Posted on 02/18/2005 1:33:59 PM PST by areafiftyone
Sure you can. Because that's different. :)
wait....he was a gay hooker?
A member of the WH Press Corps is going to get far more scrutiny than someone getting a DOD pass. Not only are you close to the President and administration officials on a regular basis, but you're much more important to the message the WH is trying to get out, and there are only a few people who are eligible to cover the WH in the first place because it presumes some professional background. Someone getting a day pass every day for a couple of years is also an unusual case.
This Gannon incident is obviously bad news, but it's such a stupid little thing that there's nowhere for it to go. Ooh, America cares about the WH press corps. Whatever.
The point is she's citing the phrase as evidence of inside knowledge and E&P publishes that nonsense as if it has significance.
If they reach anymore there arms are gonna come right outa their sockets.
duder was spreading disinfo about Editor and Publisher. It's a strong lib site that poses as unbiased (MSM anyone?).
"duder" got zotted
He is probably a Freeper and got it here.
http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/e/msg02675.html
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A full investigation takes time. Lots of it. No one is going to do that for a day pass.
Not that unusual. Apparently there are several others in there who also routinely use day passes (including a Naderite).
You just described the entire press coverage.
No, they're not. The daily pass was a routine security check based on name and Social Security number and checked for anything of a threatening nature, not even close to the scrutiny you seem to imagine. The hard pass, which Gannon did not have, does include a more expansive check.
How has the White House been "discredited"?
LOL
Oh, and I didn't say DOD "pass", I said "clearance" (as in access to classified material). Trust me, that is a very in-depth investigation.
Are you a homophobe, do you advocate outing all the Whitehouse reporters and investigating their private lives? The Democrats are simply gay baiting on a huge scale. Dean cries when someone associates the DNC with Lynne Stewart and the National Lawyers Guild, who founded the Deaniac MoveOn.Org, if a Republican accused a MSM reporter of homosexual behavior, it would be a hate crime.
Am I missing something? What in the world is wrong with a reporter who has an agenda ? Its not like this has never happened before. I'm personally at a loss to understand what a reporters sex life, financial life, and even his affiliations have to do with having access. If anything granting access to a wide range of reporters large and small, liberal and conservative, broke and rich, gay and straight etc, makes for a better overall group which can bring their various biases to bear.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/24/eveningnews/main537928.shtml
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