Karl Rove is an evil genius (plus something you don't know)
This whole Jeff Gannon thing is nothing more than shenanigans perpetrated by Karl Rove.
First, he planted Jeff Gannon in the White House press room. This was an amazingly stupid move, as Gannon couldn't possibly survive any kind of serious scrutiny. He was so obviously a fake, Rove must have known he would be found out soooner or later. Being a master of political timing, however, Rove was confident that he could manage the scandal to his own benefit. And he was right, as we shall see.
Next, he duped CBS into running that faked-memo story on Bush's TANG "service". We all know how that turned out, but Rove saw it coming ahead of time. The whole purpose of that exercise was to take down a famous truth-teller, discredit the Mainstream Media, and energize the rightwing bloggers with a false sense of superiority over their part in his little charade.[1]
Now, here's the tricky part. Try to follow along.
Rove knew that there would be backlash. He knew that as soon as conservative bloggers began silencing powerful voices in the media, liberal bloggers would be angry and frustrated. He knew that liberal bloggers would be un unstoppable force for truth, once his army of conservative minions demonstrated the power of the blogosphere. Liberal bloggers are the Hope that followed all the evils he unleashed when he opened this Pandora's Box.
And here's where Rove's genius becomes apparent.
Jeff Gannon is a nobody. A joke. A dupe, a tool. A patsy, just like Lee Harvey Oswald. He's a target so juicy that the liberal bloggers just can't resist taking him down. While conservatives have mounted the heads of big game like Dan Rather and Eason Jordan on their wall, liberals have been stuck with Gannon. He's so preposterously uninfluential and irrelevant, it discredits the liberal blogosphere immensely to claim him as a victory.
Their big chance, and liberals have blown it on the most worthless Republican asshat they could possibly find.
Jeff Gannon was a trap, set by Karl Rove to discredit liberal bloggers through the sheer silliness of the narrative. And while they're busy with Gannon, the real Republican evildoers carry on unscrutinized.
Karl Rove planted Jeff Gannon because he planned to take down Dan Rather, and wanted to be prepared for the inevitable payback. Gannon is a tarbaby and a decoy. The liberal bloggers should drop his story as fast as they can, and try to figure out what Rove has misdirected them away from.
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[1] And the energizing effect on the rightwing blogs has already paid off. They would never have been able to take down CNN exec Eason Jordan, if they hadn't been emboldened by their spectacular victory over the neatly set up Rather.