Posted on 06/24/2010 2:30:46 PM PDT by Nachum
FishbowlDC has obtained e-mails written by WaPo's conservative-beat blogger Dave Weigel, that the scribe sent to JournoList, a listserv for liberal journalists. (Read up on JournoList with Yahoo! News's Michael Calderone's 2009 story that he wrote for Politico).
Seems Weigel doesn't like (and that would be putting it mildly) at least some of the conservatives he covers. Poor Drudge - Weigel wants him to light himself on fire.
Weigel's Words:
•"This would be a vastly better world to live in if Matt Drudge decided to handle his emotional problems more responsibly, and set himself on fire."
(Excerpt) Read more at mediabistro.com ...
“This would be a vastly better world to live in if Matt Drudge decided to handle his emotional problems more responsibly, and set himself on fire.”
That sounds like hate speech. When will the media wake up to it?
I post threads from this idiot. He claims the Tea Party Movement is a combo of Rontards, Militia, KKK and disgruntled Neo-Cons.
"There's no reasonable expectation of privacy of any kind on the internet.
Everybody knows that.
Now, about setting fire to someone, the proponent should always try that with himself first ~ I have it on the authority of a couple of Islamofascist terrorists that lighting up the shoe is not all that good an idea, but you can get a fair flame going if you start with the pubes.
So, yeah, and Weigel, make sure you give us all advance notice so's we can come and watch!
Posted by: muawiyah | June 24, 2010 5:09 PM "
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Even after that there were still some Leftwingtards trying to defend Weigel by arguing that it was a "by invitation only" discussion group so he had a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Let me say this about that, Weigel's real life experience just demonstrated that there is NOTHING on the net that is actually private ~ each and every thing you post or read can and will be publicized if someone somewhere wants to do you harm.
This is one of the reasons Weigel probably shouldn't be running a blog ~ he has failed to develop the proper attitude about the net.
WaPo’s David Weigel Again Exposed Trashing the Right He’s Supposed to Cover
By Lachlan Markay
Thu, 06/24/2010
EXCERPTS
Many conservatives, including a number of NewsBusters contributors, have been skeptical of Washington Post blogger Dave Weigel since he was hired in March to cover the right.
Time and again, those concerns have been vindicated as Weigel has ridiculed a number of conservatives and conservative positions.
[....]
Weigel took heat in May for calling gay marriage opponents “bigots” and for stating on his Twitter account, “I hear there’s video out there of Matt Drudge diddling an 8-year-old boy. Shocking.”
NewsBusters contributor Dan Gainor called Weigel out on his inappropriate statements, noting that his new employment at the Post required a heightened degree of professionalism that he may not have been used to.
Apparently that message was lost on Weigel.
As a reporter for an organization as prominent as the Post, Weigel should not be surprised when he catches flack for making unprofessional and inappropriate statements.
Weigel has taken to his blog to apologize for and defend the most recent comments.
But his excuses really do not make any difference.
The comments he is trying to defend demonstrate his hostility towards conservatives and conservatism.
A journalist who reverts to name-calling and derisive criticism of those who is charged with covering cannot seriously claim to be covering them fairly.
“I feel [Weigel’s] column often looks for ways that make conservatives look bad,” wrote Gainor in March, “while his opposite number, the Post’s Ezra Klein, is an open liberal and spends his time making the left look good.”
Who knows, maybe that was the point all along.
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I wanted to puke when I heard Weigel was going to the Post.
~~Fake conservative blogger revealed as DIEHARD LIB .. Ping!
No one who has read that little Maddow loving maggot has ever confused him with a conservative. He worked at Reason for some time, which you would think would mean right leaning libertarian. But he’s really just an Obama chinslurp.
E-mails reveal Post reporter savaging conservatives, rooting for Democrats
“HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.”
“Deep breath.”
“HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHA.”
None of us were fooled by him.
Shame on the WaPo if they thought they were fooling readers.
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This Wiegel guy not only writes like a juvenile, he thinks like a juvenile.
Well...well...well...the truth finally rises to the surface! Sounds like he has been forced to resign. Good riddance! Hope he doesn’t start trolling around here again...LOL!
Weigel had a particularly nasty case of animus for us...ROTFLOL!! I guess he didn’t like getting his backside handed to him when he trolled around here.
(snip)
“Right wing “memes” begin in “WND/FreeRepublic/talk radio swamps,” Weigel wrote, referring to conservative websites World Net Daily and Free Republic. Sometimes, they spread like a virus into liberal sites, a fact that clearly upsets Weigel.”
I suggest he re-start his journalism "career" as a reporter for a weekly newspaper, with an editor who can teach him how to write...and be a man.
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