U.S. liberals put a notch on the blog belt

It’s not exactly the same kind of trophy that conservative bloggers bagged when they skewered some reports by Dan Rather and CBS News, but liberal bloggers in the U.S. have forced the resignation of a conservative online reporter.

Washington Post media reporter/critic Howard Kurtz writes:

The conservative reporter who asked President Bush a loaded question at a news conference last month resigned yesterday after liberal bloggers uncovered his real name and raised questions about his background.

Jeff Gannon, who had been writing for the Web sites Talon News and GOPUSA, is actually James Dale Guckert, 47, and has been linked to online domain addresses with sexually provocative names.

He has been under scrutiny since asking Bush how he could work with Senate Democratic leaders “who seem to have divorced themselves from reality.” The information about Gannon was posted on the liberal sites Daily Kos, Atrios and World o' Crap. … [Read the full story – registration required]

Talon News put up a brief statement on this.

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