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Don’t these people have anything better to do with their time?

Hindrocket:

The “Jeff Gannon” affair has been a mini-cause celebre on the liberal side of the blogosphere over the past several days, to the point where we have gotten several belligerent emails from lefties demanding to know why we aren’t covering the story. My response has been that I can’t figure out what the story is. “Gannon” wrote for the Talon news service and was occasionally cleared to participate in White House press briefings. He apparently is a conservative, and on some occasions he asked questions with a twist that was friendly to the administration.

The “scandal” that has erupted over the past few days involves the following elements: 1) “Jeff Gannon” isn’t his real name; it’s James Guckert; 2) Guckert is alleged to be a homosexual (Markos Moulitsos of the Daily Kos has made a big deal out of this); and 3) several gay porn sites are registered in Guckert’s name.

Gannon/Guckert has now resigned from Talon due to the attention.

The first actual news story I’ve seen on the Gannon affair is this AP report, which quotes Scott McClellan:

Here he quotes the same story Rush quoted last…Thursday I think. Basically he got a day pass to attend pressers, used his real name, and Scott McLellan though the nice thing to do would be expand the definition of a journalist in these changing times. Back to Hinderocket:

I still don’t get it. Gannon has been attacked for not being a “real” journalist–as compared to whom, Helen Thomas? He called himself a “voice of the new media” on his web site, and it seems passing strange to me for bloggers to suggest that only journalism school graduates are qualified to ask questions at press briefings. As far as I can tell, the only thing that distinguished Gannon from the other reporters is that he is a partisan conservative, whereas they are nearly all partisan liberals. I’d be happy if the administration threw the whole lot of them out and took questions from people on the street.

Inasmuch as I still don’t see that there is much of a story here–apart, of course, from the somewhat entertaining strangeness of it all–I’ll stop writing now.

Right. There’s nothing there. Are they upset that a gay man got into the White House? Who cares. He wasn’t assaulting the saintly and pure White House correspondants in the hallways. Meanwhile, there’s a war in two countries going on, the Dems are about to get the craziest man in American Politics (besides Dayton) as their Party Leader, there’s a 60-lb budget proposal (in about 18 volumes) to pick apart, and the Arab Peace Process might finally be getting off the ground. But by all means, let’s let the lefties beat this dead horse. No, more like dead possum. Not even dead. Possum with a head cold. Possum with a head cold that’s gotten bored and walked away, and now they’re just beating empty air.