". . . and he fingered Mary Mapes as the producer of the so-called "Rathergate" segment on "60 Minutes" before she had seen that mentioned elsewhere. "Yep, that was some real insider info.
Posted on 02/18/2005 1:33:59 PM PST by areafiftyone
San Antonio radio producer Susan Farris could always count on James Guckert, a.k.a. former White House correspondent Jeff Gannon, to pitch an appearance on the shows she produces at conservative talk station KTSA.
He was not only anxious about pushing his story of the day, but seemed to always have some kind of inside knowledge about the White House, as well.
"I said, 'How do you have such great sources?' and he just laughed it off," she told E&P Friday. "Now we all know how."
Farris, who has worked in San Antonio radio for more than a decade, said she came across Guckert first at GOPUSA.com, then later read his work on Talon News, his online home prior to his recent resignation. "I would call [GOPUSA] for people to use on the air and they suggested him when I asked about White House coverage," she recalled. "They called themselves a re-write service. They would take other people's work and put it up on their site." (Among the charges against Guckert was that he often simply rewrote White House press releases as news stories.)
Guckert, she said, frequently passed on what he clearly thought was insider information, during his 12 appearances on KTSA during 2003 and 2004. She first heard from him the expression "shock and awe" to refer to the massive U.S. bombing attack at the start of the Iraq war, and he fingered Mary Mapes as the producer of the so-called "Rathergate" segment on "60 Minutes" before she had seen that mentioned elsewhere.
"He very often called me and offered to be on the show to talk about his stories," she said. "I used to book him all the time. We used him on tons of White House stuff." She said she "had no idea" that Gannon was not Guckert's real name.
My nephew works for an arm of the Media Research Center. He told me that any media type (in DC or anywhere else) that says they know what is going on inside Bush's administration is lying. The one's who do, ain't talking. Period.
Isn't that something? What an allegation. The left protects the likes of Clinton, the biggest traitor we've ever had in office, and his claim that sex is private, but go after a gay guy who asked two questions of the president in two years. Sheesh.
". . . and he fingered Mary Mapes as the producer of the so-called "Rathergate" segment on "60 Minutes" before she had seen that mentioned elsewhere. "Yep, that was some real insider info.
Just googled this up:
''The phrase "shock and awe" was coined, but apparently not trademarked, by military strategist Harlan Ullman in a 1996 publication. He used it to describe a tactic of pressuring the enemy to give up with little fighting.''
Who would have thought the left was so anti gay and would stalk and try to destroy the life of a gay man
The times are a changing
Chrissy Mathews must be feeling so proud of himself
Neither have I
Are they a paper news or just an internet news?
Gannon filed for those internet sites for a client, while working for an internet company. You left has their heads spinning over this because they are threatened with the loss of control and the loss of power. The MSM are worried that they will become as irrelevant as Willy Lomax.
The author of the piece is:
Joe Strupp (jstrupp@editorandpublisher.com) is a senior editor at E&P.
(Abysmal lack of fact checking there, Joe.)
C'mon, let's be intellectually honest. Had this guy had the past he has with the less than moral blogs and obtained access to the WH press briefings as a liberal in the Clinton Whitehouse, thrown softball questions all this would have been the FR scandal of the quarter.
is a liar.
Duder's zotted. I think Ella and I accidentally kilt him on another thread.
Oops
As to your comments about E*P, they have behaved less than professionally throughout this story. This "piece" is so shallow and gossipy, yet they criticize Talon News and dare to discuss what makes up a "real" news site?!
LOL
Don't confuse Peach with the facts. For him to suggest that "Editor & Publisher" is nothing but a blog that just started up, is as ignorant as to suggest that "Variety" -- which is for Hollywood what Editor and Publisher is for newspapers -- just sprang up yesterday.
That's a tall order for some freepers - - who can't recognize corruption when it has an R after its name. The Gannon thing stinks - - it's the kind of thing I'd have expected from Clinton's White House (and I would have castigated them for it, along with most of the folks on this board). When an alleged male prostitute gets set up in a phony White House media job - - with either the connivance of people at the White House, or through alarming security lapses -- I'm not going to close my eyes and cover my ears just because it's a Republican White House. I'm a Republican because I believe in standards - - - and if you believe in standards you can't apply one set to Democrats and another to your own party.
There are many levels of security screenings. The standard for a White House press day pass would only have checked public records, it would not have involved a detailed investigation. And on the tax issue, I've had IRS troubles, but it hasn't stopped me from getting a DOD clearance (twice).
Well they are in print ..
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/index.jsp
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