Dan Gainor’s June 30 MRC Business & Media Institute column is dedicated to “self-immolating Washington Post blogger Dave Weigel,” complaining that “D.C.’s in-crowd, both left and right, has closed ranks around him as one of their own” and are “letting their friendships cloud their judgment.”
You’d think that with all this glee about Weigel losing his Washington Post job, Gainor would take a victory lap and proclaim to his readers how he worked behind the scenes to undermine Weigel by trying to convince conservatives not to speak to him. But strangely, he does not mention his own handiwork — perhaps because it could lead to questions about what else he did to attack Weigel, his depiction of Weigel as “self-immolating” notwithstanding.
Similarly, over at NewsBusters, Lachlan Markay insisted, “Weigel did not leave the post because he is a liberal. And conservatives did not force him out.” Markay didn’t mention that the publisher of his blog post certainly tried to do just that.