Little Trouble Among Big Leftists

I hate to intrude while my guest-bloggers are working it—ladies, gentleman, and Acidman, you are doing an EXCELLENT job—but I just had to post a comment on this. It is to laugh.

Dude. Dude. The reasons that the high-profile leftist bloggers are in a twist about this Jeff Gannon so-called scandal are so simple.

For the record Jeff Gannon (nee Guckert) was a reporter for Talon News—a small internet news service with a conservative bent. Mr. Gannon was allowed a daily pass to White House press briefings, as many reporters for many new services are. Turns out that Mr. Gannon is a homosexual and has some gay pornographic sites registered in his name.

So, the leftists are making a big deal of this. (Mr. Gannon has resigned from his position with Talon.)

They are doing so for one very serious reason: their misconception of the beliefs of right-wing conservatives, especially religious ones. See, some leftists think that we religious conservatives want to take away the civil liberties of all non-conformists—especially homosexuals--and hurl them into re-education camps. For that’s what some of them would love to do to us, where we not the majority of those who embraced the Second Amendment so fervently. Projection, you know.

So when a Republican administration doesn’t fulfill the leftists’ preconceived notion, but acknowledges the “non-conformist’s” right to ply his trade without being branded with the scarlet “H,” it’s, somehow, hypocrisy on the conservatives’ part. Call it the Straw-man Hypocrisy: “you’re not as evil as we’ve been saying you are, so you’re wrong, WRONG, WRONG!”

They are also doing this for a humorous and pathetic reason: they needed a big media scandal to rival the CBS-Bogus Memo scandal and the Eason Jordan (CNN) slander against the US Armed Forces.

This is the best they could come up with.

Comments

[bleedingbrain]

"For that’s what some of them would love to do to us, where we not the majority of those who embraced the Second Amendment so fervently. Projection, you know."

Hah...brilliantly said.

When leftists have been given the chance, they have thrown all kinds of people into the gulags for re-education and thus they believe that the rest of us have similar designs on their lives.

[Some Guy]

You are absolutely right. My own hunch is that the reason so many editors are sending their reporters out to write this story up is because MSM wants to use up all the air and keep attention from CNN's incredible anti-American claims.

Good call.

[Steve in Boston]

Well said, J!

Yep. That's always their game, always has been, always will be. Deflect, Diffuse, Move On (sorry, had to add that last one, dontcha know :)

Most of us could give a rat's left butt cheek (they do have butt cheeks, don't they?) what someone does with their personal life, as long as it doesn't interfere with our own. Some may or may not agree with a particular lifestyle (raises hand for the not agree crowd), but I will fight to the death to defend their freedom to choose that lifestyle (again, as long as it doesn't interfere with me or mine).

And no, I'm not actually a Republican, I'm a Libertarian, if I MUST be categorized, but since we really only have a two party system here, and I've never seen a decent Democrat choice in my 20+ years of voting, well, I've always voted Republican.. I just don't register as one.

[Acidman]

I could give a rat's left butt-cheek about what ANYONE does in private life. Just leave ME the hell alone.

But Baldi, you are absolutely correct in your description of the lefist attack strategy. You are EVIL... until you don't behave in an evil way... and then you are WRONG... because you don't believe they way THEY do... and then you need to be DEMONIZED... because you just don't think the right way.

They've been doing this same crap for years. Open-minded, aren't they?

[Leftilocks]

There's so much misinformation in this entry it's as if the blogger were on crack and ether. But baldi, we're gonna try and make it real simple for you, so easy to grasp that you ought to be able to understand it, although you'll blow a fuse and go off on a bizarre tear anyway. Just so you know.

Now (pay attention, baldi), Talon was created after GOPUSA hired Gannon. Talon was formed in order to provide Gannon/Guckert with a stream of income that would qualify his claim to be a "journalist." Talon did not "hire" Gannon because he was already onboard. Three months prior to the formation of Talon, Gannon was already attending White House briefings; the question of his press passes was becoming a critical issue, so Bohert and company formed Talon as a way around the problem. OK?

Next, nobody with an ounce of sense cares whether Gannon (or anybody else) is a male hooker. That's his business. The problem is Gannon's anti-gay diatribes he wrote for Talon, the fact that the administration is contemplating an anti-gay amendment to the U.S. Constitution while simultaneously hiring gays to field softballs at the Prez during conferences, and that this simple fact raises substantial questions of security and encomprisement of senior White House officials.

Lastly, this story is extremely important because it indicates that the White House is perfectly happy to plant its own staff into press briefings in order to manipulate the tone and content of said briefings. I don't think we've seen this before. The other questions, such as why rules were bent, how they were altered solely for Gannon's benefit, and by what means he was issued a pass under an alias are yet to be answered - but the questions are worth asking.

Easy enough for ya? Nope, didn't think so.

[baldilocks]

When I see a long comment on my blog, I read the first and last lines of the it before I get to the meat of the missive. If both lines are insulting and condescending, I'll forego reading it until after I've had my coffee.

If, in spite of being nasty, the comment is loaded with logic, I'll reply politely. If it's full of bull, I'll make it the subject of post.

We'll see which category your's falls into, after I come back from Starbucks.

[Bulldog]

Congratulations Steve In Boston!
You TOTALLY nailed the typical right wing style of Rush, Coulter and the rest of the persecution patrol on the radical right.