The Power Behind Jeff Gannon

Andrew Sullivan opines on GannonGate.  And Glenn deals an Ace, who reveals the Real Ultimate Power behind Jeff Gannon.  Nooo, it isn't Karl Rove...

The NY Times has lost interest for now, but maybe the Right can keep this scandal alive a bit longer.

UPDATE: But seriously, folks - Andrew proposes a "bizzarro world" test - what do we think would have happened if this were a gay liberal reporter in a Democratic Administration?

Well, life rarely provides perfectly controlled social experiments, but here is another thought experiment - suppose a widely-read but anonymous liberal blogger played an instrumental role in toppling the Republican Senate Majority Leader.  Surely, the right wing bloggers would be up in arms!  What if the anonymous blogger was in the pay of the DNC?  What if he was a disgruntled Big Media reporter or editor moonlighting as a blogger to promote Republican-bashing stories?  The Right would Demand To Know, yes?

Well, no.  Folks who have been following the blogosphere will know that I am referring to the role Atrios, who was then anonymous, played in bringing down Trent Lott.

And other folks will remember what happened when Don Luskin threatened legal action against Atrios, in an unrelated incident that might have outed him.  Dan Drezner has links to an impressive beat-down by righties ranging from Glenn Reynolds to the NRO.  (I would like to say, "bygones", and note that there were folks willing to offer a defense of Don that, if heated twenty or thirty degrees, could have been described as "tepid".)

Comments

[Clare Fox]

The Right hasn't lost interest -

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43057

[JorgXMcKie]

Am I the only one to think that Gannon is the source that Judith Miller is protecting? I mean, c'mon, we all know how good Karl Rove is. Talk about wheels within wheels within wheels.

What could possibly be more damaging to the Mouthpiece of the Left than to have its own reporter's source outed as a gay prostitute operating under the influence of Rove? They would lose what credibility they have left after the Jayson Blair Affair.

[richard mcenroe]

JorgXMcKie — C'mon, it's obvious Miller's source was Bill Burkett. Connect the dots, man!

[UML Guy]

Credibility? They have credibility left? Man, it must be buried in the classified ads somewhere...