Gannon makes Yahoo--rate it up and email the story

[Bluebear]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050210/ap_on_re_us/reporter_quits

WASHINGTON - A conservative writer who attracted attention by asking President Bush a loaded question at a news conference last month has resigned amid questions about his identity and background.


James D. Guckert, who wrote under the name Jeff Gannon, said on his Web site that he was leaving "because of the attention being paid to me." He had been Washington bureau chief for Talon News, a conservative online news outlet associated with another Web site, GOPUSA.

Guckert frequently attended White House press briefings over the last two years and asked pointedly conservative questions. Called on by Bush at a Jan. 26 news conference, Guckert said Senate Democratic leaders were painting a bleak picture of the economy and he asked Bush how the president would work "with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality."

The question prompted scrutiny, particularly from liberal bloggers. Guckert was linked with online domain addresses suggestive of gay pornography. Guckert, a former resident of Wilmington, Del., told The (Wilmington) News Journal newspaper that he had registered the domain names for a client while he was working to set up a Web-hosting business.

[Arkana]

1. Anyone who has a blog worth its salt needs to have this story up there

I just got done posting it on mine...that was the story I used.

[merh]

5. kick

:kick:

[Bluebear]

6. again

[snacker]

2. done n/t

[understandinglife]

3. Done and submitted the link to VR (nt)

BE THE BU$H OPPOSITION;24/7

[Lex]

4. I rated it high, and emailed it to several people.

:thumbsup:

[jdj]

7. anyone else notice how this reads like an obituary?

doesn't bode well for Gannon, does it?

You can tell that whomever wrote this REALLY didn't want to, the way it just clunks along like this.

Poor yahoo, forced to cover this.

[LibertyorDeath]

8. Done

[Blue-Jay]

9. Rated and kicked.

I normally don't bother "unfreeping" polls or rating news articles, but this one is too good to pass up.

[goodboy]

10. they're freepin' it now....KICK (nt)

[i miss america]

11. Done

[AlwaysDemocrat]

12. Done - Its current average rating is 3.87 with 566 vote(s). (N/T)

[Beaverhausen]

13. done n/t