Howie's column in tomorrow's Wash Post on Gannon

[tgnyc]

is more of the same Gannon-as-the-victim bullshit.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36733-2005Feb18.html

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Ho'-ward Kurtz is as much of a whore as "Gannon."

Maybe Jeffy/Jimmy was doing him, too?

[Jack Rabbit]

2. The piece is more fair than your letting on

Kurtz also provides Aravosis' view:

John Aravosis, a gay activist who posted the pictures of Gannon on his Americablog.org, said the issue is not Gannon's right to be a journalist but his "White House access. . . . The White House wouldn't let him in the door right now, knowing of his background."

Aravosis said Gannon is guilty of "what I call family-values hypocrisy. Basically, he's asking the gay community to protect him when he attacks us."

Since Gannon did write anti-gay tracks, Aravosis' critique is well-taken.

Also, we are left to make up our own minds about Gannon's lament:

Gannon chastised his critics, breaking a silence that began last week when liberal bloggers disclosed his real name, James Dale Guckert, and a Web page, which he paid for, featuring X-rated photos of himself. "Why would they be looking into a person's sexual history? Is that what we're going to do to reporters now? Is there some kind of litmus test for reporters? Is it right to hold someone's sexuality against them?"

As for his critics, Gannon said: "People have said some of my writing expressed a hostile point of view" toward gays. "These people are willing to abandon their principles on the basis of trying to make me out to be a hypocrite. These are the same groups that cherish free speech and privacy."

Give me a break, Mr. Gannon! You are propagating for an administration that has little use for free speech or privacy. This is just whining.

[Clark2008]

3. This doesn't say much of anything.

Kurtz is just regurgitating the shit and spin and storyline and not really making any comments on anything.
Pretty boring piece to those of us who have been following this since GannGuckert told DUers to "bring it on."

[quisp]

4. whatta handjob!!!

I wonder if Kurtz is making $200 an hour?