Well, ok. Since you feel the need so strongly:
Posted on 02/23/2005 4:52:17 PM PST by perfect stranger
Posted: February 23, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2005 Universal Press Syndicate
In response to the public disgrace and ruin of New York Times editor Howell Raines, CBS anchor Dan Rather and CNN news director Eason Jordan, liberals are directing their fury at the blogs. Once derided as people sitting around their living rooms in pajamas, now obscure writers for unknown websites are coming under more intensive background checks than CIA agents.
The heretofore-unknown Jeff Gannon of the heretofore-unknown "Talon News" service was caught red-handed asking friendly questions at a White House press briefing. Now the media is hot on the trail of a gay escort service that Gannon may have run some years ago. Are we supposed to like gay people now, or hate them? Is there a website where I can go to and find out how the Democrats want me to feel about gay people on a moment-to-moment basis?
Liberals keep rolling out a scrolling series of attacks on Gannon for their Two Minutes Hate, but all their other charges against him fall apart after three seconds of scrutiny. Gannon's only offense is that he may be gay.
First, liberals claimed Gannon was a White House plant who received a press pass so that he could ask softball questions – a perk reserved for New York Times reporters during the Clinton years. Their proof was that while "real" journalists (like Jayson Blair) were being denied press passes, Gannon had one, even though he writes for a website that no one has ever heard of – but still big enough to be a target of liberal hatred! (By the way, if writing for a news organization with no viewers is grounds for being denied a press pass, why do MSNBC reporters have them?)
On the op-ed page of the New York Times, Maureen Dowd openly lied about the press pass, saying: "I was rejected for a White House press pass at the start of the Bush administration, but someone with an alias, a tax evasion problem and Internet pictures where he posed like the 'Barberini Faun' is credentialed?"
Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that dyspeptic, old Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president. Still, it would be suspicious if Dowd were denied a press pass while someone from "Talon News" got one, even if he is a better reporter.
But Dowd was talking about two different passes without telling her readers (a process now known in journalism schools as "Dowdification"). Gannon didn't have a permanent pass; he had only a daily pass. Almost anyone can get a daily pass – even famed Times fantasist Maureen Dowd could have gotten one of those. A daily pass and a permanent pass are altogether different animals. The entire linchpin of Dowd's column was a lie. (And I'm sure the Times' public editor will get right on Dowd's deception.)
Finally, liberals expressed shock and dismay that Gannon's real name is "James Guckert." On MSNBC's "Hardball," Chris Matthews introduced the Gannon scandal this way: "Coming up, how did a fake news reporter from a right-wing website get inside the White House press briefings and presidential news conferences?"
Reporter David Shuster then gave a report on "the phony alias Guckert used to play journalist" – as opposed to the real name Shuster uses to play journalist. (You can tell Schuster is a crackerjack journalist because he uses phrases like "phony alias.") With all the subtlety of a gay-bashing skinhead, Matthews spent the rest of the segment seeing how many times he could smear Gannon by mentioning "HotMilitaryStuds.com" and laughing.
Any day now, Matthews will devote entire shows to exposing Larry Zeigler, Gerald Riviera and Michael Weiner – aka Larry King, Geraldo Rivera and Matthews' former MSNBC colleague Michael Savage. As a newspaper reporter, Wolf Blitzer has written under the names Ze'ev Blitzer and Ze'ev Barak. The greatest essayist of modern times was Eric Blair, aka George Orwell. The worst essayist of modern times is "TRB" of The New Republic.
Air America radio host and "Nanny" impersonator "Randi Rhodes" goes by a fake name, and she won't even tell people what her real last name is. (She says for "privacy reasons." That name must be a real doozy.) As Insideradio.com describes Rhodes, she refuses "to withhold anything from her listeners" and says conservatives "are less likely to share such things." How about sharing your name, Randi? We promise not to laugh.
Democrats in Congress actually demanded that an independent prosecutor investigate how Gannon got into White House press conferences while writing under an invented name. How did Gary Hartpence, Billy Blythe and John Kohn (Gary Hart, Bill Clinton and John Kerry) run for president under invented names? Admittedly, these men were not reporters for the prestigious "Talon News" service; they were merely Democrats running for president.
Liberals keep telling us the media isn't liberal, but in order to retaliate for the decimation of major news organizations like the New York Times, CBS News and CNN, all they can do is produce the scalp of an obscure writer for an unknown conservative Web page. And unlike Raines, Rather and Jordan, they can't even get Gannon for incompetence on the job. (Also unlike Raines, Rather and Jordan, Gannon has appeared on television and given a series of creditable interviews in his own defense, proving our gays are more macho than their straights.)
Gannon didn't write about gays. No "hypocrisy" is being exposed. Liberals' hateful, frothing-at-the-mouth campaign against Gannon consists solely of their claim that he is gay.
Here's the Gannon aritlce that makes that reference:
By Jeff Gannon
October 12, 2004
Inasmuch as Bill Clinton is considered by some members of the African-American community to be "the first black president" because of their perception of his positions with regard to minority issues, Democratic Sen. John Kerry might someday be known as "the first gay president" were he to win the White House in November.
The Massachusetts liberal has enjoyed a 100% rating from the homosexual advocacy group, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), since 1995 in recognition of his support for the pro-gay agenda.
Despite his stated opposition to gay marriage, Kerry and his running mate, Sen. John Edwards (D-NC), who also boasts a 100% rating from the HRC, can expect to receive a high percentage of the gay vote, estimated to be around 4 million. Kerry voted against the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in 1996 and both candidates oppose the constitutional amendment to protect marriage sought by President Bush.
The Kerry-Edwards web site features a recitation of support for an extensive pro-homosexual platform. The Democrats have pledged to expand homosexual rights in domestic partnerships and add sexual orientation and gender identity to the federal employment non-discrimination regulations.
In an interview with a leading national gay magazine, "The Advocate," Kerry touted his support for homosexuals, pointing to what he calls "a 35-year lifetime record of fighting for equality."
Kerry contrasted his positions with those of the man he wants to replace, saying, "The difference between me and George Bush will be the difference to gay and lesbian couples and individuals across this country -- whether rights are afforded them or whether or not they are discriminated against."
Kerry said that he might change his position on gay marriage.
"I can't tell you in 20 years or whenever, if someone made a persuasive argument, the world changes," Kerry said.
Kerry differs with Bush on an issue that hasn't been mentioned in the 2004 campaign: gays in the military. The Massachusetts senator's web site points out that in 1992, he opposed the Clinton administration's "Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy." He was one of the few senators to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee and call on the president to rescind the ban on gay and lesbian service members.
The 2004 Democratic National Platform, declares that "all patriotic Americans should be allowed to serve our country" in a paragraph addressing civil rights.
Lifting the ban on homosexuals serving openly in the military is one of the issues where Kerry can't be accused of flip-flopping. While his campaign soft-pedals his position, the senator has never reversed himself.
During his 1992 testimony, Kerry said, "Let me be very clear about my own views. I think it is fundamentally wrong to continue to deny gay and lesbian Americans the right to participate in the armed forces of the United States."
In a January 27, 1993, floor speech, Kerry said that codifying the ban would "be forever unfaithful, literally semper infidelis, to what this country is all about." Kerry suggested that permitting gays to serve openly would help the United States to "win respect as a nation."
Thanks. We all have our opinions about what is better for the living (if you could call this poor individual as 'living' in the true sense' of the definition).
Loved ones have to decide in their own hearts what is best for their endeared relatives and/or spouses. In this case it looks as if there was foul play on the husband's part according to the interview with Terry's parents.
On the Coulter issue - I can't understand your ill feeling towards Ann. I haven't apparently read enough on this thread or know enough about the issue at hand on this thread, so I'd better stay out of the arguement until the smoke clears before I go off half-cocked.
I said if you didn't know the game the liberals played then you were a fool
And from looking at your previous posts .. you do know
ping
*snicker!*
Thanks joesbuck for answering the questions that I posed to dogbyte12.
Dogbyte12, you were certainly right and my thought that maybe the Dean quote get transposed to Kerry was incorrect.
You have no freaking clue at all what you are talking about.
Askel and I disagree about virtually everything, but she is no troll. She has worked her butt off on FR exposing the Clinton/tainted blood scandal and various other crap.
It's the 'Bloodhound' List. FReepers that were following the HIV infected blood that was collected from prisoners in Arkansas (under Clinton's watch) and sent to Canadian blood banks.
It is easy to see why liberals hate little ole Annie, she is very good at cutting them to pieces.
Coulter puts it all well in perspective.
BTTT
I agree with much of what you say about Gannongate. However, your claim that George Herbert Walker Bush is a homosexual is utterly bizarre.
"...that dyspeptic, old Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president."
But on AnnCoulter.org it says:
"...that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president."
http://www.jeffgannon.com/
He's baaaack...
Good gravy, Mz Mollie; and you wonder why psychos stalk you?
Take it down a notch and/or grow up.
Well, I am sure all of us see right through them. We are getting to them or they would not be doing this. Keep the faith. We are winning and it is killing them.
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