{"id":1210,"date":"2005-02-21T22:23:59","date_gmt":"2005-02-22T02:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2005-02-21T22:23:59","modified_gmt":"2005-02-22T02:23:59","slug":"gannon-again-more-on-the-myth-of-the-liberal-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1210","title":{"rendered":"Gannon Again – More on the Myth of the ‘Liberal’ Media…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dead-on op\/ed about the Gannon story<\/a> in The Oregonian<\/i> once again debunking the myth of the “liberal” media…<\/p>\n

Try to imagine this scenario: John Kerry wins the presidency and appoints a press secretary who grants a White House press pass to a fake reporter with a fake name representing a fake news outlet. And what if this “Jeff Gannon,” whose real name is James Guckert, gets called upon daily to lob softball questions at White House briefings? <\/p>\n

And what if it turns up that Gannon\/Guckert has an eyebrow-raising connection to the investigation of the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame? <\/p>\n

And what if Gannon\/Guckert was involved in setting up Web sites promoting homosexual prostitution? And what if racy nude photos of him start flooding the Internet? <\/p>\n

The only thing imaginary about this scenario was the part about Kerry being president. Had it been Kerry whose aide allowed Gannon\/Guckert such access to the president, just think of the furor. Conservative Web jockeys, in tandem with talk-radio shouters, would have created a frenzy thrusting the sordid story onto front pages across the land. At the very least, President Kerry’s press secretary would be out of a job.<\/p><\/div>\n

Our only quibble, the unbylined author’s line: “Bloggers on the left are no less bullies than those on the right.” On that issue, the writer couldn’t be more incorrect. Otherwise, a good, short, to-the-point read worthy of encouraging us all to make even more<\/i> noise until those bastards pay attention.<\/p>\n

Have we mentioned lately that we have an “Email it to someone!” button at the bottom of every article?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dead-on op\/ed about the Gannon story in The Oregonian once again debunking the myth of the “liberal” media… Try to imagine this scenario: John Kerry wins the presidency and appoints a press secretary who grants a White House press pass to a fake reporter with a fake name representing a fake news outlet. And what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}