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  • Washington Post in-house spat shows we’ve gone overboard with therapeutic ‘me’ culture

    06/12/2022 3:04:50 PM PDT · by Rummyfan · 11 replies
    The College Fix ^ | 11 June 2022 | Dave Huber
    This past week’s Twitter spat featuring several Washington Post employees was a gold mine into the mindset of the ultra-therapeutic “me” culture which is often cultivated in our universities. In a nutshell, after Post reporter Felicia Somnez publicly ripped her employer for allowing fellow reporter Dave Weigel to allegedly get away with retweeting a “sexist” tweet, the paper ended up suspending Weigel for a month without pay. ... ut the coup de grâce, so to speak, came when a Post software engineer named Holden Foreman (pictured) chimed in via a lengthy Twitter thread to defend Somnez (and in other tweets,...
  • Bye, Felicia: Washington Post Fires Reporter Felicia Sonmez After Week of Infighting

    06/10/2022 1:43:48 PM PDT · by rktman · 31 replies
    breitbart.com ^ | 6/9/2022 | Jordan Dixon-Hamilton
    The Washington Post fired its political reporter Felicia Sonmez on Thursday after she publicly criticized the paper and her colleagues for nearly one week straight. Sonmez started internal drama at the company when she called out fellow reporter Dave Weigel on Twitter for retweeting an alleged sexist tweet last week. Weigel retweeted a tweet that joked, “Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it’s polar or sexual.” Sonmez shared a screenshot of Weigel’s retweet and said, “Fantastic to work at a news outlet where retweets like this are allowed!” On Monday, the Post suspended Weigel for...
  • The Washington Post Fires Felicia Sonmez Amid Week of Infighting

    06/09/2022 2:34:33 PM PDT · by NohSpinZone · 46 replies
    Daily Beast ^ | 6/9/0222 | By Corbin Bolies
    The Washington Post has fired national political reporter Felicia Sonmez, The Daily Beast has confirmed, capping off a week’s worth of highly public drama at the paper. Both the Post and Sonmez did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Sonmez’s apparent exit from the paper comes after a week of WaPo infighting that stoked heated conversations over newsroom inequity and social-media use, with multiple reporters taking shots at one another in public. The seemingly unending dramatics began late last week when political reporter Dave Weigel retweeted a sexist post about bisexual women. He later apologized but not before Sonmez...
  • VIDEO: Washington Post Meltdown Turns Into Twilight Zone Episode

    06/09/2022 8:48:01 AM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 17 replies
    YouTube ^ | June 9, 2022 | DUmmie FUnnies
    VIDEO"It's a Good Job." That is the new Twilight Zone episode inspired by the recent Washington Post meltdown in which The Monster sent reporter Dave Weigel to the Cornfield for month for the high crime of retweeting bad thoughts. And now everybody working at the Washington Post bubble lives in dread fear of The Monster.
  • Washington Post Suspends Reporter (Dave Weigel) One Month for ‘Reprehensible’ Retweet

    06/07/2022 5:26:01 AM PDT · by RandFan · 46 replies
    Breitbart ^ | June 6 | JORDAN DIXON-HAMILTON
    The Washington Post suspended reporter Dave Weigel for one month without pay over a “reprehensible” retweet, according to reports. Weigel’s work email reportedly auto-responds to incoming emails with the following message: “I am out of the office and will return on July 5.” Weigel’s suspension comes just a few days after fellow Washington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez reprimanded him on Twitter over a tweet he retweeted. On Friday, Weigel shared a tweet sent out by YouTube host Cam Harless that joked, “Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it’s polar or sexual.” Sonmez posted a screenshot...
  • The Watchdogs Nap for Biden

    04/21/2021 5:02:38 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 11 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | April 21, 2021 | Tim Graham
    resident Biden averaged a 56% job approval rating from his inauguration through March, according to Gallup, about the same as the ratings of former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and much higher than former President Donald Trump's (42%). One factor in that approval might be the tone of press coverage. Rich Noyes and Bill D'Agostino of the Media Research Center studied ABC, CBS and NBC evening-news programs from Jan. 20 through April 9. Televised evaluations of Biden's performance (not including politicians and administration officials) were 59% positive. The tone would be even more positive except for one nagging...
  • Paul RYAN: "Efforts to reject the votes of the Electoral College and sow doubt about Joe Biden's victory strike at the foundation of our republic"

    01/03/2021 12:29:39 PM PST · by RandFan · 176 replies
    Dave Weigel ^ | Jan 3 | Paul Ryan
    @daveweigel Unexpected statement from Paul Ryan: "It is difficult to conceive of a more anti-democratic and anti-conservative act than a federal intervention to overturn the results of state-certified elections and disenfranchise millions of Americans." More...
  • Biden Tells Coal Miners To "Learn To Code"

    01/02/2020 7:42:48 AM PST · by Helicondelta · 109 replies
    During a rally yesterday, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden spoke to a crowd in Derry, N.H., a town that many miners call home. He acknowledged the economic setbacks and job insecurity that coal miners face these days, and gave them some advice: learn to code. According to Dave Weigel of the Washington Post, Biden said, “Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well... Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!” According to Weigel, the comment was met with silence from...
  • Gloves Come Off: Far Left Democrat Insinuates Black And

    07/13/2019 10:46:49 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 52 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | July 13, 2019 | Matt Vespa
    The border crisis appears to have inched the Democratic Party towards another episode of internal strife. Civil war? Well, I’m not so sure about that, but it’s been getting pretty nasty. The House passed a $4.6 billion border package that included strings attached, aimed at curbing immigration enforcement. This was pie-in-the-sky. Trump would never sign it, though he did sign the Senate bill into law, which provided the same funding but without the trash provisions against enforcing the law. It was also overwhelmingly bipartisan. Moderate House Democrats and Pelosi signed off on the Senate bill, which infuriated the far left....
  • WaPo Reporter calls Trump Supporters “Rubes”…Why Liberals Still Don’t Get it

    01/29/2019 9:28:32 AM PST · by Red Badger · 28 replies
    www.spartareport.com ^ | January 29, 2019, 7:00 AM | by kingsjester
    Isn’t it “funny” how those who claim to be the most tolerant among us are actually the least tolerant of all? FoxNews.com reports that Washington Post national political correspondent Dave Weigel referred to President Trump’s supporters in no uncertain terms as “rubes” during an appearance on a left-wing podcast Monday. Weigel made the comments during an appearance on the “Chapo Trap House” podcast, during which he discussed the recently concluded partial government shutdown. The remarks were first reported by The Daily Caller. “[Senate Majority Leader Mitch] McConnell [R-Ky.] didn’t care about the wall… he’s very good at identifying what the...
  • Hah! Democrat and Liberal Media’s Latest Motto: We Lost But We’re Really Winning

    12/10/2017 9:03:34 AM PST · by davikkm · 16 replies
    Democrats and the liberal media have already conceded Alabama to Judge Roy Moore. After hurling every smear and vicious attack EVER at the Alabama Judge they see they are still going to lose. Alabama voters DON’T TRUST DEMOCRATS OR THEIR LIBERAL MEDIA! Why should they? When was the last time the Washington Post or ANY liberal media outlet published a positive piece on Alabama? 30 years ago? 50 years ago? Judge Roy Moore pulled ahead of his very liberal opponent Doug Jones in the Alabama Senate special election. Moore now leads Jones 49-45 in the Real Clear Politics averages.
  • Media falsely discredit Trump as he confronts UN on Jerusalem

    12/10/2017 11:22:59 AM PST · by Sean_Anthony · 3 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | 12/10/17 | David Singer
    The media's latest myth remains unretracted and uncorrected. Trump's principled decision follows United States policy adopted since 1995 Media falsely discredit Trump as he confronts UN on Jerusalem The media has discredited President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital -falsely claiming the President has reversed nearly seven decades of American foreign policy. Trump’s decision has pitted America squarely against the United Nations.
  • Reporter accused of ‘fake news’ by Trump resigned in 2010 over similar attacks vs. Republicans

    12/10/2017 9:18:22 AM PST · by tired&retired · 10 replies
    foxnews.com/ ^ | December 10, 2017 | Fox news website
    Dave Weigel, the Washington Post's reporter, was hired in 2010 to blog about conservatives and resigned three months later after he posted personal emails about Ron Paul, Rush Limbaugh and others.
  • David Frum: Media Mistakes Result of "Overzealous" Attempt by Press to be "Fair" to Trump

    12/10/2017 9:24:36 AM PST · by governsleastgovernsbest · 53 replies
    FinkelBlog ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    Does anyone believe that the fake ABC and CNN hit pieces on Trump were the result of overzealous fairness? If it weren’t so outrageous, this would be funny . . . On Brian Stelter’s CNN show this morning, during a discussion of the spate of MSM misreporting of stories in a way unfavorable to President Trump, guest David Frum actually said: “The worst mistakes that press organizations have made in the coverage of Trump has precisely occurred in their effort, their overzealous effort, to be fair to the President.” Get the rest of the story and view the video here.
  • President Trump calls for Washington Post reporter who apologized for inaccurate tweet to be fired

    12/10/2017 9:39:15 AM PST · by BlackFemaleArmyColonel · 34 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | 9 December 2017 | Emily Yahr
    President Trump on Saturday evening issued a call for a reporter with The Washington Post to be fired because of a quickly deleted tweet that presented a misleading impression of Trump’s rally crowd in Florida. The Post reporter, David Weigel, had earlier tweeted a photo of the crowd gathered at Pensacola Bay Center for Trump’s speech there Friday evening, showing numerous empty seats. He removed the tweet after being told by others that the photo was taken before the venue filled up and apologized in a later Twitter exchange with the president. Trump’s public response: “.@daveweigel of the Washington Post...
  • MSM Now Running With Their Pants on Fire

    12/10/2017 9:49:39 AM PST · by Sean_Anthony · 11 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | 12/10/17 | Judi McLeod
    Once again, you called it right, President Trump! The truth FINALLY got its pants back on Friday while mainstream media liars were caught flashing their dirty undies at the masses, their lies having already traveled halfway around the world. This time, the odious stench of burning coming from CNN, CBS, MSNBC and the far more cunning Washington Post, all of whose pants were on fire, went viral. With most attention riveted on Liar King CNN, CBS and MSNBC came jumping, flames and all, into the lie pit‚Äîallowing the WaPo’s David Weigel to almost wiggle out of his lies.
  • Remembering JOURNOLIST and progressive media’s bag of tricks

    07/16/2017 8:53:06 AM PDT · by Tilted Irish Kilt · 9 replies
    hotair.com ^ | 7/15/17 | John Sexton
    "For those who don’t remember it, Journolist was just a listserv created by Ezra Klein. The list was invitation only and was mostly made up of progressive journalists. In theory, the list was a kind of digital water cooler where like-minded people could talk to others in the field. That may have been all it was much of the time, but when candidate Obama got in trouble in 2008, it also became a place for partisans to discuss a coordinated media strategy." When Kevin Drum (Mother Jones) argued that wasn’t the kind of campaign Obama wanted to run, Ackerman replied,...
  • @daveweigel of the Washington Post just admitted that his picture was FAKE(fraud?)..should be fired

    12/09/2017 3:19:30 PM PST · by SMGFan · 60 replies
    Real Donald Trump twitter acoount ^ | December 9. 2017 | President Donald Trump
    .@daveweigel of the Washington Post just admitted that his picture was a FAKE (fraud?) showing an almost empty arena last night for my speech in Pensacola when, in fact, he knew the arena was packed (as shown also on T.V.). FAKE NEWS, he should be fired.
  • Moore campaign calls Washington Post a 'worthless piece of crap'

    11/22/2017 5:41:32 PM PST · by ForYourChildren · 37 replies
    The Hill ^ | 11/22/2017 | Josh Delk
    Roy Moore's campaign called The Washington Post a "worthless piece of crap" and refused to provide proof of claims it has made to cast doubt on one of his accusers. “The Washington Post is a worthless piece of crap that has gone out of its way to railroad Roy Moore,” Moore campaign strategist Brett Doster wrote to The Post in an email. “There is no need for anyone at the Washington Post to ever reach out to the Roy Moore campaign again because we will not respond to anyone from the Post now or in the future. Happy Thanksgiving.” {..snip..}
  • trump calls for wapo’s dave weigel to be fired after bogus report of empty fl rally

    12/09/2017 6:41:50 PM PST · by Hojczyk · 49 replies
    GP ^ | December 9,2017 | Kristinn Taylor
    President Donald Trump slammed Washington Post politics reporter (and former Journolist) Dave Weigel for posting a photo mocking Trump for the size of the crowd at his rally Friday night in Pensacola, Florida that was actually taken well before Trump entered the venue. Weigel mockingly quoting Trump’s tweet about the rally, “Packed to the rafters”. As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier Saturday, liberals online, including the site Raw Story, were spreading a photo of the rally taken well before Trump took the stage at the Pensacola Bay Center that showed many empty sections of seats. It was falsely claimed that...