Posted on 02/10/2005 8:16:23 AM PST by Pyro7480
Yikes, he used to work for US Sen Ted Stevens, (R-Ala)
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2004/8-6/arts/feature/prying.cfm
IRONICALLY, ARAVOSIS ONCE worked as a staffer for a conservative member of Congress. From March 1989 to March 1994, he was a legislative aide for U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Ala.), according to the U.S. Senate Dispensing office.
During Aravosis’ tenure, Stevens voted against allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military and against domestic partnership benefits for same-sex couples. At the time, the Human Rights Campaign gave Stevens a failing 40 percent rating on its annual scorecard evaluating the records of members of Congress on gay rights issues.
Aravosis has said he didn’t know he was gay at the time and as soon as he learned of Stevens’ anti-gay stances, he quit his job.
""I don't see how the left could push the story too hard."" Now, that made me laugh.
They will turn on a dime once similar scrutiny is applied to one of their own and decry the politics of personal destruction. Just look at the attacks on the guy who posted rumors here about the Mayor of Baltimore. That was a violation of the mayor's privacy - but the attacks on Gannon are repeated and altered ad naseaum.
Where did kcvl get the information you re-posted in post #37?
at this point there is no proof. He is gone and he chose to bail. (is he married? does he actually have a family?)
There are only alegations. Was he arrested AND convicted?
Is there a stained dress?
I agree, if he was a planted future david brock then we should be consitent. But as with clinton, PROOF is required.
Anybody who could can [sic] write a phrase like this ought to be drummed out of the press corps and [be] forever forbidden to describe himself as a journalist.
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At least he was astute enough to use the objective case -- although he did offend by using the "hubris mode" of mentioning himself first...
A surprising number of "journalists" would say,
"of my family and I"
Or worse,
"of I and my family"
...and most editors would let those errors go into print!
"Journalism" schools spend far too much time teaching socialism -- and far too little time teaching good writing!!
Prove that. And don't use liberal sites to do it.
By the way, the reason the "it's only about sex and it's nobody else's business" arguments don't apply to conservatives is because violation of our wedding vows is against OUR stated beliefs (including his stated, as he claims to be a conservative Christian). Best lesson of the day: either keep your skirts clean or your head down, and even if you keep your skirts clean, they'll still try to nail you. To them, his sin was supporting Bush, not the sex thing. The sex thing was just the tool.
You'll have to ask her; she finds stuff like that 24/7.
Is there a problem with what you read? I know nothing about that kind of stuff.
Sounds like Clinton's administation. Nobody was up in arms when he was hiring former bouncers and the like.
Well, if her information is accurate, then "Gannon" has some explaining to do.
See my post 48. I think it dovetails with your points (in a manly, above board sort of way.)
Yeah right. Sounds like he was doing a mole operation and couldn't take the heat.
If I recall correctly, the same was done with the NCPAC headline.
Novak printed it and Joe Wilson suddenly decided his wife was Emma Peel. Now the libs have got a conspiracy theory going. They are just idiots. Jeff Gannon worked for Talon News, which is a tiny news outlet that tells conservatives what they want to hear. Gannon got a daily press pass and was often able to ask questions in the press briefings because the regular press corps didn't have anything to ask, particularly when things were going well for the president.
When are Christians going to stop allowing the fascist left to use this tactic.
Perhaps the Washington Post?
Old WP article about the Valerie Plame memo by Susan Schmidt at the Washington Post :
Joseph C. Wilson IV :
[enhanced with my graphics and audios] :
http://pro.lookingat.us/Goldfinger.html
"Valerie had nothing to do with the matter," Wilson wrote in a memoir published this year. "She definitely had not proposed that I make the trip." Wilson stood by his assertion in an interview yesterday, saying Plame was not the person who made the decision to send him.
Of her memo, he said: "I don't see it as a recommendation to send me."
The report said Plame told committee staffers that she relayed the CIA's request to her husband, saying, "there's this crazy report" about a purported deal for Niger to sell uranium to Iraq.
The committee found Wilson had made an earlier trip to Niger in 1999 for the CIA, also at his wife's suggestion.
The report also said Wilson provided misleading information to The Washington Post last June. He said then that he concluded the Niger intelligence was based on documents that had clearly been forged because "the dates were wrong and the names were wrong."
"Committee staff asked how the former ambassador could have come to the conclusion that the 'dates were wrong and the names were wrong' when he had never seen the CIA reports and had no knowledge of what names and dates were in the reports," the Senate panel said.
Wilson told the panel he may have been confused and may have "misspoken" to reporters. The documents -- purported sales agreements between Niger and Iraq -- were not in U.S. hands until eight months after Wilson made his trip to Niger.
Wilson's reports to the CIA added to the evidence that Iraq may have tried to buy uranium in Niger, although officials at the State Department remained highly skeptical, the report said."
--- By Susan Schmidt
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, July 10, 2004; Page A09
This all started with Brock.
Kos quoted, paid by Dean, new DNC chair..hmmmm..wonder who started this hit job....yeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh
Howard Dean Paid Bloggers
Steve Rubel | Contributing Writer | 2005-01-15
More evidence we're living in a new media world with few rules. David Akin notes that The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, "...that the Daily Kos and another blog received $3,000 a month for four months from the Howard Dean campaign."
More from the David Akin blog:
"The story reports that the bloggers disclosed on their blogs that they received funds from the Dean campaign.
The Journal's story began with a post by Zephyr Teachout, who worked on the Dean campaign.
Neither The Daily Kos nor MyDD, though, contains disclosures now about how they pay their bills, something I think is important if you want your views on whatever issue to be taken seriously.
The guy behind the Daily Kos, it should be noted, received hard-to-get press credentials for the Democratic National Convention, the same kind of credentials normally reserved for those who are not being paid by the politicians they are ostensibly reporting on. The guy behind MyDD quit his blogging while he worked for the Dean campaign.
... This, incidentally, is not an issue about politics. This is an issue of vital importance to the craft of journalism and the challenge to that craft from bloggers."
http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20050115HowardDeanPaidBloggers.html
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