Posted on 02/15/2005 11:19:19 PM PST by woofie
My moral standards are just fine and I don't need you to worry about them
Talon News was not fictitious.
http://www.talonnews.com/
Sued for what? If they were sniffing the inside of his shoes in his cloest, they should be sued for trespassing on private property. The fact his images were on a website means he had no problem flaunting his private life in public. You, on the other hand, are clueless, and obviously nothing more than a dingbat.
... it would break the internet
You just worry about you.
American Blogspot is a troll blog run by liberals to discredit the internet as a news source. Now we can see how the MSM uses it as their cover.
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Gee .. kind of sounds like they are making things up as they go .. don't ya think ?
Yeah, let's sue!
Are you a lawyer?
Who is "we" and why do you get to dictate what "our" moral standards should be? Why are you so upset by allegations against someone else, and why are you allowing those allegations to affect "us"? Individuals make mistakes all the time. If this is all true about Jeff Gannon, it has no bearing on me or my moral standards. If the MSM wants to use him to smear all conservatives ... well, who pays any attention to the MSM anymore anyway?
Don't take it so personally.
The fact his images were on a website means he had no problem flaunting his private life in public.
Left-Wing Activist Poses as Reporter At White House Press Briefings - Where's the Outrage from the Media?
February 11, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Accuracy in Media charged today that a liberal activist and associate of Ralph Nader has been obtaining access to White House press briefings while claiming to be a legitimate news reporter.
Russell Mokhiber, who sells a $795 a year newsletter that bashes corporations, attends the briefings to make obscure anti-Bush political points. Recently, for example, he asked spokesman Scott McClellan whether President Bush violated one of the Ten Commandments by invading Iraq. Mokhiber, who told AIM that he has never taken a journalism class in his life and was denied a permanent White House press pass, posts his ludicrous questions and answers on a far-left web site under the title "Scottie & Me."
Other Mokhiber topics have included industrial hemp, Israel's 1967 attack on the USS Liberty, possible war crimes charges against Bush, and Halliburton.
AIM editor Cliff Kincaid said Mokhiber's attendance at the briefings makes it clear that the controversy over Jeff Gannon attending the same briefings was manufactured by left-wing bloggers and liberals in the media because they don't want conservatives in the White House press corps. Gannon resigned from Talon News, a conservative on-line service, and announced that he was leaving journalism altogether because of a left-wing investigation of his personal life that followed objections to his anti-Democrat question at a presidential press conference. One of many charges made against Gannon was that he lacked proper journalistic credentials.
"The case against Gannon boiled down to being too pro-Republican," said Kincaid, "writing stories with a conservative slant, and being linked to conduct, homosexuality, that is accepted and celebrated by those who were going after Gannon in the first place. The standard of the liberal thought police is evidently that someone's private life should be protected―except when the accused is a conservative"
Accuracy In Media (AIM) is a non-profit, grassroots citizens watchdog of the news media that critiques botched and bungled news stories and sets the record straight on important issues that have received slanted coverage.
I used the word itself, loosely.
Just a theory, they figure decent people like you aren't going to want to click on those links, the one of them that worked that linked back to it's own site was a tad "lurid". That may or may not have been him, but because of the way the picture was taken I first thought it looked like a guy I work with.(!?!)
I'm not saying either way on this Gannon guy. What I do know is that this site is a left wing nuthouse and as a rule liberals are usually lying.
Would you also sue the morons on the internet who readily repeat the story and enhance it and add their moral outrage to the "damage" as they attempt to stir up a lynch mob?
What next "White House Reporter and Spokesman are Aliens"
I remember that question
So this guy isn't a reporter huh???
MSM and the loony left are a bunch of Hypocrites!
Hey Howie! You guys sure are circling the wagons around Eason Jordan and trying to make sure that happens.
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