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Rev Dobson? Speak up, won'tcha?

Via Rude Pundit, a very germane question from Bill Berkowitz, who writes Conservative Watch for Working for Change.

Why have the 'traditional family values' folks erected a wall of silence around the Gannon scandal?

They were livid over SpongeBob Square Pants' participation in a video advocating tolerance, and fuming about Buster the Bunny's visit to a lesbian household. So where's the outrage from the Christian right over the Jeff Gannon Affair? Despite a chunk of time having passed since the Gannon Affair was first uncovered, Christian right organizations are still cloaked in silence. As of February 24, there wasn't any news about the Gannon Affair available on the Web sites of Focus on the Family, the Family Research Council, the American Family Association, or the Traditional Values Coalition. As best as I could determine, no special alerts about the Gannon Affair have been issued; and no campaigns have been launched to get to the bottom of the matter.

Curious about this wall of silence, I phoned several Christian right groups on Tuesday, February 22, hoping to find someone who could comment on the Gannon Affair.

Read the column to find the specifics of the responses he got; most of them were of the "nobody here wants to talk about that" variety. If you're unclear on the Gannon scandal, AMERICAblog is the primary news resource. A brief précis: Gannon is a former male prostitute who worked for a phony news organization and was allowed into the White House sans security check in order to throw softball questions to administration officials.