Plunging Towards Gomorrah
The David Weigel Masquerade
David Weigel is all out of apologies. Wow, he must have crossed the wrong liberal because more damaging personal information leaked out today and he’s resigning his post with the Washington Post. Today’s damning leaks came from The Daily Caller. It’s fairly obvious the Weigel is a rather disgusting journalist. I don’t really care that’s he’s liberal. That’s nothing new. I don’t care that he calls Republicans names like ratf**ker. That’s not new either. The issue I have is this:
After Scott Brown won the Massachusetts Senate seat, threatening to kill the health care legislation by his presence, Weigel stressed how important it was for reporters to highlight what a terrible candidate his opponent Martha Coakley had been.
“I think pointing out Coakley’s awfulness is vital, because it’s 1) true and 2) unreasonable panic about it is doing more damage to the Democrats,” Weigel wrote.
Weigel isn’t covering the news, he’s trying to shape it in the least damaging way imaginable to advance his agenda. This is “hiding the decline.” This is “fake but accurate.” Liberals like to mock conservatives for our mainstream press paranoia but there are countless examples of this type of sinister behavior.
Let the progressive martyrdom commence for Weigel. Alex Pareene at Salon is already trying to spin this story.
Weigel isn’t a “conservative blogger” — he’s a journalist covering the conservative movement. Weigel is a libertarian. He voted for Ron Paul in the primaries. Many conservatives, for some reason, took umbrage at mere existence of a reporter dedicated to explaining their movement to outsiders, as if it either wasn’t fair or legitimate to have a reporter who wasn’t part of the movement cover it.
What can I say about Alex Pareene? He’s so blinded by political bias he’s unable to be honest. Weigel isn’t a libertarian. It doesn’t matter if he voted for Ron Paul. A libertarian wouldn’t be shaping news to pass ObamaCare. Why can’t people just be honest? Weigel is a liberal, plain and simple. The only thing Pareene is upset about is the fact that another liberal journalist has been outed while masquerading as an objective reporter.
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