What's more fun than nailing a wingnut to the wall?
Watching other wignuts cry about it. (Avert your eyes, kids - the blogs linked below may lower your IQs).
From Powerline (Time magazine's blog of the Year):
I still don't get it. Gannon has been attacked for not being a "real" journalist--as compared to whom, Helen Thomas? He called himself a "voice of the new media" on his web site, and it seems passing strange to me for bloggers to suggest that only journalism school graduates are qualified to ask questions at press briefings. As far as I can tell, the only thing that distinguished Gannon from the other reporters is that he is a partisan conservative, whereas they are nearly all partisan liberals. I'd be happy if the administration threw the whole lot of them out and took questions from people on the street.
More below.
From
Wizbang:
I don't know Jeff Gannon (real name Jim Guckert), so I don't know if he's involved in gay prostitution, but the registration of 3 domain names (none of which lead to actual content) is a pretty flimsy evidence that he's involved in gay prostitution. It's also a shitty defense against libel. The only "evidence" backing those claims are 3 domain names and a picture (in shorts) allegedly of Gucket. There is no record that the 3 domains have ever been used, so it's entirely possible their existence is proof of nothing more than a little garden variety domain speculation.
One wonders whether fascist-obsessed lefty blogger David Neiwert is going be equally critical of the bloggers in this case as he was of Wizbang for exposing Professor Hailey last year. Consistency would demand that he come down hard on his lefty brethren for libel and encourage Guckert to sue the bloggers into oblivion, as he did to us. We'll keep you posted.
From
INDC Journal:
There are more than a few angles to this story, but that's one of the most shocking - these bloggers and a US Congresswoman(!) began immediately throwing out accusations of prostitution based on the titles of domain names that Gannon either registered for himself or as an employee of a software company. This is disturbingly nasty and irresponsible mob behavior, not atypical coming from some of the sites involved in breaking the story.
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I bet that things like medical records, salacious family disputes or a history of child abuse might draw attention to people that you don't like as well. Where does one draw the line, Kos?
Anything for the game of politics. It's appalling and it could backfire - if the serious charges don't pan out (and I don't think that they will at this point), one of the stories is that a lynch-mob comprised of the most popular leftie bloggers partially took down a man they disliked by outing him and leveling libelous accusations based on thin evidence.
Anti-Muslim site
Little Green Footballs calls the story a "lynching," which makes sense, because as we all know, lynching in American history was directed against white guys with shaved heads:
I must be getting jaded, because I find this despicable behavior from lefty bloggers to be completely unsurprising. This is just a particularly vile case of the same below-the-belt tactics these people use all the time.
And says the Blogfather, Glenn Reynolds, in the
Washington Post:
Glenn Reynolds, a University of Tennessee law professor who writes on InstaPundit.com, said the tactics used against Guckert "seem to me to be despicable."
"If I were a member of the White House press corps, I'd be really worried," Reynolds said. "If working for a biased news organization disqualifies you, a lot of people have a lot to be worried about. ... I guess I don't see what all this has to do with his job."
Indeed. What's with all these liberal prudes attacking Jeff Gannon? And how dare they go after his private sex life, if even by accident! What does a man's private sex life have to do with his job?
Irony is dead, folks.