Reporter Jeff Gannon/James Guckert resigned last week from Talon News.Com. The left seemed very pleased and prepared for the onslaught of liberal mainstream media coverage that would follow. But they were quickly disappointed. Salon (not Talon) spent two columns about it on Monday and now NY Observer columnist Joe Conason wonders why the "Liberal’ Media [is] Silent About [the] Guckert Saga."
The answer, there is just no story here.
I'm not even certain what the left wants. They have flatly stated that Guckert/Gannon is a fake reporter from a fake news service. It seems they are upset that he had access to White House briefings and press conferences because he was gay, not a member of the old media and was partisan. Shouldn't the new media members be in favor of more access? Most of the new media carries a bias of some sort, but should that bar them from the process of reporting? The answer is of course, no.
That is most certainly not the story. The story is that a former male prostitute, funded by Texas republicans assumed a new identity. Then he took a two day journalism seminar run by Morton C. Blackwell. Then he was placed in the White House without a background check to lob softballs at Scott McClellan and The President of the United States.
Trying to turn this into some fantasy that liberals are upset all of this happened because he was gay is the most patently absurd thing I have ever heard.
Remember, these people think you’re stupid.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
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