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Breaking: WaPo's David Weigel Resigns After More Conservative-bashing Emails Disclosed

The new emails also demonstrated that yesterday's quasi-apology from Weigel was really not as sincere as he claimed. He said that he made some of his most offensive remarks at the end of a bad day. But these new emails show that there was really nothing unique about them, and that offensive remarks about conservatives really were nothing new or uncommon.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2010/06/25/breaking-wapos-david-weigel-resigns-after-more-conservative-bashing-


Okay, first, David who? Some poor schmuck spoke badly about some other poor schmuck. I got it.

He’s a journalist writing a blog, and he is supposed to be objective. That’s the first problem. I gotta warn you, objective points of view are usually pretty boring. Not much entertainment value in that. So if anybody was reading his blog, I guarantee you he wasn’t objective.

Next let’s talk about the schmucks who exposed him. I challenge any of them to open their private emails up. Give me twenty minutes with their passwords and I guarantee you they will be divorced, fired, and lose, like minimum, 1/3 of their friends.

People talk dirt about one another. Even about the people they genuinely like. I have known about 20 people out of thousands who don’t talk smack on the people they know. It’s a disheartening fact, that I think most people would agree with (if you don’t PLEASE tell me where you live and/or who you associate with and I am there0.

If David Weigel has been kissing butts and then assassinating those same butts, then all right, but I doubt that’s the case. I have said some rotten things about clients I really kinda liked, just cause they peeved me for a minute.

Could we stop holding people to standards we can’t live up to?

In a perfect world a reporter covering the conservative political beat would be neither liberal nor conservative in his views while on the job. But c’mon we all have opinions! Would he be a better journalist if he were a hardnosed conservative. I’d rather see the Washington Post hire a bunch of conservatives report on the liberal happenings of the day. I’ll bet the stories would be juicier, and the reported on, would be held to a higher standard; we all tend to cut slack to those we feel sentimentally attached to (when are you guys gonna stop thinking Obama could be the next JFK?)

Give the guy a break.