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The Talons of Intimidation- Jeff Gannon's saga
various FR links & stories | 02-10-05 | the heavy equipment guy

Posted on 02/09/2005 11:15:05 PM PST by backhoe

 Jeff Gannon - -A Voice of the New Media - The voice goes silent. -- Jeff Gannon  ran an independent news service. He got White House credentials, and was targeted by the Boston Globe in a hit piece because he isn't a "real," that is to say, "anti-administration" journalist.
 
Online Reporter Quits After Liberals' Expose
 
  White House Fights Back - and Wins (Rush Limbaugh Issues Defense of Jeff Gannon)
 
 Conservative Reporter Resigns Amid Controversy (NPR joins all-out war on conservative reporters) 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1338350/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1338316/posts
 
 Representative Louise Slaughter's Dan Rather Moment --
 this is the age of Google and web searches, the greatest equalizer since the Colt revolver --
On February 7th, US Representative Louise Slaughter, D-NY, issued a press release on Jeff Gannon, a reporter from the web news site Talon News -- And then, in order to support her charges against Gannon, Representative Slaughter cited an open letter from the Niagara Falls Reporter, which levelelled, among other things, allegations published in the Philadelphia Daily News:
 Congresswoman Asks for Probe After 'Gannon' Quits WH Reporting Post
 
 
Rep. Slaughter Calls on President Bush to Explain Emerging White House Briefing Room Scandal -- Unbelieveable. FR got Dan Rather and all they can do to respond is go after Gannon and Talon News.
And they did it with a falsified attribution to the Philly Daily News. I had a source there confirm that they ran no such article.
Ms. Slaughter-- why she is issuing a press release without confirming the facts?
 The left is spinning so fast that I can't leave the house for a few hours without falling behind. This is so coordinated that it's transparent.
 
 White House Correspondents Criticize Alleged 'Softball Thrower' -- and Jeff Gannon Fires Back
 
 Media Matters Asks Scott McClellan to Consider Revoking White House Press Credentials of Talon News
 
 Brock Demands McClellan Revoke WH Credentials of Talon News Reporter/RIGHTALK Host Jeff Gannon
 
 Jeff Gannon: you are getting noticed at the daily briefings
 
 Webb Attacks Conservative Media After Being Exposed for 'Death Penalty' Remarks Against Bush
 
 Website Exposes Kerry's 1971 Antiwar Book, Activities (FRN)


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gannon; jeffgannon; jellybean; leftwingsmear; talonnews
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To: okie01
You could look at it this way: 1. They got Jeff Gannon. 2. We got Eason Jordan. We can sustain this rate of attrition for years. They can't.

Good way to put it- there are more of us than there are of them...

101 posted on 02/12/2005 12:07:24 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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To: BJungNan

Thanks for looking.


102 posted on 02/12/2005 12:08:51 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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To: okie01
Amended....

1. They got Jeff Gannon.

2. We got Eason Jordan.

3. We got Dan Rather (I mean, WE at FR, really got Dan Rather).

And, the funny thing is, Jeff Gannon is being called to the carpet for a) not using his real name, b) concealing his conservative "agenda", and c) being involved in homosexual porn websites.

Let's see...not using his real name? Is this the disqualifying factor for being a reporter or journalist? What say you Larry King (real name Larry Zieger)? Should Whitaker Chambers (real name: Jay Vivian Chambers) have been exalted by the left for all those years? (Of course, that was prior of course to his outing of the Rosenbergs and all of the other Soviet agents that had infiltrated the State Department? His real name, identify, and ties didn't seem important until he took up against the leftist/communist agenda. (Ask Ann Coulter if you don't believe me).

Second, everyone here on this forum "knew" that Jeff Gannon (whatever his real name is) was likely more conservative than liberal. I'm not so sure about the lefty plant angle to discredit the so-called "conservative media". And, on its face, the only thing odd about Jeff Gannon is that he is outnumbered 99-2 in the Washington Press Corps and he asks moderately fair questions.

And the media leftists are complaining, complaining about what? That someone thought to ask a fair or even moderately conservative question? Just because all the rest of the WH Press Kook's questions are dripping (and I mean, DRIPPING) with disdain, sarcasm, or out right leftist/terrorist/anti-American propaganda means that a marginally fair question is conservative? What planet are these people living on?

Third, and I'm frankly surprised that they aren't giving Jeff Gannon an award for bravery.

I'm mean David Brock, one of the chief architects behind this attack, is a pole-smoker. He's not standing up for this guy or sympathizing with Gannon's alledged hypocrisy? He's no citing the crushing pressure of anti-gay bigotry and pleading for understanding, acceptance, tolerance and a myriad of other words which denote the ever-dredged judgemental nature of our society. No tolerance from David for Jeff closet tendencies?

No, out goes the tolerance, in with the skewers.

And, Jeff Gannon/Jim Guckert has said that he was doing the websites for clients. Essentially that he wasn't into it. Even if that isn't true and he does like looking at guys play bun darts, I don't care.

The strange thing is: of all the questions that have been asked by the White House Press Corps in the last year, it took an alledgely closet-gay-porn-producing, daily-credentialed, psuedonym-using guy to ask moderately fair questions.

Jeez...makes you wonder what the real faults that these other kooks running around the WH Press Corps have?

If the questions are indicative of how F'd up someone is, then David Gregory should report to his psychologist boyfriend right now, "therapy" is ready to start.

Terri (fem. Terry) Moron (real spelling for Moran) should go ahead and admit that he has secret desires to blow a now-captive Saddam Hussein, hoping to substitute for 1 of the 72 virgins that pretty much everyone on the planet knews none of these scumbags have coming to them.

I don't even want to fathom how F'd up that hag Helen Thomas is. If she is the paragon of White House Press Corps virtue, then the press corps has been long in trouble.

[mattdono shakes head] These people.

103 posted on 02/12/2005 11:04:05 AM PST by mattdono ("Crush the democrats, drive them before you, and hear the lamentations of the scumbags" -Big Arnie)
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To: Alia; backhoe; dirtboy; cyncooper; Mo1
I ran accross *this* at THE CORNER today and it's just something to tuck back in the brain. That's why I'm tagging it to this post re: WONKETTE and her comments about who got Gannon. (CNN must've considered bloggers with some legitimacy if they went this route, don't you think???) :
PLEASE NOTE TODAY'S NEW YORK SUN [02/14 12:11 PM]

How do I link to this brilliant New York Sun article without looking like I'm motivated by jealousy? As soon as I heard Wonkette and Andrew Sullivan were CNN's picks to represent "the blogosphere" in their State of the Union coverage, I was grumbling. Sure, I'd love to appear as a TV pundit. But even more important than my fragile ego is the fact that there are dozens of bloggers who could probably give more interesting and substantive SOTU reaction – [snip]

(http://www.nationalreview.com/tks/tks.asp)...

104 posted on 02/14/2005 11:00:56 AM PST by JesseJane (KERRY: I have had conversations with leaders, yes, recently.That's not your business, it's mine.)
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To: JesseJane

Thanks!


105 posted on 02/14/2005 11:03:43 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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To: backhoe

YW..!!


106 posted on 02/14/2005 11:08:35 AM PST by JesseJane (KERRY: I have had conversations with leaders, yes, recently.That's not your business, it's mine.)
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Blogger Goes After Gannon/Guckert

107 posted on 02/14/2005 11:32:57 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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Latest from the leftist blogs – Gannon a gay prostitute, Scott McClellan visits gay bars

108 posted on 02/14/2005 12:39:43 PM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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WH's Scott McClellan Says He Knew 'Gannon' Was Guckert (MSM weasel alert)

109 posted on 02/14/2005 11:34:43 PM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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 Online Nude Photos Are Latest Chapter In Jeff Gannon Saga -- If you really want to see them go to americablog.org Really? that's what everybody is carping about? Did you check out this site? did you click on the links to see if they went and showed what they said was there? They show face shots and claim they are from the escort service but This escort service link is dead as were others the rest of the links were back to their own site.
 

110 posted on 02/16/2005 12:39:43 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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Left-Wing Activist Poses as Reporter At White House Press Briefings

111 posted on 02/16/2005 2:58:37 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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 Rep. Slaughter Demands Answer: Why was Jeff Gannon in the WH Before Talon News Even Existed?
 

112 posted on 02/17/2005 10:34:32 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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Gannon Flap Shows Liberals in Denial

113 posted on 02/17/2005 10:35:31 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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Milbank, Dowd Weigh In on Gannon/Guckert (FR Mentioned)

114 posted on 02/17/2005 10:37:03 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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 DUer: Someone PLEASE check out possible Gannon/"Buckhead" connection --  This is comedy. Do they really think the CBS fake documents were a White House plant. That would have been a darn brilliant move if it had been. Are they saying the Bush administration is brilliant or are they just being their usual inconsistent selves? 
 Why is Howie Kurtz so obsessed with the Gannon story? -- They're trying to bring down the President. It's that simple. If this doesn't work they'll try something else
 Howie Kurtz: Jeff Gannon Admits Past 'Mistakes,' Berates Critics -- Another few days and WP will have run more stories on Gannon than Dan Rather's forgies.
 These people are off their Rockers : http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/18/122051/247  
Gannon scoop shows White House Forged TANG/CBS memos-- RegenerationMan
 360 Transcripts: Anderson Cooper and "Jeff Gannon" ("I have made mistakes") -- I believe the liberal bloggers are going to regret opening this can of worms. They think this is the tipping point to bring Bush down. The MSM is not going to give this story any legs because they know, if they do, that high beam spotlight of scrutiny will be pointed at them.
 
 Doubts About White House Reporter Recalled ("Jeff Gannon") -- The DUers can't shut up about this topic. Things haven't been going well for them lately and "Gannon" is about all they have. It's kind of sad how they connect it to everything under the sun in their conspiracy sick minds. They're obsessed with the gay stuff too. I though being a homosexual prostitute was a good thing in liberal land?

115 posted on 02/19/2005 2:20:35 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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Pathetically Cosmic Comedy at Kos
 
 There's A Fourth Estate And A Fifth Estate (Comments From The WH Press Corp About Gannon)

116 posted on 02/19/2005 3:14:57 PM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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 Gannon's Enemies List

117 posted on 02/20/2005 6:07:39 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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New proof of "Gannon"'s early WH access (FR mention)

118 posted on 02/20/2005 6:28:18 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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What Is Hannity's Connection to Jeff Gannon? (FR Prominently Mentioned)

119 posted on 02/21/2005 12:10:15 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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To: backhoe

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/2005_02.php#009616
Have They No Shame? No, Actually, They Don't


120 posted on 02/21/2005 4:37:39 AM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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