The Problem With the Lefty BlogsIt's that there's no attempt to correct bits of the story that turn out to be untrue. I mean, here we are nearing Week Three of the Humongous Jeff Gannon Experience, and there are still lefty bloggers spreading disinformation. A tiny blog called
Minnesota Politics got into an email exchange with the guys at Power Line.
Here's what the guy wrote:
Your recent post on the JD Guckert/Jeff Gannon story has to be one of the saddest examples of conservative head-in-sand syndrome I have ever seen. You claim that there are three issues being brought up by liberals: 1) He isn't a "real" journalist, 2) He was a Bush administration plant, and 3) He had something--(God knows what)--to do with the Valerie Plame story. Of course, you blatantly ignore the most important issue, the one that is easily found on hundreds of blogs covering the story: how did a person using a fake name get access to the White House? If I applied for a pass to the White House using the name "Max Power", I would not get in unless I had some friends high up at the top. A closely-related issue is exactly what the links are between GOPUSA and Talon News. Now, you may think it perfectly acceptable for the President and press secretary to consistently call on a reporter who is working for what is essentially an arm of the Republican Party. If so, it would be nice if you would admit it. That doesn't mean that others aren't allowed to have a problem with that arrangement, however.Now, of course, if you've been paying attention that "most important issue" has been debunked thoroughly. Gannon, when applying for his press passes
gave both his real and working name, along with his real Social Security #.
"I requested clearance each day via an e-mail to the White House Press office the night before. I gave them my professional name, my legal name, my social security number, my address and phone number, and the news service where I worked," he said. "I assumed that there was some kind of cursory check that they do, but did not know what. They never asked me for more information." He said he usually went to press briefings there “at least once a week," or more.What gave this post legs, of course, was Hindrocket's rather intemperate and profanity-laced response, for which
he has apologized.
But to me the more important thing is that the lefty bloggers can't apparently keep up with their own story. The E&P article linked above came out 10 days ago, for chrissakes! This story is getting wall-to-wall coverage and this yo-yo still doesn't understand that the "most important issue" has been debunked a week and a half ago? Why is that?
I'll tell you why. Because the lefty bloggers are not interested in getting at the truth, they are only interested in getting ammunition. They are pathetic.
