[dodger]

He was a good reporter who should not have quit!

[anniegetyourgun]

"My mother and my brother and his wife in Pennsylvania were being harassed with phone calls and threats."

I wonder what kind of people might do this kind of thing.....

[peyton randolph]

Guckert said he had recently contacted legal representation "for quite a few things,"

He should sue the pants off of Brock et al. Then again, they'd probably drop them for free.

[kcvl]

"I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work," he said.

Good for you, Jeff! Go get 'em.

[Shermy]

E & P was the outlet that fronted the stories about Gannon as news in the first place.

[Trippin]

I really feel sorry for this guy. He didn;t deserve this. Sure, he was a bit of an opportunist, but so was Bill Gates. You have to be to get ahead. Now we have nobody to represent the conservative voice at WH press briefings.

[thoughtomator]

LMAO the libs have their hopes so invested in this it will be hilarious to see how they react. Denial is my bet, and a rise in the price of aluminum.

Meanwhile we've got Eason Jordan's head in a bag.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" He said he sought the permanent "hard pass" when he first wanted to cover the White House, but after finding out he needed a congressional press pass -- which he'd been denied -- to get that far, he utilized only the day passes.

After watching many press briefings, one can assume that the exalted press credentials denied Gannon and bloggers and members of the internet
( who God forbid, might actually ask an intelligent question)
must require the holder to be a sneering,ignorant liberal with an agenda and a pretentious French accent.( See David Gregory )
Having some knowledge of current events, accounting,the military and strategy health care, US history,world history, etc are obviously not prerequisites to get White House press credentials.
Imagine a press briefing where bloggers,conservative talk radio hosts and on line scribes were allowed to ask questions.
The quality and depth of the questions would blow the Mastodon media out of the water.
Which is probably why they are so fearful.

[conservative in nyc]

It's good to see that Jeff Gannon is granting interviews. Laying low may have helped keep the heat off, but it also created a presumption that he had something to hide.

[cyncooper]

He also threw into question media accounts suggesting that he had seen a classified CIA document critical to the Plame case, saying he had made references to the internal memo,

Read that far and had to pause and say "No kidding". That's what I've been saying, it was so obvious from the state of the record.

Back to reading the rest...

(the "media accounts" were based on the ravings of the lunatics at the daily kos that were spoonfed to them by David Brock who got it from Sid Blumenthal, etc. "media reports"..give me a break)

[cyncooper]

My my my, the attitude this guy had interviewing him is something else.

As to press passes and the WH letting in opinion sites, they do---from across the spetrum.

Political Grapevine 2/11/05

Critics have accused the White House of granting unusual access to Jeff Gannon (search), the reporter who recently resigned as White House correspondent for a conservative Web site.

But the White House clears in other reporters with partisan views, as long as they represent a news organization that publishes regularly. That includes Russell Mokhiber, who works for Ralph Nader's Corporate Crimes Reporter. Mokhiber recently asked Press Secretary Scott McClellan if the president believes the Sixth Commandment — thou shalt not kill — applies to the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

The White House says they welcome a wide range of views in the briefing room.

~snip~

[lowbridge]

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