Advance Workers for Bush Impersonated (Fox)Reporters (& Secret Service)

[RedEarth]

The White House said yesterday that it will discipline two government employees who masqueraded as journalists this month while scouting locations for a presidential visit to the Gulf Coast.

A Mississippi couple whose home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina said two men who later identified themselves as Secret Service agents pretended to be Fox News journalists when surveying their neighborhood in advance of a March 8 visit from President Bush.

The men arrived on March 3 at the site of the beachfront home that Jerry and Elaine Akins are rebuilding in Gautier, Miss., Elaine Akins said in a telephone interview yesterday.

"They didn't show any cards or anything," Akins said. "They just came up and said they were with the media, and then they said they were with Fox. They just talked to us and asked us about rebuilding our house. Then, after everything was over with, they approached us and they were laughing, and they said: 'You know, we really weren't with Fox. We're government, Secret Service men.' "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/17/AR2006031702434.html

[Greeby]

1. Well, real Fox reporters essentially work for Bush...

So it's hard to tell the difference :crazy:

[kenny blankenship]

2. When you consider how often FOX reporters impersonate WH press officers

you can understand how the WH staff would think what they did would be OK.

[soothsayer]

3. Shouldn't they be in a heap o'trouble for impersonating SS men?

[Eric J in MN]

5. It was Secret Service impersonating Fox reporters (nt)

nt

[Boomer]

9. No, they were NOT secret service

They just said they were.

"Tom Mazur, a spokesman for the Secret Service, said he did not know who the men were but they were not Secret Service officials."

"I checked with our people down there in Mississippi who were involved in the advance, and it was not Secret Service people who identified themselves as members of the media," Mazur said. "We wouldn't do that."

(snip)

The men eventually revealed their identities and displayed blue lapel pins bearing the presidential seal. Akins said she does not mind that the men temporarily misled her about their identities.

[stillcool]

12. Only if they are dis-loyal to the fuhrer...

more and more it becomes evident....we are no longer a country governed by the rule of law...but by the rule of men.

[Eric J in MN]

4. Next: Tell us about the civil disobedience

you have planned, we're from "The Nation" magazine.

Oh, by the way, we're actually from the FBI. Put your hands behind your back so that we can handcuff you.

[gratuitous]

6. Fox, Secret Service, White House personnel

What's the difference? :shrug:

I'm so old, I remember a time when impersonating a Secret Service agent would land someone in a whole heap of trouble. Not to mention just lying for lying's sake. But I suppose it'll be another round of Medals of Freedom for these jokesters, who will graduate to K Street for their post-graduate work in political corruption.

[unblock]

7. well with shrub trying to impersonate a president, you can't blame them...

[unblock]

8. "verbally reprimanded"? oh, no! they're using WORDS! call amnesty int'l!!

[melody]

10. Fox reporters have been impersonating journalists for years

Seems fair to me.

:sarcasm:

[brentspeak]

11. Besides being pathological liars

these two stooges sound like they're insecure, like the people who make up stories about serving in the military.

[lovuian]

13. Yep see the connection FoX propoganda channel

:argh:

[PassingFair]

14. Maybe they were FOX SECURITY!

Olberman WARNED us about these guys!

http://www.canofun.com/blog/videos/2006/KOOreillyPhonecallmarch32006.asx

[struggle4progress]

15. This ain't the fust time, neither. eom

[Up2Late]

16. Isn't it nice how they call them "...two government employees..." NOT...

..."TWO WHITE HOUSE STAFFERS!!!!!"

"The White House said yesterday that it will discipline two government employees who masqueraded as journalists this month while scouting locations for a presidential visit to the Gulf Coast...." <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/17/AR2006031702434.html> Grrrr!:grr:

[Divine Discontent]

17. White House: Bogus reporters to be disciplined

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11669246/

White House: Bogus reporters to be disciplined

Two unidentified men claimed to be journalists, then Secret Service agents

WASHINGTON - The White House said it would discipline two government employees who impersonated journalists in advance of a trip by President Bush to the Gulf Coast, The Washington Post said Saturday.

The Post quoted a Gautier, Miss., couple whose home was wrecked by Hurricane Katrina as saying two men identified themselves as journalists during a visit to the couple’s home.

Elaine Akins told the newspaper she and her husband Jerry were initially told by the two men that they were Fox News journalists, but that they later identified themselves as Secret Service agents.





WHAT??? what the hell were they even doing there? I'm confused.

[aquart]

18. they were lying to american citizens.

[Divine Discontent]

21. those people deserve some funds for being harassed

"‘You know, we really weren’t with Fox. We’re government, Secret Service men,”’ she said."

and the White House says these guys aren't even FBI???? This is so bizarre, and sounds about right for the Bush Administration playing games with Americans who are suffering....


m/f

[freethought]

19. "Bogus reporters to be disciplined." Hmmmm.

Well then, I guess Jeff Gannon is going to get ONE BIG SPANKING! BIG DADDY WHITE HOUSE IS GOING DISCIPLINE YOU.
JEFF, YOU HAVE BEEN A VERY BAD BOY!
THANK YOU SIR! MAY I HAVE ANOTHER!.

Oh please.

[wtmusic]

20. It's interesting the WH is choosing to even respond to this incident

methinks there is more than meets the eye.

[Sydnie]

22. They were "producers" scouting a location

Gotta have a set to "wag the dog" right?

[Divine Discontent]

23. ok!

they were PR pricks... got it. gotta make the pResident look good in his latest mock appearance to the country