Posted on 02/18/2005 6:28:03 AM PST by kristinn
All FReepers and lurkers in good standing are invited to join the D.C. Chapter in our demonstration this evening. Details in the following press release:
DEMONSTRATION IN SUPPORT OF JEFF GANNON
&
THE FIRST AMENDMENT
WHEN: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2005, 6 P.M. TO 8 P.M.
WHERE: THE SIDEWALK BY MONICA’S GATE,
AKA THE NORTHWEST VISITORS ENTRANCE
THE WHITE HOUSE, 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE., NW, WASHINGTON, D.C.
(Washington) The D.C. Chapter of Free Republic, an independent grassroots organization, will be holding a demonstration at the White House this evening in support of former Talon News White House Correspondent Jeff Gannon and the rights of other reporters to do their jobs without fear of being destroyed by the political establishment.
The group will also be bringing attention to several First Amendment-related issues pertaining to the current imbroglio. Among them are the unconstitutional efforts of Democratic congressmen to determine who is a reporter and efforts by the establishment media to shut out Internet-based news sites from having access to government press conferences.
Kristinn Taylor, Co-Leader of the D.C. Chapter of Free Republic, issued the following statement: “It is common knowledge that Jeff Gannon was singled out for personal destruction for the crime of asking a question of the President of the United States at a press conference that was insulting to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
“The Clintonista slime machine, led by former Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta’s Media Matters for America, went into high gear and made an example of Mr. Gannon to any reporter who might dare to challenge Sen. Clinton’s credibility in her anticipated 2008 presidential candidacy.
“What was done to Mr. Gannon was the Clinton impeachement era Ellen Romesch strategy played out for all concerned parties to see. The D.C. Chapter of Free Republic will be out demonstrating for the rights of Mr. Gannon and all other reporters to exercise their rights without fear of personal destruction.”
Have you seen the archived JeffGannon.com article. His own words tell me a lot.
No ma'am, I don't think I will. I've seen them myself and do not wish to connect them to here. They are pornographic. But since it only took me as few minutes of googling them using basic word combos I'm sure you could do it too.
Well, I followed the links on DU and didn't see any links to pictures, but you are right, it wouldn't be a good idea.
I can see both sides of this issue.
On the one hand, I don't like the idea of the MSM going after conservative journalists when they can't be bothered to demand that Kerry release his military records. On the other hand, didn't conservatives say, during the Clinton years, that character matters?
I'm going through a similar issue with my father's care-giver. Suffice it to say that he is probably having an affair. He has repeatedly asked for money. We have recently found out that he has a misdemeanor battery conviction. He's a really nice guy--my dad loves him. However, he also does the bare minimum for my dad; he basically sits talking on his cell phone all day long. Can you really separate out the private from the public persona? Maybe to some degree, but ultimately, it catches up with you.
So, with all due respect for everything that you do, Kristinn, the analysis in the link that ClintonBeGone posted in #42 has really swayed me. How in the world was this guy approved to be in the press pool?
Actually, I don't want to visit any porno sites, but I was wondering why it took so long to find the pictures if they are real and were on the sites that were listed under Guckert's name.
Ah, but the self-delusional left have willed themselves to believe that this is the scandal that will bring down the Bush "regime". To them, this is "Watergate".
Of course, they also beleived that the "Ohio vote fraud" was going to be the scandal... before that it was Haliburton... etc.
I figured you go on the tangent that my pointing out that he did not receive "favorable" treatment from Fleischer or McClellan is construed by you as "supporting him".
Pretzel logic.
The fact is that a wide variety of organizations attend and they all get called on eventually. Gannon was not regularly called on, but he certainly had his turns, just like the other fringe type sites.
No. I've only read what DU was sure they "had" on Gannon and the WH and almost everything posted on FR. I'm still greatly bothered at the increments in this story. There's a lot going on here.
Is there anything in a public records database that would have denied him entry? They can't do a full background check for a day pass -- there's nowhere near enough time. And that assumes that this isn't just some made-up hoax, which, though unlikely, is still a slim possibility.
In one of the threads, I found out that Geraldo Rivera is a fake name. (I guess I remember hearing that years ago.)
But it was news to me that "Wolf Blitzer" is also a an alias. (Real name is "Norman Finkelstein"... or something like that)
People need to get a grip. This has been blown out of proportion. Gannon's not a politician. Nor did he try to take down a President with fake news. No one else in the WH press corps has bloggers digging dirt on them, real or imagined. I'm amazed at what's going on.
http://www.waybackmachine.org/
Go to JeffGannon.com and read for yourself. Read his article on the right column in the last year.
There is conflicting information on both of those that indicate that those "birth names" might be urban legends. (And I'm the one who "found" the Blitzer one...)
I agree, but to the looney left, Gannon is the "rosetta stone" that ties together the "Plame leak", "paid/planted journalists", and "Bush is a party-boy/faux-evangelical" nonsense.
You're absolutely right on this. And homosexual prostitution is an area of expertise among the radical left, so it was only a matter of time before they unearthed what they did. Gannon should not have been smeared for his question as a reporter, but he was a public commentator who actively stated and wrote political opinion on news media outlets and thus made himself subject to scrutiny from his opponents. He shouldn't have been smeared for asking Bush the question that he did, but he has only himself to blame for his past finally catching up with him.
"Oh sorry, my attention was deficating..."
Not to worry, it happens and why I recommend brown khakis as a fashion must.
Hey wait a minute. Are making light of the serious topics of discussion here? I'm shocked, just shocked I tell ya.
Humor has no place in a forum where people are pis$ed.
They can't do a full background check for a day pass -- there's nowhere near enough time."
I didn't realize that's all he had. I need to keep reading--this story is getting no coverage here and though I was in the US last week, I left just when this was breaking.
"And that assumes that this isn't just some made-up hoax, which, though unlikely, is still a slim possibility."
That is a good point.
Like I said in my earlier post, I can see both sides, though if everything about this guy is true, I guess I'd have a hard time publicly supporting him.
I thought the same thing until I stumbled on a website ("American Blog"... or something like that.""
As soon as the first picture loaded of "Gannon" from his websites, I about puked on the keyboard.
I hit the "back" button as fast as I could and erased the page from my history so my wife wouldn't start having doubts about me.
My post was referring to the insinuation that such behavior had anything to do with his presence in the briefing room, not whether such behavior happened.
Smartaleck:"people are pis$ed."
I'm gonna tell the whole blog world that you 2 have a problem with bathrooms. It's a scoop I tells ya, a scoop!
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