David Weigel Explains Away Journolist E-mails by Claiming to be a Jerk

NewsBusters ^ | June 28, 2010 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

Better to claim to be a jerk than someone who deviously misrepresented himself.

[Josh Painter]

“Weigel still tries to convince us of his one-time conservative credentials despite the fact that in the three presidential elections since 2000 he voted for Nader, Kerry, and Obama. Gee! What a ‘conservative!’”

- JP

[Onelifetogive]

Because I was stupid and arrogant, and needlessly mean...

...and likely gay.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Was he successful?

[TexasCajun]

What a litte putz!

[downwdims]

Broke at 23? nope

[EQAndyBuzz]

“What a litte putz!”

These are the people you want to slap because by punching you are wasting too much energy on them.

[UCANSEE2]

Journolist?

With emails like that, maybe he should be called a JORAN-eLIST ?

[TexasCajun]

Very much likely gay. ..seems he wants to marry his boyfriend:

Covering same-sex marriage

Over the weekend, I got an e-mail from one of the organizations that campaign against gay marriage. The tone was boastful and celebratory about the push for a same-sex marriage ban in Minnesota. It irritated me enough that I tweeted: "I can empathize with everyone I cover except for the anti-gay marriage bigots. In 20 years no one will admit they were part of that."

By David Weigel | May 3, 2010; 6:33 PM ET

[Ol' Sparky]

He is a homosexual. I believe he is the same David Weigel I debated many years ago in Yahoo group run by the head of the Log Cabin Republicans of Minnesota.

[circlecity]

Sounds to me like he was just letting his hair down and speaking what he really felt because he thought he was surrounded by kindred spirits. He got burned because there is no loyalty among thieves.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

No, I meant in claiming to be a jerk, and in that, I think he convinced everybody.

[UCANSEE2]

"Yeah, but there's nothing like a punch in the kisser".

[UCANSEE2]

Sounds redundant.

[Dr. Thorne]

Watch. He'll claim that being a jerk is a disability. Then, he will seek professional help. Finally, he will claim he has been rehabilitated and will be welcomed back into the progressive fold with open arms... as long as he is still willing to bash conservatives.

The Left have no moral or ethical standards. No act by one of their acolytes is so despicable that he would become a pariah permanently.

[Onelifetogive]

Sounds redundant.

Not exactly. I know some polite, decent gays. Being nasty is pretty much redundant with "gay activist" though.

[UCANSEE2]

On websites, his behavior is called ‘flaming’.

He is a ‘homosexual’.

Two words never far apart.

[UCANSEE2]

Being nasty is pretty much redundant with "gay activist" though.

Hence the term 'flaming homosexual'.

[detective]

“stupid and arrogant, and needlessly mean”

That is the standard for the MSM. Can anyone name a single MSM "journalist" who does not fit that description?

What is interesting is not that this guy is just an opportunistic slimeball, it is that he tries to justify himself by bragging about his experience in Washington. He gives the everybody does it, I just got caught excuse.

[Wings-n-Wind]

Another liberal goofball idiot exposed and sidelined --
Gladly taken out of the game....

Many more to go....