I wasn't aware that cane-waving required an apology.
Posted on 06/24/2010 1:58:16 PM PDT by speciallybland
I'm a member of an off-the-record list-serv called "Journolist," founded by my colleague Ezra Klein. Last Monday, I was deluged with angry e-mail after posting a story about Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.) that was linked by the Drudge Report with a headline intimating that I defended his roughing-up of a young man with a camera; after this, the Washington Examiner posted a gossip item about my dancing at a friend's wedding. Unwisely, I lashed out to Journolist, which I've come to view as a place to talk bluntly to friends.
Below the fold are quotes from me e-mailing the list that day -- quotes that I'm told a gossip Web site will post today. I apologize for much of what I wrote, and apologize to readers.
- "This would be a vastly better world to live in if Matt Drudge decided to handle his emotional problems more responsibly, and set himself on fire."
I apologize to Matt Drudge for this -- I was incredibly frustrated with the amount of hate mail I was getting and lashed out. If he wants to link to this post with some headline accusing me of wishing death on him, I suppose he can do so. But I don't wish that. I was tired, angry, and hyperbolic, and I'm sorry.
(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...
Who is David Wiegel? A namedropper?
:-)
Weigel is supposed to be the WaPo’s resident reporter/ blogger on “conservative issues,” in the sense of studying such issues from OUTSIDE a conservative perspective.
It’s the classic, condescending “Consrvatives In The Mist” approach so often seen from the So-Condescending-That-They-No-Longer-Realize-They-ARE-Condescending Leftists.
(Michelle Malkin coined that term.)
Exactly.
Besides, why didn’t he just say he was drunk.
It works for everyone else (myself included :-)
Professionals don’t “lash out”.
I had never heard of David Wiegel, and now I know quite a lot about his social life. Time to move on.
Wonderful. Now apologize for painting the vast majority of Tea Partiers as Paultards. How dare you?
“Everyday rule-of-thumb. One will seldom go wrong to attribute extreme actions to vanity, moderate ones to habit, and petty ones to fear.” -F. Nietzsche
I have never heard of this person.
Forget the apology and starting shooting straight ya jerk!
I wasn't aware that cane-waving required an apology.
"As the stomach turns".
Yes, Weigel, you are indeed sorry.
He’s a young guy who has become very hot at the Washington Post. Naturally, he hates us, Sarah Palin and pretty much anyone who’s conservative. Snarky, not smart.
Oh, he's David Brock.
David Weigel, Ezra Klein...the WaPo is cornering the market on young male (not masculine) Maureen-Dowd-wannabe bloggers.
They've got the snarky thing down pat. But Maureen is more of a man than they'll ever be.
He seems to actually believe his audience would be interested in his social life...
Life goes on...
HE IS A HACK .. voted for Nader, Kerry and Obama (respectively) and claims to be a conservative or libertarian of some sort ....
Now David Brock is a name I vaguely recognize. I was unfortunately not interested enuf to, uhh, penetrate beyond the link...
I suppose the new Hillary bio, or equivalent, will be coming out soon from this guy, once he undergoes the “conversion” to liberal-after-all. That’s about all I feel I need to know about him, thanks...
WaPo’s David Weigel Again Exposed Trashing the Right He’s Supposed to Cover
By Lachlan Markay
Thu, 06/24/2010
EXCERPTS
Many conservatives, including a number of NewsBusters contributors, have been skeptical of Washington Post blogger Dave Weigel since he was hired in March to cover the right.
Time and again, those concerns have been vindicated as Weigel has ridiculed a number of conservatives and conservative positions.
[....]
Weigel took heat in May for calling gay marriage opponents “bigots” and for stating on his Twitter account, “I hear there’s video out there of Matt Drudge diddling an 8-year-old boy. Shocking.”
NewsBusters contributor Dan Gainor called Weigel out on his inappropriate statements, noting that his new employment at the Post required a heightened degree of professionalism that he may not have been used to.
Apparently that message was lost on Weigel.
As a reporter for an organization as prominent as the Post, Weigel should not be surprised when he catches flack for making unprofessional and inappropriate statements.
Weigel has taken to his blog to apologize for and defend the most recent comments.
But his excuses really do not make any difference.
The comments he is trying to defend demonstrate his hostility towards conservatives and conservatism.
A journalist who reverts to name-calling and derisive criticism of those who is charged with covering cannot seriously claim to be covering them fairly.
“I feel [Weigel’s] column often looks for ways that make conservatives look bad,” wrote Gainor in March, “while his opposite number, the Post’s Ezra Klein, is an open liberal and spends his time making the left look good.”
Who knows, maybe that was the point all along.
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I wanted to puke when I heard Weigel was going to the Post.
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