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

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

[AmishDude]

That was the one? That's barely a friendly question at all! I would have used words like "duplicitous scumbags" and "loathsome hypocrites" and "oxygen thieves". THAT would be a friendly question. "How are you going to get along with people who hate you?" may not be a substantive question, but it isn't exactly "Do you think your plan is the best proposal out there or the best proposal in the history of the human race?"

I know the history of the "soup lines" remark -- Reid never used those words, Limbaugh did, though Gannon is clearly not attempting to quote Reid either.

[cyncooper]

This is all about the Plame grand jury.

If you go to the Daily Kos it becomes clear.

They are being used by the left but most don't appear to realize it.

[AmishDude]

Yeah. From what I saw when I first saw the story, the skivvies picture was on a hometown.aol.com page. Maybe that's who was hosting the pic after it got pulled.

I guess it goes to show you that he didn't get many takers.

[AmishDude]

That's what they want it to be about, but I don't see the connection.

[cyncooper]

I doubt Reid or HRC called Social Security "rock-solid", too, but I did hear Reid describe it as in good shape and that President Bush was making up a crisis where there wasn't one, so the characterization is apt.

As I say, this is not about the question, it's about Wilson/Plame. Mark my words and it's sad to see some follow the red herrings.

[MamaLucci]

This is all about the Plame grand jury.

How so?

[cyncooper]

That is what I thought initially yesterday but it is now crystal clear to me.

They even have a name for it: Plame PropaGannon (get it?)

Of course, that is predicated on the Bush WH out to retaliate against the saintly Plames...I mean Wilsons, which is a false premise but they eat it up with two spoons.

[Political Junkie Too]

I wish the MSM would put this same effort into finding out who supplied CBS with forged documents smearing the President two months before an election, or into finding out why former NSA Sandy Berger was stealing top secret documents from the National Archives.

-PJ

[cyncooper]

I need to leave for a bit and normally love to link but if you search my name and some others' (Mo1 has some Kos links) you'll see what I mean.

In other words, they wouldn't be going after Gannon so hard if they weren't trying to say he was a tool of this WH in the Plame "leak".

[MamaLucci]

......they wouldn't be going after Gannon so hard if they weren't trying to say he was a tool of this WH in the Plame "leak".

Gotcha, thanks.

[EveningStar]

Smart Christians wouldn't use a phony name to hide a shady past. That's just asking for somebody to start digging.

Especially if you frame your questions in an inflammatory manner. Stupid.

[montag813]

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

And how exactly is this Bush's fault?

I'm sure MSM reporters would be thrilled if the White House press office snooped into their private lives to turn up things like pseudonyms and what websites they surf, right?

[cyncooper]

And how exactly is this Bush's fault?

Some are outright alleging the Bush WH "planted" Gannon there. Last night Olbermann asked Milbank if that was the case or if Gannon just was idealogically aligned with the right and Milbank opined it was "probably a combination".

This based on nothing but idle speculation. They sounded like two gossips.

[dalight]

I have to agree. What we should be doing if finding this guy, dusting him off and getting him back to work. the MSM can use this episode to intimidate reporters for years from asking what I heard as a very reasonable insightful question. Frankly, I didn't know you had to have a Journalism degree to be a journalist. Frankly, right now that is almost a guarantee of being biased. Sounds like this guy values the truth and frankly I am sure lots of these media people wouldn't take a rectal exam like they are giving this guy and coming up with bupkus.

I mean if they guy is gay, so what? Really, this is the left's idea of what disqualifies a Journalist? Really?

To me this is more of the same from the Left. This guy isn't qualified because he doesn't agree with us and besides he is a sleaze just like us. What? I just hate how they are almost headlining the sleaze because its so lame..

Anyway.. The blogosphere should recognize we are being attacked and we should be pushing back.

[AmishDude]

So so stupid. They got a (very low-level) journalist. They should be happy with themselves. But they're not. Gotta bring down Bush. Gotta find a scandal. The Plame game is the only one in town. What I think is so sad is that Novak is probably protecting a low-level civil servant. (It seems everybody's a senior Whitehouse official these days.)

[LS]

You don't have to have a journalism degree. But the guy apparently faked his credentials when there was no need to.

[cyncooper]

Novak isn't protecting a low-level staffer.

The wrongdoing is not the conventional wisdom story. That's long been my (and others') theory.

[cyncooper]

In other words...the Plame/Wilson story started out to get Bush, aided and abetted by the MSM.

They invoked "impeachment" over the premise that Wilson was telling the truth and "Bush lied" in his SOTU speech with those sixteen words.

So...why were "CIA officials" (the attribution in media reports) giving reporters a version of the story that has turned out to be completely false?

[cyncooper]

But the guy apparently faked his credentials when there was no need to.

I haven't seen that alleged. Faked credentials? Where did you see that?

[Howlin]

They got a (very low-level) journalist.

Newt Gingrich
Bob Livingston
John Fund
John McManus
Bill O'Reilly
Bill Bennett
Rush Limbaugh
Maggie Gallagher
Armstrong Williams
Jeff Gannon

Can Tony Blankley or Brit Hume be far behind?