Double Standard pt. 2

I haven't said anything about the Jeff Gannon (real name James Guckert) story because the other like-minded blogs have been all over it. It's an astounding story. A guy who is a gay prostitute, tax cheat and fake journalist (in addition to being a right wing hack) gets White House press credentials. Now imagine this was the Clinton White House. Joe Conason does just that:

Imagine the media explosion if a male escort had been discovered operating
as a correspondent in the Clinton White House. Imagine that he was paid by an
outfit owned by Arkansas Democrats and had been trained in journalism by James
Carville. Imagine that this gentleman had been cultivated and called upon by
Mike McCurry or Joe Lockhart--or by President Clinton himself. Imagine that this
"journalist" had smeared a Republican Presidential candidate and had previously
claimed access to classified documents in a national-security scandal.

Then imagine the constant screaming on radio, on television, on Capitol
Hill, in the Washington press corps--and listen to the placid mumbling of the
"liberal" media now.

The Daily Show's treatment of the Gannon story last night was hilarious. The video is available here. The most shocking revelation in that piece is that Steven Colbert's real name is Ted Hitler. Shocking.