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The conservative response to the GannonGuckert scandal has been uniformly weird in my opinion.  But there's one that I see occasionally that I just don't understand.  Here's Powerline, twice:

Gannon, stunned by the virulence of the left’s attack on him, quit his job at Talon. Subsequently, a low-life named John Aravosis who is a gay activist and has a web site, found nude photos of Gannon and posted them online.

and

Desperate to change the subject in the wake of the Eason Jordan debacle, they seized on poor Mr. Gannon, made silly, baseless accusations against him, denounced him for being a homosexual, and, in the ultimate indignity, tracked down and published nude photographs of him.

The nude photos were there, on the internet(s), already.  GannonGuckert put them there.  The left didn't find them and post them.  They were posted already.  People that pointed out that they were there weren't invading his privacy.  In fact, the sole reason to put a photograph, or anything else, on the internet is so someone else can view it.  Now, GannonGuckert probably intended his photos for a different audience, but that doesn't change the fact that pointing to them is not an invasion of privacy; quite the opposite, in fact.

If you put a doctored TV ad on the air, say, and then someone complains about it, you can do many things: you can vilify them, you can claim they're full of shit, you can say they're wrong.  But you can't tell them they're wrong to look at the ad in the first place.  You made it to be looked at. 

Sorry guys, the rules aren't any different just because you're republican.

-- Michael

Comments

[Musing Michael]

Sorry guys, the rules aren't any different just because you're republican.

Of course they are, Michael. At least in their minds. But we're not going to let them get away with that, are we?

[DavidByron]

Is that lie (that the photos of Guckert nude were "found" and posted to the internet) the usual Republican defence then? Priceless.

[Musing Michael]

DB: Of course. We all know that no self-respecting born-again Republican would ever pose in the nude, much less post those pictures on a publicly accessible website. And certainly not next to anything so crass as a posted schedule of rates, hourly and otherwise.

[Cheryl]

So, where is dmeyers? I expect that person to chime in any time defending the rights of homosexuals to free speech and dignity, now that the secret is out that Republicans are in bed with the faggots too.

(... silence... )

[dmeyers]

I am simply amazed. After how many weeks and you all continue to talk about Mr. Guckert's sexual preference. Why are you all so obsessed with the fact that he is gay? What relevence to any of this does him being gay have? To me it shows how desparate and out of touch you all are if discovering that a conservative is gay and once was an escort...

Hey, maybe we should check if he ever rented a room at Barney Frank's pad..