Posted on 06/28/2010 8:31:31 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Former Washington Post writer David Weigel has attempted to explain away his Journolist e-mails attacking conservatives by claiming he was a trash-talking thoughtless jerk. If you think that self-damnation was bad, at least it was much better than admitting something even closer to the truth which would be that he deviously allowed people to think of him as a conservative. In fact, he is still lamely making that conservative claim in his Big Journalism article but first the jerk confession:
...I treated the list like a dive bar, swaggering in and popping off about what was really happening out there, and snarking at conservatives. Why did I want these people to like me so much? Why did I assume that I needed to crack wise and rant about people who, usually for no more than five minutes were getting on my nerves? Because I was stupid and arrogant, and needlessly mean...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
“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
...and likely gay.
Was he successful?
What a litte putz!
Broke at 23? nope
“What a litte putz!”
These are the people you want to slap because by punching you are wasting too much energy on them.
Journolist?
With emails like that, maybe he should be called a JORAN-eLIST ?
Covering same-sex marriage
By David Weigel | May 3, 2010; 6:33 PM ET
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.
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.
No, I meant in claiming to be a jerk, and in that, I think he convinced everybody.
Sounds redundant.
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.
Not exactly. I know some polite, decent gays. Being nasty is pretty much redundant with "gay activist" though.
On websites, his behavior is called ‘flaming’.
He is a ‘homosexual’.
Two words never far apart.
Hence the term 'flaming homosexual'.
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.
Many more to go....
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