Coulter slices and dices the Gannon teacup tempest

Ann Coulter starts us out today with another demonstration of her black belt skills with a straight razor, this time masterfully carving up the absurd hit job the liberal media did on Jeff Gannon. Of course their real target was not Gannon, who was dispensable, but the White House, which committed the grave offense of issuing daily press passes to Gannon. Gannon worked for an internet news service called "Talon News," which was charged by the liberal press with criminally negligent conservative bias. His presence in the White House briefing room would have lowered the liberal bias in that room from 91 percent to 90 percent, thereby violating every known standard of fairness.

Coulter catches up with the story, and manages to find the shapely figure of the wonderful Maureen Dowd lying about it in plain sight:

The heretofore-unknown Jeff Gannon of the heretofore-unknown "Talon News" service was caught red-handed asking friendly questions at a White House press briefing. Now the media is hot on the trail of a gay escort service that Gannon may have run some years ago. Are we supposed to like gay people now, or hate them? Is there a website where I can go to and find out how the Democrats want me to feel about gay people on a moment-to-moment basis?

Liberals keep rolling out a scrolling series of attacks on Gannon for their Two Minutes Hate, but all their other charges against him fall apart after three seconds of scrutiny. Gannon's only offense is that he may be gay.
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On the op-ed page of the New York Times, Maureen Dowd openly lied about the press pass, saying: "I was rejected for a White House press pass at the start of the Bush administration, but someone with an alias, a tax evasion problem and Internet pictures where he posed like the 'Barberini Faun' is credentialed?"
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But Dowd was talking about two different passes without telling her readers (a process now known in journalism schools as "Dowdification"). Gannon didn't have a permanent pass; he had only a daily pass. Almost anyone can get a daily pass – even famed Times fantasist Maureen Dowd could have gotten one of those. A daily pass and a permanent pass are altogether different animals. The entire linchpin of Dowd's column was a lie. (And I'm sure the Times' public editor will get right on Dowd's deception.)