Posted on 12/28/2022 8:10:56 AM PST by Rummyfan
"The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins."
— Søren Kierkegaard
Nothing good has ever happened because of something a journalist posted on Twitter. At least that was the case until June 3, 2022, when Dave Weigel logged on and pressed "retweet," setting in motion a chain of events that led to another (very obnoxious) journalist getting fired.
The joke was edgy, cerebral, and hilarious. "Every girl is bi," wrote Cam Harless, an anti-Sean Astin podcast host from Florida. "You just have to figure out if it's polar or sexual." Weigel, then a reporter for the Washington Post, wanted to share this humorous take on a universal truth—women are crazy—and assumed his followers were sophisticated enough to laugh along with him. (They were not.)
Felicia Sonmez, one of Weigel's colleagues at the Post, had a reaction so frenzied and deranged that it was not immediately (or ever) clear whether she was demonstrating the truth of the joke's punchline by acting like a crazy woman. "Fantastic to work at a news outlet where retweets like this are allowed!" she howled.
The rest is history. Weigel was suspended for a month without pay. Nevertheless, Sonmez persisted. Though she was told repeatedly to calm down, the humorless scold continued to berate her colleagues and her employer for making her feel unsafe, or whatever. She kept tweeting until the Post had no choice but to fire her for "insubordination" and "violating the Post‘s standards on workplace collegiality and inclusivity."
For his pivotal role in vanquishing a petty and deranged tyrant, and for embracing his fate as a martyr for the cause of comedy and common sense, Dave Weigel is 2022 Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year.
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I thought Dave got to choose his gender and pronoun, How dare the Free Beacon take away his rights in such a public manner.
2022 Man of the Year: J.K. Rowling
2022 Man of the Year: Barre Seid
2022 Man of the Year: Anti-Vegan Legend
And more.....
I actually met him back in 2016 right after Trump won and was doing a ‘thank you’ tour…( Melania was with him)
Weigel was interviewing folks who were attending..
….he was a bit strange but OK
My interview never made it to print, lol
“Cam Harless, an anti-Sean Astin podcast host from Florida”
Seriously? Sean Astin seems to be just about the least unlikeable person in Hollywood. How do you hate Sam Gamgee? Mikey from the Goonies? Bob Newby???
C’mon. He’s a JounOlista. /hurl
I have met several who are BOTH bi-sexual AND bi-polar. Scary combo. Very Scary.
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