Ayuh… just about the weakest ad hominem attack imaginable outside of “Jeffrey Kofman is rather nice fellow, actually.”
Canadians are trying to undermine the American way of life. First it was all of those Terrence and Phillip movies, then it was the whole pot thing , then they started letting gays amrry and now this.
That I’d ever live to see these days…
As much as I detest the current administration, I have trouble believing this is reflective of any sort of official policy. Sounds more like some low-level yutz took it upon himself to let Matt Drudge and the rest of the world know about the vile Canadianess of Jeffrey Kofman. I expect a retraction, apology, and job-opening to soon follow.
Clearly it’s a plot by Canadians to take over our media and twist our minds to their nefarious ends. I’m glad the Bush Administration is exposing this evil plot. I bet Canada even has WMDs. And Saddam. And Osama.
Why?
I read his post as a correction of the term “outing”, not as a defense of White House actions.
“Outing” implies revealing some privately held information about a person. In this case, it was not big secret that the reporter was gay (or Canadian)…so to use the term “outing” in this case would be silly.
That said, the actions of this low level staffer seem rather juvenile at best. I suspect that he will be joining Kelly Tripplehorn on the “D’oh” unemployment line.
WHo says it has to be any sort of official policy? If the guy at the top of the org chart is a slimy weasel(*), and his underlings are all slimy weasel, then odds are damn good that the stuff they do will tend to be slimy and weasley, even if there’s nothing officially written down on a “Corporate vision” document anywhere.
(* = Apologies to all weasels who are currently slimy but just need a good washing-up 
)
As for the OP … eh, par for the course. After stealing a Presidential election and lying to start a war, using homophobic and xenophobic smears is small potatoes.
Actually, I looked up Bryan Adams on the Internet to see if he was still alive 
and on his website, the tours listed pretty much seemed all Canadian. Which makes since, because I haven’t heard of him touring here in quiet a few years.
One wonders if there are any Kids In The Hall fans at the WH.
Let’s see, one person acts a certain way, so that must mean the people he works with must be cretins of the same degree. Guilty by association, I take it. Right. :rolleyes:
It’s not ok for a person to be anti-gay, but’s ok for people to make generalizations about that person’s coworkers. Gotcha ya.
I disagree. It appears to be standard WH operating procedure to trash anyone in their way, in whatever way they can. (Can you say “Max Cleland”?) I don’t think there’s a specific WH policy about outing gays who make life difficult for them, but if it’s what’s available, I don’t think they’ve got any caveats saying to not use a person’s orientation to their disadvantage.
Fortunately, the main effect in this instance is to show what a bunch of hateful, narrow-minded pissants are in the Bush administration. And to quote Michael Dukakis, “a fish rots from the head down.”
The enemies list is next.
This regime of unilateralism does not like letting the truth be known. Our Amerikan media pendulum is slowly swinging back
from the right to the left. Colin Powell’s kid went a little too
far with the FCC thing and when tree huggers and the NRA
both denounce something, look out.
We see soldiers hugging little childrens puppies.
They don’t report that we average an American soldiers death
every day.~~~~~~~~~~~~~Zep
If you knew anything about Karl Rove’s activities in Texas, you’d find that this has a very familiar odor …
Since when does “White House Press Secretary”, i.e. mouthpiece of the President, equal “low level staffer” or “low level yutz”?
pun:
President George W Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington DC 20500
Send a note there indicating your disappointment and that this incident has caused you to rethink whether you would vote for the President in the upcoming election.
And CC it to:
Democratic National Committee
430 S Capitol St. SE
Washington DC 20003
This really cheeses me off. As some of you may know that could have easily been me up there.
Of course they would have had to report that…
“Psst! Hey Drudge! Did you know that Jonathan Chance is married! And he goes to sleep early! And watches ENTERPRISE!!!”
I hope ABC decides to skewer The White House for this. They’ll have earned it.
You bastard!
But seriously, this is seeming like a disturbing trend. First there was the leak that the wife of one of the administration’s critics worked for the CIA, now there’s this. This looks like it’s starting to turn into a “Be too critical and we’ll dig up dirt on you” pattern.
Since when was it the White House Press Secretary that “outed” the reporter?
You’re right, Monster104. I mis-read the Washington Post story. :smack:
Don’t feel bad. That article was VERY poorly written, IMO. Then again, I happen to think most online news articles are terribly written.
I had to read it twice just to make sure it really didn’t say it was the White House Press Secretary, because the way it’s written makes it sound like he did when you do a quick readthrough.
Even better than “Fucko off!!!”