Hoe Moe!
Posted on 06/25/2010 9:48:17 AM PDT by LdSentinal
Washington Post blogger Dave Weigel resigned today after a host of offensive e-mails surfaced revealing his disdain for much of the right - the beat he was charged with covering. Fishbowl DC, which published a number of those emails yesterday, confirmed the resignation with the Post just after noon.
Yesterday I reported on leaked emails from Weigel to a listserve of liberal journalists bashing conservatives and conservatism - you know, the people Weigel is supposed to be covering. As bad as those email were, a plethora of messages from Weigel published in the Daily Caller take the conservative-bashing to a whole new level.
The new emails also demonstrated that yesterday's quasi-apology from Weigel was really not as sincere as he claimed. He said that he made some of his most offensive remarks at the end of a bad day. But these new emails show that there was really nothing unique about them, and that offensive remarks about conservatives really were nothing new or uncommon.
Many of the misguided statements were clearly made in jest - "I hope he fails," Weigel said of Rush Limbaugh after the radio host was hospitalized with chest pains, a reference to Limbaugh's hope that Obama's agenda would fail. But other bouts of name calling - ragging on the "outbursts of racism" from "amoral blowhard" Newt Gingrich, for instance - were obviously not jokes.
The Daily Caller revealed some quite stunning statements from the JournoList in its piece today:
“Honestly, it’s been tough to find fresh angles sometimes–how many times can I report that these [tea party] activists are joyfully signing up with the agenda of discredited right-winger X and discredited right-wing group Y?” Weigel lamented in one February email.
In other posts, Weigel describes conservatives as using the media to “violently, angrily divide America.” According to Weigel, their motives include “racism” and protecting “white privilege,” and for some of the top conservatives in D.C., a nihilistic thirst for power.
“There’s also the fact that neither the pundits, nor possibly the Republicans, will be punished for their crazy outbursts of racism. Newt Gingrich is an amoral blowhard who resigned in disgrace, and Pat Buchanan is an anti-Semite who was drummed out of the movement by William F. Buckley. Both are now polluting my inbox and TV with their bellowing and minority-bashing. They’re never going to go away or be deprived of their soapboxes,” Weigel wrote.
Of Matt Drudge, Weigel remarked, “It’s really a disgrace that an amoral shut-in like Drudge maintains the influence he does on the news cycle while gay-baiting, lying, and flubbing facts to this degree.”…
Republicans? “Ratf--king [Obama] on every bill.” Palin? Tried to “ratf--k” a moderate Republican in a contentious primary in New York. Limbaugh? Used “ratf--king tactics” in urging Republican activists to vote for Hillary Clinton in open primaries after Obama had all but beat her for the Democratic nomination.
Weigel continued to defend these outbursts, as he did when contacted by the Daily Caller. "My reporting, I think, stands for itself," he said. “I’ve always been of the belief that you could have opinions and could report anyway… people aren’t usually asked to stand or fall on everything they’ve said in private.”
First, there's the issue of whether anything said on a 400-member email list can really be considered "private." "There’s no such thing as off-the-record with 400 people," Nation columnist Eric Alterman told Politico.
But the real issues are, first, whether such mean-spirited jabs demonstrate a disdain for many conservatives that precludes Weigel from covering them fairly (he did label gay marriage opponents "bigots," after all), and second, whether the Post feels it is appropriate to have someone hostile to the right covering conservatism, while a through-and-through liberal in Ezra Klein covers the left.
The Post signaled that it did not consider Weigel's comments to be a serious problem. It seems that attitude has changed.
Managing Editor Raju Narisetti told Politico that "Dave’s apology to readers reflects he understands, in calmer hindsight, the need to exercise good judgment at all times and of not throwing stones, especially when operating from inside an echo-filled glass house that is modern-day digital journalism." He added that it was "time to move on."
The post decliend comment on Weigel's resignation.
Resign? Heck, that’s his resume!
And there are still fools and dolts that BELIEVE what they read in a newspaper, or what they hear on an MSM TV show, and think it represents the whole truth and reality....
People deserve the government and media they get. It is their choice.
The little Obama troll (who I think was being paid for his lame attempts to marginalize the birthers) has resigned from the Wa Post.
Let me guess... this puke resigned as a ComPost blogger, and was then hired as a ComPost “journalist”?
One down, 99,999 to go.
Another candidate for the NObama administration.
None of these views are a surprise to anyone; frankly, I’m surprised the WaPo even wants him to resign...I’m sure his opinons are widely shared at that paper.
Buh Bye!!!
GREAT. Now can somebody get Shep and Bill O’Reilly off the T.V.? They do the same thing.
Sarah Palin's strange, unprofessional and paranoid grudge
Joe McGinniss talks about why he moved in next to Sarah Palin
Got a giggle from me, this did, but my real bash will kick off when there is no WaPo anymore —I think that will take about 7 years.
BUT IT WILL HAPPEN.
I still don't get the Drudge thing, all he does is throw up links to other outlets.
muawiyah to a fool in paradise
My comment on Weigel:
"There's no reasonable expectation of privacy of any kind on the internet.
Everybody knows that.
Now, about setting fire to someone, the proponent should always try that with himself first ~ I have it on the authority of a couple of Islamofascist terrorists that lighting up the shoe is not all that good an idea, but you can get a fair flame going if you start with the pubes.
So, yeah, and Weigel, make sure you give us all advance notice so's we can come and watch!
No sense making up a new one for Weigel. Here's yesterdays:
Posted by: muawiyah | June 24, 2010 5:09 PM "
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Even after that there were still some Leftwingtards trying to defend Weigel by arguing that it was a "by invitation only" discussion group so he had a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Let me say this about that, Weigel's real life experience just demonstrated that there is NOTHING on the net that is actually private ~ each and every thing you post or read can and will be publicized if someone somewhere wants to do you harm.
This is one of the reasons Weigel probably shouldn't be running a blog ~ he has failed to develop the proper attitude about the net.
I truly believe that there are MANY trolls/plants from the left who are all over the place, including in elected public office as Republicans. I believe this is part of the left’s strategy to grab power and direct policy.
7 years is too long!! lol
WHAT a shock!
Those guys had no sense of where the internet was going ~
Let me 'splain something here. It can be demonstrated that everybody's sales improve if stores selling similar products locate near each other. Newspapers used to sell more newspaper copies by putting their boxes and kiosks up near each other. Internet news providers get more hits (if not make more money) by making themselves readily accessible to internet discussion boards.
If you don't understand that concept you shouldn't be screwing around with the world wide web.
Now we come to the Post ~ they have some great comment threads going. Their formatting isn't up to FR standards but eventually the powers that be here will be able to license others, maybe even the Post, to use this system to handle the hundreds of thousands of "subscribers" such electronic news sites end up drawing. BTW, if you're following FOX NEWS you'll notice their format controls are getting more useful, but the site, as a whole, continues to be CLUNKY. Envision a site with those visions overlain with FR controls ~ people would pay good moneyf or that.
From the photo, I would guess he’s a poofter.
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