Jim Geraghty offers an excellent “where are we now” post on the Eason Jordan affair. I tend to to agree with his assessment, though I think he’s missed the mark on one line.
Let’s be honest about the power of the blogs – it is great and was unimaginable in an earlier era, but it is limited.
Clearly Geraghty has not been paying attention to the public dismemberment of Talon News “reporter” Jeff Gannon. The Markos “I’ve Got Howard’s Back” Moulitas Zuniga’s Daily Kos community has succeeded in ending the career of the journalist who worked for Talon News because he had the temerity to ask softball questions at White House news conferences and write under a pseudonym. Moulitas has proclaimed that Gannon (real name James D. “JD” Guckert) is gay based on three domain registrations (none of which lead to working sites).
Gannon/Guckert, who originally laughed off the swarming net detectives, isn’t laughing anymore.
Easen Jordan resigned an hour ago. That trumps a Gannon. We win.
Let’s see … the moonbats go crazy about some no name kind of reporter who does not ask crazy questions like Helen Thomas, so they start a crusade to out him and he ultimately resigns.
On the other hand, some more thoughtful and well reasoned bloggers report what Eason Jordan said while at an overseas conference, and stay on the story since the moonbat mainstream media will not cover it, and he resigns before they even get to the story.
Is there a more clear and convincing argument to be made about the relative strengths of the left and the right today?
Left : We shoot spitwads
Right : We are not left, and we are strong.
I have to admit that I sure didn’t see Jordan’s resignation coming; well, not so quickly anyway. His bias was becoming so transparent that even some traditional allies were questioning his judgement and position. I guess Dodd, Frank, and Gergen deserve credit here for not protecting Jordan’s backtracking. Good for them though I am, by default, not a big fan of their respective ideologies.
So is CNN turning over a new leaf or was this an expeditious move to deflect further investigations? I sure don’t believe, well pretty sure anyway, the decision was economic because the story has not been out long enough for there to have been a significant hit on financial returns as a result of this particular event. Hmmm, anyone for motives?
Julie:
Easen Jordan resigned an hour ago. That trumps a Gannon. We win.
Ummm, remind me again: WTF does Eason Jordan have to do with RNC/BushCo maladministration propaganda and leaked CIA memos? I don’t think that Jordan needed to resign, but if he feels that’s the right thing to do, NP for me.
Cheers,
I have to admit that I sure didn’t see Jordan’s resignation coming; well, not so quickly anyway. His bias was becoming so transparent that even some traditional allies were questioning his judgement and position.
Ummm, the bias of Faux News Lite???
Cheers,
Let me save everybody the trouble of reading Arne Langsetmo’s posts on here. They will begin by him selective taking a portion of your text, rephrasing it in a way that bastardizes the intial meaning, intentionally, and ends with a flourish, usually by throwing out some pseudo-intellectual latin phrase, or any combination of the following : Chimy, McHitler, BushCo, Rethuglican, Faux News, maladministration, cocaine addict, DUI, Enron – you get the picture.
But please people, let us engage him. People like that we wish to encourage, much like we should have been encouraged that the DNC wished to act like a bunch of lemmings (or is it a herd) and collectively run off the cliff by selecting Dean. You can say this for him, this will be the first election he has won outside of his homestate. Arne, Dean, Kos, Atrios – as bile and insulting as they are, are, to borrow a phrase, “useful idiots”. If there is ever any doubt that the other side wishes to lead us astray, they can be counted on to remind us of what could have been, and how fortunate we are.
But please people, let us engage him.
JD (hopefully not looking my way),
I, respectfully, decline. I’ve done my time.
PS – Any predictions on how this will be parsed? I think Arne will manage to address each of “I decline”, “respectfully”, and “I’ve done my time” in its own post and with inserting some translation of Rethuglican Chimpy McHitlerbushenron.
Sure sucks to not have your own words stand up to criticism, eh?
Cheers,
Sure sucks to not have your own words stand up to criticism, eh?
Yes, Arne, that must be it.