Keith Olbermann Defends Dave Weigel, Gives WaPo, Rothstein and Carlson Worst Persons Honors
As Susie already noted, the Washington Post contributor and frequent Countdown guest Dave Weigel resigned over a dust up after his private emails were released by Betsy Rothstein and Tucker Carlson and the right wing unleashed their flying monkeys to attack him. Keith calls out Rothstein and Carlson for releasing the private emails and also hammers the Washington Post for buying into the notion that you cannot fairly cover conservatives without sharing their ideology.
OLBERMANN: But our winners the manager at the Washington Post, a Betsy Rothstein of Fishbowl D.C. and Tucker Carlson of the website Daily Caller. Dave Weigel who's been a frequent guest on this program since he was with the Washington Independent is now no longer affiliated with the Washington Post. Ms. Rothstein posted a series of Weigel's private emails from one of the private listservs run by Ezra Klein that is also a guest on this program often. Mr. Carlson then posted more of the private emails.
None were complimentary to the conservatives that Weigel has covered for his own blog, for the Right Now blog at the Post and for us. Today, Dave resigned from the Post. Rothstein and Carlson define what it is to not understand the concept of private but at the heart of this is the Post.
Ben Smith of Politico quotes Post national editor Kevin Merida's web chat in April. He was asked if the post would be "adding more conservative/Republican voices to better balance what is now your predominately liberal/Democratic leaning coverage?” Merida answered “[W]e recently have added to our staff the well-regarded Dave Weigel, and also mentioned columnists Kathleen Parker and Charlies Krauthammer."
Somebody at the Post and most of the people critical of David Weigel today seem to be under the impression that to cover conservatives you have to be one and you cannot be critical of them, even in a private setting. Nonsense. Weigel was a blogger and he made no bones about it, offered a subjective but thoroughly reported view of the conservative world and on occasions, on this program defended conservatives when he'd thought I'd gone too far in criticizing them.
We asked Dave to join us tonight. He didn't want to. He wanted to take the high road. It's too bad the Washington Post and especially Fishbowl D.C. and the Daily Caller did not. We will keep asking Weigel back because he does a hell of a job, a unique and an invaluable one.
Sick.
and I just feel sorry for most people who think that they are republican and vote for republicans. I don't understand why they vote for people who vote against their own self interests...
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
I'm having a hard time having any sympathy for anyone dumb enough to share personal emails with that dork-toad Tucker.
"Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.”
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
"predominately liberal/Democratic leaning coverage" hasn't read their editorial page in the last, oh, ten years or so.
"Trust no one, Mr. Mulder." - Well-Manicured Man
Study the symptoms not the virus...
WaPoo is more like it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tErvlQjC3e4
Will fox news be adding more moderate/liberal/Democratic voices to better balance what is now their predominantly conservative/ rightwing extremist/ TeaParty/ fauxlibertarian/ Obama vendetta/ leaning (falling down into the vindictive hatepit) coverage in order to pay more than lipservice to their "fair and balanced" banner?
Nope.
son of entitled rich parents who used to get the fucking living shit beat out of him by everyone in High School with either a brain or a conscience.
Remember this from a few years ago?
In the mid-1980s, while I was a high school student, a man physically grabbed me in a men's room in Washington, D.C. I yelled, pulled away from him and ran out of the room. Twenty-five minutes later, a friend of mine and I returned to the men's room. The man was still there, presumably waiting to do to someone else what he had done to me. My friend and I seized the man and held him until a security guard arrived. Several bloggers have characterized this is a sort of gay bashing. That's absurd, and an insult to anybody who has fought back against an unsolicited sexual attack. I wasn't angry with the man because he was gay. I was angry because he assaulted me.
Tucker, what kind of a BS story was that?
God, I hate this smug little C%%K@$$$er.
If he were my son, I'd have beat him to death just to save the kids in his school the effort.
What show are they taking him off of now?
Tucker Carlson's private emails.... let's see if any of his are derogatory to liberals....
Seems only fair.
Tucker? Wanna release your own emails, hon? Tucker? (crickets)
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
The new Dr. Who is the worst person in the world?
So, the paper that brought down Nixon, is now a rightwing propaganda rag! The times have surely changed.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
the horror, the world of hurt and pain you face if you get designated 'worst person in the world' by Keith Olbermann.The man is like a force of nature.He is brilliant, the leading light we in the progressive community have. I almost pity the stupid rethugs he is forced to publicly humiliate, chasten and re-educate.
Good night and Good Luck!
The problem is there is no such thing as a private listserv posting!
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