Once again, you completely refuse to answer the legitimate questions posed by respondents on this very blog, regarding the dual hypocricies of allowing anyone to enter a highly sensitive and secure location using a fake name, thus bypassing long-standing security procedures while screaming about security and terrorist threats; and of Republicans giving such latitude to a person with a gay porn past while openly pandering to anti-gay bigotry.

Furthermore, your lame implication that Guckhert's critics are engaged in an "anti-gay witch hunt" further compounds the dishonesty of your response to this affair.

And you're still using "Jeff Gannon's" name when you quote this clearly unreliable source. How much more transparent can you get?

"Classical Values" my ass. Is this diversionary name-calling really supposed to "end the Culture Wars?"

PS: Yes, I stand by my implication that you may be financed by the Republicans. Your refusal to adhere to the "Classical Values" to which you allude doesn't prove my implication, but it does raise serious questions about your motives. Also, if the Republicans supported Ralph "Lenin Lite" Nader, they would have no problems supporting any other pretender who happened to suit their interests.

Gee, Raging Bee, I wonder if you think that the White House should ban Wolf Blitzer, Larry King and Geraldo Rivera from anything to do with reporting on the Presidency?

Our faithful correspondent here at Classical Values could easily get the exact same credentials as Gannon/Guckert did. In fact, I could get the same "daily pass."

As for him being on the Republican Payroll, you're drinking the kool-aid and obviously haven't been reading what he's writing, rather just seeing what you want to see.

I hope that in the coming weeks the White House decides that based on the calls from the left that they will conduct an exhaustive review of all the White House press credentials. Boy o Boy would that be interesting when half the White House press corps gets yanked out by the collar.

The left is walking into an ambush of their own making by trying to pump this up as an issue.

Oh yeah Bee? Do you happen to know Randi Rhodes REAL name? Nah, didn't think so.

--Jason

I won't complain about such a review, so long as everyone is judged according to the same standards, and no back-door exceptions are made thenceforth, particularly in the area of White House security. Then, at least, we might have a slightly better chance of having a White House press corps who actually act like journalists, and get the respect they need to stand up to the Chimp in Chief. How do you think Bush will take that? (Why do you think this hasn't been done already?)

Incidentally, yes, you probably could get a day-pass to the White House press room - for a day. Guckhert's use of day-passes for TWO YEARS is an abuse of that policy.

And stop the bellyaching about how "everybody does it." Two wrongs don't make a right, and us ordinary folks, who don't have rich daddies to bail us out of trouble, deal with the injustice of getting a speeding ticket even though we're not going any faster than anyone else. Don't like it? Don't speed.

"Raging Bee" 1) leaves no real name, no valid e-mail address, no URL, and 2) insults the blogger whose blog he's commenting on. That's my definition of a troll.

According to Raging Bee, most of America, including me, must be on the Republican payroll, since most of us voted to re-elect President Bush.

I admire a homosexual conservative. Smearing a conservative for being homosexual is an old Communist tactic.

My apologies for the first paragraph. He did leave a URL the second time, OK. Still, a commenter should show more respect to his host.

Hey Eric,

If the Republicans are paying for this site I want my cut!

I'm perfectly willing to show respect for the host, and normally I do - but the host should in turn show a little more respect for the truth, for logic, and for the intelligence of the readers.

If you are going to spread wild accusations and distorted logic, not to mention name-calling of your own ("Communists for Kerry?" Come on!), then you are contributing to the degradation of the debate on your own blog.

Speaking of wild accusations, if you actually read my posts, you would know that I am not "Smearing a conservative for being homosexual" - I am attacking the hypocricy of a Republican party that panders to anti-gay bigotry, and lets a man who acted as a gay escort and put gay porn on the Web get easy access to the President without questioning his past. I am saying, in short, that the Republicans are treating a few gay men as equals, while quietly (or not so quietly) condoning mindless hatred of gays in general. Their rules are for others.

Furthermore, as you well know, I am not saying that "most of America" is on the GOP payroll; I am IMPLYING that THIS BLOG could be on the GOP payroll because it seems to ape Republican tactics as well as rhetoric, and in so doing, fails to uphold the libertarian values it professes. This may not be totally just, but it is fairer than equating Kerry with Communism (AFTER the USSR ceased to exist!), or criticism of Guckhert with homophobia.

Dennis, the latest checks were cut three weeks ago. Yours should have arrived by now. "Heh."

Also, what's your take on importunate readers making imperious demands? Should we start taking requests? Or should we remain a platform for the dissemination of our own (possibly lame) opinions?
You know, like all those other blogs.

Given all the ink I've spilled bitch-slapping the President's Ethicist, you would think that a little slack might be in order. Oh, well. I guess we're all Right Wing Death Beasts now. I'm laughing so hard my eyes are watering.

"Communists For Kerry" made me laugh when they were active, and they remain hilarious, even in hiatus.

Ridicule is a powerful, time-honored political technique. One could even call it classical.
And it works so much better when your opponent leads with his chin. IF we were voting (we're not) I would vote to leave the CFK link up.

Say, isn't there only one "c" in hypocrisy?

Pedantically Yours,
J. Case, RWDB