On The Topic of Dave Weigel

My message to the WaPo on the Dave Weigel "controversy"...

GO F**K YOURSELVES.

Comments

[Dan]

I love the first comment on this story at Fishbowl DC.

"Its ok, Petraeus has agreed to step in."

[Brian W. Schoeneman]

It's pathetic that someone would out Weigel for expressing an opinion plenty of folks have expressed over the years, publicly and privately.

[TomPaine]

Dave made the mistake of telling the unvarnished truth!

[Haywood Jablomi]

Ha. Another snot-nosed hack blogger joins the unemployment line.

Cheer up Dave, I hear Al Gore pays well for a happy ending.

[Jim Webster]

So why should anyone care? What a bore.

[Spock]

Weigel is an okay guy, he is not really a friend to the left but his reporting on the fringe within the conservative movement is a valuable source of well researched information.

Who ever leaked these e-mails has broken the security and integrity of the list they came from.

That "journalist" should be strung up and quartered in the public square.

[haha]

Spock - non journalists don't get that treatment, so why should Weigel?

[Spock]

I am not saying that Weigel should be quartered, I am saying the journalist who leaked those e-mails from that list should be.

An e-list like that one is a smoky back room where cronies can let their hair down and say what is on their minds.

Breaking the integrity of that list by posting was is private to the list is screwed up.

Hell, even when I have signed onto e-lists of racists and Nazis for doing "hatewatch", I would never publish publicly what was being said on those lists.

When a journalist spits in the face of another fellow journalist with that kind of betrayal it is unacceptable.

[Joel Rutstein]

Weigel should have known better than to take the Post gig. The Washington Independent is infinitely better. I suppose more money or greater exposure with the promise of more money compelled him. I bet Ezra Klein himself will go soon.

[Lloyd the Idiot]

I'm glad he failed.

[SouthsideCentral]

I'm outraged that somebody actually has to take responsibility for their own words.

Accountability. It's a good thing.

[Virginians4Bob]

Way to stay classy, Ben.

[NotOnJournolist]

Excellent! Another pithy post demonstrating good manners and restraint. And here I have been under the mistaken impression that only the Tea Party crowd was spittle flinging angry. heh heh - I wonder from whom I could have gotten such a false image?

Schadenfreude, they name is Dave Weigel and "Not Larry Sabato".
Heh heh

[Princeton]

Wonkette called you a slave to WaPo. Any comment Ben?

[Not Larry Sabato]

Basically true, Princeton. :-)

[Gretchen Laskas]

We are really going to have to figure out, as a country, what the word "privacy" means -- professionally, morally, legally, etc. Of course, by the time we do that, we may be speaking of it in purely nostalgic terms.

[Joel Rutstein]

Gretchen, I don't disagree with you, but if self-proclaimed champions of free speech like the WaPo want to contribute positively in the meantime, they can courageously stand behind professionals whose personal opinions, especially when obviously not seriously given, ought not to necessarily have anything to do with judging their ability to do their jobs.

[TomPaine]

The Washington Post nowadays believes in free speech only when the views of the Graham family or Fred Hiatt are being expressed.

[notben]

TomPaine,

What does any of this have to do with free speech? Whose free speech has been infringed?

[Gretchen Laskas]

Free speech is an important topic, but only one factor (in my mind) regarding the bigger issue of privacy, and what it means to us as Americans.

[TomPaine]

Not Ben:

Nothing and no one!

This has nothing to do with the First Amendment, but it has something to do with how the Washington Post handles its former reputation as a paper of record. Even its omsbudsmen (and women) have been compromised in recent years.

Its reputation for "fair and balanced" news is nearly as compromised as that of the Murdock media.

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