Okay, so Weigel had a limit to the degree his deep and abiding hatred of conservatives would influence his reporting.

And Hitler was said to be kind to animals.

Must someone have absolutely NO redeeming qualities before they are worthy of denunciation?

Weigel hates you, and he hates me, and he hates all conservatives, and he wanted to help “manage” the news so as to defeat us, not through exposing truth, but by concealing it.

I don’t care how many times he didn’t fully buy into the leftist meme. I don’t care how many bar tabs he picked up. He is an evil little leftist cadre who hopes for triumph of the left through any means necessary, including manipulation of the news. Read his emails.

Nice friend you have there, pal!

@gg,
Have you replaced Young4Eyes as our zampolit?
NTTAWWT, but we would have thrown a party for Y4E if we knew he was being transferred.
I hope there was a promotion; Y4E’s arguments that wet is the new dry were as consistent and amusing as they were nonsensical.
Truly a fabulous troll, Y4E. You’ve a contra-proud tradition to uphold, gg.

Good point, Smitty. These are the kind of progressive trolls that we prefer: Predictable and inerrantly wrong.

Estragon: I don’t know what you want from me. Everybody else in the blogosphere gets to blog about Weigel, but God forbid somebody who actually knows the guy should give it a crack.

By their deeds shall ye know them. Character references are only tie-breakers, Stacy.

Hey, whenever you need some cutting-edge experts to discuss the latest developments in New Media, David Brooks and Gail Collins are there for you.

The left in general is anti-American.

To all the trolls, lefties, Kossacks, dictator apologists, and general scum bags unwilling to engage in honest debate go watch this.

And for Andrew Sullivan, fuck you too

gg–I do not take Barack Obama to be the second comming of Hilter and I do not call him a wuss. My primary criticism of Barack Obama is he promotes economic and social policies that will cause great fiscal harm to the country.

Obama also sucks dealing with this oil spill and obviously wants pelicans and turtles to die. Although he accepted some limited help from foriegn countries in dealing with the spill, he has not lifted the Jones Act yet. Why is that?

As far as national defense goes, Obama is weaker than George W. Bush, but not by much. So far he is staying the course on Afghanistan and I do not have a problem with him replacing McCrystal with Petraeus. I get nervous when he has exceedingly off the mark individuals like Eric Holder advising him on how to deal with terrorism. Eric Holder is a male version of Janet Reno–except Holder has less testosterone.

I fear that Obama will abanond Afghanistan because it will get too damn hard for him. Plus his pal from the neighborhood Bill Ayers is against it.

gg was a Kossack? who saw that coming?

Dude,
Do yourself a favor and walk back from the edge of the precipice. You’re doing nothing but giving everyone else confirmation that you’ve become Weigel’s butt-budy.

Stacy, as usual you make my point far better and more concisely than my lame attempt:

“When the online Left, and even the Washington Times, tried to elevate Robertson as a “Tea Party Leader,” Weigel pushed back against this clearly erroneous meme. Dave didn’t do that to curry favor with anyone, but simply because this raaaaacism smear was a bogus hit-job, an illegitimate narrative that was being exploited to perpetuate a falsehood.”

BINGO!

And it was the nonstop perpetuating of this falsehood (being trumpeted by Chuckles the Clown and everyone over at MSNBC) that led me to pursue the story to find out what fellow Tea Partiers REALLY thought about Dale Robertson. It was the unreported story and to Dave Weigel’s credit, he reported how the Houston Tea Party Society REALLY felt about the jackass they booted out their event for the very sign the left and Chuckles were using as “proof” that all Tea Partiers are closet racists. It’s a tired old meme that needs to be confronted and defeated early and often.

@gg,
Have you replaced Young4Eyes as our zampolit?
NTTAWWT, but we would have thrown a party for Y4E if we knew he was being transferred.

Evidently, Young4Eyes’s job as TOM’s official lefty blog troll was outsourced to India.

Methinks you’re right Mike, and now we have a troll that is just as incomprehensible as talking to an Indian tech person.

No.

I was wondering what he was up to in getting his career back on track…

Maybe Mel Gibson, Alec Baldwin, and Michael Richards can go on a group anger managment retreat. Sorry gg, you can’t go. Guys who live in their mom’s basement and don’t have jobs aren’t invited. You might qualify for the anger management CD home study course however.

gg, you manged to do a complete brain dump of that jumble of progressive liberal mush you call “thought”. It must have taken years of listening to otherwise unemployable teachers and professors, Noam Chomsky tapes, and various lefty blogs for you to acquire all that gunk and you managed to outline it in one relatively succinct (if stupid) post. Kinda like projectile vomitting your brain.

Wow.

Joe: I believe it was Ninny Churchill [the great man's great-great grandchild, twice removed and replaced with a sort of large circular device] who said about gg’s mind:
It is a piddle, wrapped in a misery, inside an enema; but perhaps there is a key. That key is to the Rubber Room.

@gg
Do you have a blog? If not, please talk to @markos and get one at Daily KookoosForKokoaPuffs.

I’m sure @markos would welcome you with open arms.

I guess your tip jar is going to require additional funds for the new kneepads you will need by the end of the Weigel story.

@gigi
How enlightening I had not realized people like yourself chose the life of the Hijdas as a means of birth control.

Stacy – Just wanted to say that this is all excellent stuff and spot on. Very sensible take on the whole affair.

Adobe shoots! Adobe scores!

Stacy ~ I don’t “want” anything at all from you. But when you defend the guy who has said such awful things about conservatives, conspired to manage the news to deceive the public, and generally evinced a hatred for the right in general, the fact he may have helped an old lady cross the street and swerved to avoid running over a squirrel just doesn’t even things up.

Heck, I never said the guy was totally evil. Take the nasty stuff he said in those emails, one by one, and balance them out against his good deeds. Sorry, 75% evil is still pretty evil in my book.

My eyebrows do raise when you claim to be “somebody who actually knows the guy” . . . don’t the emails released demonstrate you did NOT know him? Are you going to make me cut and paste the pertinent excerpts?

Look, dude, you were conned. I know it’s tough for a wizened old news hound to admit, but it happens to us all at one time or another. The attractive young face, eager for our approval, stroking our ego, picking up the bar tab or maybe even dinner on their expense account . . . sure, with most it involves a female seductress, but who am I to judge?

Weigel isn’t your friend or your colleague. He hates you and he hates me and he hates all conservatives with a deep and venomous malice. What he said when he thought no one would know tells it all. Character is what you do when you think no one is watching.

What part of Dave Weigel is a libertarian do people not comprehend? He never, ever claimed to be a conservative. Liberals and conservatives take turns hating or courting libertarians. I for one agree that it was probably a liberal pissed at Weigel for befriending Rand Paul that leaked the JournoList emails.

Weigel (not unlike myself) is unafraid to make very candid observations and snarky, black humor jokes about Republicans AND Democrats. Anybody who knows Weigel well knows that snark is his stock and trade — not unlike certain conservatives engage in. Mr. Limbaugh comes to mind.

If anything, I would have thought that the liberal knee jerk reaction to Rush Limbaugh parodying liberals who called Obama “the magic negro” would have taught conservatives a thing or two about how silly knee jerk reactions are.

Conservatives need to lighten up and be able to laugh at our own faults and the idiots within. Quit being so damn defensive. We should laugh at ourselves and laugh a hell of a lot more at liberals. But if you have no sense of humor (not necessarily as dark & snarky as Weigel’s) and can’t laugh at yourself, then who the hell can you laugh at?

All the more reason I march to a different drummer and feel far more at home listening to Dennis Miller (who’s unafraid to laugh at anything) than I do listening to most of the ranting loons on Fox and talk radio. Rush is still damn funny though, for those who have depth and a complicated enough sense of humor to appreciate the satire and snark.