Rummy Strikes Back

The Bush White House and Matt Drudge have teamed up to play the anti-gay bigotry card. The goal: deflect attention from the growing criticism of Bush and Rummy among U.S. troops.

Some folks in the White House were apparently hopping mad when ABC News correspondent Jeffrey Kofman did a story on Tuesday's "World News Tonight" about the plummeting morale of U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq.

So angry, in fact, that the next day, a White House operative alerted cyber-gossip Matt Drudge to the fact that Kofman is not only openly gay, he's Canadian.

Unsurprisingly, Grovel Grove only has the story half right. The Groveler reported one of Drudge's heds, "ABC NEWS REPORTER WHO FILED TROOP COMPLAINT STORY IS CANADIAN," but not the one designed to drum up anti-gay sentiment: "ABCNEWS REPORTER WHO FILED TROOP COMPLAINTS STORY -- OPENLY GAY CANADIAN... "

Surprised? Me neither. Rummy doesn't like it when the cannon fodder talks back.