Radical Homo Operatives
To my eyes via Digby quoting Garance Franke-Ruta, this snippet:
Which brings us back to Jordan. He was brought down not by outraged citizen-bloggers but by a mix of GOP operatives and military conservatives.
I have always wanted to an "operative" — on the side of the forces for good, of course. Maybe this my chance.
Clearly I'm not cut out to be a "military conservative", not even a "military liberal" since I can't imagine quite what that would be.
On the other hand, I feel that I'm perfectly positioned to be a pinko-homo-liberal operative and, since I'm still looking for gainful employment, I'm particularly susceptible to recruitment by pinko-homo-liberal operators. If necessary, I'm quite prepared and willing to become a gay prostitute / escort to fill out my operative portfolio. (Did I mention that I stopped being a "practising homosexual" some years back, by which time I was already pretty accomplished at it.)
I just thought I'd mention it in case someone could put me in touch….
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on Thursday, 10 March 2005 at 19.38
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That Garance Frank-Ruta piece, "Blogged Down,", is an important investigative report. I urge you to read the whole thing when you have the time.
on Thursday, 10 March 2005 at 21.07
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Quite so: a very good working through of connections around recent fisticuffs beteen bloggers and Dan Rather, Eason Jordan, and Jeff Gannon, although I would probably make stronger the distinction between Gannon and the other two. I also didn't warm up to the author's propensity for referring to "real journalists", but that's a small transgression for a significant article.
I'm still bothered, however, by this idea that all three were "driven" from their jobs. How is it, really, that people like Rather and Jordan can be "driven" from their jobs: bloggers are not shareholders, and I don't believe that they brought to bear the same pressure. I don't understand.
On the other hand, from my view, Gannon was not "driven", but seemed to disappear suspiciously quickly, more suggestive of someone being removed in the hopes that the searchlight of blogger scrutiny might then pass him over.