been married – Wife
Ben has been married thrice. He is married to Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late U.S. Senator John McCain. The couple wedded on November 21, 2017. Their daughter, Liberty Sage, was born in 2020. He was previously married to Caroline Seaton Powell in 2003 and Christine Elizabeth Klima in 2010.
What is Ben Domenech Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Ben Domenech Salary
When compared to CNN, ABC, CBS, and other national news organizations, Fox News anchors earn the most. The average annual salary for a FOX news anchor is $75,000, or $36 per hour. Fox news anchor salaries are higher than the national average of $58 thousand for all news anchors.
Ben Domenech Career
Domenech was the George W. Bush administration’s youngest political appointee, working for Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and U.S. Senator John Cornyn. He is now a National Review Online contributing editor and has edited books by Michelle Malkin, Ramesh Ponnuru, and Hugh Hewitt.
Domenech was hired as a blogger for The Washington Post in 2006, but left-wing bloggers objected to his selection. Domenech referred to cartoonist Ted Rall as a “steaming bag of pus,” Teresa Heinz Kerry as a “oddly shaped egotistical ketchup-colored muppet,” Pat Robertson as a “senile, crazy old fool,” and Dan Froomkin of washingtonpost.com’s “White House Briefing” column as a “embarrassment.” He resigned on March 21, 2006, after evidence emerged that he had previously plagiarized work that had originally appeared in The New Yorker. The newspaper stated that it was unaware of his plagiarism when he was hired.
Domenech previously worked as the managing editor of health care policy at The Heartland Institute, which was partially funded by Philip Morris and other tobacco companies. Domenech argued on a podcast in February 2013 that smokers were being unfairly treated under Obamacare. He co-founded The Federalist in September 2013, describing it as “leaning to the political right.” Because The Federalist is owned by a private company, it is not required to disclose its ownership or funding structure; its parent company, FDRLST Media, was formed in Delaware as a limited liability company in 2016. Reid Cherlin praised The Federalist in 2014 for “seek[ing] to go deep on the issues and sway the conservatives.”
The Federalist was described as “a leading disseminator of pro-Trump conspiracies and up-is-down, funhouse-mirror distortions of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election meddling and potential Trump involvement” by Damon Linker of The Week in May 2018. “Rabid Republican partisans in the administration, Congress, and the media have actively dispensed with old-fashioned norms of public life like concerns for propriety, professionalism, and fair-mindedness,” Linker wrote. According to Jeremy Peters of the New York Times, “The Federalist has been one of the biggest breakouts into the culture wars” under Domenech.
Reid Cherlin lauded The Federalist in 2014 for “seek[ing] to go deep on issues and sway the conversation in Washington.” According to Matt Lewis of The Week, conservative online media is divided into “staid, august publications” and “a new generation of irreverent sites.”