Hence, their response? James Guckert.
Apparently Guckert worked for Talon News, a small conservative publication created by GOPUSA's Bobby Eberle, and wrote under the psuedonym Jeff Gannon. After asking one too many questions that were considered "softballs" during White House press briefings and during Bush press conferences, the moonbats, led by Democratic Party-bought Media Matters of America, decided to do a little digging.
Once they found out his real name they immediately accused him of using false information in order to get access to the White House, of which they had no proof of and Guckert states he used his real information. They claimed he's not a "credentialed journalist", although no one really knows what a "credentialed journalist" is and is able to establish standards for them. They accused him of getting special access inside the White House, but they have no evidence of who supposedly gave Gannon this special access, and thus no proof that he received favortism. They even accused him of outing CIA agent/loudmouth Valerie Plame, although he only cited information that was reported in the NYT a week prior, and not to mention Plame's interference in her husband, Joe Wilson's, mission and her appearance in Vanity Fair magazine.
Hence, the only way they could bring Guckert down is through a hatchet job. Guckert had a dark past, as he appeared in several gay websites. Those were brought into the open, and thus Guckert resigned from Talon News out of disgrace.
You see, with the left the ends always justify the means. They simply wanted a trophy and didn't care how they got it. However, the whole blogosphere was stained by this "scandal" instead of just the moonbats. They were the ones who are rightly characterized as a lynch mob when all of this went down, and none of them are willing to apologize for their actions in this ordeal. In fact, they are still bewildered why the mainstream media aren't paying them any attention like they did Rathergate.
When the conservative bloggers started paying attention to the story, and proved there wasn't anything to it, they decided to flood their sites and harrass them. Take Powerline for example. John Hinderacker received countless vulgar emails, the secretary at his law office was cursed at on the phone, among other things. All of it got to him, and thus he lashed out at one of them. The recipient was a blogger, and he posted the email on his website. Even after Hinderacker apologized - something he didn't have to do - there were moonbats that wanted to send the email to the Minnesota bar in order to place it on his record.
Welcome to the future of left-wing politics, folks.