But seriously folks…

Kos admitted that the only reason for going gonzo on the “gay hooker” angle was to get attention. He blames others for forcing him into it, of course, saying that this is how the game is played and society is to blame and so on.

This probably hurts him more than it hurts us.

I’m not actually sure what hard evidence they have that Gannon was a “gay hooker” in the first place. Last I checked, they had a rather louche self-portrait and some iffy domain names – something like “hello sailor dot com” or some such – registered by his internet company but never used. Pretty thin gruel for boiling a guy’s reputation in.

Meanwhile, the DU guys have spun this into an whole Advise-and-Consent-level brouhaha, saying that Scott McClellan has been spotted at gay bars and Gannon was blackmailing him or he was blackmailing Gannon and the president was in on it et cetera. You can make up the details as well as they can.

I think I’ll ignore this one until something happens.

But hey, if Eason Jordan, exec at CNN wants to make charges of torture or murder against the US military that is acceptable.

re: Mr. Jordan. Oh my. The Pearl details suggest the makings of a classical tragedy; those terrible things we do, wittingly, to ourselves and those we care most about. Perhaps he (and CNN) will reap what they’ve sown (in this life).

My (previous) thoughts:

Imagine that you’ve been briefed by your own security people that being anywhere close to a firefight with advancing U.S. troops will likely get you killed, especially if you happen to be near something that resembles a weapon with a sight (anti-tank missile, artillery range-finder, RPG, shoulder-mounted camera…). And given that the military has lost so many people to these look-and-fire weapons (2nd or 3rd cause of casualties in Iraq (?)) I certainly wouldn’t risk pointing anything at a tank or a soldier from more than 10 feet away (and if the soldiers are using night-vision goggles which sharpens outlines and diminishes detail, not even 10 feet .

Mr. Jordan clearly thinks soldiers under-fire should treat a proven deadly-threat with the same respect as a truck with a big red-cross/crescent on it. And that the press has some privileged position (better than, say, women and children). Times and circumstances change. He screwed up and his lack-of-forethought (or outright bias) is responsible for many of these deaths (esp. if he bought, employed, or even just encouraged, non-embedded video reporting). And I’d wager these (unvoiced) regrets are the reason for his (increasingly shrill) lashing out at others in an attempt to shift the blame, if only to help him sleep at night. Or perhaps worse, he cannot even admit to himself what he’s done – in the same way the left deludes itself when it fails to grok that the worst-ends results are often precisely due to their best-intentions (eg. the lefts’ unwillingness to accept that the amount of violent crime scales inversely with the ability of the law-abiding and the least-and-weakest of society to defend themselves).

To say nothing of condemning Saddam’s sons-in-law (and others) to death through his own sin-of-omission (and naked greed). Note that this is the biblical definition of greed (not the blessings of cut-throat competition lowering of prices enabling conspicuous consumption by even the poor, nor the companies sharing the resulting wealth with their shareholders and employees).

Mr. Jordan will get his reward. If not in this life, the next. If there are surviving children or relatives of the sons-in-law he allowed to be murdered they should sue him and CNN in the U.S. for whatever profits they made (times three) during the years these fools wittingly gave aid and comfort to the Baathists. Were it not for CNN (and others) propaganda (for Saddam, against sanctions, promoting Hamas’ and other “insurgents” in the region grievances as righteous) the Baathists might have fallen with “just” no-fly-zones, economic and diplomatic pressure, covert operations and the threat-of-direct military action. Imagine where we could have been if, instead, Mr. Jordan (and CNN) had been a force for good, disinfecting the UN scandal, shaming old Europe, and exposing the Baathist enablers (the French 1T$+ commercial oil entanglement, other countries’ weapons deals, etc.).

Shame on him and those like him. This is why morality (an unwavering internal compass) is so important for people in positions of public trust, much more important than written law. He must have started down this path long ago with small steps and equivocations. He and his company should suffer the indignity of the forgotten. Never to be mentioned again, erased from all memories.

When the evening is spread out against the sea…”

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The Kossacs are trying to make out something of this guyís interview with Joe Wilson, to prove that he is the one who outed Valerie Plume. So far, nothing indicates that he had an access to anything else but stories already published by major newspapers. But the leftist bloggers are salivated after a scalp of their own, and finally THEY GOT JEFF GANNON!!!!!! Woe is us! Whatever will we do now!

You donít know what I am talking about? Thatís OK. Should this develop into something of a one part per billion importance of Eason story there is no doubt that every MSM outlet will inform you about every unimagined and imagined detail in full.

Bah. I’m tired of all of the MSM. When push comes to shove they end up covering for each other with no qualms.

One has to wonder if that if it occurred to him to use that mindset was as a jsutification as he sent his reporters under the guns of those evil American soldiers he says he was sure were targeting them? “I can’t pull my people out of this mortal peril! We could lose access!”

Petty reasoning from a petty little man.