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Dave Weigel Finds a Place Where Bashing Republicans Is a Job Requirement

Just a few days after exiting the Washington Post, blogger Dave Weigel has landed a paid contributing gig with MSNBC, where he appeared last night on Countdown With Keith Olbermann. If Weigel wants to go ahead and call Republicans racist or joke about the death of Rush Limbaugh, as he did in his leaked off-the-record e-mails, nobody will mind, or probably even notice. [Media Decoder/NYT]

Dave Weigel Finds a Place Where Bashing Republicans Is a Job Requirement