Posted on 09/15/2010 10:51:31 AM PDT by Rufus2007
Anxiety was pretty high in the heat of battle with the race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. However, a lot of that tension exists beyond the state of Delaware and there have been self-proclaimed conventional wisdom wizards critical of how the electoral process in Delaware has worked itself out.
One of those has been former embattled Washington Post blogger Dave Weigel, who in a Slate.com post dated Sept. 14, took a few shots at conservative talker Mark Levin, calling him a "creep" for his criticisms of The Weekly Standard John McCormack, author of an unfavorable story about Delaware U.S. Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell.
"This is absolutely pathetic," Weigel wrote of Levin's critique. "No, Mark, when reporters investigate female candidates, they are not ‘obsessed,' any more than you're obsessed with Hillary Clinton when you call her "her thighness" and ‘Hillary Rotten Clinton.' They're reporting. For all of your posing about legal theory and the Constitution, you make it pretty clear here that you're a political hack."
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Dave Weigel calling anybody else a “creep” is beyond laughs.
Or watch TV in their underwear.
Haha! “...Slate.com post...” Exactly.
Difference is Mark Levin is an “admitted” Conservative commentator.
Dave Wiegel is a WAPO weasel liberal commentator who pretends to be a non-biased reporter.
You know you’re over the target when you’re getting flak.
The left is afraid of Levin in a way that they’re not afraid of any other radio host other than Rush. They’ve just woken up to Levin, and they’re afraid of him because he always speaks the truth, is well informed on the issues, and most of all, because he has a loyal audience.
The left’s official seal of approval.
Weigel was fired for being a partisan hack, wasn’t he? He’s not really in a position for name-calling.
I'd be curious to know how many people will read Weigel's actual blog post, or the Levin article to which it refers.
The Levin article turns out to be pretty stupid. It doesn't address any of the topics John McCormack has been digging into. It's basically just an extended whine on the theme of "how would you like it if.....?"
And Levin does start out with an infantile little jibe about McCormack being "obsessed," as if it is not necessary or important to check into the background of a candidate if she happens also to be an attractive young woman.
Weigel is correct to point out Levin's silliness.
Are we to dismiss his correct observations about Levin, simply because Weigel is living in a glass house?
If so .... so much for the oft-repeated claims that conservatives use their minds rather than their feelings.
And because they know he is very smart.
None of them want to take him on because they are afraid to be shown up by him.
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