E-mails reveal Post reporter savaging conservatives, rooting for Democrats
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh famously said he hoped President Obama would “fail” in January, 2009. Almost a year later, when Limbaugh was rushed to the hospital with chest pains, Washington Post reporter David Weigel had a wish of his own. “I hope he fails,” Weigel cracked to fellow liberal reporters on the “Journolist” email list-serv.
“Too soon?” he wondered.
Weigel was hired this spring by the Post to cover the conservative movement. Almost from the beginning there have been complaints that his coverage betrays a personal animus toward conservatives. E-mails obtained by the Daily Caller suggest those complaints have merit.
“Honestly, it’s been tough to find fresh angles sometimes–how many times can I report that these [tea party] activists are joyfully signing up with the agenda of discredited right-winger X and discredited right-wing group Y?” Weigel lamented in one February email.
In other posts, Weigel describes conservatives as using the media to “violently, angrily divide America.” According to Weigel, their motives include “racism” and protecting “white privilege,” and for some of the top conservatives in D.C., a nihilistic thirst for power.
“There’s also the fact that neither the pundits, nor possibly the Republicans, will be punished for their crazy outbursts of racism. Newt Gingrich is an amoral blowhard who resigned in disgrace, and Pat Buchanan is an anti-Semite who was drummed out of the movement by William F. Buckley. Both are now polluting my inbox and TV with their bellowing and minority-bashing. They’re never going to go away or be deprived of their soapboxes,” Weigel wrote.
Of Matt Drudge, Weigel remarked, “It’s really a disgrace that an amoral shut-in like Drudge maintains the influence he does on the news cycle while gay-baiting, lying, and flubbing facts to this degree.”
In March, Weigel wrote that the problem with the mainstream media is “this need to give equal/extra time to ‘real American’ views, no matter how fucking moronic, which just so happen to be the views of the conglomerates that run the media and/or buy up ads.”
When Obama’s “green jobs czar” Van Jones resigned after it was revealed he signed a 9/11 “truther” petition, alleging the government may have conspired to allow terrorists to kill 3,000 civilians, Weigel highlighted the alleged racism of Glenn Beck – Jones’s top critic.
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It looks like a rooster with razor blades on his claws danced on his face.
On the other hand, Weigel’s acne treatment is progressing nicely.
I am SHOCKED, simply SHOCKED, the Washington Post would hire such a person.
You know, I’d love to get a few minutes in the same room with this scumbag. Just saying.
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Oh mr tough guy fat azz sitting in his basement on his 10 yr old pc.. or are you on your sofa on your front porch looking out at your pickup in the grass hitched up on concrete blocks?
Republicans are all scumbags. Every last one of them. Ignorant, corrupt, back woods, low IQ morons either too stupid to calculate 2+2, or so corrupt they’re out to destroy this once great nation, all for the profit of the almighty dollar.
Republican scum need to be removed from office.
Basements are cooler this time of year.
If he is using a ten year old PC he’s been smart enough to keep it running current browsers and smart enough not to waste money on a new PC he doesn’t need.
You seem to have the same problem many liberals do. And a great many gays actually. You have a fixation on Republicans and have not learned enough about .. well.. anything to make coherent distinctions about those around you.
It’s good to have you folks around though. We can’t possibly do as much damage to the crazy liberal agenda as you can.
Hey ‘Ariuszme’….I’m a 38 yr old IT consultant and can bench 250. So much for your backwoods, ghetto, stereotyping. Shouldn’t you be reading HuffPo? Maybe a picture book? By the way….your mom called and she tells me that she wants you to move out of the basement…..
Oh! I am so hurt, he insulted my PC! Well, Mr. Meanie, I’ll have you know that my PC is not 10 years old, it’s only EIGHT! Nyaaah!
Seriously, dude, “…for the profit of the almighty dollar?” As if you got your new cool not-ten-year-old computer by trading beads and shells.
If you can’t address the substance of the actual article instead of heaving your political and cultural bigotry all over serious people, please take your trash talk to AOL Chat, where it’s never gone out of style.
Yea, the nerve of this guy, calling it like he sees it. He should know if he wants to be part of the club he needs to learn how to twist reality and the truth! Come on, it’s the latest thing going. Isn’t he hip to it.