The Obvious Hypocrisy Is Just A Side Issue

I've heard some in the right-wing media say that they don't understand what the big deal is with the Jeff Gannon "Man-gate" story, and thus haven't devoted any time to it. (Yeah, I'm looking at you, Faux News.) This includes a number of conservative bloggers, particularly those who focused incessantly on the Dan Rather document story, all the while conveniently ignoring the fact that even those who claimed that documents were forgeries were at the same time also saying that the information contained therein was accurate.

Well, let me lay out for you what the Jeff Gannon story is all about and you tell me if it's worth covering (better yet, do the shoe-on-the-other-foot analysis and tell me if this would have been covered in the Clinton White House days):

This story is about a gay-bashing, gay male prostitute who, while using a false name and working for a false news organiziation, was given access by the Bush White House to the West Wing apparently in order to lob softball questions to Bush and his Press Secretary while at the same time was also given confidential CIA documents connected with Valerie Plame.

Sounds a little bit more serious than some of those fake Clinton scandals, like Travelgate or the FBI file issue. But the conservative media and bloggers will continue to keep their heads in the sand...
- posted by Joshua @ 11:22 AM