{"id":1787445,"date":"2022-12-27T05:03:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T10:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1787445"},"modified":"2022-12-27T05:03:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T10:03:59","slug":"2022-man-of-the-year-dave-weigel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2022-man-of-the-year-dave-weigel\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Man of The Year: Dave Weigel"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F2022-man-of-the-year-dave-weigel%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1787445&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>&#8220;The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>\u2014 S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A tweet from a journalist has never led to anything good. At least that&#8217;s what I hope. <em>Was<\/em> case up to June 3, 2022. Dave Weigel then logged on and pressed &#8220;retweet,&#8221; The chain of events that led directly to the next (very offensive) journalist was set in motion <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/chesa-boudin-felicia-sonmez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/0b3f22953d36f2f7df3ef0c8837f94059275ab4c?url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Ffreebeacon.com%252Fsatire%252Fchesa-boudin-felicia-sonmez%252F%26userId%3D6348687%26signature%3D38286ba2487a0fa6&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1671738385740000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3_bnibplCmGaXKcdyfq_ZM\">getting fired<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The joke was hilarious, cerebral and edgy. &#8220;Every girl is bi,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hamcarless\/status\/1532209116134920192?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/cf0e1e0e41305a760d60545860be9e465851a6a6?url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Ftwitter.com%252Fhamcarless%252Fstatus%252F1532209116134920192%253Flang%253Den%26userId%3D6348687%26signature%3D5e7d48a6916df524&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1671738385740000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0Y0eF73N8nQE10kHyojhJH\">wrote<\/a> Cam Harless is a Florida-based podcast host who opposes Sean Astin. &#8220;You just have to figure out if it&#8217;s polar or sexual.&#8221; Weigel was then a reporter at the <em>Washington Post<\/em>, wanted to share this humorous take on a universal truth\u2014women are crazy\u2014and assumed his followers were sophisticated enough to laugh along with him. They weren&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Felicia Sonmez is one of Weigel\u2019s coworkers at the <em>Post<\/em>, had a frenzied reaction so deranged that it wasn&#8217;t immediately clear if she was just trying to prove the joke&#8217;s punchline. &#8220;Fantastic to work at a news outlet where retweets like this are allowed!&#8221; she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/feliciasonmez\/status\/1532763318804439047\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/7b7c3c4e838700ed51da3e8b1b6bcd271ecc4e5a?url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Ftwitter.com%252Ffeliciasonmez%252Fstatus%252F1532763318804439047%26userId%3D6348687%26signature%3D959c6a8ebe39cf51&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1671738385740000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0nBCCi4EPrMbVjHk1Gk9hC\">howled<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The rest is history. Weigel was dismissed for a month with no pay. Nevertheless, Sonmez persisted. Despite being told numerous times to &#8220;Remain calm,&#8221; Sonmez refused to give up. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oliverdarcy\/status\/1534275556904157189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/001aec5ff41dcaa8891e93b5f602269990ff4f1e?url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Ftwitter.com%252Foliverdarcy%252Fstatus%252F1534275556904157189%26userId%3D6348687%26signature%3D1735eb1f7c137ba9&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1671738385740000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0bNClVq945Kxkdd19Lf8bf\">calm down<\/a>The sarcastic, if not humorous, scold continued to reprimand her coworkers and her employer for making it unsafe or whatever. She continued to tweet until the end. <em>Post<\/em> Had no choice but fire her &#8220;insubordination&#8221;  &#8220;violating the <em>Post<\/em>\u2018s standards on workplace collegiality and inclusivity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Dave Weigel, 2022, is a recipient of the prestigious Dave Weigel Award for his crucial role in defeating a petty, deranged tyrant as well as for accepting his fate to be a martyr for comedy and commonsense. <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> Man of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing good has ever happened because of something a journalist posted on Twitter. At least that used to be the case until June 3, 2022, when Dave Weigel logged on and pressed &#8220;retweet,&#8221; thus setting in motion a chain of events that led to another (very obnoxious) journalist getting fired.<br \/>\nThe post 2022 Man of the Year: Dave Weigel appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":1787448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[8499,6962,3990,4092,3739,4089,11941,5734],"class_list":["post-1787445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-man","tag-the","tag-3990","tag-beacon","tag-dave","tag-free","tag-weigel","tag-year"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1787448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}