Question: Was Cannon/Guckert in WH during Ari Fleischer's term?

[kentuck]

as press secretary? Ari Has not been gone that long? And if Cannon showed up during Ari's tenure, did Scotty McClellan have enough pull at that time to get him in the White House? I may be jumping in the middle of something that has already been discussed??

[Must_B_Free]

1. He has claimed he was there when Fleischer was there.

[KoKo]

2. From what I read...it was discovered today that Gan/Gurk was there

during last part of Ari's stay. AND...breaking tonight on AmericaBlog, it seems that Gurkert wasn't working for Talon until Scotty came on board.

So...he appeared under Ari...but got credentials under Scotty. Hope that helps... There are some posts on DU Front Page.

Yes...what's the connection to Ari... and it's worse that Gan/Gurk got in without any backing at all....Sort of blows Kurtz's defense of the victim of Bloggers defense out the window...doesn't it...:shrug:

[Fridays Child]

3. Yep. Here's a link to a thread about it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3126455

[kentuck]

4. Maybe it wasn't Scotty that got him in ??

Maybe it was someone else? But who?

[KharmaTrain]

16. Snotty's Just One Gatekeeper

His beat is keeping the White House propaganda machine in synch with the House propaganda machine with the Senate machine with the hate radio machine with the christian radio machine with the corporate media machine...each with gatekeepers and bag men and women.

While I think Snotty was aware of "Gannon" and could yield a lot of interesting testimony if put under oath, he's not the one who got "Gannon" into that room...that came from on higher...and Snotty was told the "this guy's ok" deal.

The people who also could shed light on this were many of the "mainstream" "journalists" who sat in that briefing room and the gaggles and saw this guy come and go for the past 2 or more years. "Gannon" doesn't seem like the shy violet...I wonder what "small talk" he'd do with a David Gregory or John King. How about if there was any wondering who this guy was. Cushy media gigs are jewels in the crown...everyone who gets there knows everyone elses story. The silence from this group is the most deafening. I'm sure if this scandal blows big, they'll be the first with the "tell all" books.

One new question that popped in my addled brain tonight was around WHO found "Gannon". From what we have found, he seemed to have become an "activist" while at college in PA (someone had their web page linked) and who got him into Blackwell's school.

I get this strange feeling "Gannon" could give us a lot of gifts...I'm really hoping the right wing and his former "friends" toss him like a bad habit...and he feels spurned. That could start some real fireworks...and we'll know this scandal really is hitting home when the talking heads start covering their asses by going after each other. I have to stop dreaming this way...

[chookie]

5. Story from GOPUSA re Ari (and Jeff)

"Talon News White House Correspondent Jeff Gannon expressed surprise at Ari's announcement. "There was no indication that Ari would be leaving any time soon," Gannon said. "Ari has skillfully handled a sometimes hostile and unruly crowd in the press room."
-snip-
Pentagon spokesman Victoria Clarke and Republican strategist Ed Gillespie have been named as possible replacements. However, many predict the job will go to White House Deputy Press Secretary Scott McClellan.

"Scott McClellan would be an able successor to Ari Fleischer," Gannon added.

The Ari Fan Club, sponsored by Probush.com, has already started an on-line petition to bring Ari back. Fans of Fleischer can mourn over his resignation and buy official Ari gear."
http://web.archive.org/web/20030522062057/http://www.gopusa.com/news/2003/may/0520_fleischer.shtml

Gannon ran the Ari Fan Club, if you have the stomach to check it out.

[subterranean]

7. Sorry for the dupe below

Didn't see your post before I posted!

[Fridays Child]

8. Where do you see that GanGuck ran the fan site? I'm not finding it.

[chookie]

13. He was involved with it

I don't know if I can prove it now, but a week ago I was fishing for stuff he and others from Talon had written -- and they post at every small wacko site you can imagine -- and my google led me here, to one of the pieces of fan mail.

I think he discusses Ari on FR -- that he was involved with the cake.

Sorry I didn't pay closer attention. If I can find the link again -- tough because Talon is stripping any writing by Gannon -- I will PM you with a solid connection.

[Fridays Child]

20. Heck yeah! Post it, too. Exploring the Gannon-Fleischer nexus...

...might prove very important.

[KoKo]

10. Is this the link where Gannon/Gurkert posts pix of Birthday Cake for Ari

on Talon Web site? What's amazing is that I remember at the time of "Ari" when I was here on DU and some of our DU gays said their "gaydar" went off when they saw Ari. But, then Ari got married...so who knows.

:shrug: He did have a big fan club and sort of started the fad of the "Metro-Sexual" stud look. The glasses the "bald head" (which photos show Bush really loves to take a "feel of.")

Who knows....Ari's parents are Dems btw and he graduated from "Middlebury College" hardly a hot bed of Repugs. But then he disappeared after Bush...he's got a book coming out though...no revelations the reviewers said...and he probably has a "discreet but high paying cushy job in some Repug Corporatist firm. :shrug:

But...if he was "sneaked in during Ari" who knows if he was a buddy of Ari's or just a Bush appointee.

[subterranean]

6. Indeed he was

"Jeff" got his first White House pass on April 3, 2003. Ari announced his intention to resign on May 19, 2003. I don't know whether Scotty's pull helped "Jeff" get in, but "Jeff" was pulling for Scotty. Here's what he had to say (from the GOPUSA web site):

Talon News White House Correspondent Jeff Gannon expressed surprise at Ari's announcement. "There was no indication that Ari would be leaving any time soon," Gannon said. "Ari has skillfully handled a sometimes hostile and unruly crowd in the press room."
...
"Scott McClellan would be an able successor to Ari Fleischer," Gannon added.

[Technowitch]

11. So.... the theory is that maybe McClellan got Gannon into the WH

...while Scottie was still just a wee Deputy Press Secretary?

Aren't there some stories going around about Scottie being seen in Austin bars of certain repute?

[subterranean]

19. At the press briefing last week

McClellan said that "as the press secretary, I don't think it's the role of the press secretary to get into picking or choosing who gets press credentials."

But perhaps it is the role of the deputy press secretary.

[merh]

9. Gannon was reporting for GOPUSA News in February 2003

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3127394

[KoKo]

12. The date he started at the White House seems to be going further back

every day this story continues...Sheesh...maybe he came in with "The Selection" under GOPUSA credentials?

There's so much we still don't know about Gan/Gurk.. The missing years...what was he doing for over 20 years after getting out of West Chester College...if he really even attended or graduated. Some frat brothers of his claim to know him...but he said he attended PA State University system school... Nothing he says seems to make sense.

Where was he born...who is his family? Sisters, Brothers? Why did he pick the name "Jeff Gannon?" What's the connection. This man is a total mystery in many ways. One wonders how he was let in if he wasn't a "fav" of someone in this administration.

[No Exit]

14. Your questions are the same ones I want to see answered!

WHO is this guy, really?? I sense a CIA connection.

I wonder about the CIA. Poppy was once head of the CIA and still gets briefings. So maybe his connections put the CIA at the beck and call of his evil spawn "Dubya".

But lately it seems there's been a falling out btw the Bush crime family and the CIA. All those people forced out by Goss... suppose the CIA had assisted the Bushies with "Gannon", but suppose now the CIA (or some of the members who recently were forced out) decided to blow the whistle on that cozy little set-up, by letting Gannon be exposed?

If that's what's happening, all I can say is, "Go, CIA guys!"

[merh]

15. But was his escort website still "active" in 2003?

I think it was, I need to go find that link.

Why it appears this one was.

11/2004 Delisted
BULLDOG - DC
11/2003 Invalid Contact information.

http://www.male4malescorts.com/reviews/bulldogdc.html

Of course we know that this one is still active.
http://www.studfiles.com/dc007.html

"While the site is no longer live on the Internet, archived copies of it show that it was live at the USMCPT.com address at least from October 31, 2001 until May 8, 2003. (This date is relevant since Gannon reportedly entered the White House the first time as a "journalist" in early April, 2003.)"
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/02/man-called-jeff.html

[DulceDecorum]

21. Gannon-GOPUSA goes back to Ari-time: Jan 15 2003

More of those websites were active then.
Gannon also had a court reporting and secretarial service
but then Delaware went and decided that
they needed to institute some kind of minumum standards and accountability
and so they did, in November 2002.
I guess that meant the Jeffie needed to hustle up a new gig.
Here is a sampling of the work of Jeff Gannon
dating from BEFORE the inception of Talon News.

U.S. to Oppose Libya as U.N. Rights Chair
By Jeff Gannon
GOPUSA News
January 15, 2003
WASHINGTON (GOPUSA News) -- In a briefing to the press, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said that the United States would oppose Libya's candidacy to become head of the United Nations Human Rights Commission. Boucher cited U. N. sanctions against the African nation and its poor human rights record as reasons that its chairmanship would be "not appropriate."
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:1fNm3FrB6YEJ:gopusa.com/news/2003/january/0115_libya.shtml++site:gopusa.com++%22+GOPUSA+News%22++++++%22jeff+gannon+%22&hl=en

New Senators Get Pentagon Briefing; Clinton Absent
By Jeff Gannon
GOPUSA News
January 17, 2003
WASHINGTON (GOPUSA News) -- Powell Moore, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs hosted a breakfast Thursday for new members of the Senate Armed Service Committee.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:GPub3ZfIoKEJ:www.gopusa.com/news/2003/january/0117_pentagon_breakfast.shtml++site:gopusa.com++%22+GOPUSA+News%22++++++%22jeff+gannon+%22&hl=en

Anti-war Protest Draws Thousands to DC
By Jeff Gannon
GOPUSA News
January 20, 2003
WASHINGTON (GOPUSA News) -- On Saturday, the National Mall was filled with throngs of anti-war protestors. Unofficial estimates put the number between 100,000 and 500,000. In a replay of a smaller October 2002 event, participants endured frigid temperatures to hear two hours of speeches and songs before marching to the Navy Yard.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:g3yZlMd5ZgUJ:www.gopusa.com/news/2003/january/0120_protest.shtml++site:gopusa.com++%22+GOPUSA+News%22++++++%22jeff+gannon+%22&hl=en

Roe v. Wade Fans, Foes Mark 30 Years
By Jeff Gannon
GOPUSA News
January 22, 2003
WASHINGTON (GOPUSA News) -- The anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide will be observed this week across the country. Marches and rallies are planned for Washington, D. C., by groups who hope to overturn the court's ruling and by others who fear they'll succeed.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:kb5YSu_gFcwJ:www.gopusa.com/news/2003/february/0212_estrada.shtml++site:gopusa.com++%22+GOPUSA+News%22++++++%22jeff+gannon+%22&hl=en

Teachers' Union Scandal Rocks Capital; Democrat Party Official, Mayor's Aide Resign Under Pressure
By Jeff Gannon
GOPUSA News
January 24, 2003
WASHINGTON (GOPUSA News) -- The American Federation of Teachers has taken control of the Washington Teachers Union after an audit appeared to suggest misappropriation of funds by several of its officers. About $5 million was stolen over a period of seven years according to the AFT's preliminary report.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:KJdGGDpZwD0J:www.gopusa.com/news/2003/january/0124_dc_scandalp.shtml++site:gopusa.com++%22+GOPUSA+News%22++++++%22jeff+gannon+%22&hl=en

Clinton Goes on Offense; Skips Defense
By Jeff Gannon
GOPUSA News
January 31, 2003
(GOPUSA News) -- Recently, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) attacked the Bush administration for creating a "myth" of homeland security. In a speech at John Jay College in Manhattan, the former First Lady questioned the spending priorities and tax cuts in the $390 billion package recently passed by the Senate.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:rjY-qu6A4aMJ:www.gopusa.com/news/2003/january/0131_clinton.shtml++site:gopusa.com++%22+GOPUSA+News%22++++++%22jeff+gannon+%22&hl=en

White House Details BioShield
By Jeff Gannon
GOPUSA News
February 4, 2003
WASHINGTON (GOPUSA News) -- In his State of the Union Address, President Bush announced Project BioShield -- a comprehensive effort to develop and make available, modern, effective drugs and vaccines to protect against attack by biological and chemical weapons or other dangerous pathogens.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:LZdKqIh1H_YJ:gopusa.com/news/2003/february/0204_bioshield.shtml++%22+GOPUSA+News%22++++++%22jeff+gannon+%22&hl=en

Bush Pays Tribute to Columbia Crew
By Jeff Gannon
GOPUSA News
February 5, 2003
HOUSTON, TX (GOPUSA News) -- A sunny afternoon at the Johnson Space Center was the backdrop for a somber memorial service for the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia, who died when their vehicle disintegrated after re-entry last Saturday.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:oa4m3SGgKAAJ:www.gopusa.com/news/2003/february/0205_shuttle_memorialp.shtml++site:gopusa.com++%22+GOPUSA+News%22++++++%22jeff+gannon+%22&hl=en

INS Reveals Increase in Illegal Immigration in 1990s
By Jeff Gannon
GOPUSA News
February 10, 2003
WASHINGTON (GOPUSA News) -- On January 31, a report issued by the Immigration and Naturalization Service showed that illegal immigration increased steadily during last decade, from an average of 700,000 per year to 1 million in the final year of the Clinton Administration. Only 412,000 illegals were removed over the same ten-year period.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:Vlhe8BIA0sMJ:www.gopusa.com/news/2003/february/0210_insp.shtml++site:gopusa.com++%22+GOPUSA+News%22++++++%22jeff+gannon+%22&hl=en

Estrada Nomination Sparks Contentious Debate in Senate
By Jeff Gannon
GOPUSA News
February 10, 2003
WASHINGTON (GOPUSA News) -- Last Wednesday, the Senate adjourned after five hours of contentious debate about the nomination of Miguel Estrada. Two more hours of debate the following day didn't end in a vote either. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) led the Democrat opposition to Estrada's bid to join the important DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:qLol9nrRzM4J:www.gopusa.com/news/2003/february/0210_estrada.shtml++site:gopusa.com++%22+GOPUSA+News%22++++++%22jeff+gannon+%22&hl=en

D.C. Teachers Scandal Widens; Mayor Says Links to His Office Damaging
By Jeff Gannon
GOPUSA News
February 11, 2003
WASHINGTON (GOPUSA News) -- The looting of the DC Teachers' Union by some of its former officers has produced its first conviction. Leroy Holmes, the former $100,000-per-year chauffer for the Washington Teachers' Union, pleaded guilty to money laundering in connection to a probe of over $5 million missing from the union treasury.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:73rW4e0J744J:www.gopusa.com/news/2003/february/0211_dc_scandal.shtml++site:gopusa.com++%22+GOPUSA+News%22++++++%22jeff+gannon+%22&hl=en

Clinton Claims Nominee, Administration Stonewalling
By Jeff Gannon
GOPUSA News
February 12, 2003
WASHINGTON (GOPUSA News) -- While not an official filibuster, 20 hours of debate over four days has not yet resulted in a vote on the nomination of Miguel Estrada to the D.C. Circuit Court. One by one, Democrats streamed to the well of the Senate to voice opposition to the Hispanic nominee.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:kb5YSu_gFcwJ:www.gopusa.com/news/2003/february/0212_estrada.shtml++site:gopusa.com++%22+GOPUSA+News%22++++++%22jeff+gannon+%22&hl=en

Democrats Declare Filibuster on Estrada Nomination
By Jeff Gannon
GOPUSA News
February 13, 2003
WASHINGTON (GOPUSA News) -- On Wednesday morning Senate Minority Whip Harry Reid (D-NV) rose to inform Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) that the nomination of Miguel Estrada would not be allowed to come to a vote. Reid outlined the tactics to be used to delay the proceedings and continued demands for the release of documents. Frist reiterated that the Senate would remain in session until a vote was taken.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:vrla12_Y8NMJ:gopusa.com/news/2003/february/0213_estrada.shtml++site:gopusa.com++%22+GOPUSA+News%22++++++%22jeff+gannon+%22&hl=en

IAEA Declares N. Korea in Breach of Accords
By Jeff Gannon
GOPUSA News
February 13, 2003
VIENNA, AUSTRIA (GOPUSA News) -- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declared North Korea in violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty for its nuclear program and reported that finding to the U.N. Security Council. IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei said that "the current situation sets a dangerous precedent," believing that North Korea was only a "month or two" from producing the plutonium needed to make weapons.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:A12pP8ee8BsJ:gopusa.com/news/2003/february/0213_north_korea.shtml++site:gopusa.com++%22+GOPUSA+News%22++++++%22jeff+gannon+%22&hl=en

Dems Continue to Block Hispanic Court Nominee
By Jeff Gannon
GOPUSA News
February 14, 2003
WASHINGTON (GOPUSA News) -- Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) began Thursday's Senate session with a promise that Democrats will continue to filibuster the nomination of Miguel Estrada "for as long as it takes." Daschle repeated a demand for privileged documents from the Solicitor General's office. Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) who led a filibuster against the Civil Rights Act in 1964 joined the debate to speak against Estrada's nomination as well as to tell stories about his youth.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:bn3rWvhqEaUJ:www.gopusa.com/news/2003/february/0214_estradap.shtml++site:gopusa.com++%22+GOPUSA+News%22++++++%22jeff+gannon+%22&hl=en

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Gregg Bish
-- Gregg is a graduate of Tiffin University, where he studied Business Administration. A sustaining member of the Republican National Committee, Gregg served as Team Leader through the 2000 election, helping provide grass-roots organizational support to the Republican party.
Stephen Dewey
-- Stephen resides in Boston, Massachusetts, where he has lived for his entire life. He is currently a student at Boston Latin School, a public magnet school, and will finally graduate, after six years, in June of 2003.
Tom Elia
-- Tom is a freelance writer from Austin, Texas. He attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and has a B.S. in Business Administration from Loyola University of Chicago, where he majored in finance.
Jeff Gannon
-- Jeff Is a freelance writer living on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. He has appeared on nationally syndicated and local radio talk shows representing the conservative political viewpoint.
Jim Hauser
-- Jim is a product of the mid-west counter culture of the seventies. He was born in Frankfort Indiana and raised in Rochelle Illinois, not far from Ronald Reagan's boyhood home. The second of seven children, Jim was brought up in a very strong Catholic atmosphere. His parents gave him just enough rope to get into trouble but not quite enough to hang himself.
Michael Minton
-- Mike Minton hails from Brooks, Kentucky, a small town just outside of Louisville. Mike got his first taste of politics as a youngster in the mid 1970s when his dad ran for city alderman on the Republican ticket.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:Ow-pif8M0vsJ:www.gopusa.com/news/newsteam.shtml++site:gopusa.com++%22+GOPUSA+News%22++++++%22jeff+gannon+%22&hl=en

[KoKo]

22. Gannon's Bio is very short there. Compared to the other GOPUSA News

Team, so even then he was covering something in his past. Doesn't even say where he was from in this bio....strange isn't it? :eyes:

Jeff Is a freelance writer living on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. He has appeared on nationally syndicated and local radio talk shows representing the conservative political viewpoint.
Jim Hauser

[eleny]

17. Bernie having a great show tonight discussing Guckert

[raysr]

18. He he he

you said "Pull!"