I hate to intrude while my guest-bloggers are working it—ladies, gentleman, and Acidman, you are doing an EXCELLENT job—but I just had to post a comment on this. It is to laugh.
Dude. Dude. The reasons that the high-profile leftist bloggers are in a twist about this Jeff Gannon so-called scandal are so simple.
For the record Jeff Gannon (nee Guckert) was a reporter for Talon News—a small internet news service with a conservative bent. Mr. Gannon was allowed a daily pass to White House press briefings, as many reporters for many new services are. Turns out that Mr. Gannon is a homosexual and has some gay pornographic sites registered in his name.
So, the leftists are making a big deal of this. (Mr. Gannon has resigned from his position with Talon.)
They are doing so for one very serious reason: their misconception of the beliefs of right-wing conservatives, especially religious ones. See, some leftists think that we religious conservatives want to take away the civil liberties of all non-conformists—especially homosexuals--and hurl them into re-education camps. For that’s what some of them would love to do to us, where we not the majority of those who embraced the Second Amendment so fervently. Projection, you know.
So when a Republican administration doesn’t fulfill the leftists’ preconceived notion, but acknowledges the “non-conformist’s” right to ply his trade without being branded with the scarlet “H,” it’s, somehow, hypocrisy on the conservatives’ part. Call it the Straw-man Hypocrisy: “you’re not as evil as we’ve been saying you are, so you’re wrong, WRONG, WRONG!”
They are also doing this for a humorous and pathetic reason: they needed a big media scandal to rival the CBS-Bogus Memo scandal and the Eason Jordan (CNN) slander against the US Armed Forces.
This is the best they could come up with.
