You’ve Got To Like Weigel

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by Smitty

OK, you’re by no means required, as I’m sure the commenters will remind.
Still, he’s been something of a comrade to this blog over the years. He’s akin to the more caustic Mataconis in terms of people that I frequently find full of nonsense, yet find worthwhile to read, anyway.

In my experience, Dave calls it like he sees it:

“I really do want to know if he tires of being embarrassingly wrong about everything, but I think I already know the answer,” wrote [Mollie] Hemingway, in a piece about Vox co-founder (and my former Slate.com colleague) Matthew Yglesias. “Being a wrong liberal means never having to say you’re sorry, and having no shame means you never have to feel embarrassed.”

That tone is common in the new right media. The left, sure, can get away with murder with its own readership. What’s that worth in the long run? “Liberal discourse is insular, sophomoric, divorced from everyday life,” wrote the Free Beacon’s Continetti in an October column. “What liberals say about race and gender and climate change is designed not to persuade the unconvinced but to rally the base. MSNBC is imploding. Vox.com is a laughingstock.”

Read the whole thing. Dave may be prepping a pendulum swing back to the rightward, but anticipate he’ll stay a clear-eyed observer of media shenanigans in all directions.

via Memeorandum

19 comments

  1. “…people that I frequently find full of nonsense, yet find worthwhile to read, anyway.”

    Back in my blogging days, I’d have settled for half.

  3. Is this the same editorial where Weigel compares the conservative complaints about the Ferguson reporting with My Lai?

  8. From Weigel’s article: ”The newer generation does not fear the mainstream media. It pities the media…”
    I hope that pity doesn’t lead to something foolish, like mercy or compassion.

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