Friday, February 25, 2005
Sister Ann Explains It All For You...
It seems the White House couldn't get Maggie Gallagher, for whatever reason, so they tossed the Guckert defense to Ann Coulter. It's a lesser effort, granted, but you get what you pay for and, after all, Free means Free.0 comments
Ann Coulter: REPUBLICANS, BLOGGERS AND GAYS, OH MY!
The first exciting aspect of this article is Ann's effortless insertion of the boogeymen themselves—Bill Clinton and Dan Rather into an article which has nothing to do with either.
Right-wing writers have recently created a new game among readers—akin to the ongoing game created by cartoonist Abe Hirshfeld in The New York Times. Abe invented a game that came to be called "Where're the Ninas?" for the name of his daughter which he would cleverly insert into the fabric of every drawing he did. RW writers have updated this game into "Where're the Dans?" Clever writers such as Coulter slip them in carefully—but if you're sharp of eye you'll find them; lesser wing-nut writers just toss them in willy-nilly, which which makes it too obvious, too easy and not terribly all that much fun.
As to what passes for message, Ann sums up her J'accuse thusly:
Gannon didn't write about gays. No "hypocrisy" is being exposed. Liberals' hateful, frothing-at-the-mouth campaign against Gannon consists solely of their claim that he is gay.
First of all, let's settle this finally: his name isn't "Gannon," it's Guckert (GOO´ - kurt). James (J. D.) Guckert. But in all due deference to Guckert's claim that his name is difficult to pronounce, I do admit that "Gannongate" does roll off the tongue much more smoothly than "Guckertgate."
Ann is asserting here that it is the Big Tent GOP which embraces All Things Gay, despite its being Constitutionally challenged.
And that it's the bad-bad Liberals who, while so tied up "frothing-at-the-mouth," just don't get the fact that this whole matter IS SIMPLY NOT ABOUT a hooker having the run of the White House grounds—coming and going on two years' worth of Daily Passes at the behest of the zipper and/or money clip of a rather high-ranking official of the Bush administration, who secretly set J. D. up in a comfy spot in the press corps, where J. D. was fed sensitive and perhaps even classified state secrets, which were then used against the political enemies of the White House, and perhaps also compromising this WH official and opening him up to blackmail from assorted terrorists, hostile nations and right-wing whacks galore.
It's only the frothers on the Left who don't understand that it's not about any of that.
Luckily, the good-good right-wingers who have liberated the GOP understand that this is all about the left's bashing of those poor gay and lesbian folks whom the Republicans have fought so valiantly for, for so long.
OK. I get it now.
posted by Gotham 4:18 PM
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