I’d like to celebrate the eve of Dan Rather’s departure with an observation about how the CBS Radio News led off its 7:00PM Eastern “World News Roundup” report.
There are counter demonstrations supported by terrorist group Hezbollah, major news outlets in “Old Europe” are suggesting that perhaps “Bush Was Right” and democracy is definitely on the move as a serious countermeasure to terrorism in the Middle East.
In this backdrop, President Bush delivered a major speech updating the nation (uh, that would be OUR nation) on the War on Terror. But CBS Radio News felt it ranked third in priority order on their newscast tonight. Number two was the Michael Jackson trial.
So of course, what is the most pressing story that CBS Radio News could lead off their major radio newscast tonight?
President Bill Clinton suffering from rare, non-lifethreatening complication. In fact….

“Really, this is a quality of life issue,” said Dr. Michael Banbury, a heart surgeon at the famed Cleveland Clinic. Banbury told CBS News anchor Dan Rather the procedure is designed to relieve discomfort
“It’s not all that serious. First of all, this is not operation on his heart. His heart has already been taken care of. This is just to remove the peel of scar tissue that has trapped his left lung,” said Banbury.

Well, great…. CBS leads with a “quality of life issue” about a former, impeached President. When Clinton switches from Viagra to Cialis… another “lifestyle issue”… will that too lead CBS News?
Could there be any doubt left that America has been brainwashed for decades by the power of the MSM? Good riddance, Dan. Courage.

Despite the title of this post, the men pictured there are not your humble bloggers.

Before I had even read this blog, my current blog-league was already writing about privacy. In his “Opening Salvo (the very first post on this blog), he wrote that he was motivated to enter the blogosphere, in part, “to stop the anti-gay, invasion of privacy campaign against gay Americans.” He expanded upon this in his subsequent post, Mission Statement:

The act of invading someone’s privacy and workplace in order to divulge salacious details of their personal lives reeks of McCarthy-ism at its worst.. . .
Because the leftist gay radicals are so blinded by their rage and hatred, they are now systematically destroying the lives of individual gay Americans themselves! How ironic. So it isn’t John Ashcroft and the FBI peeking in your bedroom, and going through your trash. Nope, it is Michael Rogers and his silent spies who may be stalking you everywhere you go — out to eat, at parties, outside your own home.

And now we have someone offering money to find out the private details of the life of a conservative reporter whose nude pictures have already appeared on various left-wing web-sites.
While those who advocate the publishing of such information may dress up their scandalmongering with fancy rhetoric and noble-sounding ideas, they are little more than the left-wing gay equivalent of a supermarket tabloid. They have anointed themselves as judges of conservative hypocrisy and are willing to expose the private lives of at least two gay conservatives to make their case.
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I had thought that my last piece on “Gannongate” was going to be the last thing I wrote on the topic. But, last night, just before bed, I was perusing Christian Grantham’s blog and chanced upon this post. John Aravosis has republished the post of a “a rich DC socialite” offering $20,000 for dirt on Jeff Gannon.
They

are looking for evidence (photos, phone pictures, locks of hair, DNA on a suit) that Jeff Gannon had any type of sexual, or romantic, relationship with any top-ranking Washington official(s) — or proof that he engaged in any illegal sexual activities or favors.

Not content merely to publish nude pictures of this man, these people want to snoop further into Gannon’s private life. They may be looking for “proof that he engaged in illegal sexual activities,” but they’re also seeking information about the most intimate of his relationships, those of a “romantic” nature.
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