Gannon Reported for GOPUSA News in February 2003

[merh]

Barbour Announces Run for Mississippi Governor
By Jeff Gannon
GOPUSA News
February 19, 2003

YAZOO CITY, MS (GOPUSA News) -- Former Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour announced that he would be running for governor of Mississippi. The 55 year-old Washington lawyer and lobbyist, who once served as a political advisor to President Ronald Reagan, has decided to return to Mississippi "because I know we can do better."

After one of several speeches around the state, Barbour pointed out, "This state has spent like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors should be offended by the comparison."

Barbour said state government had fallen "from its strongest fiscal condition ever to the worst financial crisis in our state's history." Barbour said his campaign would focus on "prioritizing spending" and fighting "any and all tax increases." He declared that "to raise taxes while government is on a spending binge is only feeding the beast."

Barbour is the first Republican to announce his intention to run against the incumbent Democrat Ronnie Musgrove. If Barbour were to win, he would become only the second Republican elected governor of Mississippi since Reconstruction.

(snip)

http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:sUeFU707AXIJ:www.gopusa.com/news/2003/february/0219_barbourp.shtml+%22jeff+gannon%22+%22haley+barbour%22&hl=en

[fooj]

1. It just keeps getting better...keep it coming!!!!!!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[merh]

2. So, did he get his pass as a GOPUSA reporter first, then they

realized how obvious that was and created Talon News?
:shrug:

Things that make you go hmmmmmmm!

[DulceDecorum]

12. Gannon and gopusa

Scroll way down to read this comment.

There's a bit more to the Talon-GOPUSA connection:
For several months at the beginning of 2003, before the creation of Talon, many of Jeff Gannon's articles carried the words "GOPUSA news" instead of "Talon News". (Other articles he wrote at the time were for groups like Boot to the Skull)
The ip address for www.talonnews.com is 65.17.231.174. The ip addres for www.gopusa.com is 65.17.231.173, inside the same CIDR block, which indicates that the servers are most likely sitting next to each other (or on the same computer).
A reverse lookup on the address for www.talonnews.com produces the name 'listsrv.gopusa.com'
Talon, GOPUSA, and the CIDR block they belong to are owned by one Bobby Eberle.
FWIW, Dan Froomkin of the Washington Post started writing about Jeff Gannon on an irregular basis almost a year ago.
http://katherine-brengle.mydd.com/story/2005/2/4/13200/63637

[UL_Approved]

14. Doing your own DNS search is easy

This is a little lesson for the masses:

1: Go to the link here. This will access a WHOIS database site.

2: Follow the instructions on the page, and enter the IP address or domain name (omit the www part).

3: Sit back and watch as the entry is spelled out.

I love technology, I really do. :evilgrin:

[DulceDecorum]

15. Boot to the Skull

No offense, UL_Approved.
It was just too neat a segue to pass up.)

First,
a look at the webmaster,
who apparently, hunts humans down for fun and profit.
http://www.boottotheskull.com/archives/btts_information/index.html

December 09, 2002
What I Want For Christmas
Dear Santa,
I like to think that I have been good this year so I hope you will do your best to bring me all the following gifts and to fulfill all the requests I have. You're the man Santa and just remember who leaves the 12 pack of the good beer by the fireplace for you.
<snip>
For Jeff Gannon, The Conservative Guy, please deliver to him a uniform from the US Border Patrol and a permission slip to spend two months working in El Centro,CA. Then we can finally get him to realize why the Department of Homeland Security is doomed to failure.
<snip>
That's all I can think of right now Santa. I hope it is not too tall of an order for you. I figure you can handle it since you farmed out all the production work to Mexico after NAFTA was passed.
On second thought you can take my list and shove it up your fat ass. By busting up Elves' Toymakers Local 104 you proved yourself to be just as bad as our President. But can you drop all the coal in Joe's office? His is the one two doors down from mine. Thanks Santa.
P.S. I hear the Adkin's diet works really well. You should try it.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:1VT4pR9vJDcJ:www.boottotheskull.com/pipes85.htm+++%22Boot+to+the+Skull%22++gannon+&hl=en

Jeff Gannon
Born:
Resides: Washington, DC
Joined BTTS: Dec. 2002
Party: Republican
Favorite Things:

December 18, 2002
I’m a flag-waving, gun-owning, SUV-driving, two holiday Christian American.
I'm a self-made conservative and I eat liberals’ lunches for them every day.
I live inside the beltway in Washington, DC because somebody has to keep an eye on what these bureaucrats are doing.
ADVICE TO GOP: SAY NOTHING!
It has been announced that Senate Republicans will meet on January 6 to discuss what has become a crisis in their leadership. Until that time, Republican leaders should stop talking about the Trent Lott matter.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:xxP-3uGvVoAJ:www.boottotheskull.com/theconservativeguy1.htm++site:www.boottotheskull.com+++%22Boot+to+the+Skull%22++gannon+&hl=en

February 14, 2005
Jeff Gannon
Since our little site is now being quoted on many different sites regarding the recent incident at a White House press conference I figured I would clear things up.
1. Jeff Gannon, aka The Conservative Guy, did write for BTTS a few years back. His articles were insightful, well-written, and much-appreciated addition to our site.
2. Boot to the Skull is named after an Adam Sandler comedy routine which was the basis for the name of my college radio show.
3. Boot to the Skull is not a cult.
4. Boot to the Skull is not anti-immigrant, we are anti-illegal immigrant.
5. We are not now, nor have we ever been affiliated with Talon News.
We support Jeff Gannon in his current struggles and will provide him whatever support we can. Should anyone have any further questions or points that need clarifying, please feel free to contact me
http://www.boottotheskull.com/

[UL_Approved]

16. Hey, man, its just nuts and bolts...

and studs and ponies, and... oh wait, wrong subject.

This is a simple exercise in technology for people to follow. The ease of use here is great. This is what makes the world so fun. :headbang:

[merh]

24. Do you have any photos of Jimmy-Jeff wearing his

"pass" that can be blown up to see the pass' details?

Since you love technology, I thought I would ask you.

[merh]

22. New DNS search results by UL_Approved

After doing a little DNS searching, I found that GOPUSA and Talon News also share the same IP address block as millionsofamericans.org and a new site called libertybellkids.com.

I also found that the whole thing is under a company called Endeavor Media Group, LLC. I'm sure that the company is bogus, since the telephone number is 999-999-9999. Here is a little DNS listing:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3129125

[Pirate Smile]

27. Gannon had a Hard Pass before Talon News existed.

http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2005/2/16/155840/912/516

Photographic evidence

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/17/125328/435

[merh]

28. I can't open the video of that press conference.

Can you and post the link here or capture the image and post it?

Thanks

[Pirate Smile]

29. I'll try

Here are some pictures.

This confirms Dana Milbank's account (none / 0)

"You've stated that you think you've seen Gannon with a "hard press" pass. What is the visual difference between a hard pass and a daily pass?
A hard pass has your photo and news org and name on it. A daily pass is just a brown and white striped pass that says, "Press," on it and comes on a dog-tag style chain. Note that the one Gannon wears in the footage on TV is a blue lanyard - not the sort of thing a day pass comes on."

From SusanG's interview posted today with Dana Millbank. (The interview took place before the revelations of JG's escort service were up on AMERICAblog.) What "news org" would have been on that pass on Feb. 28, 2003?

Remember what MoDo said in the NYT today
"At first when I tried to complain about not getting my pass renewed, even though I'd been covering presidents and first ladies since 1986, no one called me back. Finally, when Mr. McClellan replaced Ari Fleischer, he said he'd renew the pass - after a new Secret Service background check that would last several months."

[merh]

30. Thanks so much for the images and the quotes from Milbanks!

:thumbsup: Your so good! :bounce:

[paineinthearse]

3. I swear I've read this before but not from GOPUSA News

At the time I was reading Google news for several hours / day.

Keep digging mirrors and archives, I'll bet you find it was picked up by MSM.

[merh]

4. I think AP might have picked it up.

Afterall, the elephant gov, babar, used to be the head of the RNC, he is a big time player in the GOP and is so close to the weed, he helped him prepare for the debates and the RNC speech in '04.

[paineinthearse]

9. The last sentence

"If Barbour were to win, he would become only the second Republican elected governor of Mississippi since Reconstruction."

Really sticks in my mind. I googled it but came up blank.

[gmaki]

5. Actually it looks like he plagarized

this CNN Article. Many same /similar sentences between the two

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/02/17/mississippi.governor.ap/

[merh]

7. You are right, it does look plagarized, the CNN article

is dated the 17th and Gannon's the 19th. Of course, he probably just posted the campaign's news release and felt that made him a reporter.

[paineinthearse]

19. Alert CNN

Add PLAGERIST to his list of crimes!

[AlCzervik]

6. Wasn't gannon the same guy that ran the same type of articles on Thune?

[AlCzervik]

8. here is one of the hit pieces on Daschle by Gannon

       

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Daschle Stumps at Dem Convention
By Jeff Gannon
Talon News
July 28, 2004

(Talon News) -- Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) made a brief appearance before the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night and predicted that his party will take control of the White House and the Senate in November. He pledged to "get America back on the right track," when he again becomes majority leader.

Daschle has kept the Senate from doing much of anything through the use of filibusters. Last year, the minority leader allowed the energy bill to die, even though it contained a provision for ethanol use, an issue important to the farmers of his own state of South Dakota.

He has also prevented the Senate from voting on a constitutional amendment that would ban homosexual marriage by defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman and a measure to rein in excessive jury awards. Daschle has also stopped the Senate from giving an up-or-down vote to ten of President Bush's judicial nominees, several of whom were nominated over two years ago.

The South Dakota senator talked about health care, outsourcing, and prescription drugs -- chief Democratic talking points. He voiced a populist theme saying that his constituents "reject the defeatist view that we have enough money to rebuild Iraq, but can't afford to take care of our needs here."

EDITED BY ADMIN: COPYRIGHT

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:Og13dMBLbVEJ:www.gopusa.com/news/2004/july/0728_daschle_dem_convention.shtml+Thune+articles+by+Gannon&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[Moderator]

17. chimpsrsmarter

Per DU copyright rules
please post only four
paragraphs from the
copyrighted news source.


Thank you.


DU Moderator

[AlCzervik]

20. sorry bout that. I figured since it was a page no longer available

because they tried to scrub his articles it would be ok. I know better than that, again sorry.

[Catherine Vincent]

10. Why do you suppose GOPUSA and Talon have scrubbed their

reports by Gannon aka Bulldog?

[merh]

11. Gee, I wonder why?

What are they afraid of?
What are they hiding?

[DulceDecorum]

13. Jeff Gannon GOPUSA news January 15, 2003

Here is a sampling of the work of Jeff Gannon
dating from BEFORE 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

Want to join the GOPUSA News team? Click here to inquire about being a volunteer reporter for GOPUSA News.
GOPUSA News Correspondents
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

[Fridays Child]

18. Kick

[Walt Starr]

21. Recommended for GREATEST Page

:evilgrin:

[merh]

23. thanks!

:hi:

[paineinthearse]

25. Seconded....

...and sent to Niagra Falls Reporter, our friendly newspaper in Louise Slaughter's home town.

[KharmaTrain]

26. Was "Gannon" On The White House Plane?

Someone posted a picture that looked like "Gannon" at a Bushbot rally last year...and I would assume as a "member of the White House Press Corp" he would have gone on some of these travels.

One that just came to mind was Commander Bunnypant's "surprise" visit to Iraq in Thanksgiving, 2003. IIRC, the press was assembled secretly and the announcement of his "trip" wasn't announced until he had landed in Baghdad. And, I'm certain it was Faux who got the scoop. Was our boy Jeff/James along for the ride?

Methinks a close look at the White House travel office might really be needed.