Breaking: Anti-Palin WaPo Blogger Weigel Resigns (Updated)

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The liberal blogger the Washington Post recently hired to cover Republicans and conservatives is out of there. David Weigel, who spent much of his allotted bandwidth bashing Sarah Palin, has resigned:

Washington Post blogger Dave Weigel resigned today after a host of offensive e-mails surfaced revealing his disdain for much of the right - the beat he was charged with covering. Fishbowl DC, which published a number of those emails yesterday, confirmed the resignation with the Post just after noon.

Yesterday I reported on leaked emails from Weigel to a listserve of liberal journalists bashing conservatives and conservatism - you know, the people Weigel is supposed to be covering. As bad as those email were, a plethora of messages from Weigel published in the Daily Caller take the conservative-bashing to a whole new level.

The new emails also demonstrated that yesterday's quasi-apology from Weigel was really not as sincere as he claimed. He said that he made some of his most offensive remarks at the end of a bad day. But these new emails show that there was really nothing unique about them, and that offensive remarks about conservatives really were nothing new or uncommon.

Just one of many examples of Weigel going all deranged on Gov. Palin can be found in a May 25 post on his now former WaPo blog Right Now, In it, Weigel called Sarah Palin "unprofessional," "immature," "paranoid," and "despicable" for expressing her feelings on Facebook about having leftist hack Joe McGinness move all the way from Massachusetts to just 15 feet away from her family's house on Lake Lucille in Alaska to write a book which no one disagrees will be little more than a hit piece on her.

But it wasn't Weigel's blog posts which led to his downfall so much as his tweets and emails. According to The Daily Caller, those emails were self-incriminating:

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.

More from the resignation from NewsBuster Lachlan Markay here. This makes Weigel, whose WaPo tenure lasted only about three months, a "quitter," does it not?

Updates: Reaction from...

RedState's Erick Erickson:

"It is no surprise to me that Ben Smith is on Journolist too. I wonder if the push back by lefty oriented journalists over Sarah Palin complaining about that stalker moving in next door was coordinated on Journolist. Probably."

Rick Moore at Holy Coast:

"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... 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."

Dan Riehl:

"Weigel undermined the Right at every turn. And, unlike Jim Geraghty, I don't care what his reasons were. That was the effect of his work... But to his defenders on the Right - if you want friends, get a dog - or join a book club. If you're more interested in client mentions, or links, sorry, but I don't accept your defending Weigel, because I can't be certain of your motivations."

- JP