Web Site Operator Says He Knew of Reporter's Two Identities

[sabra]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/national/20gannon.html

Web Site Operator Says He Knew of Reporter's Two Identities
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL

Published: February 20, 2005


HOUSTON, Feb. 19 - The operator of an activist Republican Web site and news service said Friday night that he had known for two years that his White House correspondent went by two identities.

But the operator, Robert R. Eberle, denied in an interview that the correspondent, Jeff Gannon, whose real name is James D. Guckert, was an administration plant or was given preferential treatment as a Republican partisan to ask soft questions at briefings.

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Mr. Eberle said it was not his idea of a proper question. "I would have phrased it differently," he said. Still, he said, the backlash surprised him. "I had no reason to think he was not adhering to professional news standards." The White House generally reserves slots for professional reporters, not political activists.

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Mr. Eberle also said he had no inkling that Mr. Guckert had created pornographic Web sites or offered himself as a gay escort. Those revelations came in recent accounts in The Washington Post. If he had known, Mr. Eberle said, "I don't think I would have brought him on."

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Seems like Eberle is trying to distance himself from 'Gannon'....

[Beetwasher]

1. Oh Man, That's the Suday NYT

:wow:

[justiceischeap]

2. Along with the Frank Rich article (eom)

[Beetwasher]

3. That Rich Article Is A Couple of Days Old I Believe

I know the date says 2/20, but it was actually published Thursday I think...I know because I remember reading it and seeing it posted here already...

[Goldeneye]

4. nm

nm

[aquart]

5. Which brings us to...who was funding this "volunteer" effort?

And if Gannon was so competent and there was nothing wrong with his double identity, why remove his stories from the site?

AND WHY ON GOD'S EARTH DID HE USE THE SAME NAME FOR THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE PROSTITUTION SITES??????????????????????????????????????

Which, btw, is beginning to make me nervous.

[Liberty Belle]

16. It was probably his real name.

He couldn't have gotten a press pass without giving his real name, theoretically, because you have to present a social security #.

His dumbest move was buying the porn sites in his own name instead of an alias.

[tuvor]

6. Eberle's quick to talk, isn't he?

I mean it's not as though the media's been after him. Hell, they don't even care that much about "Gannon".

My feeling is that we've only located the tip of the iceberg.

[w13rd0]

7. Man, every new article...

...just proves more and more how dead and deader this story is... </sarcasm>

The gift that keeps on giving. Keep following the money. Grab loose threads and just YANK AND YANK AND YANK. We'll unravel this damn thing.

[Rose Siding]

8. Looks like the story's moving in the right direction

from AMERICAblog:
snip>
Back in the NY Times piece, there is another interesting tidbit in the article that confirms a connection exposed by RawStory.com earlier today:

Mr. Eberle said that he and some friends founded Gopusa out of his Houston home about five years ago and later created Talon News. They expanded by buying another conservative site called MillionsofAmericans.com.

That link,as Raw Story explains, connects Eberle right to the heart of the GOP. Every article about this story gives a few answers, but creates many, many more questions.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/02/ny-times-with-gannonguckert-and.html

The missing link? Partner of GOPUSA founder has checkered past as Republican moneyman
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=104

[DoYouEverWonder]

19. So Bobby admits to paying for Bruce Eberle's website

which included his coveted mailing list. That must have cost a pretty penny? Where did Bobby and his pals get the money for such a thing? Especially since GOPUSA wasn't generating any income as far as we can tell.

[Cha]

9. Somebody should have done

some Investigating on someone with an alias.

[MADem]

10. Eberle has been a GOP player in TX, but NOW....

...all of the BushCO GOP types are claiming that they don't even KNOW the guy. Don't piss off these types...they'll get their revenge, even if they have to burn down the house to do it. Disco inferno!

[Straight Shooter]

11. If he had known ... "I don't think I would have brought him on."

Mr. Eberle also said he had no inkling that Mr. Guckert had created pornographic Web sites or offered himself as a gay escort. Those revelations came in recent accounts in The Washington Post. If he had known, Mr. Eberle said, "I don't think I would have brought him on."

He doesn't think he would have brought him on?? What kind of lame comment is that? I'd be standing there saying, "No way, Jose, would I have ever let that two-bit poseur anywhere near my respectable organization."

Says a lot about Eberle trying to have it both ways, doesn't it?

[Toucano]

12. You're a lying sack of shit, Eberle. n/t

[bin.dare]

13. "Those revelations came in recent accounts in The Washington Post.

... thieves, robbers. Incest between NYT and WP.

[jdj]

14. I think Eberle and Rove are friends.

they probably both have used Gannon, and this was some kind of cute menage. I'm sure they both had gushy crushes on him.

Sure you didn't know, Eberle, sure you didn't.

Keep talking, please. Piss Gannon off to the point that he gives John Aravois his porno pictures of YOU.

[Erika]

15. Eberle and Rove

are long time GOP operatives.

[Tahkcalb]

17. How far ya'll think he can throw 'em?

note: I do hope that's the right 'feller' in the back, the one in the front keeps making me gag and look away.

[DoYouEverWonder]

18. Yes you've got them right

Nice job.

Welcome to DU :hi: