Don't feel bad, I didn't either.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A8158-2003Jul17Two years ago this month, he filed a report for World News Tonight in which troops in Iraq complained about having to stay in Iraq. One even suggested Rumsfeld resign. What did the White House do in response?
"Some folks in the White House were apparently hopping mad when ABC News correspondent Jeffrey Kofman did a story on Tuesday's "World News Tonight" about the plummeting morale of U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq.
So angry, in fact, that the next day, a White House operative alerted cyber-gossip Matt Drudge to the fact that Kofman is not only openly gay, he's Canadian.
Thanks to an alert from the White House, Matt Drudge helped spread the word that ABC's Jeffrey Kofman is . . . Canadian. (Courtesy ABC News)
Yesterday Drudge told us he was unaware of the ABC story until "someone from the White House communications shop tipped me to it" along with a profile of Kofman in the gay-oriented magazine the Advocate. On Wednesday, for 6 hours 38 minutes, the Drudge Report bannered Kofman's widely quoted ABC story -- in which enlisted people questioned the Army's credibility and one irked soldier went on camera to call on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign -- and linked to the Advocate piece with the understated headline "ABC NEWS REPORTER WHO FILED TROOP COMPLAINT STORY IS CANADIAN."
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And what did the press do or say about this despicable conduct? Why pretty much nothing. But wait, the Republicans are against calling gay people gay. We know that from the reaction they had when Mary Cheney was called a lesbian by Kerry (that despicable brute). Sadly we all pretty much forgot this when it was relevent to that little episode, but thanks to Frank Rich we should remember it now. It does show a window into a White House willing to do literally anything to shoot messangers it doesn't like.
One other thing. If you think this is distinguishable from Cheney in that Kofman was in the Advocate, think again, Cheney was on the cover of the Advocate getting gays and lesbians to vote for her father. Something I don't recall Lynne Cheney complaining about.