Liberal Who Covers Conservatives Not Finding Much Love Today

UPDATE:  The focus of this piece has resigned his position at the Washington Post.  I probably can't take credit for that.

Dave Weigel is the writer assigned by the Washington Post to cover conservatives.  He's having a bad couple of days.

Weigel belongs to a private online forum called Journolist which is where the in-crowd of liberal writers go to gossip with each other and trade insults about conservatives.  Some of Weigel's comments were leaked and  made public, which caused Weigel and his paper some major embarrassment.  Weigel was forced to apologize to his readers and to some of his targets, like Matt Drudge.

Today there's more information coming out about Weigel's obvious hatred of conservatives, the people he's supposed to be covering for the Post (from The Daily Caller):

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.

In other posts, Weigel describes conservatives as using the media to “violently, angrily divide America.” According to Weigel, their motives include “racism” and protecting “white privilege,” and for some of the top conservatives in D.C., a nihilistic thirst for power.

“There’s also the fact that neither the pundits, nor possibly the Republicans, will be punished for their crazy outbursts of racism. Newt Gingrich is an amoral blowhard who resigned in disgrace, and Pat Buchanan is an anti-Semite who was drummed out of the movement by William F. Buckley. Both are now polluting my inbox and TV with their bellowing and minority-bashing. They’re never going to go away or be deprived of their soapboxes,” Weigel wrote.

Of Matt Drudge, Weigel remarked, “It’s really a disgrace that an amoral shut-in like Drudge maintains the influence he does on the news cycle while gay-baiting, lying, and flubbing facts to this degree.”

In April, Weigel wrote that the problem with the mainstream media is “this need to give equal/extra time to ‘real American’ views, no matter how f###ing moronic, which just so happen to be the views of the conglomerates that run the media and/or buy up ads.”

When Obama’s “green jobs czar” Van Jones resigned after it was revealed he signed a 9/11 “truther” petition, alleging the government may have conspired to allow terrorists to kill 3,000 civilians, Weigel highlighted the alleged racism of Glenn Beck – Jones’s top critic.

It goes to show you the sad state of journalism when this is the best guy the Washington Post can come up with to cover conservatives. They can't even find someone who's at least somewhere in the middle who will give conservatives a fair shake.

Weigel's the guy who described the assault by Rep. Bob Etheridge against a conservative student as a "hug".  He's a typically smarmy liberal who believes he's not only smarter than conservatives, but superior in every way.  The journalism community is full of them.

A guy with this much antipathy for the people who are supposed to be the subjects of his unbiased reporting clearly doesn't belong on this beat.  Let him cover Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid so he can have reasons to wax poetic about their sheer wonderfulness.

He's also learned that his lib friends on Journolist can't be trusted, because one of them ratted him out.  Welcome to reality, Dave.