Okay, Instapundit has 15 posts about Eason Jordan on his site, as of the post. So who is this guy, and why the feeding frenzy on the Right?
Well, Glenn offers a summary at his MSNBC home:
Mr. Jordan, speaking in a panel discussion titled "Will Democracy Survive the Media?" said "he knew of about 12 journalists who had not only been killed by American troops, but had been targeted as a matter of policy," said Rep. Barney Frank, a Democrat of Massachusetts who was on the panel with Mr. Jordan [...]
Worst case: Jordan said things he knew were probably false, in order to curry favor with influential people from countries that -- as CNN's American audience falls -- represent an important part of its market.
Best case: Jordan repeated rumors he had heard without knowing whether they were true or not.
So apparently, a CNN news executive, at worst (according to Glenn) repeats something false at a conference, none of which was recorded, was aired, or was printed on any site. So at worst, Jordan was a victim of the Right's new speech code for playing to the audience with a lie (something that Bush, Cheney and Co. can do with impunity, remember). More likely, the CNN guy exaggerated. This is what Glenn and others are deeming a "scandal".
Ironic, but the Right has become the new champions of Political Correctness.
So, um, our guy was a treasonous fake reporter who helped expose an undercover CIA agent while getting White House press credentials with a fake name to lob softballs at Bush and McClellan, registered website names dealing with gay prostitution while writing stories advancing the Right's anti-gay agenda, and when he cowardly quit, purged all his stories from the sites in which they lived.
We win.