GOPUSA Owner weighs in on Gannon affair

In a Dallas Morning News story (accessed via The Biloxi Sun Herald), GOPUSA chief contributes these laugh lines to the ongoing saga:

Eberle said he strives to keep his 2-year-old news site "completely separate" from the partisan GOPUSA, and said that if he, as editor, came across a story that was critical of Republicans, "you bet we'd be covering it. It's important to maintain the line between opinion and news, and I try very hard to do that," he said. "GOPUSA is overtly partisan; it says so in our name. But if you look on the Talon news site, it's just news."

Stop! Stop! My ribs are sore from laughing already....

Eberle neither apologized for nor defended Guckert's actions, saying instead that the question obviously "got attention because it was coming from the right" and that he would "counsel any new reporter to just be aware of the environment that they're in.

"I think there's a way of asking pointed questions from either perspective that don't necessarily come loaded with political bias," he said. "I don't think anyone should ask softball questions. ... Republicans and conservatives want to know what's going on, too. They have a lot of tough questions to ask, too."

Tough questions? He's kidding, right? I mean he knows we're not that stupid. C'mon, he said this with a wink and a nod. A little nudge with the elbow. Right? Eh? Yo Bobby! Good one....