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.”
I respect your opinion, but wonder how certain you are of the facts.
How do you know that happened? Have these photos been seen by you, or someone (who?) deemed trustworthy by you? Are you just believing allegations put out by the Clintons' slime machine? (That machine characterized Monica as a stalking crazy with fantasies of being with Clinton. Without the true legacy of Clinton preserved on a blue dress many would have believed the Monica-as-stalker story.)
Do you have any reputable source that those charges as repeated by you are true? What source or sources? Will you at least entertain the possibility that some, if not all, of the charges are lies, possibly using photoshopped photos, spewed from the Clintonista slime machine and their willing accomplices in both the old media and the new media?
Finally, let's momentarily assume for the sake of argument, that all the charges repeated by you are true. In that case, do you think that the Clintonistas and their willing accomplices in the media were right to oust Gannon from the press corps simply for asking a question that deviated from the liberal press group think?
Media Matters is David Brock's web site, which is reason enough to demonstrate. Does Podesta bankroll it?
Oh, wait, David Brock does have a similar background, but he's a press poster boy who runs the site that's trying to destroy Gannon..
Podesta's fingerprints are all over Brock.
"I'm gonna tell the whole blog world that you 2 have a problem with bathrooms."
Doesn't count unless it makes the big MSM.
NY Times or Washington Post.....what makes the better birdcage liner? Enquiring minds want to know.
We've seen the anti-Semitism on the left for the last few years as they viciously attack any Jew who believes Israel has a right to defend itself against vicious killers who bomb school children on buses.
Lately, the racism of the left has become more prominent. Any African-American conservative, no matter how brilliant and accomplished (e.g., Condi Rice, Justice Clarence Thomas) is automatically called a puppet of white people or worse. Look at how Dem Senate Leader Reid praised Justice Scalia, but trashed Justice Thomas when they have quite similar opinions and records.
Now, the left has added homophobia to their arsenal. From the closeted gay attorney on Starr's staff ousted by the Clintons during the impeachment battle to the "Mary Cheney is a lesbian" debate line of Jean Francoise Kerry, the hatred keeps coming. And now the Gannon attacks along the same line.
The left hate-mongers just keep their hatred going.
Now with Dean as the DNC Chair we need to have a "Stop the Hate" FReep when he appears somewhere.
First he's a gay Republican and everyone in Washington hates him. Then he's a gay Democrat who hates Republicans and Washington loves him.
This is very confusing for blondes.
Speaking of people's "private life"...heard anything about the fact that Eason Jordan is shaked up with Daniel Pearl's widow, Marianne? Kind of interesting, don't ya think? I mean, the wife and new baby of the war's first press martyr living with the head of CNN news and it's never mentioned in any coverage. Funny what makes (and stays) news and what don't.
Really? You don't think that it's worrisome that Lautenberg and Slaughter want him and his credentials investigated? Is it Congress business? Doesn't that constitute trying to controll the press?
Interesting that you're new and your only posts are on a Gannon thread.
cyncooper posted it this way: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1346286/posts?page=114#114
A bit different than your take, eh?
Bill, you have to use a rational person approach here. This guy has already admitted he is connected to the gay male websites. Then we have naked pictures that look JUST like him. While it's certainly possible they're altered, do you really think a rational person would go balls to the wall and defend him, or would a rational person back up, say 'hold on' and see how things play out? I choose the later approach. There is more than ample evidence that this gentleman is quite sick. If it's OK with you, I'll sit out this dance.
That's not the issue or topic of this thread. The question is should this guy be defended. I say no. Whether it's the Clintons that outted him, or Vince Foster himself, they are not the issue. This guy has made himself the issue - just as Bill Clinton made himself the issue with Monica, NOT Ken Starr.
Have you seen this?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1346560/posts?page=12
Why does that matter? I simply won't defend Gannon, AND I don't want his nasty @ss near our President. He's already done enough damage to the administration with his reckless night-time antics.
Yes, I like this part: "In the interview, Gannon did not dispute evidence that he has advertised himself as a $200-an-hour gay escort but would not specifically address such questions."
I don't know, if someone was accusing me of being a HOTMANNOW.COM male prostitute, I think I would be more apt to defend myself against THAT charge than that I was a shill reporter. Don't you think?
I'm also wondering when he found God. Was it the day after the pictures came out?
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