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Dave Weigel: Another Fraud Out of a Job

The greatest advantage to unplugging from the media's Cult of Personality is vantage: You see what others do not see.  If your television, computer, or other entertainment device does not tell you someone is noble, you may conclude conduct that the person is ignoble.  And so two weeks ago I first learned about the fraudulent Dave Weigel. Apparently Weigel was someone important.  Who knew?  Certainly not me.  All I did know was this: On June 14, 2010 a video of Congressman Bob Etheridge assaulting a college student surfaced.  Regardless of political leanings, everyone in the legal blogosphere recognized the video as a criminal assault.  (The video follows this post, in case you haven't seen it.) Someone named Dave Weigel, commenting on the Washington Post's website, wrote about the assault...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on June 25, 2010 (boomark / email).