Wash. Blade invites Gannon to write op-eds for them

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001392820


The Return of Jeff Gannon! Ex-White House Favorite Finds New Outlet in Gay Papers

Chris Crain, the editor of The Washington Blade and chief editorial boss of Window Media's other gay papers, says his Op-Ed page is simply offering fresh and challenging opinion when it decides to publish occasional columns by Jeff Gannon.

"The job of any good opinion section is to challenge readers, not just preach to the choir," Crain wrote in a late September column.

But many readers, it appears, felt not simply challenged, but outraged at the appearance of Gannon's columns. Crain now says there is a "steady stream of 'feedback/vitriol' ... with each column, though a little less each time he is published." Gannon tells E&P, "The public reaction to my columns has been predictably negative and shrill."

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After Crain defended the decision to publish Gannon, A.J. Schuler, an Alexandria, Va., resident who identified himself as a "businessman whose clients in town include top attorneys and business leaders," wrote: "I will use whatever influence and leverage I have at my disposal to persuade advertisers to shun the Washington Blade, pending Chris Crain's removal as editor and the removal of James Guckert (a.k.a. Jeff Gannon) as a columnist. We don't need Chris Crain and his sambo (sic) rag editorial policies here in D.C."
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wow, Gannon's charm must be fantastic

:)

just as soon as Gannon isn't getting hate mail any more they'll can his ass and try to hire Coulter.

Aside from celebrity and partisanship, what does he offer?

is because Gannon is a fake journalist with questionable writing skills and a history of deception?

The Blade must be trying desperately to become the gay version of The Washington Times.

To remind the nation of who you are and the shameful Culture of Corruption you represent in the Bush-Republican White House.

America needs lots of reminders about who you are and what you represent.

worked behind the scenes to spit in your face. I mean this guy passed himself off as straight to help people who ran a national campaign based on stopping gays from marrying.