For several months now, Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel has been sporting a mustache.
He’s not the only political reporter who has added facial hair to his 2016 repertoire. HuffPost senior politics editor Sam Stein has recently displayed a facial forest that is growing by the day.
Here’s Weigel on CNN Friday. He looks like he’s going wood chopping.
But look closer — at least he’s wearing red, white and blue.
Of course he got a lot of crap for it on Twitter.
“I think I bought weed from @daveweigel in 1973,” said Jeet Heer, senior editor for The New Republic. “He had some tart comments about Agnew.”
“Fully supportive of @daveweigel’s woodsman Friday style on CNN right now,” said Brian Ries, who handles social media for CNN.
A few remarked that Weigel was “letting his freak flag fly.”
One follower asked, “Still on your original liver though, right?”
Weigel said only, “Almost cut my hair.”
Here are a whole bunch of men he now resembles.
Al Pacino, actor.
El Chapo, Mexican kingpin and villain.
Photo credit: Getty images.
Yanni, a Greek composer and keyboardist.
The Nacho Cheese Doritos guy
Photo credit: YouTube. (Avery Schreiber)
Ron Jeremy, porn actor and filmmaker.