Posted on 02/10/2005 11:33:49 AM PST by QQQQQ
Larry Flint was born again.
What's with that?
And Courney Love is his poster child.
They really asked that question? OMG
Of course, being a member of the White House Press Corps is a bit of a different animal, but the animosity that the old guard holds towards "Gannon" is not surprising to me.
I'm willing to bet money there is a good percentage of the MSM who use names other than those on their birth certificates, and who are called regularly by those "fake" names. (Cokie Roberts comes to mind: formerly Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs. FOXNEWS's own E.D. Hill used to be Edye Tarbox, but the execs at a local tv station changed her name to a more "acceptable" Edye Grant when she was an anchor. It's not uncommon to use a nome de plume, especially in the entertainment/media industry.) For this to then be used as proof of Jeff Gannon being unfit to be a reporter is absurd.
As many as necessary until it becomes a scandal. Remember that the New York Slimes ran front page stories about Abu Ghraib for over a month straight.
Only if it's PJs DUmmie FUnnies. :-)
And why didn't you read the REST of my post? I'm crushed.
If he registered porn businesses on the web, what's the difference?
"BLITZER: I used to be a White House correspondent for many years, sat through numerous briefings. There are plenty of journalists that wear their politics on their sleeve, liberals, conservatives. What's wrong with journalists having these kind of views, being advocacy journalists, if you will?
"KURTZ: I personally don't think there's anything wrong with it, as long as they make clear what their views are, as Jeff Gannon clearly did."
Well, at least they have no problem with him asking loaded questions. Terry Moran does it all the time.
Apparently, a conservative has taken over for Gannon, at least for one day.
Does anybody know this guy?:
"Blogger Atrios asks: "Gannon leaves, and is magically replaced with GannonBot Mark II (or is it KinsolvingBot Mark III?)."
He was citing this question from yesterday's briefing:
"Q Does this administration believe the Democratic leaders are now engaged in a deliberate disinformation campaign as the best way to undermine the President's goals and objectives on a number of issues?"
I'm told the question came from about the sixth row, but no one I talked to seemed to know who he was.
Incidentally, nobody at the briefing had any questions about Gannon."
Beter watch out -- applying conservative principles consistently, and expecting conservatives as well as liberals to be above reproach, will get you in trouble from some freepers around here - - the types who want to hold liberals to standards of right and wrong, but will give a pass if the sleaze comes with an "R" after it.
A lot of reporters, especially on television, do not use their real names.
My last name is a bit tough, and since I have a hard time saying it, it would be a mouthful trying to say that on air if I were a television reporter.
Certainly true.
But, anybody who gets their credentials can be allowed in. Just because he was conservative doesn't make him a plant.
He did not have permanent credentials; he was cleared on a day-by-day basis.
I don't respect him for backing down and resigning.
That is a wimpy move, even with the standard "worried about my family line."
I don't respect a journalist that runs away when the heat is on.
Nobody would have hurt him or his family, and if he was really worried, he could have got a security system.
But, a real journalist believes that truth and the love thereof is worth some risk.
Yes, they asked it. I was watching.
What's Madonna's real name? Sting? Charlton Heston? Cary Grant? P Diddy? A name is what you call a person. He has established the name of Jeff Gannon as his Journalist handle. I am sure that Strategerist isn't your real name.
If you won't, then I will advocate it. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. The sad thing is Gannon left. Quit. Resigned. Why do so many people back off the moment their private lives become public? It's not like their private lives will go back to being private--not with weasels like the MSM and lefty bloggers on the trail.
Good solution BUMP.
ROFLMAO. Great catch!
Exactly. Let's fire at a few of these weasels and see what shakes out of the google tree on them:
David Sanger of The New York Times
Dana Milbank of The Washington Post
The judges that gave them both awards in the name of the White House Correspondents Association:
Ellen Sheare, co-director and professor, Medill School of Journalism.
Lee Thornton, professor, Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland.
Ed Fouhy, Stateline.org.
Anyone gets dirt, run that baby. I'm starting in on Sanger right now.
Bump to that. The people who are giving him benefit of the doubt here clearly want to believe. Fox Mulder lives on in the hearts of some Freepers, I suppose.
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