David Weigel meets Jonah Goldberg

The Virginian ^ | 6/14/2010 | Moneyrunner

[moneyrunner]

Jonah Goldberg had a great description of a style of liberal journalism where Liberals go into the jungles, like Dian Fossey to describe Conservatives:

...whenever I read liberals reporting about the goings-on of conservatives I always get the nature-documentary vibe. A liberal reporter puts on his or her Dian Fossey hat in order to attempt to write another installment of Conservatives in the Mist. I've followed this particular brand of reporting for years, it's almost a fetish of mine. Most attempts fail. Of these lesser varieties, there's fear ("Troglodytes!"), mockery ("Irrelevant troglodytes!"), condescension ("I had to explain to them they're troglodytes."), bewilderment ("Why don't they understand they're troglodytes?"), astonishment (Dear God, they're not all troglodytes!"), and a few combinations of all the above.

It could not be more perfectly illustrated than this article by David Weigel describing an assault by Congressman Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.) against a couple of young people who identify themselves a students with a project.

The dialog:

[Congressman Bob Etheridge comes walking down the street:]

Student [dressed in coat and tie]: "Hi congressman"

Student: "How are you?"

Student: "Do you fully support the Obama agenda?"

Congressman: "Who you?

Congressman: "Who are you?"

[traderrob6]

I read Weigel’s piece of crap yesterday, it was unbelievable.

[Lakeshark]

Isn't this the same guy that defended the Palin family stalker?

Nope, no agenda for this guy, just a straight down the middle, report em as they are kind of guy.

Says a lot for his liberal newsprint employer....