We are getting to them... Coulters defending Gannon...

[sabra]

I'll spare you the read... essentially she is saying that we are attacking poor Jeffy, cause he has a fake name, and he is is is G g g ayyyy, oh my :-)

<<SNIP>>
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=108&ncid=742&e=10&u=/ucac/20050223/cm_ucac/republicansbloggersandgaysohmy

REPUBLICANS, BLOGGERS AND GAYS, OH MY!

By Ann Coulter

In response to the public disgrace and ruin of New York Times editor Howell Raines, CBS anchor Dan Rather and CNN news director Eason Jordan, liberals are directing their fury at the blogs. Once derided as people sitting around their living rooms in pajamas, now obscure writers for unknown Web sites are coming under more intensive background checks than CIA (news - web sites) agents.

The heretofore-unknown Jeff Gannon of the heretofore-unknown "Talon News" service was caught red-handed asking friendly questions at a White House press briefing. Now the media is hot on the trail of a gay escort service that Gannon may have run some years ago. Are we supposed to like gay people now, or hate them? Is there a Web site where I can go to and find out how the Democrats want me to feel about gay people on a moment-to-moment basis?

Liberals keep rolling out a scrolling series of attacks on Gannon for their Two Minutes Hate, but all their other charges against him fall apart after three seconds of scrutiny. Gannon's only offense is that he may be gay.

....

Gannon didn't write about gays. No "hypocrisy" is being exposed. Liberals' hateful, frothing-at-the-mouth campaign against Gannon consists solely of their claim that he is gay.

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[purduejake]

1. "His only offense is that he may be gay"

Wow.

[sabra]

2. She truly lives up to her reputation...

:puke:

[karlrschneider]

3. Naw, he ain't gay! He only sucks dicks for MONEY!

:D

[paineinthearse]

4. Previously posted in EDITORIAL

see http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x108541

I usually don't pay any attention to man coulter, but was looking for some Helen Thomas info (who she disses in this piece).....

[sabra]

9. Thanks!

I was looking for the latest and greatest on Gannon and came up with this... I too don't go out of my way to read this grabage! :-)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. And, of course, if there had been a gay hooker during the Clinton years

who posted naked pictures of himself on the Internet and had no journalism experience, but claimed to represent for a new and obscure liberal news service and used a fake name to get daily access to Mike McCurry's press briefings and repeatedly lobbed softball questions with a clear liberal bias, she would absolutely, certainly have leaped to his defense, too...

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. Bill Mahrer said

if this had happened during the Clinton administration, there would have been a lynch mob with torches involved.

[Al-CIAda]

27. ...and don't forget all the inside info he was fed. n/t

[Sanity Claws]

6. Gannon is running a criminal enterprise

Why do this repugs not understand that Gannon is a prostitute -- engaging in illegal activity. It doesn't matter which side he swings from, it's still illegal.

[Salviati]

7. No, we're attacking him because he's a whore...

Oh, and he ran an escort service as well...

[AlCzervik]

8. the whores are circling the wagons around their whore.

They are trying to change the subject of this story, it aint about the sex, it's about the shilling.

[BobbyinPortland]

10. I hate that bitch

I hope she gets caught with her panties down and her useless piece of man flesh that she hasn't had removed yet dangles for the world to see.

[LynnTheDem]

11. yeah and YOU'RE NEXT, Mannie.

Better go pay more hush money to your sex change surgeon. ;)

[B Calm]

14. I agree, she's next on our list!

[DemonFighterLives]

12. Let all the pukes gather round the gannon pole

It is really fitting of them.
:beer:

[tom_paine]

13. Well, he is THEIR gay prostitute propagandist

He is a member of THE PARTY. Members of the PARTY must be defended against all criticisms and attacks by Enemies of the State.

Of course, the ACTUAL story...how a man with a false monniker and no ID and, in the beginning.

Ernst Roehm was gay, too. Did you know that?

No race, creed or other group doesn't carry within it some members prone to evil, to be part of THE PARTY and that unchecked power.

No one is immune. We are all human.

[tblue37]

17. Paul Krugman calls it IOKIYAR,

"It's OK if you are Republican." In other words, anything is acceptable if you are Republican, even if the same thing would be used by right wingers to destroy you if you were a Democrat.

Besides, the gay prostitute with naked pictures on the internet is only a minor part of the story. The real story is that he was a prpagandist who received special treatment by the WH, who bypassed proper secrity checks in a super security conscious WH, and who was given a press pass that real jouranlists have a hard time getting. The issue is the same as the issue of paying Armstrong WIlliams to promote Bush's agenda. The government is disseminating propaganda in the most blatant way.

The fact that he is a naked gay male prostitute in the family values White House living room is just gravy.

[jdj]

28. an easier way to say it would be "oknazi"

[TOOLZ]

35. sweet, hilarous gravy n/t

[d.l.Green]

15. Republicans are experts at defending criminals, this is what the party

now stands for in a nutshell...:shrug:

[Kansas Wyatt]

16. What? No mention that Gannon wasn't really a journalist?

Who the Hell in the White House failed to do any background checks on Gannon in the first place?

How does someone use an alias and gain access to the White House and the President without being checked out at all during a time of WAR?

Hello Miss Coulter, are you aware of something called National Security and how it relates to the White House?

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. This is one of her most disgusting pieces ever

First she dogs MSNBC:
By the way, if writing for a news organization with no viewers is grounds for being denied a press pass, why do MSNBC reporters have them?
Whassa matter, ann, jealous?

Then she goes after Helen Thomas:
that dyspeptic, old Helen Thomas

and Maureeen Dowd
it would be suspicious if Dowd were denied a press pass while someone from "Talon News" got one, even if he is a better reporter.

But here is the best part. Bill Clinton invented a name because his stepfather adopted him?
How did Gary Hartpence, Billy Blythe and John Kohn (Gary Hart, Bill Clinton and John Kerry) run for president under invented names?

[FreedomAngel82]

30. Invented names?

What in the world? :eyes: Coulter is a lunatic.

[stanwyck]

20. If Coulter is talking Gannon

and, as always, outright lying...."gay escort service that Gannon may have run some years ago"... then the right is worriied. They were supposed to keep quiet on Gannon, as is Bush's way whenever negatives appear. Just wait it out and pretend it doesn't exist. Is Ann unable to use the internet? Gannon was featured on several websites, naked, while he was being issued press passes. Ann needs to do her homework. Gannon was inside the White House before Talon News even existed. She's trying to rewrite history, knowing her clientele doesn't have a handle on who Gannon is or what he's been doing. Afterall, these are the folks who score lowest. On everything. SATs. IQ tests. Current events. Must be easy to be a columnist for those folks. They never know when you're making stuff up. Like Canada sent troops to Viet Nam. ("I'll get back to you on that.")
It's only a matter of time before Gannon's benefactor becomes known. Gannon is an opportunistic guy with a taste for the limelight. He wants more than his fifteen minutes. He wants the book contracts and an "Ollie North" type radio show. Maybe the GOP shouldn't have hired a prostitute as a "journalist". Now he's acting like the guy featured on the websites. Big surprise.

[tsuki]

21. Coulter can defend him b/c she doesn't know what jounalism is. n/t

[zann725]

38. She can defend him because he does the same kind of journalism he does

...turning lies into truth by saying so...with a straight face.

[riverwalker]

22. reading between the lines

she sounds frantic. Her writing is even more bizarre than usual. Hysterical, I'd say. Reminds me of a teenager's rants from behind the bathroon door while flushing pot down the toilet.

[Melynn]

25. The right wing is nervous about Gannongate

Conservatives have made a career of basing gays and now they have to defend a gay person because he is pro-Bush. Too funny. Yes, I think that Gannon/Guckert is getting to them.

[Eric J in MN]

40. Seems as bad as her typical writing, not worse to me (nt)

nt

[Viva_La_Revolution]

23. I like this part...

>snip<
"Democrats in Congress actually demanded that an independent prosecutor investigate how Gannon got into White House press conferences while writing under an invented name. How did Gary Hartpence, Billy Blythe and John Kohn (Gary Hart, Bill Clinton (news - web sites) and John Kerry (news - web sites)) run for president under invented names? Admittedly, these men were not reporters for the prestigious "Talon News" service; they were merely Democrats running for president.

<snip>



Google is our friend...

Gary Hart shortened his name from Gary Hartpence when he started college. Obviously an "invented" name.
Bill Clinton changed his name from William Jefferson Blythe to William Jefferson Clinton when his mother re-married to a man named... Clinton. Obviously an "invented" name.
John Kerry's ANCESTOR changed the family name from Kohn in 1903!!! OK, that name was made up.

All had their names LEAGALLY CHANGED.
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/820172/posts
I googled legal change for Gary Hart, and the freepers told me it was a legal change! LOL

Jeff/James/Bulldog/Gannon/Guckert has not shown us a certificate showing a legal name change. Shit, it took longer to write this post than to disprove a whole paragraph of the crap this twit spews.
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edited for- speling

[Jack Rabbit]

24. Did a stray fact make its way into Coulter's piece?

It doesn't look like it.

[Straight Shooter]

26. "caught red-handed asking friendly questions"

Oh, she is pushing the envelope with that one. How about rabid, partisan, frothing-at-the-mouth-with-hatred-of-Democrats questions.

And he was not caught red-handed. David Brock began to investigate him after the mind-boggling "Democrats divorced from reality" question.

Coulter, you have to understand, if you can, Gannon was hoist on his own petard. Maybe someday, if there are any real journalists left, we'll find out who gave him that asinine question in the first place so he could parrot it to the squatter in the Oval Office.

edit: Ah, I just remembered a quote. "Desperate times call for desperate measures."

Rove is desperate if he's allowing Coulter to spew on the Gannon affair.

[oasis]

29. I thought her area of expertise was limited to Canada's military history.

:shrug:

[RamboLiberal]

31. I notice she disses Randi Rhodes as well

When Randi gets better can we arrange a barbed wire steel cage match of Randi vs. Ann the Man? We can get Franken to train Randi!

Probably why Ann the Man waited till Randi was off recuperating to diss her.

[jenibek73]

32. She just liked his nudie pics

[Hissyspit]

33. In response to Eason Jordan? Didn't that happen AFTER the Gannon issues...

came up? The Eason Jordan thing was a response to the Guckert stuff.

She's not even a very good propagandist. She's just an idiot.

[TOOLZ]

34. Is Gannon going to be a milestone for gay rights?

Since knee jerk Repubs have to defend him before admitting wrong or conspiracy or hypocrisy, will they stand by him, and thus have to stand by future gays?

Is this a wholly surreal backdoor to gay acceptance, the sleaziest of them all coddling the white house and embarassing them into tolerance as a strategy?

Fuck, at least she acknowledged him, you know she can't leave it be. It is now open season.

[SoCalDem]

36. Just watch... He will be her "opening act" on her next "tour"

:P

[The Minus World]

37. Unclean Rot

These hacks certainly do come out to defend their own, don't they?

Coulter's partisan loyalty requires that she take regular steps into the realm of the illogical, so it's not surprising that she stripped this story of all intelligible facts in order to fortify her career's prevailing goal of discrediting all liberals as illogical and unintelligible partisans.

Her name is also an anagram of unclean rot, and I think it truly befits her.

[Uncle Roy]

39. Jeff Gannon and Ann Coulter could get married, legally,

in all 50 states. And I suspect they would, if the price was right. Let's see here... what's "$1200 per weekend" times "till death do us part?"

Thus is marriage defended. Is this a great country or what?