This morning the
Gannon story made it all the way to page A18 of the Los Angeles Times.
It appears as if the paper has been hired to make excuses for the White House.
The bullet-pointed subheading under the title, "An Identity Crisis Unfolds in a Not-So-Elite Press Corps", offers the first excuse, "Defining a journalist has always been an inexact science, even before the Gannon affair."
The story goes on to compare Gannon to Helen Thomas and Dan Rather, and discloses that, "Left-wing bloggers soon revealed that the reporter, whom colleagues knew as Jeff Gannon, was really named James Dale Guckert."
But the line that really caught my eye was the following:
Then gay activists, indulging in what one media critic called "bloglust," posted on the Internet homoerotic photos of Gannon advertising himself as a $200-an-hour gay escort.
"I've made mistakes in my past," Gannon told the Washington Post's media critic, Howard Kurtz. "Does my past mean I can't have a future? Does it disqualify me from being a journalist?"
So really, this story is nothing more than rabid left-wingers being partisan and gay activists indulging in "bloglust."
There you have it. Nothing to see here. Just queers and lefties indulging themselves. Move along.