Wizbang has some opinions on KOS’s “we win!” and the comparison being made between the Eason Jordan resignation and the Jeff Gannon resignation.

A few lefties are trying to compare the Eason and Gannon flaps and say they are the same thing… Even Kurtz fell into this trap.

But there is a WORLD of difference.

Eason Jordan wrongly accused people of murder. Gannon asked a few puffball questions. Comparing the two is a fool’s game of moral equivalence.

The right hand of the blogosphere went after Eason Jordan because of his actions.

The left hand of the blogosphere went after Gannon because of who he was.

As usual, I’m glad to be on the right.

I have to admit to not having followed the Gannon thing hourly, but I have to take issue with Wizbang’s Paul on this one. While I do agree there is a world of difference, I think that there is a tendency among the conservative blogs to try to say that the liberal blogs are all over Gannon because he is allegedly involved in the gay lifestyle or tied to various other non-conservative activities. While it may be true that they used this to attempt to destroy him personally, there is a legitimate question here that I still have not seen the answer to. How does someone working under a pseudonym for a phony news agency whose main income is not reporting, get access to the White House press conferences? [UPDATE: I have since read a bit more about this, and so this deserves some clarification. Writing under a pseudonym does not mean he didn’t give the White House his real name. And the news org is not phony, just small and conservative]

My fellow conservative bloggers are not asking this question, and I’m not sure why. [UPDATE: Now I know… :-)]

UPDATE: In the comments for this post, Paul [very politely] takes me to task with a really good point.

The fact Talon news was selected is no great mystery. The Village Voice has (had) credentials and they are as lefty as they come. Being a bias news org is not an automatic disqualifier… Remember (unless I am mistaken) Talon news did not get the boot, they are still in there. Gannon resigned because of the attack on his personal life.

UPDATE 2: Secure Liberty has more.

Sorry folks, this is no big deal. David Gergen makes it clear that having a “ringer” is nothing new. So all this boils down to the fact that the ringer was a former gay escort. Is that it? Bill INDC has a nice roundup and I share his conclusion, and Jeff Goldstein’s.

There’s no comparison between wrecking Eason Jordan and outing Jeff Gannon.

And David Gergen on CNN, from INDC:

GERGEN: I am sorry, I really have a hard time getting excited about this story. I think it’s trivial compared to paying off journalists like Armstrong Williams or others and giving them money to go out and support you. In this case, the White House has had a lot of wild cards in there over the years, and you well know that. And various presidents — President Kennedy made no bones of the fact that there was a woman from Texas who was sort of — who was a liberal, and she was out there in the audience, and when he got in trouble on a question, he’d always find her. He knew where she sat. And he turned to her in press conferences because she’d get him off the took. This has been going on for a long, long time.

If you haven’t seen it, there’s “big news” today from various sources on Gannon, and it all does seem to focus on whether or not he is involved in the gay lifestyle. And this from the tolerant, inclusive left.

See more at Red State.

And Say Anything says:

Really, the sum total of the left’s problem with Jeff Gannon is that he’s a right-wing partisan, gay (apparently being gay is only “ok” if you lean to the left in your politics) and got White House press credentials.

UPDATE 3 (2/15): Captain Ed weighs in.

UPDATE 4: Just One Minute is on the case.