CBS: Rove- Gannon Connection? (Rove met w/both Gannon & GOPUSA)

[truthpusher]

The first part of this story was covered in another post: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1245729&mesg_id=1245729
the rest deals with Gannon. I am posting the Gannon section. The complete story is here: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/18/opinion/lynch/main675050.shtml

Rove- Gannon Connection?

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18, 2005

(snip)

Tired and timid are two adjectives never applied to Rove. The architect of the Bush victories in 2000 and 2004 came through the ranks of college Republicans with the late Lee Atwater, and their admitted and alleged dirty tricks are the legends many young political operatives dream of pulling off. So when Jeff Gannon, White House "reporter" for Talon "News," was unmasked last week, the leap to a possible Rove connection was unavoidable. Gannon says that he met Rove only once, at a White House Christmas party, and Gannon is kind of small potatoes for Rove at this point in his career.

But Rove's dominance of White House and Republican politics, Gannon's aggressively partisan work and the ease with which he got day passes for the White House press room the past two years make it hard to believe that he wasn't at least implicitly sanctioned by the "boy genius." Rove, who rarely gave on-the-record interviews to the MSM (mainstream media), had time to talk to GOPUSA, which owns Talon.

GOPUSA and Talon are both owned by Bobby Eberle, a Texas Republican and business associate of conservative direct-mail guru Bruce Eberle who says that Bobby is from the "Texas branch of the Eberle clan." Bobby Eberle told The New York Times that he created Talon to build a news service with a conservative slant and "if someone were to see 'Gopusa,' there's an instant built-in bias there." No kidding.

(snip)

This week Democrats, who have serious case of Rove envy, went a little nuts and started sending around information and graphic pictures of Gannon and his porn Web sites. But it is the more routine part of Gannon's life that deserves serious scrutiny. Planting or even just sanctioning a political operative in the WH press room is a dangerous precedent and Karl Rove's hope to become a respected policymaker will be hampered if the dirty tricks from his political past are more apparent than his desire to spread liberty around the globe.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/18/opinion/lynch/main675050.shtml

[Walt Starr]

1. This is not LBN

It's an opinion piece and belongs in the Editorials section.

[truthpusher]

6. This is not an opinion piece, it is a 'news column'...

...this 'news column' has real news in it, as many columns do. If you read the piece you will see that it contains no opinion. It does however contain loose and colorful language as most columns do.
I looked for other articles on the subject of Rove and Gannon and found nothing. I will post other articles as they come through. For now this is the best we have.

[Catchawave]

23. The editorial/other articles page ?

I've been putting mine in GD, Lounge and GD-Politics :shrug:

Since I haven't seen the mods move articles to any other forums. At least mine anyhow !

[durablend]

2. The only place Rove deserves to be

Is rotating over a fiery spit rotisserie style with an apple in his mouth :puke: :puke: :puke:

[applegrove]

3. Rotflmao n/t

[BlueStatesForever]

15. What would he taste like after cooked?

Alligator or scorpion? or maybe a little like cock roach?

[PurityOfEssence]

26. Yeah, but that's not what those eye-bolts above his bed are for...

This whole administration is one big reach-around. Death to those who get in their way.

[HereSince1628]

4. Leave this in LBN, although it is an opinion THIS opinion IS newsworthy

The news hiding in the piece is that SOME of the MSM have realized there is more to the story than sex.

[truthpusher]

8. Read post #6 - This is not an opinion piece. n/t

[HereSince1628]

12. I mistook the word "opinion" in the address as meaning something

But I am in agreement with you. This is newsworthy.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/18/opinion/lynch/main675050.shtml

[chaz4jazz]

20. Guardian (UK) on Gannon

A Hireling, a Fraud and a Prostitute
By Sidney Blumenthal
The Guardian U.K.
Thursday 17 February 2005
Bush's agent in the press corps has given spin a new level of meaning.

The White House press room has often been a cockpit of intrigue, duplicity and truckling. But nothing challenges the most recent scandal there.

The latest incident began with a sequence of questions for President Bush at his January 26 press conference. First, he was asked whether he approved of his administration's payments to conservative commentators. Government contracts had been granted to three pundits, who had tried to keep the funding secret. "There needs to be a nice, independent relationship between the White House and the press," said the president as he called swiftly on his next questioner.

Jeff Gannon, Washington bureau chief of Talon News, rose from his chair to attack Democrats in the Congress. "How are you going to work - you said you're going to reach out to these people - how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?"

For almost two years, in the daily White House press briefings Gannon had been called upon by press secretary Scott McClellan to break up difficult questioning from the rest of the press. On Fox News, one host hailed him as "a terrific Washington bureau chief and White House correspondent". Gannon was frequently quoted and highlighted as an expert guest on rightwing radio shows. But who was Gannon? His strange non-question to the president inspired inquiry. Talon News is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a group of Texas Republicans. Gannon's most notable article had asserted that John Kerry "might some day be known as 'the first gay President'".

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[jdj]

25. thanks for a real news story.

I wish we had a guardian here.

[Moderator]

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[NashVegas]

13. Yes, It Is an Opinion Piece

Not only is it in the opinion section of the CBS site, but you would never see a reporting piece use a sentence like:

So when Jeff Gannon, White House "reporter" for Talon "News," was unmasked last week

with those key words in quotes. Nor would you see anything like:

it hard to believe that he wasn't at least implicitly sanctioned by the "boy genius."

in anything that was to be taken for standard reporting, and not an opinion piece.

[Zeke]

5. F------------!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rove wants to spread liberty around the globe?

He'll lose respect as a politcal planner because of Gannon?

Oh, thank God CBS understands Rove, sympathizes with him, too.

[RedEarth]

7. White House Christmas party??????

I've got a feeling there will be a lot more to this Gannon story than what we currently know.....this could get interesting.

[Blower]

24. Who did Gannon Blow in the White House?

Is Rove married?

[0007]

29. Probably junior and Rove! Rove is not married but Laura is..

[thecrow]

9. Just asking... why, do you think

Gannon was at a White House Christmas... party?

[merwin]

10. How did someone with a $20k income tax lawsuit against him afford to pay

for a white house christmas party?

[CoffeeCat]

11. Gannon was the entertainment...

at the White House Christmas party.

After shimmying out of a giant Hermie-the-Elf cake, Gannon gyrated to "Shock the Monkey" then sipped a few egg nogs with Rove until the two disappeared under the mistletoe, which was hanging underneath Ken Mehlmen's desk.

Well, that's what I HEARD! ;)

[susu369]

14. In this interview, Gannon said he had been to TWO parties

at the White House (Christmas) for the media and had met bu$h* (into the interview around 4:50 spot). This right from the idiot's mouth!

Link to audio of interview below - which is an excellent interview by Robin Young on February 14th (right before Bulldog was instructed to zap it).

http://here-now.org/shows/2005/02/20050214_2.asp

[BlueStatesForever]

16. Yeah, he was Rove's 'escort' .

[Politicub]

17. CBS! CBS!

The Gannon story gets better and better.

I love it - A manwhore is going to bring down the haus of Bush.

[Ivote]

18. Heres More To Feast On

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/18/122051/247

Ties go back to 2000 Election and the pubs in Miami

[Politicub]

19. Mmmm mmm It tastes sweet

like candy :)

[msanthrope]

22. And Roger Stone, the turd, raises his ugly head......

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/18/122051/247

[against all enemies]

21. Opinion piece? Late Breaking News? Who cares, put it on the shit

house walls so that everyone can read about this. The more energy this gets the better chance of a White House cover up. That's how the end begins. Keep the legs under this story.

[Catchawave]

28. A Buzzflash Editorial...

http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/05/02/edi05029.html

Wanted: An Investigative Reporter to Break Open the Explosive Story of a Mainstream Press that Betrays America

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

The White House apologist mainstream press corps is now flagellating the Internet blogs and news services, such as BuzzFlash, claiming that writers on the net are fast with the truth.

What the reality is is this: sites like BuzzFlash.com are fast, fast in telling the truth. The New York Times and Washington Post are so interested in protecting the status quo that they are now the tail end of breaking White House scandal stories, rather than breaking them. They can lay claim to be 12th and 13th to publish hot news stories, two weeks after they've hit the Internet.

You've got White House protectors like Howard Kurtz, who is laughably called a media reporter for the Post. If Kurtz saw Karl Rove drop Howard Dean's body over the White House fence, he'd call his good buddy, Scottie McClellan, the White House Press Secretary, and ask him what happened. more..........