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"Propagannon" confirmed : Fake reporter in WH press conferences.
mr.Curmudgeon:
First 'Payolgate' now this???
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/02/02/white_house_friendly_reporter_under_scrutiny/
"The Bush administration has provided White House media credentials to a man who has virtually no journalistic background, asks softball questions to the president and his spokesman in the midst of contentious news conferences, and routinely reprints long passages verbatim from official press releases as original news articles on his website."
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"Nonetheless, transcripts of White House briefings indicate that McClellan often calls on Gannon and that the press secretary -- and the president -- have found relief in a question from Gannon after critical lines of questioning from mainstream news organizations.
When Bush called on Gannon near the end of his nationally televised Jan. 26 news conference, he had just been questioned about Williams and the Education Department funds, an embarrassment to the administration. Gannon's question was different."
EDIT: I took the "?" out of the title, since it is has now been confirmed that the White House gave a daily press pass to a man who was (knowingly, according the WH Press sectretary Scott McClellan) using an alias.
mrC
Sephroth57:
thats awesome, his name is Gannon
mr.Curmudgeon:
--- Quote from: Sephroth57 on February 03, 2005, 02:17:53 pm ---thats awesome, his name is Gannon
--- End quote ---
Gannon is not his "real" name though...to quote someone from another site:
"1. "Jeff Gannon" is a pseudonym. It is unreasonable to give White House press credentials to a non-journalist who appears out of thin air one day with a fake name. Try getting White House press credentials sometime to understand just how ridiculous this is. Female reporters aren't even allowed to use their ACTUAL maiden names, they MUST change their credentials when their name changes.
2. Gannon's name has come up in the Valerie Plame investigation, he has been subpoena'd by the grand jury. Gannon just happened to get his hands on highly confidential documents which he quoted out of context in an attempt to discredit Joseph Wilson. He played a role in the smearing of Wilson and the outing of Plame.
White House-credentialed fake news reporter "Jeff Gannon" from fake news agency "Talon News" was cited by the Washington Post as having the only access to an internal CIA memo that named Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as a covert CIA agent. Gannon, in a question posed to Wilson in an October 2003 interview, referred to the memo (to which no other news outlet had access, according to the Post). Gannon subsequently has been subpoenaed by the federal grand jury looking into the Plame outing.
3. Gannon's articles are often literally word-for-word renditions of White House press releases.
This guy is a creation of the administration."
mr.Curmudgeon:
This story just keeps getting dirtier. Did the White House create this guy ("Jeff Gannon" aka Jim Guckert) to not only get them off the hook with tough questioning, but to also act as a "hit man" against detractors?
Did he leak the memo outing Ambassador Wilson's CIA agent wife, Natale Plame?
"On Oct. 28, Talon News, a news company tied to a group called GOP USA,posted on the Internet an interview with Wilson in which the Talon News questioner asks: 'An internal government memo prepared by U.S. intelligence personnel details a meeting in early 2002 where your wife, a member of the agency for clandestine service working on Iraqi weapons issues, suggested that you could be sent to investigate the reports. Do you dispute that?'"
(December 26th, 23 piece in the Washington Post)
Meanwhile, the administration that purports to be a bastion of moral values, full of crusaders against the "homosexual agenda", might want to look into their next hitman's social life. Here are just a few of the domain's owned by Mr. Guckert:
jeffgannon.com
Hotmilitarystud.com
Militaryescorts.com
Militaryescortsm4m.com
And here's a picture from his now defunct personal webpage. Same man?:
Now, personally, I think his sexual preference has no bearing on the larger issue of this administration creating another fake propaganda machine, let alone one working from inside the White House itself. I do, however think, as a separate issue, every single Republican/Conservative/Right-Winger pundit that continues to support an administration that seeks to ostracize a portion of our society based solely on their sexual-preference, should have their sexuality called into question, lest they be exposed for the glutenous hypocritical cretins they truly are.
mrC
Crazy Cooter:
lol. Even I wasn't so sure about this one. Turns out it is TRUE! George planted this dude. The Washington Post is getting all over this thing. It's starting to hit the mainstream news...
Too funny. When is the impeachment process going to start?