What an absolute stunner.
Dave Weigel, The Washington Post‘s contributor on conservative issues, was also a member of “Journolist”, an exclusive leftist email list-serv.
The Daily Caller reported:
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.
Dave Weigel resigned today from The Washington Post.
…Maybe they can get commie Rosie O’Donnell to comment on conservative issues?
UPDATE: The WaPo’s Ombudsman admitted today that the Post had lost its standing among conservatives.
Actually, it lost its standing among conservatives years ago. Today’s news just confirmed what we all already knew.
