Can you fill me in or point me to an article about Jeff's mistake?
I have seen no references to this error anywhere except here.
David Brock wrote a length article about Jeff Gannon last week. Freepers tore it apart, given Brock's sullied history.
But evidently Gannon misquoted Sen. Reid in the same manner Rush Limbaugh did and aso Brock started investigating and found that it was unlikely Gannon had actual journalistic credentials.
The fact that we have had an evening news anchor for what, 20 years, who doesn't even have a high school diploma hasn't concerned the left. (I'm talking about Peter Jennings).
Sorry, I cut and pasted and then closed the site. I'm sure you can find the specific source again for the following "anti Gannon" allegations. They seem meager to me--accusing him of lobbing too easy questions:
Here's some of Jeff Gannon's quotes at White House press conferences:
"Senate Democratic leaders have painted a very bleak picture of the US economy," Gannon said. "[Minority Leader] Harry Reid was talking about soup lines, and Hillary Clinton was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse. Yet, in the same breath, they say that Social Security is rock solid and there's no crisis there. How are you going to work -- you said you're going to reach out to these people -- how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?"
As it turned out, Reid had never talked about soup lines. That was a phrase attributed to him in satire by Rush Limbaugh on his radio show.
Last year, during the presidential campaign, Gannon's comments could be even more pointed. In a Feb. 10, 2004, briefing with McClellan, for example, Gannon rose to deliver the following:
"Since there have been so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda, denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam? Did he testify before Congress that American troops committed war crimes in Vietnam? And did he throw somebody else's medals at the White House to protest a war America was still fighting?"
David Brock, the former investigative journalist who made his name revealing aspects of former President Bill Clinton's extramarital affairs, said he was watching last week's press conference on television and the "soup lines" question sparked his interest because it "struck me as so extremely biased." Brock asked his media watchdog group, Media Matters for America, to look into Talon News.
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