Randi Rhodes asks the question: How does a 'journalist' with a FAKE name

[Emboldened Chimp]

get access to the president?

Who cares about the other stuff, this should be the meme we float. How does someone with a fake name get into the White House? Doesn't that violate security procedures? Is security at the WH up to snuff?

[soleft]

1. He presented his real name to get his press pass

The question should be - how come McClennan is going along with addressing him by his fake name?

[gatorboy]

23. That's a very interesting question!

n/t

[cthrumatrix]

2. she is not letting it go.....!

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Can we all get into Blackewell's seminary?

I mean fifty bucks and I am now an accredited journalist....

GOD!

[cthrumatrix]

5. You would think other journalists would be "quite pissed"

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Speaks of conservative values thiough

free pass and all you know...

Comumbia Journalism school and what is it 120K of loans or the easy way, fifty buck and two days at Blackwell's Leadership Institute...

[rocktivity]

21. DING DING DING! Cthrumatrix, you're our grand prize winner!

I'd be screaming bloody murder that this man has besmirched not only my profession, but a free press as an American institution. At the end of the day, the only thing a journalist HAS is credibility.

But all I heard last night was Wolf Blitzer mumbling something abot the "death threats" Gannon has received due to "liberal bloggers" exposing him, though there's "no evidence" that he knew anything about the gay websites, or that Bush knew anything at all.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Johonny]

24. How can a fake person

get death threats? I mean Jeff Gannon doesn't exist to get a death threat against. Hello wake up and smell the real story. 30 years ago the washington press corps wouldn't have need a blogger to point out this fake. Wake up media before 21st century news passes you by.

[dpbrown]

4. He could have been the next John Wilkes Booth

For all W knew, this fake could have had designs on him.

Why aren't the media all over this?

[Fridays Child]

6. But doesn't that miss the point that his pseudonym was a Rovian invention?

Or is Randi implying that? (I can't listen to her, right now.)

[malaise]

8. Bingo Friday's Child

This was sanctioned from above.

[BR_Parkway]

7. The question should be how does a fake reporter get the Plame memo, the

exclusive about the CBS Memo, the potential conflict about Gorelick on the 9/11 commission.

Real reporters should WANT to dig into this, Jeff made them all look like big losers since they couldn't come up with the scoops.

[maveric]

10. How did Jack Ruby get access to the DPD basement, witha gun,

when Oswald was being led out? Same thing!
The RW allowed it.

[BlueEyedSon]

11. and he ain't no journalist!

http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/Jeff_Gannon

[gratuitous]

12. And not just Gannon/Guckert

Or Goodbar, or whatever-in-hell he's calling himself, but what about Bernie Kerik, the original Homeland Security replacement for Tom Ridge? What sort of vetting goes on in the White House? Adulterer, procurer, deceiver or falsifier, it's all okay as long as you hold the right (and I do mean right) ideology.

[Fovea]

13. The group of people who can

hang with the stench of Rove is very small
and the subset of that group that can
actually stand in open sunlight is much, much smaller.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. thanks for the mental

stand in open daylight... the rest of them break into flames like good vampires huh?

[Fovea]

16. You are entirely welcome.

Thanks for reading.

http://65.64.114.185/poetry/pages/BushVilanelle.htm

[Fovea]

22. These guys saw what happened to Pinochet

When the bad things come to Karl, Rummy, and Cheney at night, do you think they tell them about
what it is like to live like Pinochet, Milosevic, or Salmon Rushdie?

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L08528061.htm

I think they do.

[tsuki]

15. Good question. Very Good Question. n/t

[jdj]

19. the worst of it for me is the Plame story. Can we prosecute for treason?

Make an example of him, teach the repukes a lesson? Since they have dropped him like a hot potato, can we get dem senators to ask that he be tried for outing Plame?

[imax2268]

17. playing audio

now of Mcllashit going to Gannon over and over and over again...

this has Rove all over it...

[cthrumatrix]

18. it was unbelievable... i heard the BS crap he was "given to read"

[BuyingThyme]

20. That audio was AMAZING!

I recognized a couple of those clips, but when I saw them live on TV, I just assumed that the entire press corps was like that nowadays.