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  • White House Press Corps Dismisses "Gannongate"

    03/17/2005 11:17:11 AM PST · by MisterRepublican · 13 replies · 712+ views
    Accuracy In Media ^ | March 17, 2005 | Sherrie Gossett
    Well, it's official. The White House Correspondents' Association has weighed in on "Gannongate," saying "individual episodes" should not prompt a crackdown on credentialing. That was a reference to a conservative reporter, Jeff Gannon, heavily criticized for asking anti-Democrat questions. Matt Drudge reported on February 28 that in a resolution adopted at a meeting in Washington that morning, the association said it "stands for inclusiveness in the credentialing process so that the White House remains accessible to all journalists We hope that individual episodes do not obscure the broader principles of a fair and evenhanded credentialing process." The resolution explained that...
  • Democrats ask White House for documents on conservative blogger

    03/08/2005 8:11:15 AM PST · by Peach · 38 replies · 1,117+ views
    Knight Ridder Newspapers ^ | March 8, 2005 | Elana Schor
    Democrats ask White House for documents on conservative blogger BY ELANA SCHOR Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON - (KRT) - U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the House's top Democrat for homeland security, has found an unlikely place in need of his protection: the White House press room. Thompson and four colleagues, all senior congressional Democrats, have petitioned Bush administration officials to release classified documents about James D. Guckert, a conservative activist who was a daily fixture at White House press briefings. Calling himself Jeff Gannon, Guckert asked President Bush questions at televised news conferences as a representative of Talon News Service,...
  • Horowitz Exposes David Brock as Paid Hatchet Man for Soros

    03/04/2005 1:49:41 PM PST · by Alexander Nevsky · 114 replies · 4,182+ views
    DiscovertheNetwork.org / Moonbat Central ^ | March 4, 2005 | Richard Poe
    Newsroom shills for the left tend to fare badly in confrontations with bloggers, as former New York Times executive editor Howell Raines, former CBS anchorman Dan Rather and former CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan learned the hard way. Now another leftwing journalist hangs on the ropes, bruised and bloodied from an ill-advised brawl with yet another indignant and fatally well-informed weblogger. This time the recipient of the beating is David Brock – founder and CEO of MediaMatters.org, a self-styled media "watchdog" group more accurately described as a smear site targeting conservative journalists. The blogger is author, journalist and conservative...
  • David Brock Group Backpedals On Soros Funding (Media Matters For America)

    03/03/2005 3:22:34 AM PST · by MisterRepublican · 15 replies · 653+ views
    CNS News ^ | March 3, 2005 | Marc Morano
    Media Matters for America, the group headed by conservative turned liberal writer David Brock, has changed course on its stated association with billionaire liberal financier George Soros. After initially claiming on Dec. 1, 2004 that "neither Media Matters nor its president and CEO David Brock has received any money from Soros or from any organization with which he is affiliated," the group is no longer disavowing any connection with groups "affiliated" with Soros. The Media Matters shift came after Cybercast News Service questioned the group's financial ties and demonstrated that there were numerous and extensive links between Media Matters and...
  • Jeff Gannon Saga Won't Change White House Credential Process

    03/01/2005 8:50:24 AM PST · by Coastal · 1 replies · 378+ views
    The National Ledger ^ | March 1, 2005 | CK Rairden
    Neither the Jeff Gannon nor James Guckert saga is going to cause the White House Correspondents Association to seek any changes in the White House press-credentialing process. It appears that everyone involved in the process is very uncomfortable in attempting to define exactly what a "journalist" is. And that's a very good thing. WHCA President Ron Hutcheson said on February 15, "I'm not comfortable in passing judgment on who is a journalist and who isn't. My overriding view is that if I am going to make a mistake, it is going to be on letting people in rather than keeping...
  • The Phony "Gannongate" Scandal

    02/26/2005 7:54:22 AM PST · by tgslTakoma · 55 replies · 1,427+ views
    Accuracy in Media ^ | February 25, 2005 | By Cliff Kincaid
    NBC News reporter Campbell Brown reports that Jeff Gannon's troubles with the liberal media "started when he was called on by the President at a January 26 news conference and took a swipe at Democrats" with a loaded question. In an interview, Campbell pressed Gannon with her own loaded question: "You don't deny you were writing news with a perspective, with a partisan perspective?" It was as if Brown was implying that other members of the White House press corps would never even think of approaching the news in such a manner. Brown also asked several questions about whether Gannon...
  • Both Houses of Congress Get Involved in 'Gannon' Case

    02/23/2005 4:57:16 PM PST · by kristinn · 46 replies · 1,223+ views
    Editor & Publisher ^ | Wednesday, February 23, 2005 | Joe Strupp
    Two leaders of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee want the federal prosecutor investigating the Valeria Plame case to subpoena a personal journal of controversial White House reporter James Guckert, following Editor & Publisher's disclosure yesterday that Guckert claims he kept the journal for the past two years. "It is clear that a primary obstacle to the ... investigation is uncovering a precise chronology of when, and to whom, classified information was leaked," Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), one of those seeking the subpoena, told E&P. "The revelation by Editor & Publisher that Mr. Guckert kept contemporaneous records of his 'reporting' activities...
  • "Brit Hume Must Resign" Petition Online (Lunatics Smear Best Anchor Man On Cable)

    02/22/2005 8:02:29 AM PST · by SoFloFreeper · 96 replies · 5,043+ views
    Brit Hume is the anchor of Fox News Channel's prime time news report, Special Report with Brit Hume, and he makes things up. On February 3rd, Hume intentionally manipulated the words of the 32nd president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to make it appear as if FDR supported privatization of social security. This is a brazen falsehood. President Roosevelt's grandson, James Roosevelt Jr., describes Hume's journalistic malfeasance as an "an outrageous distortion". We agree.
  • Can The UN Blog Its Way Out of Trouble?

    02/22/2005 6:19:04 AM PST · by crushkerry · 29 replies · 643+ views
    www.anklebitingpundits.com (formerly www.crushkerry.com) ^ | 2/22/05 | www.anklebitingpundits.com (formerly www.crushkerry.com)
    The United Nations has started a blog . And they recruited former Kerry web honcho Peter Daou to run it. Peter Daou and Debra DeShong, both of whom worked for the Massachusetts Democrat in his campaign against President Bush, have taken on new roles with the U.N. Foundation, headed by former CNN mogul Ted Turner. The group looking to boot the United Nations out of the U.S. is now blasting the global body for hiring aides to former presidential candidate John Kerry to help improve its image. Peter Daou and Debra DeShong, both of whom worked for the Massachusetts Democrat...
  • Gannon's Enemies List

    02/20/2005 5:49:36 AM PST · by areafiftyone · 27 replies · 931+ views
    Jeff Gannon is considering suing liberal interest groups, bloggers and others for a "political assassination" that drove him from his job as a reporter for a conservative news outfit called Talon News, he told NEWSWEEK. Gannon, whose real name is James Guckert, singled out Media Matters—a "well-funded" liberal group headed by longtime "attack dog" David Brock. ("Everything we wrote about him came from the public record," Brock replied.)
  • David Brock: Conservatives 'Willing to Lie' to Influence Media

    02/15/2005 9:21:13 AM PST · by MisterRepublican · 118 replies · 2,780+ views
    CNSNews ^ | February 15, 2005 | Marc Morano
    Washington, D.C. (CNSNews.com) - David Brock, a former investigative reporter for conservative publications before flipping his political ideology and writing a book titled, "Blinded by the Right," said Monday that the best way for liberals to expose the current conservative influence in the media is to show how conservatives are "simply willing to lie." Brock is currently the president and CEO of Media Matters for America, a liberal media watchdog that takes on some of the biggest names in conservative media. In authoring the 2002 book, "Blinded by the Right, The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative," Brock not only distanced himself...
  • 'N.Y. Times' Offers Correction on Maggie Gallagher Editorial (she charged "reckless disregard")

    02/01/2005 8:19:47 PM PST · by churchillbuff · 5 replies · 853+ views
    Editor & Publisher ^ | Feb 1 05 | Editor & Publisher
    In a prominent move, The New York Times offered a correction on its editorial page today regarding a previous editorial concerning columnist Maggie Gallagher. She had sent the newspaper an e-mail, E&P has learned, charging "reckless disregard of the truth." This is the latest twist in the current controversy over payments from government agencies to newspaper columnists and whether some are being paid as advisers or with the expectation they may also promote certain policies in their published writing. The Times correction reads: "An editorial last Thursday incompletely described the contract between the Health and Human Services Department and the...
  • Media Matters Asks Scott McClellan to Consider Revoking White House Press Credentials of Talon News

    02/01/2005 8:26:41 PM PST · by Jim Robinson · 32 replies · 1,222+ views
    .usnewswire.com ^ | 2/1/2005 | David Brock and Melissa Salmanowitz of Media Matters
    WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Media Matters for America sent a letter yesterday (January 31) to White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan asking him to consider revoking the White House press credentials apparently granted to Jeff Gannon, the Washington bureau chief and White House correspondent for Talon News, a self-proclaimed news organization that in reality is little more than a partisan activist group. On the heels of the growing scandal surrounding the Bush administration's use of fake "news" reports, the hiring of conservative columnists to promote its policies without public disclosure, and payola to conservative commentators, Media Matters for...
  • Washington Post Mentions FR (MD Governor's aide spread rumors on FR)

    02/09/2005 3:44:30 PM PST · by GulliverSwift · 9 replies · 1,082+ views
    Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley and his wife told a crowd of reporters today that they have a faithful, loving marriage, after the mayor accused agents of Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s administration of spreading false rumors that he had an extramarital affair. "It is difficult to express the kind of anger a father feels in not being able to protect his children from the lies," said Martin O'Malley, a Democrat. "It's hard to defend against this without giving aid to the people trying to push this." Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley and his wife Katie O'Malley hold a press conference...
  • WATCHING THE LIBERAL WATCHDOGS(MediaMatters and Michael Savage)

    01/19/2005 6:11:36 AM PST · by fight_truth_decay · 15 replies · 1,520+ views
    Michelle Malkin ^ | January 19, 2005 07:36 AM | Michelle Malkin
    Media Matters, the Soros-funded media watchdog, made a big stink last summer about talk show host Michael Savage's assertion that some illegal aliens vote. Here is what Savage is quoted as saying on his July 26, 2004, show: "I'll go down the list of people who should not have the right to vote. Let's start with illegal aliens. Should they have the right to vote? Course they shouldn't, but they do. They're being courted by the Democrats as we speak." The so-called watchdogs at Media Matters responded, "Contrary to Savage's assertion, the U.S. Constitution grants voting rights only to American...
  • Letter from David Brock to Bill O'Reilly

    12/16/2004 4:51:35 PM PST · by Veritas et equitas ad Votum · 49 replies · 2,160+ views
    Media Matters ^ | 15 December 2004 | David Brock
    Bill O'Reilly The O'Reilly Factor FOX News Channel 1211 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036 Dear Mr. O'Reilly: In May of this year, I asked that you allow me to come on The O'Reilly Factor to discuss your attacks on philanthropist George Soros. Your producer denied my request, saying you were no longer discussing the topic. Yet in subsequent weeks, you continued to discuss Mr. Soros on your radio and television programs. Despite my offer to discuss Soros, you still did not invite me on -- even complaining during your June 1 Radio Factor, "I mean, we really...
  • Liberals, Leftists and the War in Iraq

    12/13/2004 2:50:36 PM PST · by swilhelm73 · 7 replies · 868+ views
    FPM ^ | December 10, 2004 | David Horowitz
    The passions of war in a divided nation can be not only unpleasant, but dangerous as well. They can tie our hands, weaken our resolve, and make us vulnerable to those who are determined to destroy us. But when lives are at stake – and those lives are our own – it is easy to abandon common civilities and to think of our opponents as an enemy camp vying for the right and the power to determine our fates. In these circumstances it is easy to forget the ties that bind us, and that we are, when all is said...
  • Franken-Style Smears From David Brock’s Noise Machine

    12/01/2004 1:26:51 AM PST · by kattracks · 5 replies · 852+ views
    FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 12/01/04 | David Horowitz
    I thought it interesting when George Soros and co. gave $2 million to a self-confessed liar to be the "liberal'" media watchdog. David Brock's site 'Media Matters" doesn't disappoint. It is just what one would expect from a man who has made a career out of sleaze, the betrayal of friends, an alarming lack of scruples and a generally contemptuous attitude towards the facts. So I am not surprised that my attempt to hold Al Franken to account for his own reckless disregard for decency and ethics should draw its first fire from David Brock. Not surprisingly, either, the attack...
  • MMFA asks NBC not to feature Limbaugh on election night (David "The Liar" Brock Alert!)

    11/01/2004 4:58:20 AM PST · by PJ-Comix · 59 replies · 2,062+ views
    Media Matters For America ^ | October 26, 2004 | David "The Liar" Brock
    MMFA asks NBC not to feature Limbaugh on election night Mr. Neal Shapiro NBC News 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10112 Dear Mr. Shapiro: I am writing to you today to ask that NBC not feature conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh as a political commentator during election night coverage, as your network did in 2002. As you should know, Limbaugh has a track record of using extreme, hateful speech that has no place in civil discourse. To pick just a few examples from this year, as documented by Media Matters for America: Limbaugh compared the abuse of Iraqi prisoners...
  • Pink-Slipped Pollster (MSNBC cancels Frank Luntz's focus group due to pressure from David Brock)

    10/03/2004 8:04:45 PM PDT · by Cableguy · 58 replies · 2,199+ views
    Wash Post ^ | 10/4/04 | Howard Kurtz
    Pollster Frank Luntz is crying foul after MSNBC canceled his long-scheduled focus group two days before the debate. Luntz, who is under contract to MSNBC, had already spent $30,000 on recruits for several focus groups and invited reporters in Florida to watch -- only to be told that the network didn't want to declare a winner in the debate. "I think they buckled to political pressure," says Luntz, who has advised Republicans from Newt Gingrich to Rudy Giuliani but says he's done no GOP work since 2001. "They caved. . . . Why is it that Democrats are allowed to...