Excellent Gannon analysis on Seattle Indymedia

[burythehatchet]

http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2005/02/244659.shtml
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Randi Rhodes points out today that a GOP thug, who has been greasing up Scotty McClellan for months, has been forced to publicly resign from a FAKE NEWS organization (not The Daily Show) that has DIRECT ACCESS TO THE PRESIDENT! Jeff Gannon (not his real name) is also known as one of the *reporters* fed the Valerie Plame leak from the White House. At a time when innocent people are being rounded up by the dozens under the Patriot Act, as Enemy Combatants and put away without counsel, without charge -- this bastard participated in outing one of our few deep assets working on Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East. That is treason. But if it's treason, and Gannon was clearly working for Rove -- then what do we have?
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In case you didn't know, there's been plenty of evidence over the years that George himself enjoys a little man love. Kitty Kelley wrote in her last book The Family, of Bush's homosexual relationship, since about puberty, with Victor Ashe (long-time Mayor of Knoxville -- and Repub-hottie). When some in Congress began smelling around in this in 2003, Ashe retired as Knoxville Mayor and was appointed by George W. Bush as the U.S. Ambassador to Poland ("don't forget Poland" as Bush implored during the first debate).
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There is only ONE DEGREE OF SEPARATION between Gannon and Rove. That link is Morton Blackwell, famous for handing out the purple bandaids at the "RNC Convention and Round Up" in New York last year. Indicating that veterans awarded the purple heart were really just a bunch of whiners. These band-aids were a big hit at the convention. When people held up blue fingers at the State of the Union signaling victory in the Iraqi vote, all I could think of were the band aids. Memorable. http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/extra/archives/001437.h...
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[Eric J in MN]

1. I don't get it. What does Morton Blackwell

have to do with Karl Rove and "Jeff Gannon?"

[KharmaTrain]

2. "Gannon" ->. "Fake J-School" -> Blackwell

Check out Daily Kos for the connections.

We still have no solid links anywhere that puts Rove anywhere near "Gannon", but we have some pretty solid links to Ed Gillespie and the RNC...the ones who'd be more likely to run the boiler rooms. Rove had bigger fish to fry last year.

[burythehatchet]

3. I think where this is all headed is

that Rove was using Gannon as the "Minister of Propoganda". Gannon is a small fish that Rove used, knowing that at some point he would have to be cut loose. I would even expect Gannon to be "suicided". Personally, I believe Gannon was the go-between in the Dan Rather set-up, and I think he was the leaker of the Plame memo.

Put yourself in Karl's shoes. If you had to smear 8 or 10 people, would you do it using one guy or 10 guys? The answer is one guy, because when the SNAFU occurs you only have to manage one.

[burythehatchet]

4. need to recollect the Dan Rather story

wasn't there a mysterius, unidentified person who handed the documents to the person who gave them to CBS?

[KharmaTrain]

6. Buckethead

A freeper who the LA Times outted as a GOOP operative...another "Gannon".

[98geoduck]

5. I think Jon Stewart oughta seek out a press pass!