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To: LindyBill who wrote (101177)	2/19/2005 4:25:33 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

WaPo Continues Flogging Gannon LGF Howard Kurtz has already written more words about the trumped up Jeff Gannon scandal than about Eason Jordan, and here comes another article: Jeff Gannon Admits Past ‘Mistakes,’ Berates Critics. Jeff Gannon, the former White House reporter whose naked pictures have appeared on a number of gay escort sites, says that he has “regrets” about his past but that White House officials knew nothing about his salacious activities. “I’ve made mistakes in my past,” he said yesterday. “Does my past mean I can’t have a future? Does it disqualify me from being a journalist?” Gannon chastised his critics, breaking a silence that began last week when liberal bloggers disclosed his real name, James Dale Guckert, and a Web page, which he paid for, featuring X-rated photos of himself. “Why would they be looking into a person’s sexual history? Is that what we’re going to do to reporters now? Is there some kind of litmus test for reporters? Is it right to hold someone’s sexuality against them?” As for his critics, Gannon said: “People have said some of my writing expressed a hostile point of view” toward gays. “These people are willing to abandon their principles on the basis of trying to make me out to be a hypocrite. These are the same groups that cherish free speech and privacy.” Indeed. Are we now to assume that digging into a reporter’s sexual activities is a legitimate tactic? It apparently doesn’t trouble Howard Kurtz or the Washington Post. It’s difficult for me to express how utterly disgusted I am with the left-of-center blogs over this stupid story. In a frenzy of me-too-ism (look! we can bring down journalists too!), they’ve completely exposed themselves as the worst sort of hypocrites. littlegreenfootballs.com