Power Line’s Hindrocket reports that they’ve been receiving belligerent email from lefties about some kind of scandal involving a person named “Jeff Gannon:” What Scandal? I’ve gotten several love notes too, demanding that I give this towering scandal the coverage it deserves. The names of Dan Rather and Ward Churchill were invoked.

First, at the Chicago Tribune we discover that it’s an Atrios/Daily Kos production: His ID exposed, reporter quits.

WASHINGTON — A conservative reporter who asked President Bush a loaded question at a news conference last month resigned Wednesday after liberal bloggers uncovered his real name and raised questions about his background.

Jeff Gannon, who had been writing for the Web sites Talon News and GOPUSA, is actually James Dale Guckert, 47, and has been linked to online domain addresses with sexually provocative names. He has been under scrutiny since he asked Bush how he could work with Senate Democratic leaders “who seem to have divorced themselves from reality.” The information about Gannon was posted on liberal sites including Daily Kos and Atrios.

Under the headline “A Voice of the New Media: The Voice Goes Silent,” Gannon wrote on his personal Web page that because of the attention, “I find it is no longer possible to effectively be a reporter for Talon News,” and that he is quitting “in consideration of the welfare of me and my family.” Gannon added in a brief interview that “my family has been victimized” and he wanted to “put some separation between Talon News and the White House.”

So why do I seem disinterested? Because frankly, I have no idea who the hell Jeff Gannon/James Guckert is (and I suspect I’m not alone), and I have visited Talon News precisely once in the past four years.

I am glad to see Atrios and Daily Kos spending their time so productively, though, outing an obscure journalist who managed to scam a low-level White House press pass under a false name. Bravo!