Weaselgate: Kornheiser’s snit with a fellow staffer

Steve Safran August 20th, 2006

Washington Post sports columnist Tony Kornheiser made his debut on ESPN’s Monday Night Football last week, and fellow WaPo scribe Paul Farhi was given the task of reviewing it. Farhi didn’t care for Kornheiser’s work, writing: “It wasn’t exactly clear at times why he was there at all… He wasn’t especially witty, provocative or insightful… It was enough to make one yearn for Dennis Miller.” Kornheiser bit back on ESPN radio, saying “I apparently got ripped in my own newspaper, the ‘Washington Post’, you know by a two-bit weasel slug named Paul Farhi who I would gladly run over with a Mack truck, given the opportunity.” Sunday, on CNN’s Reliable Sources (transcript), Farhi said he didn’t mind the kinda-jokey personal jab, but: “I thought he sort of stepped over the line when he talked about the paper going soft on him. You know, we don’t go soft on anybody just because we have some relationship with him. He knows better than that.”