Some online rag I've never heard of posts a story and doesn't cite specific sources, some blogger links to said online rag,/. links to blog and posts Microsoft hates gays!
Can anyone actually confirm that MS pulled support of this?
Not only is it "some blogger." It's the same blogger who, a few months ago, launched a campaign of personal destruction against a reporter he didn't like, linking that reporter to not merely homosexuality but to homosexual prostitution in order to humiliate him and drive him out of the press corps.
Bafflingly, this blogger claims to be homosexual himself.
If that's true, this blogger is the most openly bigoted homosexual person I've ever heard of.
It's the same blogger who, a few months ago, launched a campaign of personal destruction against a reporter he didn't like, linking that reporter to not merely homosexuality but to homosexual prostitution in order to humiliate him and drive him out of the press corps.
What? Why do you say that? Of course he was a reporter. He was employed by a news organization that paid him to write news stories for publication. That's what "reporter" means.
Are you one of those "I say he wasn't a reporter because he didn't write what I wanted him to" kind of people?
I guess the bright side is that you provided an excellent illustration of what I was bemoaning.
1. Who cares what he's a former of? 2. People whom you disagree with are as free to publish as anybody else; that's what "freedom of the press" means. 3. Try a little tolerance on for size. You might just find that you like the way it fits.
it's possible that gannon technically meets the definition of reporter.
but there's a much more accurate term for a reporter like gannon; that term is 'shill.'
there's nothing baffling about a homosexual outing another homosexual. gannon's softball questions serve to aid and abet a fiercely anti-homosexual administration. in other words, he's a hypocrite. it is the hypocrisy, not the homosexuality, which is bothersome. among other unanswered questions, such as how and why did an ex-prostitute hack for a
I haven't even read anything that Gannon has written, so I have no clue whether or not I would "like it."
A reporter doesn't just write, he investigates. Consider this exchange between Gannon and McClellan:
MR. McCLELLAN: Go ahead, Jeff.
Q: Thank you. The imam [Yassin M. Aref] that was arrested in [Albany] New York last week was discovered because his name appeared in a Rolodex in a terrorist training camp in Iraq before the war. The book was found after, by U.S. troops, but he was in Iraq befor
Dude, your copy-and-paste skills are certainly above reproach, but can we just get right down to it, please? You don't like conservatives. Anybody who's a conservative, who expresses a conservative opinion, you describe as a shill, a dittohead, a mouthpiece.
You give liberals a bad name, man. I hate Bush. Hate him with a fiery passion. I think he's an idiot redneck Christian who can barely string a sentence together. He embarrasses me every time he opens his mouth.
Holy Christ. Al Qaeda was in control of Iraq? That's precious.
Is that really how you want to do business? Anybody who doesn't agree with you, toe your party line, gets fucking anhiliated?
We spent $70 million and give a special prosecutor free reign to dig up something -- anything -- on President Clinton. Meanwhile the 9/11 Comission, grudgingly appointed by President Bush, gets a budget of $14 million.
That's the real world, pal. Open your eyes -- and watch where you step!
how and why did an ex-prostitute hack for a small time rag get into white house briefings while career reporers from established papers were denied access
Maybe the white house doorman was in need of his "services".
This passes for journalism? (Score:4, Insightful)
Can anyone actually confirm that MS pulled support of this?
Re:This passes for journalism? (Score:2)
Bafflingly, this blogger claims to be homosexual himself.
If that's true, this blogger is the most openly bigoted homosexual person I've ever heard of.
Re:This passes for journalism? (Score:1)
Jeff Gannon was not a reporter.
Re:This passes for journalism? (Score:2)
Are you one of those "I say he wasn't a reporter because he didn't write what I wanted him to" kind of people?
Re:This passes for journalism? (Score:0)
2. Talon News was an online-only propaganda organ of GOPUSA.
3. You're full of shit.
Re:This passes for journalism? (Score:2)
1. Who cares what he's a former of?
2. People whom you disagree with are as free to publish as anybody else; that's what "freedom of the press" means.
3. Try a little tolerance on for size. You might just find that you like the way it fits.
Re:This passes for journalism? (Score:3, Informative)
but there's a much more accurate term for a reporter like gannon; that term is 'shill.'
there's nothing baffling about a homosexual outing another homosexual. gannon's softball questions serve to aid and abet a fiercely anti-homosexual administration. in other words, he's a hypocrite. it is the hypocrisy, not the homosexuality, which is bothersome. among other unanswered questions, such as how and why did an ex-prostitute hack for a
Re:This passes for journalism? (Score:2)
Please. All that means is that you don't like what he writes. Calling people with whom you disagree names is grammar-school stuff.
a fiercely anti-homosexual administration
Okay, we'll that's demonstrably false. Calling somebody with whom you disagree a bigot is also grammar-school stuff.
in other words, he's a hypocrite.
Everybody's a hypocrite. I'm a hypocrite. You're a hypocrite. Everybody's a hypocrite. It's part of the human condition.
When a hypocrite claims to hate hypocr
Re:This passes for journalism? (Score:2)
A reporter doesn't just write, he investigates. Consider this exchange between Gannon and McClellan:
MR. McCLELLAN: Go ahead, Jeff.
Q: Thank you. The imam [Yassin M. Aref] that was arrested in [Albany] New York last week was discovered because his name appeared in a Rolodex in a terrorist training camp in Iraq before the war. The book was found after, by U.S. troops, but he was in Iraq befor
Re:This passes for journalism? (Score:2)
You give liberals a bad name, man. I hate Bush. Hate him with a fiery passion. I think he's an idiot redneck Christian who can barely string a sentence together. He embarrasses me every time he opens his mouth.
But at least I'm honest. Seriously, at lea
Re:This passes for journalism? (Score:2)
Is that really how you want to do business? Anybody who doesn't agree with you, toe your party line, gets fucking anhiliated?
We spent $70 million and give a special prosecutor free reign to dig up something -- anything -- on President Clinton. Meanwhile the 9/11 Comission, grudgingly appointed by President Bush, gets a budget of $14 million.
That's the real world, pal. Open your eyes -- and watch where you step!
Your statement that I "don
Re:This passes for journalism? (Score:1)
Re:This passes for journalism? (Score:1)
Re:This passes for journalism? (Score:1)
2. Talon News was an online-only propaganda organ of GOPUSA.
3. You're full of shit.
Now, now. You don't know for a fact that he's full of shit.