coulter - REPUBLICANS, BLOGGERS AND GAYS, OH MY!

[paineinthearse]

WARNING....DO NOT READ ON A FULL STOMACH

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REPUBLICANS, BLOGGERS AND GAYS, OH MY!

2 hours, 5 minutes ago Op/Ed - Ann Coulter


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. First, liberals claimed Gannon was a White House plant who received a press pass so that he could ask softball questions -- a perk reserved for New York Times reporters during the Clinton years. Their proof was that while "real" journalists (like Jayson Blair) were being denied press passes, Gannon had one, even though he writes for a Web site that no one has ever heard of -- but still big enough to be a target of liberal hatred! (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?)


On the op-ed page of The New York Times, Maureen Dowd openly lied about the press pass, saying: "I was rejected for a White House press pass at the start of the Bush administration, but someone with an alias, a tax evasion problem and Internet pictures where he posed like the 'Barberini Faun' is credentialed?" Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that dyspeptic, old Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president. Still, 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.


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[Lithos]

1. Gosh

Who's the bigger whore? Gannon or Coulter?

L-

[EVDebs]

7. ROFLOL ! Coulter is probably another paid Operation Mockingbird

operative...one sure to beget plausible deniability ! Who in their right mind would go near this woman ? Only Republicans seem to want her company and they can have it. It brings them only bad reviews.

[tridim]

2. Sorry, I couldn't get past the first paragraph..

Gannon is not about revenge. It's about Gannon, and his puppetmasters.

[Canuckistanian]

3. You know what? She isn't even offensive any more

Just pathetic. Sad and pathetic.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. It gets like that...

When people don't seek treatment for their mental illness and act out in public with regularity. After a while, it gets hard to feel sorry for them.

You know, like her. She's just become tedious.

[rocktivity]

4. Nice try, hun-hun,

but why would the "liberal" mainstream press be mad at conservative-destorying "liberal" bloggers? They would be singing the praises of the bloggers for doing what they couldn't, right?

:shrug:
rocknation

[Blower]

15. Her work rarely stands up to reasoned analysis--

Sometimes you can actually get her "fans" to realize how bad her logic is when it comes to trying to "prove" points.

[paineinthearse]

6. Later in the piece she dissed Helen Thomas....

see http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3164123#3167645

[saltpoint]

8. 'Reckon we'll have to get the animal tranquilizer gun out again --

-- damn, this is getting expensive!

[Democrats_win]

9. Am I wrong if I post on this thread w/o reading mAnn's garbage?

Ignore the whore, Democrats!

[paineinthearse]

12. Sorry, I was looking for Helen Thomas info and stumbled on this....nt

[Fridays Child]

10. What if the bloggers went digging on Ann and found out that...

...she has never been seen at the same time as Ollie North? Think about it...

[rocktivity]

11. I'll just quote the bloggers who were on CNN's Reliable Sources Sunday

ARAVOSIS: You know, it wasn't a mob that took Dan Rather down. Dan Rather's mistakes took Dan Rather down. Eason Jordan('s) mistakes...brought him down.

What brought James Gannon down was his own mistakes. And the reason that the White House is being questioned now is the White House let him in. We need to know about their mistakes...

HINDERAKER: ...the reaction of some of the mainstream commentators to the Eason Jordan story was completely over the top...for the most part, (they) completely blew that story...some of them lashed out at the bloggers with these ridiculous quotes like the one that you read.

...What the bloggers did was to bring to light what Eason Jordan did and what he said. He repeatedly...made unsubstantiated accusations against the United States military. CNN decided, apparently, that that was enough to cost him his job.

KURTZ: Well...

:headbang:
rocknation

[lala_rawraw]

13. I feel a coultergate moment

EVEN IF HE IS A BETTER REPRfguckdfgksdjsdfj????

sedatives... neeed sedatives

[Blower]

14. Electrocute her via 10,000 volts into the v*g*n* n/t

[Sugarcoated]

16. I'm SOoooo glad

she's not on our side. :+ :crazy: :freak:

They must cringe, at least the intelligent Repubs. And, yes, there are some . . . I think.

[2diagnosis]

17. ???

nt

[MadisonProgressive]

23. NO!!! The stink would destroy the ozone layer!

[ixion]

18. aside from the fact that she is a first rate whacko, this person simply

cannot write and should go back to being a barfly.

[dannynyc]

19. Maybe Bushy-Boy gave Ann

his leftover weed and coke. That's the only way to make any sense out of what she said.

Of course, right wing "reporters" don't need facts. A lie repeated often enough becomes a "fact" in the minds of many people.

[Goldmund]

20. LOL She's a funny bugger

[GOPFighter]

21. Poor Ann, she's begun her long slide into mediocrity

There was a time when Ann could slice and dice liberals and Democrats and inflict real pain, but this piece just had no edge at all. Ann, the knife, like your brain, is getting dull. You just don't hack it anymore. I'm going to have to find someone else whose writings can stoke the fires of fury that spawn and sustain the virulent hatred within me that keeps me fighting your kind.

But maybe there's hope, Ann, I hear they're hiring at Talon News....

[dean_dem]

22. Lets see:

Clinton-hating: check
Half-truth and only telling part of the story: Check
Moral Grandstanding (it's because he's gay isn't it?): Check
Twisted freeper logic: Check

Yep, that's Ann all right. Oh, the freaks liked Helen Thomas when she was busting Clinton's balls, but how dare she ask Smirky any tough questions.

[DemGa]

24. Accuse hate, spew hate

Liberal this, liberal that..etc.