Newsflash: the Republican apologists for Jeff Gannon are balls-out delusional. Cliff Kincaid, of the right-wing "Accuracy in Media", was on the Franken show this afternoon and had the nerve to compare Helen Thomas and, what he called, "bias" to the flagrant bias of man-whore Jim "Jeff Gannon" Guckert.
Why can't the Republicans see the distinction between bias and watchdogging?
Let's define this for the delusional sycophants on the right.
Helen Thomas is a full-blooded journalist with 40 years in the White House press corp. Sure, she asks tough, hard-nosed questions of the Bush administration and has suffered as a result -- being thrown from the front row and stripped of her ceremonial duty of saying, "Thank you, Mr. President," at the end of Bush's press conferences.
To say that she's biased is an absolute LIE. Thomas has asked tough questions of every White House administration she's covered: Clinton, Bush 41, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson, and Kennedy. She's quite literally THE DEFINITION of what the U.S. press ought to be: a watchdog, holding our elected officials accountible at every turn, then reporting the results.
The members of the "press" who defend Bush at every turn have failed to do their duty and should be driven from the ranks of the press as failures, miscreants, and throw-backs to the days of yellow journalism. They're nothing less than biased propaganda arms for the Bush/Rove White House.
I don't care which party the press covers. They have a duty take a muckraking, watchdog role in order for the American public to get the full story.
On that account, the American press is brain dead.