Fun With the Washington Times

[Oddly Stevenson]

In the 2-15-05 column "Inside Politics" by Greg Pierce appeared the following statement:

"The meeting follows the recent uproar over James Guckert, a former White House reporter for the Republican-linked Talon News, who had used the name Jeff Gannon and drawn fire for criticizing Democrats as part of a question to Mr. Bush."

And this is the e-mail I sent to Mr. Pierce:

Mr. Pierce,
I read with interest your mention of the Gannon/Guckert controversy in your recent column. I was particularly interested in this passage:

"The meeting follows the recent uproar over James Guckert, a former White House reporter for the Republican-linked Talon News, who had used the name Jeff Gannon and drawn fire for criticizing Democrats as part of a question to Mr. Bush."

I couldn't help notice that you made no mention of Mr. Gannon/Guckert being a prostitute. Was this intentional, or has prostitution in journalism become so commonplace that it no longer bears mentioning?




I'm looking forward to his answer.

[Bronco69]

1. LOL!

Great Reply! :-)

[UL_Approved]

2. It may be funny, but...

after the Dan Rather incident, news organizations have to be VERY careful as to what they run with.

Absolute corroborated and verified facts are needed now, or you risk losing the story to dirt from the blog community.

Yes, we are a mass of people who dig up stuff for the world.

Yes, we compete and interfere with the MSM all the time.

But what we say has some or total truth to it.

Rather made a mistake of not getting his source checked out.

But we cannot forget that several other articles over Bush's service record were put out at roughly the same time. And others have been put out before or since.

The RW blogs got one over a reporter with decades of experience because they found a hole and drove the story to the top night and day.

Which is fine, considering that what was said was true, at least up front. But what was true behind the scenes was belied by the verification issue.

Now it is our turn. The LW, yes people, the left-wing blog community is on the offensive, and we caught a big ol' fish. About 150 lbs of Red Herring... And we are gonna dig this hole to bedrock, grab a drill, and keep on going. The Rather story happened because of inside information from the White House going to an ultra-RW blog, contacts researched by an infinite number of monkeys, and then the whole thing was fed back into the MSM through receptive journalists.

We need to find our journalists. We need to find our contacts. But we already have the leak. This goes far. We don't know how far yet, but it goes somewhere big. This is just like the Reagan years, with planted reporters, major defense contractor kickbacks, and a homosexual tie to boot. I worry that the nation will get the Reagan flu and disregard any and all news against the leader. Iran-contra and other such scandals should have led to an impeachment and jail time, at the very least. But nothing happened. But we didn't have the blogs back then, either...