It occurs to me, how would they know "Jeff Gannon" is a pseudonym unless they were trying to dig dirt on him?
Move to the head of the class.
Of course they were digging dirt. Conservatives have to face the fact that this is the way the other side plays. They can't win on the battlefield of ideas, so they resort to the politics of personal destruction. It is sickening and pathetic, but it is what it is.