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February 15, 2005

When jr. high bullies grow up ...

... chronologically, but not emotionally, what you get is "adults" who figure the way to deal with people they don't like is the way they dealt with them in jr. high. Most of us have some sort of story, about ourselves or just another kid we knew. The bullies ruled by fear and intimidation and deluded themselves that their way was the only way. They extorted lunch money and never thought it as stealing but as their due. If some nerdy kid didn't give them "respect" then it was the nerdy kid's fault if he was pushed, humilated or beaten. One was either part of the bullies' gang, or one was fair game. Male or female, the bullies were of one kind with one anti-ethic regarding others, submit or suffer.

Bullies are also of the kind that become the acolytes of cults. They are enamored of the insularity, the call that they alone are special and above the rabble, the anointed of The Revealed Truth.

No where has this mentality been "mainstreamed" than within the cult of the far Left. And no more easily illustrated than with the vituperative attacks on a (until now unknown) reporter, James Guckert who used the professional name Jeff Gannon.

Who, you ask? Until I saw the venom dripping off my screen when checking out the usual reality-challenged sites of the Left, I had no idea who Jeff Gannon was either.

His "crime" was to lob a softball question that :::ahem::: was partisan (code speak for right of center, lefty reporters are applauded for their partisan hostile questions).

Now I realize some of those lefty sites are smarting since the election and especially when their religious tenets were successfully exposed by non-lefty sites, toppling their fellow acolytes in the media (Danny Rather and Eason Jordan), so they were ready for any blood they could find and a hapless soul like Gannon got in their way.

I mean, if softball questions really are the issue, when has there been this kind of dissembling done to Larry King?

There is really no reasoning with these True Believers. Debate is unknown, because they truly are divorced from any reality except what they imagine. Every "value" they put out for public consumption -- tolerant, fair-minded, liberal, non-judgemental, pro-gay -- is belied time and again with the most vicious gay-bashing being done to Gannon without tying him to a fence and beating him with sticks.

Good job, dKos, Atrios, Americablog, Billmon, Democrats.com, democraticunderground, et al, you make Fred Phelps PROUD!

I could not care less what Gannon did in his past of an adult consensual manner. And until the Leftist gangbangers come up with a rap sheet, I hope they learn the hard way about the term "libel per se."

The "access issue" is the mindnumbing mantra that Gannon was not a legitimate reporter from a legitimate news organization.

According to whom? At this point, let's examine what a few other White House reporters have to say

"Virtually no one is not allowed in," said Gwen Flanders, a USA Today editor who oversees the paper's White House reporters. "Getting that [day] pass is a simple matter of passing a background check and working for a news organization." But she added that there is not as much scrutiny of the legitimacy of the news organizations: "Who is in the position to say who is not legitimate?"
Who indeed? Are the Lefties really concerned that only "legitimate" organizations gain press briefing passes?
Herman, who has covered the White House on and off since 2001, said there are a number of reporters who show up from news organizations he's never heard of or offer questions as partisan as Gannon's, although in their cases, mostly likely, they are working under their real names. "There are times in that briefing room where I am hard-pressed to tell you who they are working for or who sees their reporting," Herman said.
"Every day there are a whole bunch of people there I have never seen, and their questions make you wonder who they are representing," said Judy Keen, a USA Today White House reporter whose time there dates to 1992. "It is not as rigid and structured as people might think."

Several reporters pointed to Russell Mokhiber, editor of Corporate Crime Reporter, who has been attending press events through a daily press pass for several years. Some say he is as partisan as Gannon in his questions, but often with a left-leaning approach. One reporter called him "the ideological flip-side of Gannon."

Gays, to be considered "authentic" by the Left cult must submit to their dogma. To disagree or be outside the authentic group is to be guilty of apostasy.

Gannon is an apostate, and we know how cults (Jim Jones, Islamists, Stalinists) deal with apostates.

Bill at INDC Journal clearly labels it: This is Madness. Bill later makes a shocking discovery [work and small creature warning]

Rusty at Jawa Report has had to endure the Left's virtual pitchforks-n-torches mob after tweaking the gay-bashing of one of their high priests.

And I absolutely love Jeff Goldstein's multiple takes on this l'affaire de Guckert here, here and most certainly here.

Bravo, men, bravo.

Posted by Darleen at February 15, 2005 02:09 PM

Comments

Darleen, Am I just being paranoid or were the creepazoids over at Rusty's place spewing extra special venom at any commenter they could identify as female? I guess it goes along with the gay bashing, but really, were these guys scum or what?

PS. Cute husband. Congrats

Posted by: gail at February 15, 2005 07:05 PM

gail

Just part of the whole "group-think" Left. Women, too, have to be Left to be "authentic" so of course any woman who embraces individuality and questions their orthodoxy Must.Be.Dealt.With.

Posted by: Darleen at February 15, 2005 09:56 PM