Right Now, Dave Weigel Is Getting Shafted

It appears that Dave's views on Pat Buchanan leaked yesterday all over the web has now cost him his job at the WaPo.

FishbowlDC has confirmed that WaPo conservative-beat blogger Dave Weigel has resigned after a slew of his anti-conservative comments and emails surfaced on FishbowlDC and Daily Caller over the past two days.


A spokesperson for the Post said the paper will not offer additional comments but confirmed that the writer's resignation was accepted. 

That would be Kafkaesque to the point of hilarity if it wasn't so frickin' depressing.  Dave Weigel's one of the best actual journalists in Villageville, and they canned his ass anyway because he basically said what a racist dickhead Pat Buchanan was on a private email list.  Those emails got blasted all over the place, and Weigel got scalped as a result.

To recap, things that mean losing your job as a DC reporter include being mean to Pat Buchanan and Israel, things that get you promoted include war drumming for Iraq, saying torture is okay, and repeatedly asking where Obama's birth certificate is.

I hate the Village.  I really do.