From a conservative e-friend deep behind enemy lines in the MSM:

Jonah,
As a conservative who has lived and worked his entire adult life inside the MSM, please allow me a moment of reflection concerning Weigel.
WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
As in, I’ve listened to this kind of crap for the better part of three decades, confronted it in public and private on too many occasions to count, and am glad — really, physically and emotionally satisified — to see this kind of out-in-the-open comeuppance.
I’m not sure I agree with your conclusion that Weigel was fairer than most — I usually had a bit of a teeth-grinding session everytime I read him. But I am sure he is not the worst there is — you’re absolutely correct that his crime was getting caught.
As for a “wholesale purge of liberals from the mainstream press,” well, there just isn’t time for that to be finished in this century. Seems more likely the MSM will purge itself of readership and viewership soon enough, anyway.

Update: I probably should have read Ben Smith’s column on all this before I wrote anything yesterday. If the Post really thought it was hiring a conservative, then they deserve nearly all of the blame here. It never occurred to me to think of Weigel as a conservative. And I am at a loss as to how his ideological orientation wouldn’t have come up after the slightest due diligence.