This one merits some kind of award.
Gannon Flap Shows Liberals in Denial
By David Thibault
CNSNews.com Managing Editor
February 17, 2005
......Make no mistake, Jeff Gannon, or James Guckert, or whatever his name is, is no conservative. Anybody who publishes sexually explicit photos of himself on a website in hopes of making money as a hooker is no conservative. Not in this lifetime. Not on this planet. The person in those photos is a pig and a pervert.
But Gannon did rile up the Left, and it's because they felt betrayed, certain that the only reliable, no-questions-asked, no-strings-attached home for such individuals is in the liberal wing of the establishment media or Democratic Party.
The Left wants this controversy to be about a Republican White House letting in a ringer to ask questions and get access to sensitive information so he could write up favorable stories on the Talon News website. But if Jeff Gannon was a heterosexual, I suspect his questions for the president would have drawn scant attention. He wouldn't have made many friends in the White House press room, but almost nobody would have cared.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=%5CCommentary%5Carchive%5C200502%5CCOM20050217b.htmlWell,
it most certainly looks like David Thibault has a bug up his bum.
Managing Editor -- David Thibault has been in this position with CNSNews.com since 2000, assigning coverage of stories and developing the site’s overall news philosophy. Before arriving at CNSNews.com, David worked for nearly 20 years in either radio and television news or as a congressional press secretary. He worked as a newscast producer and general assignment reporter for ABC affiliate WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C., between 1989 and 1993 before becoming senior producer for GOP-TV's Rising Tide, the televised weekly news magazine broadcast by the Republican National Committee. David first came to the nation's capital in 1987 as press secretary for Rep. Judd Gregg after serving as a news anchor and later news director for WFEA-AM in Manchester, N.H., between 1981 and 1987. David holds a degree in communications from the University of New Hampshire.
http://www.cnsnews.com/corporate/staffbios.asp#Managing%20Editor%20David%20ThibaultCNSNews.com has a full staff of journalists at its world headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, bureaus in London, Jerusalem, the Pacific Rim and on Capitol Hill, and correspondents across the nation and around the world. In addition to news, CNSNews.com is proud to present a full slate of commentaries by some of the brightest minds and sharpest wits in the nation, and a full stable of cartoonists to provides you with a morning political chuckle.
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http://www.cnsnews.com/corporate/affiliations.asp#professionalCNSNews.com is a division of the Media Research Center, eh?
Well then, let us have a look at that.
The mission of the Media Research Center is to bring balance and responsibility to the news media. Leaders of America's conservative movement have long believed that within the national news media a strident liberal bias existed that influenced the public's understanding of critical issues. On October 1, 1987, a group of young determined conservatives set out to not only prove - through sound scientific research - that liberal bias in the media does exist and undermines traditional American values, but also to neutralize its impact on the American political scene. What they launched that fall is the now acclaimed --- Media Research Center (MRC).
http://www.mrc.org/about/aboutwelcome.aspNow, lets see how well
Media Research Center stands up to scrutiny.
Oops it doesn't.
http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipients/mrc.htmOoh look. Scaife money.
http://www.mediatransparency.org/search_results/recipientsoffunder.php?providerID=3And hello to you Elliot Abrams
http://www.mediatransparency.org/people/elliot_abrams.htmEndorsements from the usual suspects
http://www.mrc.org/membership/kudos.aspAnd now lets bring home the bacon.
GannonGuckert received his journalist "credentials" at The Leadership Institute.
Our Applied Public Relations Schools, conducted in cooperation with The Leadership Institute, offer communications professionals the continuing training they need to stay current in the continuously changing world of communications.
C3 develops the curricula and provides the staff and expertise to conduct the Applied Public Relations Schools, while the Leadership Institute provides the classroom and educational support to offer cutting-edge programs designed to offer students the best in up-to-date communications training.
The APR School consists of a brief series of presentations followed by the Game of Spin. The class is divided into "communications divisions" and each team faces a unique communications challenge. Each team then devises its own strategy and tactics to deal with the scenario, and then presents its plan to the rest of the class, with presentations graded by a panel of distinguished PR professionals.
What kind of challenges does Spin offer? Here are a few of the examples of scenarios from past APR Schools:
Your organization has just received a subpoena from a congressional oversight committee for all records related to your expenditures and activities in 1996. The subpoena seeks information regarding anything your group did regarding any issue or individual germane to the U.S. House, Senate or presidential races that year. Your organization is a not-for-profit group that is not permitted to engage in political activity. The scope of the subpoena will require your organization to significantly enlarge your dependency on outside counsel. The subpoena is received at your group’s office at 3:15 p.m. on Thursday..... The success of Spin lies in the fact that the course is interactive and requires that the class address the kinds of situations they’re likely to face in the real world of public relations.
http://www.therightvoice.org/aprs/default.aspMuch much more at
http://www.therightvoice.org/GannonGuckert is barely the tip of the iceberg that might just sink this titanic.
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