Loose "Gannon": White House Reporter Admits He Used Fake Name

Editor and Publisher ^ | 02/10/05 | Joe Strupp and Greg Mitchell

[standupfortruth]

I am LMAO at the media frenzy to turn this into as much as they can..... Just like all those other vain attempts to sully GW.

[bitt]

wow...this is curious...

[Moose4]

So he used a pen name. And this is a problem...how?

}:-)4

[Pikamax]

I'm trying to figure that out as well, they admit he used his legal name to get clearance from Secret Service, so that's a red herring.

[Lazamataz]

So he used a pen name. And this is a problem...how?

Because he's a conservative.

DO try to keep up.

;^)

[End Times Sentinel]

I have to confess, I've misled you all.  My real name is not Owl_Eagle.  It's Eagle_Owl.

 

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[cripplecreek]

The media is becoming more childish by the day. Yesterday I caught something about Olberman getting excited about something Bill O Reily said about his high school football days.

The media is starting to remind me of the kids in middle school who are trying to be popular by spreading all the latest rumors. It's pathetic.

[Quilla]

And all this time I thought your real name was Mark Twain.

[marty60]

Look at all the research the MSM is doing on a blogger. desperatly trying to make a big scandal out of nothing.

Yet last night after I heard that the Medicine story was factually wrong. There was some news reader, playing clips of Polosi/Kennedy comments on the origianl erroneous report.

[End Times Sentinel]

That's Samuel Longhorn Clements to you.

 

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[ovrtaxt]

I have to confess, I've misled you all. My real name is not Owl_Eagle. It's Eagle_Owl.

Oh, sure some conservative you are! Hypocrite! I'll bet you have pics of your young children in the bathtub too!

And you have the nerve to post your morally superior pap on FR! How dare you.

[gov_bean_ counter]

IIRC, many of Clinton's WH staff were unable to get security clearances. Where was the outrage then?

[dirtboy]

But Gannon had been obtaining daily White House press passes, a situation that had irked some veteran White House reporters who also questioned his credentials or considered him to be too partisan in his questioning.

Yep, we can't let the rabble into our exclusive club, and only liberal partisanship is allowed.

I agree there are some problematic and potentially problematic aspects to Gannon. However, this story also is very revealing about the MSM mindset and their attempts to maintain a grip on the dissemination of news.

[Quilla]

IIRC, many of Clinton's staff received security clearances without the proper background checks.

As Gary Aldrich in Unlimited Access wrote: "A fairly routine process became a crisis." "...key people in the administration had simply decided that the security procedures were not important and were taking a 'so what' attitude toward possible scandal, embarrassment, or worse."

[gov_bean_ counter]

Thank you for the clarification.

[OXENinFLA]

Big Farking deal..............

If I was ever to get into the media there's NO WAY I'd put my real name out there...

[sinkspur]

So he used a pen name. And this is a problem...how?

He was ashamed of his real name, since it was associated with gay porn websites.

At the risk of being the skunk here, if "Gannon" had written for Salon, FR would be raising holy hell.

Jeffie made a fool out of everybody who believed him.

[Catspaw]

Gannon should've known that when the President called on him during the last press conference, skipping over members of the MSM, he painted a big target on his back.

[jellybean]

I think they're all just looking for exscuses to visit gay websites.