[bigred875]

REPUBLICANS, BLOGGERS AND GAYS, OH MY!
by Ann Coulter
February 23, 2005

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?)

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 old Arab 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 Web site 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 TV 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.

[TheIglu]

"Liberals' hateful, frothing-at-the-mouth campaign against Gannon consists solely of their claim that he is gay"

And we're so hateful that we are fighting to allow him to marry! That'll learn him good for being a ho-mo-sexual!

[benVFR]

Wow. Even if I was as conservative as could be I don't think I could read that without laughing. She rambles on like someone frothing at the mouth with rabies.

So the summary is:

Some obscure blog writer got into a press conference and someone from mainstream media got denied and got bent out of shape over it??? And this signals the end of the world and liberals kill babies, etc.. ???

It seems she could have made her point in about 1/3 the number of words without sounding like a WWE star.

[mikeb]

[benVFR]

I guess you might have heard about this story if you listen to the talking heads on cable news all day long?

But yah...

[Karaya One]

Ann Coulter makes me hard.

[bigred875]

Originally posted by benVFR
Wow. Even if I was as conservative as could be I don't think I could read that without laughing. She rambles on like someone frothing at the mouth with rabies.

So the summary is:

Some obscure blog writer got into a press conference and someone from mainstream media got denied and got bent out of shape over it??? And this signals the end of the world and liberals kill babies, etc.. ???

It seems she could have made her point in about 1/3 the number of words without sounding like a WWE star.

nice try though...

Even I will admit she gets carried away at times...but she is dead on here....

this guy had a day pass...Dowd applied for a permenant pass...

He got the day pass..she could do the same if she was so inclined

She got denied a PERMANENT pass....

And wrote a column about the vast right wing conspiracy playing favorites and planting in a "YES MAN"

Where is the contempt for Dowd for making up a this scandal?

The reason consv. have to be long winded is because it takes a lot of words to explain the lies and half truths coming from the other side....

[benVFR]

I am just 100% absolutely positively without a doubt certain she could have come up with something more meaningful, insightful, and important to write her column about.

There is lots going on in the news right now, who the f*ck cares about some stupid reporters and their game of "I'm more important than you!". (Which she is just as much a part of)

As stupid as hollywood actors are, a lot of these media/news "stars" are just as silly.

[bigred875]

Originally posted by benVFR
I am just 100% absolutely positively without a doubt certain she could have come up with something more meaningful, insightful, and important to write her column about.

There is lots going on in the news right now, who the f*ck cares about some stupid reporters and their game of "I'm more important than you!". (Which she is just as much a part of)

As stupid as hollywood actors are, a lot of these media/news "stars" are just as silly.

dude please....it is ALL OVER the news stations that this guy was a plant and etc etc etc.....gay escort blah blah

HOW DID HE GET IN....The Bush Admin planted him in there....

THe libs are the ones making this an issue not the cons...criminy

I agree it is not worthy of any attention at all...tell that to YOUR people...

[benVFR]

I read 100% of my news. Guess I missed it.

I usually will glance at cnn.com once a day, usually the business stuff... - nothing on the front page today

Boston.com - look maybe 1-2x a week - nothing on the front page today

Foxnews.com - 2-3x a month - one small thing buried down in the editorial section

Time magazine - read weekly (my only subscription) - nothing.

Drudge report - check maybe once a month - nothing.

NY Times - check rarely - nothing.

So maybe it is just on TV. This kind of thing gets ratings but is pretty meaningless.

[zombie]

Maureen Dowd went after the clinton's harder than anyone out there and certainly is not a liberal , Ann coulter is a lying sack of shit that never bother's her lazy ass to check out any of her sources , her most admitted source "oh I read it on the internet"
Ann coulter is a snivelling douche bag that screams and rants when anyone dares' to challenge her on her impecabble sources , then they instantly become a leftie commo pinko whatever .
Even rational conservatives don't like her just check on what pat buchannan and William saffire think of coulter not very flattering.
At least buchannan and saffire indulge in honest debate about the issues so Big Red try again with something that's worthy of a good debate

[bigred875]

Originally posted by zombie
Maureen Dowd went after the clinton's harder than anyone out there and certainly is not a liberal , Ann coulter is a lying sack of shit that never bother's her lazy ass to check out any of her sources , her most admitted source "oh I read it on the internet"
Ann coulter is a snivelling douche bag that screams and rants when anyone dares' to challenge her on her impecabble sources , then they instantly become a leftie commo pinko whatever .
Even rational conservatives don't like her just check on what pat buchannan and William saffire think of coulter not very flattering.
At least buchannan and saffire indulge in honest debate about the issues so Big Red try again with something that's worthy of a good debate

ya SO!!!..

But I disagree with the Dowd thing..but admittedly I wasn't paying that close attention back then.....

Ben - I was talking about the TV and Cable news...they won't stfu about it...especially Chris Matthews..

[hohum]

Ann Coulter == HACK

All I have to say. The woman doesn't have two brain cells to bang together.

[richw]

I don't always agree with

Ann Coulter

but I love that she's says the same level of outrageous stuff that I have heard form the leftist for 40 years without them ever being challenged.

Also I bet the lib press was positioning the really big guns etc until they found out the guy was gay and in their eyes now can do no wrong.

Lastly so was he cute on studly military and hows that for don't ask don't charge

[chr|s sedition]

Since this whole "news" story has turned into a fag-issue, let me give ya'll the perspective of the resident NESR homo (me!). It can be summed up with this;

"It is far better to appear stupid than to open your mouth and remove all doubt" - Mark Twain

This applies to just about every involved with this saga.

Lets start with Mr. Jeff Ganon. This guy is a few taco's short of a combination platter. He asked Bush questions like "So how are you going to deal with idiot people in congress, like Hillary Clinton?". Hello, Jeff? You just removed all doubt. Regardless of where you stand on the political spectrum questions posed like this just arn't respectful or approprate for a news conference. With that question Jeff made it quite apprent that he wasn't sharpest tool in the shed. he would have sealed his fate in public obscurity if hadn't been for the next group of people to "remove all doubt"...the "liberals".

"How did this guy get into a news conference?" That is a legitimate question. However various people started-in with grand conspiracy theories. Hello? if the GOP was going to run a cute little scam like this, wouldn't they have picked someone who was a little more articulate? someone who wouldn't make his own obtusity so apprent? someone who didn't used to be a "stud"? The democrats that were accusing the GOP of "planting" him are making themselves look so fucking stupid by being a) paranoid and b) thinking the GOP is dumb enough to use this guy. the democrats could have just appered dumb in this case, but they just had to open their mouths.

the right response...people like good old Ann Cunter (i'm sorry, did I spell her name wrong?) come across, like the conspiracy-theory democrats, as totally fucking insane and preoccupied with things that really arn't newsworthy. She and others like her who starting making all these comments "those liberals" havn't evolved much beyond playground name calling. but it's a chance to the other side just becuase they can, so they do it. In the process they convolute a number of issues and end up pissing off way more people than they really need to. the GOP could be a hundered times stronger than it is right now if they would just dissassociate themselves from fervent wingnuts like Ann. GOP, all doubt removed, again.

as for the gay perspective on Jeff Ganon...he is most broke-down mother fucker i have ever seen. no wonder his web cite was free. he prolly couldn't even *give* that shit away to a catholic preist.

there is some serious shit going on in the world right now...it's absurd that anyone (myself included) is wasting time on this story. lets move on.

-chr|s sedition