David Weigel was born on September 26,1981 and is an American journalist.
24 Facts About David Weigel
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David Weigel moved to Evanston, Illinois in 2000 and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 2004 from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, with a double major in journalism and political science and a minor in history.
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In February 2003, while enrolled as a junior and working as editor-in-chief of Northwestern Chronicle, David Weigel supported the Iraq War and crashed an anti-war protest at Northwestern University.
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David Weigel later wrote that "[he regrets] the Nader vote, but not the Kerry vote, as a weak Democratic president with a conservative Congress would have been pretty tolerable in retrospect".
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David Weigel voted for Jack Ryan in the Illinois United States Senate election, 2004 Republican primary.
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In early 2007, David Weigel became a registered Republican in the Washington, DC area, in order to vote for Ron Paul at the Republican primary stage of the 2008 presidential election.
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In January 2011, David Weigel stated that he had voted for Republican Patrick Mara in elections to the Council of the District of Columbia, and that he had voted for Mara "every time he's been on the ballot".
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David Weigel has contributed articles to Slate, The Daily Beast, Time, The Guardian, The American Prospect, The American Spectator, The Washington Monthly, The American Conservative, Politico, and The Nation.
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David Weigel has appeared on NPR's Fresh Air and MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show.
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David Weigel has blogged for The Economist's "Democracy in America" blog, and guest-blogged for Andrew Sullivan's "Daily Dish" blog at The Atlantic.
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David Weigel is a contributing editor of the libertarian Reason magazine and was one of its staff political writers from 2006 to 2008.
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David Weigel wrote for the liberal Washington Independent from November 2008 until early 2010 and was one of the "best sourced" reporters there, according to Michael Calderone of Politico.
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David Weigel was criticized by conservatives for tweets that he made on May 2,2010, that disparaged news editor Matt Drudge, and that called opponents of same-sex marriage "bigots".
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The excerpts of David Weigel's archived emails contained negative remarks about various public figures associated with American conservatism such as Pat Buchanan, Matt Drudge, Newt Gingrich, and Rush Limbaugh.
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David Weigel said all of the emails were sent before he joined The Washington Post.
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David Weigel apologized online before the second round of email excerpts was published on the Tucker Carlson site, explaining that he had thought the off-the-record listserv environment was a place where he could "talk bluntly to friends".
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On June 28,2010, Keith Olbermann announced that David Weigel was joining MSNBC as a news contributor.
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David Weigel wrote long-form pieces, including a multi-part series on progressive rock.
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In September 2014, David Weigel left Slate in preparation for a new job at Bloomberg Politics.
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David Weigel's beat was to cover grassroots movements as part of the Posts presidential coverage.
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On December 8,2017, David Weigel tweeted a photo of the crowd at President Donald Trump's rally at the Pensacola Bay Center in Florida that showed many empty seats.
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David Weigel quickly deleted the tweet after it was pointed out that the photo was taken before the venue filled up.
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In September 2022, David Weigel left the Washington Post for Semafor.
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David Weigel was mentioned in a 2006 article in The New York Times about bloggers who roomed together.