Antiwar.com's Justin Raimondo covers Gannongate

[Domitan]

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4879

Amid the media frenzy over Gannon's journalistic bona fides, or lack of them – and the lurid speculation going on in the left lane of the blogosphere about how a purported male hooker got admitted to White House press briefings before his "Talon News Agency" (a front group created by "GOPUSA") was even created – one has to ask: who cares?

Answer: Patrick J. Fitzgerald, for one, the chief prosecutor in an investigation that could rope in several high-ranking administration officials and even lead to the White House itself. And those of us who have been awaiting the come-uppance of this White House, for two, and are ready to get out the popcorn and the chips-and-dip and settle down for a nice long juicy scandal.

He mentions the freerepublic.com exchange between Gannon and JohnGalt and includes quotes

This story isn't about sex – although Gannon's reported sideline as a gay escort (or was his "journalism" the sideline?) could figure even more prominently as the personal and the political meet and merge in this case. It's about a bitterly fought internal power struggle inside the Bush administration, pitting the neoconservative clique centered in the office of the vice president and the civilian upper echelons of the Pentagon against the remnants of resistance in the intelligence community, in the top ranks of the military, and in the diplomatic corps. It's about the lies the former told in order to bamboozle Congress and the nation into a disastrous conflict in the Middle East – and the crimes they committed in covering up the lies. It's a story about the neocon "alternative" media – such as "Talon News" and its many proliferating clones in cyberspace and the world of print and television – the purpose of which is to refract and distort images of an unjust and increasingly troubling war into the illusion of "victory." It's about payola pundits and media whores who swallow the party line without question and without even charging a fee. If Gannon is a plant, then what about the other right-wing screamers and ranters with an identical agenda and tactics who are, in many cases, just as sleazy?

I love this next paragraph!
As a gay man, I can't say that I understand Gannon's appeal to his clients in the escort business – a 47-year-old male hooker camouflaging himself as a decade-younger faux-butch jarhead? It doesn't work for me – but his attractions to the neoconized American right are all too easy to see: he offered Republican activists a more congenial view of the increasingly bad news from Iraq – and the home front – as a nefarious plot by the "biased" mainstream media (MSM) to make the president (and America) look bad.

[anitar1]

1. Excellant Column

Thanks for posting it.

[bemildred]

2. A fine rant. nt

[Kolesar]

3. I thought it was a good read

A bit wordy, but he did have to reiterate a lot of material to rehash L'Affair Plame.