Posted on 02/17/2005 3:59:09 PM PST by cyncooper
CNN we'd be stunned and it would gather a lot of attention of course, but not surprised if some fly by night lefty operation person attended briefings and had this kind of background turn up.
Yes, it's news, but it did not warrant the over-the-top hysteria. And it most certainly did not warrant the baseless allegations like "plant" "ringer" "WH gave him secret memos" (and even more outlandish) parts of the story.
Sorry, but the endless efforts to say "if this were a dem" simply are not right.
Well, we don't know, do we, since we've never looked into the private lives of reporters. However, since they have removed those barriers, we may just find out all kinds of things about who is in the press room.
If this were the case, the press room would be nearly empty.
We differ in what we consider "private." Posting pornographic photos of yourself on the Internet is not private by any means. In fact it's pretty much the most public forum there is.
I think it's 100% true that if some fly-by-night lefty website had gotten a reporter in the Clinton WH and that reporter was found to have a very unsavory past there would be literally hundreds of messages on FR crowing about it and digging into every nook and cranny of that person's life.
I agree that the plant stories are very far-fetched. I think a more important question is whether or not he was fully checked out by the SS. He doesn't appear to have had a hard pass, but he did attend press briefings on a regular basis and had close access to the President.
LOL -it appears to be him. I still wonder -so what? I guess this is all the dummies can do now since elections don't seem to favor them! ROTFLMAO
Wow.
I just saw the pics. They are extremely incriminating. If Gannon has been living this double life, I feel for his family big time. It would seem Gannon has some huge issues to resolve. That said, a reporter's private life is his own.
Helen Thomas
...The Houston Comical add insult to injury by putting her demented and ghastly mug next to her propaganda.... I just thank my lucky stars the pix in NOT in color....
Crowing and digging into every corner of their life because they attended press briefings?
No, it would not have garnered that much interest.
We actually have a close analogy. Bob Beckel. And others have mentioned the business that was run out of Frank's home years ago.
That didn't garner that many threads or that many responses. Yes, of course there was crowing and comments continue to this day. But "digging into his life"? Nope.
Sorry.
And they are much more prominent and closer to (dem) Presidents and dem officials than a reporter at a briefing.
BTW, attending four Presidential news conferences over two years is not "close access to the President", and I'm not sure what threat you are trying to say he posed--that he would strip?
LOL
I don't know why you frame it "stick up for the guy", as in Gannon.
What this thread is about is access to the WH press briefings and Presidential news conferences.
I hope you see the difference between people being reluctant to sign on whole hog to an unsavory story, debunking the leaps and bounds accusations the left lobbed and defending someone.
There is a huge difference.
OK
Maybe your infatuation with a republican non-issue contributes to the belief that people see you as infatuated with a non-issue that only dummies seem to be delusionally slobbering over? e.g. your posting to me and your defense of no defense where defense does not exist on the part of any here? Thou dost protest a bit too much and seem to tow the dummie memes? A troll -probably...
LOL -don't sweat the load! Welcome to FR. I will give you the benefit of the doubt. The political climate like warfare sometimes suffers casualties due to friendly fire. New participants in the fray are more susceptible until they get combat experience -LOL. It is not the best of times as unfortunately we are in a culture war and politics is the battlefield....
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