I think someone would notice............
Posted on 02/10/2005 11:33:49 AM PST by QQQQQ
Pretty much every day, Gannon got cleared into the White House briefing room by a press office that knew his real name. Press Secretary Scott McClellan frequently called on him during the mid-day briefings, using his fake name. McClellan was consistently rewarded with questions that -- in stark contrast from most of what passes for questions in that room -- were more expressions of conservative dogma than actual attempts to elicit information. Members of the press corps individually confronted Gannon and told him that he didn't belong there. But nothing more serious than that happened -- until Bush called on him at his televised Jan. 26 news conference and he asked a loaded, inaccurate question partly derived from a Rush Limbaugh joke.
In the ensuing days, liberal Web sites and an army of bloggers determined his real name, called attention to his lack of journalistic credentials, found a link to gay porn Web sites, pointed out how that ran afoul of his "family values" positions, and apparently hounded him into resigning.
Brooks writes: "Bloggers also discovered that several gay pornographic domain names had been registered through his domain.
"Guckert said he registered those domain names for a client while he was working to set up a Web hosting business in Wilmington.
" 'There are people out there who will turn people's lives inside out,' Guckert said. 'They tried to intimidate me, punish me. Then they tried to embarrass me, and they've done a pretty good job of that.' "
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
That's what I thought because his "agenda" doesn't wash with the whole "He loved Bush" (No pun intended) conspiracy they are floating...
Read the article again.
Guckert registered the names FOR the client.
IOW, he set aside his conservative principles just to make a buck.
How many were operating under pseudonyms?
The article said, that the WH press office knew his real name. There is no law agains using a pseudonym. Writers use it all the time. If you had a name like Guckert, you may not want to use it much either.
"Pretty much every day, Gannon got cleared into the White House briefing room by a press office that knew his real name. "
Dashcle, IIRC, copied Waco janets press style, where it was a sit down press conference, and the fawning press would ask softball questions, now that a conservative has copied their style and perfected it, the mainstream liberal press cries foul and gets indignant.
Akin to the 70's big wigs(management and labor) in the Detroit auto industry crying about the Japanese competition, IMO.
Gannon's Greatest Hits
Some of Gannon's greatest hits, as featured in a video montage on Olberman's show last night:
May 10, 2004: "Q In your denunciations of the Abu Ghraib photos, you've used words like 'sickening,' 'disgusting' and 'reprehensible.' Will you have any adjectives left to adequately describe the pictures from Saddam's rape rooms and torture chambers? And will Americans ever see those images?
"MR. McCLELLAN: I'm glad you brought that up, Jeff, because the President talks about that often."
July 15, 2004: "Q Last Friday, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report that shows that Ambassador Joe Wilson lied when he said his wife didn't put him up for the mission to Niger. The British inquiry into their own prewar intelligence yesterday concluded that the President's 16 words were 'well-founded.' Doesn't Joe Wilson owe the President and America an apology for his deception and his own intelligence failure?"
April 1, 2004: "Q I'd like to comment on the angry mob that surrounded Karl Rove's house on Sunday. They chanted and pounded on the windows until the D.C. police and Secret Service were called in. The protest was organized by the National People's Action Coalition, whose members receive taxpayer funds, as well as financial support from groups including Theresa Heinz Kerry's Tides Foundation.
"MR. McCLELLAN: I would just say that, one, we appreciate and understand concerns that people may have. I would certainly hope that people would respect the families of White House staff."
Feb. 10, 2004: "Q 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?"
AND the latest one, which the MSM couldn't stomach:
""Senate Democratic leaders have painted a very bleak picture of the US economy. 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?"
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I guess the MSM can't tolerate a single question, that is opposing or exposes their agenda.
> Still waiting for the WP to cover Easongate.
Really! Easongate is the scandal. Nobody gives a hoot about Gannon. When the dems have nothing to complain about, they complain about nothing!
We may not like it if Gannon ran a web domain registration business that registered some gay escort domain names. But that is far removed from him being involved in gay prostitution. Indeed, he would have to discriminate to stop people from registering the names of their choices.
This is sounding more and more like a non-story. Did it occur to any of us that maybe he got out because it's hard for a normal person, wife, kids to deal with reporters at their front door, on the phone, following them trying to "expose" all aspects of their life? maybe his wife told him to get out before the kida are harmed and they dig up some personal issue that is nobody's business.
People are raising legitimate points about media hypocrisy, but - let's be honest - it really is NOT a good idea for the White House to have a "plant" posing as an independent journalist. In fact, the idea stinks.
More importantly, who are they to decide who belongs there?
This is the MSM's new tactic. They are not happy about having lost the last election despite their absolute best efforts. Those efforts failed because of the New Media. Thus, the MSM is now seeking to eliminate the New Media. But they are not seeking to do so by winning the competition in the market place (they know they can't), instead they are going after the individuals that make up the New Media in a personal manner. Discredit and attack.
Gannon was an easy target, but I imagine that if we were to look into the personal lives and history of some of the individuals that comprise the MSM, Gannon would look like a freaking saint. Speaking of which, if the MSM wants to play this way, I have a feeling they will soon learn that the New Media can, and will, bring the guns to the OK Corral.
..............dead cats, death threats......
Blast from the past:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A8158-2003Jul17?language=printer
Drudging Up Personal Details
By Lloyd Grove
Friday, July 18, 2003; Page C03
Some folks in the White House were apparently hopping mad when ABC News correspondent Jeffrey Kofman did a story on Tuesday's "World News Tonight" about the plummeting morale of U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq.
So angry, in fact, that the next day, a White House operative alerted cyber-gossip Matt Drudge to the fact that Kofman is not only openly gay, he's Canadian.
Thanks to an alert from the White House, Matt Drudge helped spread the word that ABC's Jeffrey Kofman is . . . Canadian. (Courtesy ABC News)
Yesterday Drudge told us he was unaware of the ABC story until "someone from the White House communications shop tipped me to it" along with a profile of Kofman in the gay-oriented magazine the Advocate. On Wednesday, for 6 hours 38 minutes, the Drudge Report bannered Kofman's widely quoted ABC story -- in which enlisted people questioned the Army's credibility and one irked soldier went on camera to call on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign -- and linked to the Advocate piece with the understated headline "ABC NEWS REPORTER WHO FILED TROOP COMPLAINT STORY IS CANADIAN."
White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan "is having a rough first week," Drudge said. "The White House press office is under new management and has become slightly more aggressive about contacting reporters. This story has certainly become talk radio fodder about the cultural wars-slash-liberal bias in the media."
A network insider was less sanguine about the White House tactic: "Playing hardball is one thing. But appealing to homophobia and jingoism is simply ugly."
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And what about all the Dem shills and activists, posing as journalists, who make up 99% of the press?
He did not pose as an independent journalist. Everyone knew he was writing for the Republican grass roots web paper Talon News.
I think someone would notice............
Absofreepinlutely. Blowback, anyone?
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