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Posted on 02/23/2005 4:52:17 PM PST by perfect stranger
Posted: February 23, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern
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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.
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Thanks, but he needs to check spelling and sentence structure before posting to his site. I often make typos and post awkward phrases due to deciding to reword but failing to fully correct, but I'm making replies on a forum, not writing an article for publication, cyber or otherwise.
Meant as constructive criticism.
Point me to Neumayr. My top ten picks, in order.
1. Mark Steyn
2. Dennis Prager
3. Ann Coulter
4. Charles Krauthammer
5. David Horowitz
6. Michelle Malkin
7. Victor Davis Hanson
8. Hugh Hewitt
9. George Will
10. Christopher Hitchens
I could bump some if I am reminded of someone I couldn't think of.
George Neumayr is executive editor of The American Spectator. If you ask freeper Nick Carraway, he might add you to his ping list. If you like sharp conservative political commentary, George Neumayr is not to be missed.
Excellent, thank you.
When libs want to attack and ridicule a conservative they accuse him of being liberal or they mock the aspect of him that could be seen as a typical or traditional liberal trait. This is always the case.
When a conservative mocks a liberal, the last thing the conservative would do is bring up a trait of that liberal that could be seen as typical or traditional conservative. This is always the case.
To put it mildly, liberals don't seem very comfortable in their own skin.
Thanks for the link the George Neumayr article. I am unfamiliar with him, but you are right...he is very talented.
My pleasure.
Very true - there is at least one on this thread...
Easy to spot as they tend to flock to the DU type subject threads and offer only contrarian or indignant declarations of moral relative conservative values suggesting one must bash the conservative or support the liberal for the sake of fairness or [insert moral relative value here] ...
Neets has been working hard at bringing out my Lusty side. Like most ardent pro-life, conservative, pro-family and pro-marriage types on this site, she's certain I'm a psycho or repressed because I don't screw around.
The fact I am slogging through sheeting rain and ankle-deep mud for over 12 hours in order to make sure the poor saps working this gig -- as well as the cops out on the highway and even the folks on the ferry pressed into a 24-hour schedule -- have food and drink is hardly the stuff of psycho stalkers.
But if there's a thread running on Clown Posse about Blanche and the Builders, I'll thank you kindly for a link. Every so often, it does me good to be filled with pity for the lowlives -- or no-lives -- whose attentions appear to revolve non-stop about strangers on the internet and the sort of gossipy trash-talk that no less than Ann Coulter finds the stuff of hypocrite Dems.
As long as they don't have me masturbating with a crucifix -- oh, what lovely images must fill their small minds as a rule -- I usually find their send-ups of me pretty amusing. Granted, I make for a good target ... particularly the way I use only the one name. Ever.
Regards, fellow Freak of the Fells.
Evidently you -- like most on this thread -- are under the assumption that Democrats are hypocrites for not living up to our standards. Not so.
That's part of the beauty of being a moral relativist. Anything goes in your world but you have the luxury of hoisting an opponent on his own petard -- in direct proportion to his self-proclaimed "values" -- at will.
I'm happy to give you a pass on this one. Clearly even the brainy, gutsy Ms. Coulter is likewise clueless.
Ann is actually an attractive woman. Please do your best to post a photo that does her justice.
That has got to be the most unbecoming angle -- all of 'em -- of the woman ever captured on film.
== However, your claim that George Herbert Walker Bush is a homosexual is utterly bizarre.
Tennis anyone?
Notice on WND it says:"...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."
Wow. I didn't think it possible but, you're right.
Gotta love Ann's use of "old" as a perjorative. Zowie! Zing! (tick ... tick ... tick)
Phyllis Schlafley is one of my heroes. I first heard her talk at a Mindzenty meeting in St. Louis when I was in college. She's dynamite.
Ever hopeful, but I think chances are quite slim Coulter yet retains the independence or integrity necessary to reach Schlafley's stature. But she's probably more Entertaining as a rule.
One of your heroes (mine too), Phyllis Schlafly, has no "e" in her last name.
:-)
Liberals rarely strike me as very happy at all. Life's kinda grim when you bear the weight of the world -- and your Gay-Womyn-Black-Lesbo Pride -- on your shoulders all the time.
It's a pity. I'm sure most are well intentioned and have good hearts. I will say I admire the way they rarely, if ever, compromise their "values" in the same way the "personally opposed, but" conservatives do.
That's funny ... I typed it both ways last night but, as when you say the same word over and over until it sounds like gibberish, "fly" just seemed wrong somehow.
Thanks very much for settling it once and for all.
Best regards, beyond the sea (where the Emperor is, you know).
It seemed wrong to me for a while too. You are not alone.
By the way, isn't it amazing that a woman as great as Phyllis, is known by just a very small percentage of Americans.
What a country. ;-)
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