"GannonGate" is even "worse than you think?"
"Bush's press office gave Jim Guckert (a/k/a-gasp--Jeff Gannon's real name) access, even knowing his only credentials were from the blatantly partisan group GOPUSA...."
GASP!!!You mean that the blatantly partisan Salon.com or the blatantly partisan CBS News, or the blatantly partisan NPR are the only blatantly partisan news outlets worthy of press passes? Or was it only because Jeff Gannon was a blatant homosexual, and thus not worthy of being a "real reporter?" (yeah, a real reporter--like Jayson Blair or Dan Rather). Or could it simply be that homophobia runs that deep in the leftist psyche? Especially homophobia related to those that stray off the "White Liberal Limousine Plantation?"
Mr Boehlert adds:
The Talon News fiasco raises serious questions about who the White House is allowing into its daily press briefings: How can a reporter using a fake name and working for a fake news organization get press credentials from the White House, let alone curry enough favor with the notoriously disciplined Bush administration to get picked by the president in order to ask fake questions? (Psycmeistr notes: the same can probably asked regarding Helen Thomas or Sam Donaldson).
We at the Ice Palace say that this notion so eruditely brought about by Boehlert begs another question: since when is a question fake? I have been a student of grammar for many years, and have yet to really come upon a fake question. A question is a question. However, in an effort to understand Mr. Boehlert, the Ice Palace offers the possiblity that perhaps Mr. Boehlert will also include in his category of fake questions the question a soldier posed to Secretary Donald Rumsfeld regarding armor and humvees, after having been put up to do just that by a "real reporter." E & P, in this case, called Rumsfeld's denouncing of those particular circumstances "Decidedly off base." Yet Gannon, in Boehlert's eyes, is a "fake reporter asking fake questions?" We at the Ice Palace would like to offer the advice that Boehlert would do well to remove the plank from his own ilk's collective eye before complaining about splinters in others.
-Psycmeistr-
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