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#1 2005-02-17 15:33:12
- BWhite
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Re: Jeff Gannon - The growing story
http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewCommentary. … nservative spin:
Remember, this quote is from a conservative pundit:
Make no mistake, Jeff Gannon, or James Guckert, or whatever his name is, is no conservative. Anybody who publishes sexually explicit photos of himself on a website in hopes of making money as a hooker is no conservative. Not in this lifetime. Not on this planet. The person in those photos is a pig and a pervert.
My question is "Who gave Gannon/Guckert a classified memo on the Valerie Plame controversy?" This guy had access to material that was a felony to disclose and no one on the Right seems to care. :;):
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And who approved giving a White House press pass for this "pig" and "pervert" - - okay thats two questions.
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Heck, this stuff is FUN! 
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#2 2005-02-17 17:53:13
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Re: Jeff Gannon - The growing story
And who approved giving a White House press pass for this "pig" and "pervert" - - okay thats two questions.
Press passes are actually pretty easy to get a hold of - you merely need to be a writer for a regularly published whatever (newspaper, magazine, TV show...).
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#3 2005-02-17 18:01:22
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Re: Jeff Gannon - The growing story
And who approved giving a White House press pass for this "pig" and "pervert" - - okay thats two questions.
Press passes are actually pretty easy to get a hold of - you merely need to be a writer for a regularly published whatever (newspaper, magazine, TV show...).
Yeah, that's why they told NY Times reporter Maureen Dowd she would need to wait "months" for the background checks.
Yet the big question stands. How did Gannon get his hands on a classified memo? That is not supposed to be easy, is it?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/]MSNBC on Gannon
Current White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan has insisted that Guckert was entitled to a so-called "day pass" just as any other 'regularly published' reporter was, and that he did not decide who merited passes and who didn't. But today, a New York Times columnist said that her press credentials were revoked in 2001 after 15 years. Maureen Dowd writes: "I was rejected for a White House press pass at the start of the Bush administration, but someone with an alias, a tax evasion problem and Internet pictures where he posed like the 'Barberini Faun' is credentialed... At first when I tried to complain about not getting my pass renewed... no one called me back. Finally, when Mr. McClellan replaced Ari Fleischer, he said he'd renew the pass — after a new Secret Service background check that would last several months."
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#4 2005-02-17 22:48:29
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Re: Jeff Gannon - The growing story
They just happen to be engaging in petty revenge against a petty reporter. :laugh: Normally I'd view that sort of behavior with a dim view, but considering the kind of snarky, spiteful stuff Dowd has ladled on Bush from 2000 onwards, I'm granting them a pass, just as I'd have granted Clinton a pass if he stiffed Matt Drudge, if Drudge had asked for a pass.
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#5 2005-02-18 09:16:11
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Re: Jeff Gannon - The growing story
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/02/18/ … 9.html]New article
Jon Stewart rocks, btw. The most honest news show in America is being shown on Comedy Central.
Riddle me that, Batman!
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#6 2005-02-18 09:22:09
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Re: Jeff Gannon - The growing story
*Not sure I've heard of Jeff Gannon. The only reason I'm reading this thread is because of -- mere curiosity. Seems like more bread and circuses (which might be wrong of course) courtesy of famous or semi-/quasi-famous people.
Heck, this stuff is FUN!
Different strokes for different folks. 
Astronomy is "funner" 
Hmmmm...Jon Stewart. I've not watched his show. Didn't he and Tucker Carlson recently have an unpleasant exchange of words which resulted in Carlson's ultimately leaving "Crossfire" somehow?
Sorry, don't mean to go off-topic. It's interesting...in a vaguely peripheral sort of way.
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#7 2005-02-18 09:59:17
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Re: Jeff Gannon - The growing story
<shakes head>
Okay, lesson time. White House press conferences aren't meant to "inform" but to persuade. Journalists actually do have their own agendas, they aren't out to "inform" either. Right and Left like to think their reporters are pillars of integrity working in the public trust while the other guys are unethical shills but the fact is that, and say it with me, all reporters and politicians are trying to sell you a version of events. Place not you faith in the words of the telescreen for it is the deceiver.
So a fake reporter gets in to ask softball question while a real but rabid Lefty reporter doesn't get a new pass. Big friggin' deal, from all this carryin' on you'd think it was the first time a sitting Administration tried to shape the message it was sending out.
Cracking up out there... 
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