Posted on 02/19/2005 5:25:40 AM PST by FairOpinion
The following is the transcript of the Friday night CNN interview of Jeff Gannon/James Guckert by Anderson Cooper.
COOPER: There are many questions that have been raised about whether or not -- people raising the specter that you are somehow a White House plant. Are you a White House plant? Were you (UNINTELLIGIBLE)?
GANNON: Absolutely not. As a matter of fact, how I came to be at the White House is I asked to attend a briefing. I asked the White House Press Office. They gave me a daily pass to get in.
COOPER: This liberal group, Media Matters, which I'm sure you know well about. They have been very critical about you, really looked into this probably closer than just about anybody. They say that essentially, you are not a real reporter. And it's not even a question of being an advocate, that you have directly lifted large segments of your reports directly from White House press releases.
GANNON: All my stories were usually titled "White House Says," "President Bush Wants," and I relied on transcripts from the briefings, I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted.
COOPER: But using the term "reporting" implies some sort of vetting, some sort of research, some sort of -- I mean, that's called faxing or Xeroxing, if you are just lifting transcripts and putting them into an article.
GANNON: If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they believe.
(Excerpt) Read more at mediainfo.com ...
I think the left has started something that should keep going. These kooks from the left that supposedly reports the news should be as closely examined and investigated as politicians. Most of them have a personal stake in government in some form or the other and most of them have lots of skeletons in their closets. I personally do not think 25% of the MSM could stand up to any scrutiny if it were done right.Lets get it on,it is time to take away their free pass and to expose them and their families personally. It seems as though lawyers,judges and news media have special privileges that the rest of us don't.
Big time. The democrates invented the term to "bork" but it is used by both sides now. Gannon is a casualty in a culture war.
Two questions:
Is Gannon not continuing to go by the name of Gannon?
What is the question that he asked that got the Libs' panties all bunched up?
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Nor can I or will I defend him, either. For example, he did not deny the following question, rather made an attempt at deflecting the reality of what he did and does:
COOPER: Let me give you a chance just to respond to what you want to respond to. You had previously stated that you had registered a number of pornographic Web sites for a private client. That's what you had said publicly. You said the sites were never activated. A man now has talked to The Washington Post, who said that you had essentially paid him to create some Web sites for an escort service, and you are yourself offering yourself as an escort.GANNON: Well, like I said, there's a lot of things being said about me out there. A lot of things that have nothing to do with the reporting I have done for the last two years.
It is also my understanding that Guckert publicly condemned homosexuality, yet I haven't read that he's stopped those behaviors, himself. What is there to defend about Guckert and his behavior?
Of course, the liberal media really doesn't care that Guckert's a homosexual, as they promote the pro-homosexual agenda that has become more brazen and prolific in the past 12 years.....they went after his sordid past (and continued involvement) in what conservatives, especially conservative Christians, are against.
make that: "...Bush Friendly Reporter Formerly Known as Gannonn"
It's a perfectly reasonable question!
LOL.......the entire clinton white house would never have been allowed into the building!!!
ok, here are some actual questions he could have asked.
What is the White House's opinion on the food for oil scandal?
What is the budget going to be next year for Border Patrol?
etc...
Those aren't accusations, they are conservative questions.
Gannon is still using that name. Lots of writers use pseudonyms.
The question, that broke the camel's back for the Dems is this:
"Senate Democratic leaders have painted a very bleak picture of the US economy. Harry Reid was talking about soup lines, and Hillary Clinton was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse. Yet, in the same breath, they say that Social Security is rock solid and there's no crisis there. How are you going to work -- you said you're going to reach out to these people -- how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?"
I agree with the thoughts behind the question, but I maintain that it was hamfisted and puerile to ask it at a Presidential press conference.
It was like painting a bulls-eye on his back. Oh well...reap the whirlwind.
A. A 'Bush-friendly' reporter is allowed into the press corp?
B. A homosexual is supporting the enemy?
C. Unqualified journalist in the White House.
Answer: A & B
(See what happens when blacks or homosexuals try to leave the proverbial democrat plantation!)
We likely wouldn't have the means to. The network of pinko gay activists and bloggers did the detective work for the lazy lame stream press and pressed their research on them
Pinko gays are vicious when it comes to outing someone who they feel is a traitor to the gay agenda. The republican congressman north of me is a low key gay and the lefties try to out him from time to time. But he's half out anyway so it doesn't work
That was Jeff Gannon's introduction to a question. I hear opposite type intros all the time from the usual MSM crew in the White House press corps
By George, you've got it!
Well, it beats the questions *I* would ask at a Presidential press conference....
That's what the press wants.
We'll give it to 'em.
An amazing question from what is just one voice that speaks as part of the MSM 'collective'. . .
Let's get this straight. . .these so called journalists/reporters who dot their 'i' the same; cross their 't's. . .as they share the same paragrahs. . .we should now refer to as . . .'faxers'. . .
Like it. . .AP faxer. . .NYT's faxer. . .
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