David Weigel has resigned his post at the Post. As far as that whole flap is concerned, Ed Morrissey gets it right: the larger problem for public discourse is not the fact that Weigel was letting off steam in private, and got betrayed—but rather the fact that the managers at WaPo thought, in the first place, that they should put a liberal-left guy in charge of reporting on conservatism without also getting a center-right person to cover the left. The entire approach was based on regarding conservatives as The Other, which is how it works in the establishment, but one isn’t supposed to let it slip, or say it out loud, or even get busted breathing the truth in private.
That’s probably why he’s gone, but despite his nastiness among his “friends,” I cannot help but think that Weigel got a bit of a raw deal: it sounds like the whole thing was a setup from the start.
(And for those of you who thought that his Etheridge reporting constituted a smoking gun on the reporting side, please be aware that a “bear hug” is a legitimate way to discuss certain maneuvers in jujitsu, so the hug-as-aggressive-hold nomenclature was valid, if unfortunate in its connotations.)
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