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 Web sites 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 Web site 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 Web site 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?)
Ann has a way of putting things into perspective – - plus she makes me laugh. This article is just another example of informative and entertaining she really is. Go ahead and take a few minutes to read it in full HERE.
If you’ll pardon my moment of (polite) bluntness Ann Coulter is a complete ass. That a reporter gets planted to ask soft questions in, no doubt, return for a few information favours somewhere down the road is probably standard practice in every government where the press has direct or indirect access to the top – it’s simple PR.
That some idiot in the Bush family values administration that seeks, by constitutional reform, to limit gay rights would plant a gay hooker is not a reporter whose cover story is so full of holes that Cher wouldn’t wear it to do that PR for them is just plain too good not to jump on.
They played exactly the same game everybody else does, they played it poorly, and now they gotta take their lumps – just like anybody else would have to.
Correction the real ass is AL FRANKEN he is you typical liberal dip-wad just lying about practicly everything he can think of and dont forget that AL GORE tried to steal the 2000 election and use the infamous florida court to do it:roll:
“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”- this is my favorite part of the piece:smile:
1- Ann is no worse than Dowdy is she? I don’t think so.:wink:
Ann is so much better than Mo Dowdy…
Sabor’s in love with her.
Frankly, Ann’s argument makes no sense. Most of the editorials about this issue didn’t even mention that Gannon was gay and ran an escort service (like Kurst’s). Gannon’s infamous question was a little more than ‘friendly’. It wasn’t even a question. Her use of straw Jason Blairs is so cheap that it completely deflates her argument.
One needs an FBI check to be part of the White House Press Corps. This man worked for a site that did not exist when he started.
3, peejz – that line sums up the piece as a whole. Thomas worked for a legitimate media organization under her real name.
“Gannon had one, even though he writes for a Web site that no one has ever heard of”but still big enough to be a target of liberal hatred!”
Ladies and gentleman, this quote should be used to teach schoolchildren the meaning of ‘spurrilous argument’.
6- Sandy she is an idiot that is so biased it is laughable.
Sandy, as lohg as the media is left wing biased and hates Bush, it is all good for you.
I would have thrown Helen Thomas out on her ample rear long ago, and many others from the liberal propaganda pool. I’d let them back in when they were objective. Oh, sandy, you aren’t objective either.