Gannon Lets the Eagle Soar....

[hangemhigh]

Let's review:

Fake name, 4 day old news website vetted by WH
Full WH press credentials
Planted softball questions to Scottie
Rove connection
Faux Hannity connection
Origins and iterations of Talon News
Scrubbing of Talon News and GOUSA websites
Access to Plame-CIA memo and Joe Wilson Response
Anti-gay printed agenda, owner of + gay military websites=serious hyporcite
On the record tax evader

What have I missed?

[Ian David]

1. Spent time at Bush's Pig Farm as a guest

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3088005&mesg_id=3088585

We miss our friends and they're here at The Pig Farm, e.g. The Gannons

<snip>

THE PRESIDENT: I guess they don't know what it's like to be the President. (Laughter.) I get plenty of quality time with a lot of really good people. Sometimes, it's important to just get away as well.

Plus, you know, one of the things we miss in Washington is our friends. And they're here. We've got the Weisses here, the Gannons are here, Pam Nelson is here. And we find it really relaxing to sit down on the porch with our buddies and just shoot the breeze. And, you know, it's amazing. You don't have to defend any policy you make. I mean, your friends are your friends. These people were friends of mine before I became President, they'll be friends of mine after I'm the President. And people just take you for what you are.

More:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/08/20010825-2.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3088005

[tuvor]

2. Poor writer

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3083997&mesg_id=3083997

[charlie]

3. THIS!!

December 2, 2003

I GOT SMEARED!

For the second time in as many weeks, the liberal media has taken a shot at me. Recently an article appeared in the Washingtonian magazine’s online feature, Washington Buzz entitled, “Can White House Stay on Message Amid Leaks?”. In it, political writer Harry Jaffe tried to make the point that the alleged leak of a CIA agent’s name by someone in the administration has caused problems for a White House that had been otherwise effective in maintaining a unified front in dealing with the press corps.

...

But Jaffe suggested that the White House is reacting to the negative reporting by attacking members of the press corps. He wrote:

“There are signs the White House may be going on the offensive, striking back at reporters it considers too aggressive. Both Moran (of ABC) and NBC’s David Gregory were singled out in a dispatch published in Talon News, a news service sponsored by GOPUSA, a Republican Party news service.”

He’s talking about me! Jaffe is claiming that I am a Republican Party operative instructed by the White House to write a hit piece on these two reporters. Both of those allegations are totally and completely false.

...

The second stab came last week from an admittedly liberal reporter at the White House who gave me what she thought was friendly advice. She said, “Don’t suck up to these people , you’ll lose your credibility.” After an edgy discussion during which I pointed out that I was pursuing stories and angles that no one else was, she realized I was not interested in her counsel and that I categorically rejected her assessment of my credibility.

To say that I lack credibility because I ask questions that don’t assume the President is an illegitimate, corrupt, lying, warmongering extremist is laughable. It seems that I am virtually alone in trying to balance out the agenda-driven questions so that the full story can be told. Apparently the President sees it that way as well, since he recently spoke out about the filtering that news gets about events in Iraq.

http://web.archive.org/web/20031203172719/jeffgannon.com/smeared.htm

[hangemhigh]

4. Keep 'em coming-the highlights all in one thread- nt

[KharmaTrain]

5. 700,000 Daily "Visitors" On His Website

He claimed this on CNNservative today. As a former webmaster, I used to subscribe to Webtrends...a service that gave you daily hit counts...both "unique" (meaning a new visitor) vs. other "hits"...a good example is right here on DU...every time you click your buttons, it registers as a hit on the site.

700,000 hits a day? That's 25,000 hits an hour...or, if his spin is to be believed..."unique" visitors. That kinda traffic would bog down a server (I'm sure someone behind the curtain at DU could verify that)...and he was claiming that as an "average". If that were the case, Mr. "Gannon" would be as popular as Drudge.

I know the "Wayback Machine" has his pages cached (for those who missed the goodies Media Matters salvaged from Google), but I'm curious if there's a way, through Webtrends (if it still exists) to see what the ACTUAL hit count to his sites were...and where they came from. Any IP sleuths out there?

[Must_B_Free]

6. $50 two day "Journalism" training

with Morton Blackwell, the purveyor of the putple heart band-aid.