'Gannon's 'outing' ignored by 'liberal media''

'Gannon's 'outing' ignored by 'liberal media''

by Gene Lyons


Citizens, it's finally happened. An alleged former male prostitute has been unmasked among the White House press corps. If this comes as a surprise, don't blame liberal media bias. For once, there's a Washington sex scandal our fastidious "mainstream" press mostly wishes to avoid.
Why? Good question. By day, "Jeff Gannon" posed as White House correspondent for a fictitious news organization called Talon News, an Internet site that is a subsidiary of GOPUSA. com.
That's a Texas-based Web site bankrolled by one Bobby Eberle, an activist now depicted as virtually unknown in Texas GOP circles, even though he was a Bush delegate to the 2000 Republican National Convention.
"Gannon" was granted day passes to White House press briefings and news conferences, where he routinely lobbed softball questions to press secretary Scott McClellan. MSNBC's acerbic news anchor,
Keith Olbermann, almost alone among TV journalists in giving the story the coverage it deserves, has aired hilarious pastiches of "Gannon's" servile questioning of McClellan on his "Countdown" program.

http://www.bartcop.com/022405lyons.htm

 

Why are the so-caled "liberal media" -- a term I categorically reject out of hand, because they were taken over by corporate giants back in the late '80s and they won't rock the corporate boat -- skittish in covering the outing of Jeff Gannon?

It can be one of two things:

1) internalized homophobia, or

2) fear of being accused by gay activists of being homophobically exploitive.

I lean toward reason number 2.

It's no different than the fear of being branded "racist" for tough probing of wrongdoing by African American community leaders and/or elected officials.

And by being this skittish, they allow the right-wing media -- Fox News, the New York Post, The Washington Times and most national talk-radio shows -- to aggressive play up gay sex scandals with a clearly anti-gay bias, almost with impunity, shouting, "See what these sicko perverts are doing? They've got to be stopped!" to divert attention away from their own hypocrisy.

Friggin' COWARDS!

-- Skeeter

 

[size=+1]The Right Wing talking heads will say anything to push their agenda of hate and intolerance. It is amazing how rabid they went over an office blow job.[/size]


[size=+1]Quotes[/size]

"Jeff Gannon of Talon News was caught red-handed asking friendly questions. Now the media is hot on the trail of a gay escort service that Gannon may have run. Are we supposed to like gay people now, or hate them? Liberals keep rolling out a scrolling series of attacks on Gannon, but all their other charges against him fall apart after three seconds of scrutiny. Gannon's only offense is that he may be gay."

--Ann Coulter, ignoring the FACTS and pretending that this gay prostitute did not use a fake name and did not get "special" treatment from a Christain Right government that says gays are "an abomination of God."

 

Quotes


"I'm baaaaaaack! If you thought I was going to slink away - then you don't know much about me.
Someone still has to battle the Left and now I'm stronger than before. Still, the last few weeks have been difficult for my family and my sex customers. To them I offer my apology and a 10 percent discount."


--Jeff Gannon





http://www.jeffgannon.com/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3083775