[perfect stranger]

[Mamzelle]

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Gannon's being persecuted because he's homosexual. As long as he doesn't demand that I do a tapdance of gushing approval of homosexuality, I'll manage just fine to enjoy the things he writes. I used to like David Brock's stuff. We all knew DB was homosexual, but back then we were allowed not to think about it.

Come back, little Jeff...

[Gator101]

"...proving our gays are more macho than their straights."

LOL!!! That's gonna leave a mark.

[Soul Seeker]

(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.)

LOL!

Seriously though, I am glad to see Ann's defense of Gannon. This guy doesn't deserve what the Liberals have done to him because he asked a question that didn't seek to behead Bush! More should be done to defend Gannon than has been done from our side.

[Lancey Howard]

Another masterpiece from the greatest political columnist of our time (tied with George Neumayr). Ann Coulter is still as beautiful as ever, and her wit just keeps getting sharper.

Bumped and bookmarked.

[wouldntbprudent]

"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. "

Talk about hypocrisy: here they are, folks, the people who bashed anyone and everyone who took issue with allowing homosexuals in the military, but at the mere thought of a homosexual soldier, they can't contain their condescending giggles.

Imagine if someone from the right, in defense of excluding homosexuals from the military, kept bringing up such web sites and, as Chrissy did, laughing? You would hear no end of it. The lavender lobby would be out in full force. The MSM would be apopolectic.

But it's okay for Matthews to make fun of gay stuff, particularly when it involves the military. He thinks it's hilarious, but he's still all for forcing the military to let gays serve.

Pathetic.

[AZ_Cowboy]

Ann at her usual best. You just KNOW that lots of these "real journalists" have all kinds of crap in their closets as well. What I am wondering is if they realize what will happen if this kind of crap continues.

[Enterprise]

My lovely Ann skewers them again. Any day now they will be hounding Jerry Rivers and asking him why he uses a different name. Any day now.

[Robert A Cook PE]

One down!

But, but, but ...

Mareen McDowd is mentioned as well in Ann's piece .......

(Robt scans for required photo's of CZJ...)

[missypea]

If this happened while Clinton was in office you would be singing a different tune......but heck, this is Bush so it's OK. What a joke.

[tgslTakoma]

Thank you, Ann Coulter.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

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.

. . . 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?

"Objective journalism" is an Establishment, indeed the Establishment.
Like any Establishment, "objective" journalism hides in plain sight. All its members are visible; indeed they exist by being visible. And the way that "objective" journalism coheres as an entity - an establishment - is obvious too, for anyone willing to look at it. "Objective" journalism coheres in a go-along-and-get-along guild of journalists who will never say that any other journalist is not objective.

But an establishment is not a legal entity, and it must not speak its own name. Here we have the Democratic Party carrying the water of that establishment, demanding that that establishment have the right to exclude those who are not "made" in it.

The Constitution forbids the Congress to decide who may be a reporter and who may not. If the president wants to conduct something he calls a "press conference" in a phone booth, he is entitled to do so; if he wants to hold a "press conference in RFK Stadium he is entitled to do so, and if he does not want to hold anything he calls a "press conference" he is entitled to not do so.

[tgslTakoma]

Ann says it pretty well.

[Rummyfan]

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

Way to go Ann!

Thanks Stranger - I can always count on your posting Ann's column every Wednesday evening.

[xm177e2]

But Dowd was talking about two different passes without telling her readers (a process now known in journalism schools as "Dowdification").

Dowdification is the selective editing of quotes such that their meaning is altered, especially by cutting out significant portions.

I realize Ann is bigger than most bloggers, but if she wants to use the terms, she should learn them.

[jackbill]

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.

What does it tell you about David Shuster that he moved from Fox News to MSNBC? If that move was voluntary, it was the dumbest move in cable TV history.

[Lijahsbubbe]

bttt

[TheForceOfOne]

Yummy! conservative candy!

[Mo1]

Excellent article Ann

And that fact it will drive the loons nuts is even better

[Radix]

"(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?)"

Ha, I was flipping through the channels some time back and stopped because I heard a familiar voice.

Ann Coulter was talking with Phil Donahue on MSNBC!

[Lakeshark]

Now you've gone and done it.

A perfectly good pic morphed into an askel thread.......