OK, check THIS out re Gannon

[fertilizeonarbusto]

http://atrios.blogspot.com/
Now do you think CBS will go for some good old-fashioned revenge? Is this why the "CBS three" have not quit?

[EVDebs]

1. Counterpunch's "CNN and PsyOps" article from 2000 should

have been investigated way back then...wonder why Gannon Guckert went on CNN with Wolf ? There's your answer. Sad isn't it ?

[jdj]

2. and anyways, a real reporter would have demanded to know

WHY Gannon wanted to be called by an alias rather than a real name?

So weird that question wasn't asked.

[King Coal]

7. Well, when you're really a Leslie and call yourself Wolf

You don't go there. LOL!

[GeorgeBushytail]

59. Wolf Blitzer is his real name, not Leslie

The nickname "Leslie" comes from a joke that Al Franken made at the 1994 White House Correspondent's Dinner:
http://the-hamster.com/franken1.html

[blue neen]

3. Scroll down the page a little more and read all the comments

about Lil' Ricky Santorum's Town Hall Meeting. Priceless. He's such a tool.

[nolabels]

4. JEFF GANNON has more connections to people than telephone switchboard

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000069Z10/ref=ase_tvacrestheweb-20/002-6043100-2158414?v=glance&s=music#product-details

[ClintonTyree]

17. And ONE of those connections...............

his name rhymes with "gone sanity", is now trying to distance himself from Jeffie and FR as much as he can. He doesn't want to be associated with some "right wing fringe group".

Notice in this post the freeps still think Hannity is a god. And as of the other night, freeps around the U.S. "don't watch him anymore".

Amazing how they turn on each other when the going gets a little bumpy, isn't it?

[madrchsod]

5. it just keeps getting better and better

doesn`t it? it`s all about sex and power. god i love it when the whitehouse is run by a "bald head fetish" guy and his minions use a gay male whore to further their goals..
diamond14 du post is still on the googles "bald head fetish" page...

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. "Jeff Gannon is a fellow FReeper" First time in my life I agree with

something a freeper said. Cut from the same cloth, those guys.

[seemslikeadream]

8. and this

http://notjeffgannon.blogspot.com/

[Haymare22]

9. How'd this walNUT....

...find time for press briefings with ALL THESE WEBSITES?????
omg.....

[ClintonTyree]

18. Wow, from his "Conservative Guy" mission statement............

3. Help
people to allow their conservative values to govern their
actions.




4. To expose
the liberal lies perpetuated by the media, Hollywood, the teachers' unions
and the Democratic Party.


Well, his conservative values are showing; all 8+ inches of them.
Expose the liberal lies? That's not all you're exposing conservative guy. Damn those liberal liars, infiltrating the white house press corps with false credentials, being a whore the the......oh, wait a minute. Those weren't liberals, were they. It was "conservative guy."

Able to tell tall tales with a single sound, able to bend over with his bare ass. And who, disguised as Jeff Gannon, wild mannered "reporter" for a GOP propaganda web site, fights for "tops", "bottoms" and the family values way!

[UL_Approved]

10. So let's recap the Gannon/Guckert saga:

1. Asked a very pointed and loaded question to Bush in a press conference.

2. Started to raise the suspicions that he wasn't a real reporter.

3. Blog community starts to investigate the Gannon and Talon News connection to GOPUSA.com.

4. Jeff Gannon is a pseudonym, the real name is Jim Guckert

5. Homosexual prostitution is found to be part of Guckert's portfolio.

6. He is found to have been a manufactured shill for the White House, and got security clearance he shouldn't have had.

7. The GOPUSA.com website is owned by Bobby Eberle, who owns Talon News, and Millions Of Americans. These are on the same IP address block, also owned by Eberle.

8. Guckert is found to have been in the White House before the creation of Talon News. This means that he was in the works for a while.

9. Guckert is found in a press clip with what appears to be a hard pass for the White House. He got one with no credentials when seasoned reporters didn't receive one.

10. Guckert was informed of the Shock and Awe campaign four hours before it was released to the press by Bush.

Did I forget anything, mess up anything?

[crispini]

11. It was confirmed yesterday that it was NOT a hard pass

despite that blog posting. See Olbermann's blog.

[bpilgrim]

28. link please

i want to know how they have proved this specially with all the BS out there.

tia :hi:

2/17/2005

Washington reporters skeptical of photograph purporting to show hard pass; ‘Inconclusive’

source...
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=92

peace

[crispini]

31. What, you can't google

"Olbermann" :eyes: ?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6993032/

Look, I'll even snip it for you.

OLBERMANN: And you just brought it up so she clarify this. This whole question that has just been raised about whether or not Guckert had a hard pass or a daily pass. He apparently had nothing but daily passes. And what people thought might have been a hard pass was his own he lanyard, his own thing around his neck that‘s really had a plastic card that said Talon News. That‘s what we‘ve been able to see from video.

HUTCHESON: Yes. That‘s certainly my belief.

OLBERMANN: OK. Ron Hutcheson of Knight Ridder, president of the White House Correspondents Association, great thanks for an inside view of what‘s going on there. Thank you, sir.

HUTCHESON: Thank you.

[bpilgrim]

32. don't get snippy with me crispy... it is tradition and why we're better

than the M$MH, not to mention POLITE, so chill... thank you.

now, why don't they mention the FACT that it appears to be a photo ID?
they seem to be STILL speculating.



peace

[crispini]

34. Ha!

That's pretty funny, your scolding me, now that you have edited your post to be quite a bit more than the somewhat snippy "Link please?" and that was it. Look at you, you've even included the nice friendly smiley which wasn't there before I replied. So :hi: right back atcha! To politeness :toast:

[bpilgrim]

35. always trying to be informative

though there is NOTHING wrong with just asking for a link, hello...

especially for posts with MISSLEADING headlines.

more infor on photo ID...

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

peace

[UL_Approved]

60. This HAS to be a portrait

Unless the Talon News logo was upside down on the pass, that is a portrait. The general outline should say that to any reasonable person. Look carefully at the position of the lanyard hole in the pass. And if you step back about 2-3 feet from the monitor on your computer, you can see what looks like a suit and tie. This effect is real, and can be backed up by some rigorous mathematical proofs. For reference, here is the Talon News logo:


To my eye, this is NOT the Talon News logo on the pass. Anybody else see what I am talking about?

[Blue Belle]

37. I saw another "Ganngate" article on CBS.com...

This CBS reporter links Gannon to Rove....

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/18/opinion/lynch/main675050.shtml

Looks like the ghost of Rather is being avenged. :-)

[jasop]

50. Thanks for the link. Great Article! From CBS surprisingly.. n/t

[newyawker99]

53. Hi Blue Belle!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[grasswire]

12. some people knew he was a ringer earlier than mediamatters

A blog followed the trail in Feb. 2004. http://webdems.blogspot.com

And the next day, 2-19-04, Dan Froomkin at WaPo linked to that blog and pondered Gannon's status.

[The Backlash Cometh]

13. I can think of two things:

1) DoYouEverWonder came up with a kicker thread showing that TalonNews is connected, I believe through Eberle, to the lawfirm that had one lawyer working on the Bush campaign and another on the Kerry campaign.

2) And Guckert sealed his fate (as well and Wolfie and Kurtz') by getting on the record early in the scandal.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

15. There might be this.......

"Jeff Gannon" and Karl Rove -- one degree of separation

Who is the conservative pseudo-journalist who calls himself "Jeff Gannon" and has a hard-to-get White House press pass, so he can toss softball questions at President Bush and rewrite press releases for a right-wing outlet called Talon News?

We wish we knew. We're on the trail, though. Here's a few more interesting things about Gannon, whose unlikely West Wing access is shedding new light on the unseemly White House propaganda machine.

One thing is that there's an excellent chance he's a native Pennsylvanian (wouldn't you just know it?). His "bio" on the Talon News site states "Jeff is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University System and holds a Bachelor of Science in Education." The vast majority of students who attend Penn State, either at State College or its many satellite campuses, tend to be in-state residents.

More interesting is that he and Karl Rove seem to share a mentor -- a largely under-the-radar wingnut named Morton Blackwell. It seems that "Jeff" also is a graduate of the the Leadership Institute Broadcast School of Journalism -- a conservative propagandist training school that was founded and is run by Blackwell and that operates on an $8 million annual budget which comes from God knows where.

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/extra/archives/001437.h...

[nolabels]

21. I try to keep my eye on the ball

The cabals that own the mass marketing corporate media are the ones mostly helping to call in the shots to the White House. It comes to me no surprise this guy got the pass. The White House works for the Corporations not visa-a-versa. The White House may have the final say, but they are not the initiators of anything. Those people do not have original thoughts; they are all just "Yes" men.

When I get in my car and drive down the road, my wheels don't drive my engine, the engine pushes the wheels to roll. Think about who you might be carrying battle or issue with, not who you want to be doing it with.

To short circuit the connection we need to rise up and make congress look into it, otherwise it will only get all polished over in the end.

[CAcyclist]

22. How do we find out who the other grads of this school are?

There's some other names I want to investigate - nobody over the top like Gluckert, but some real hacks now work for the Chron and it's just made me wonder where they went to journalism school

[kohodog]

29. Rove is a graduate and taught at the "leadership institute"

Google: rove, morton Blaclwell and you'll be busy all weekand!

I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Blackwell set Jimmy Jeff up with Rove. That would explain the inside info.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

40. BTW... According to a UPI report, Blackwell came up with the idea

for the purple bandaids that were worn during the GOP Convention. Nice guy........

Edited to add this
http://www.democrats.org/news/200408310013.html

ROVE CONNECTED TO GOP ACTIVIST WHO DISTRIBUTED "BAND AIDS"

Blackwell Trained Karl Rove. Morton Blackwell, a former national executive director of the College Republicans, trained a teen-aged Karl Rove as a field organizer, and taught him "people in politics should pay less attention to consultants, television advertising, polls, and 'message,' and more attention to the old-fashioned side of the business: registering voters, organizing volunteers, making face-to-face contact during the last days of a campaign, and getting people to the polls on Election Day."

[kohodog]

42. and many other dirty tricks and stupid ones too, I'm sure

After all, he is Rove's "mentor."

[Patiod]

24. Once again, small point about "Penn State"

Gannon/Guckert didn't attend Penn State.

West Chester State is part of the "Pennsyvlania State System of Higher Education" but it ain't Penn State.

West Chester is located in SE PA, close to the Delaware border; many of its students are from eastern PA, or NJ or DE.

[SnowGoose]

23. You did leave out one important thing

The bit about being given access to classified CIA information on the identity of covert operative Plame who, after the outing, would likely not be able to continue her various operations involving protecting us from weapons of mass destruction. This access is evidenced in his interview with Ambassador Wilson, where he brought up this information before even the Washington Post, New York Times, or any networks had it.

Not that it's a big deal, of course, since he's a conservative, and everything they do seems to be ok, even when it's making the USA more vulnerable to attack.

[youspeakmylanguage]

25. You forgot to mention...

...that he took the time to taunt DU in an email, right before the dubya hit the fan. I think that had a lot to do with the subsequent investigation from the left side of the blogosphere.

[Merlot]

46. Ironic, isn't it...

We're told by the corporate media that bloggers are not real journalists, and don't have credibility.

And there, right in the middle of the corporate media WH press corps, sits someone wihtout a shred af credibility.

[newyawker99]

54. Hi youspeakmylanguage!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[youspeakmylanguage]

62. LOL, thank you for the welcome..

...but, despite my number of posts, I've been here a while. I like to read more than I write.

[Lindacooks]

27. The Plame Affair - did he have access

to confidential and security clearance documents?

Also the thing with Dan Rather and the planting of fake documents, supposedly by Rove. He was involved in that too.

[ClintonTyree]

14. He's a couple of interesting replies to that thread..........

To: WoodstockCat

We certainly ought to be able to "out" this producer by midnight tonight. Turn up the heat, D/FW FReepers!



28 posted on 09/10/2004 12:52:44 PM PDT by kittymyrib
< Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies >

To: WoodstockCat
Just Damn. Will this guy turn out to be Deep Throat as well?



25 posted on 09/10/2004 12:52:15 PM PDT by RetroSexual
< Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies >

Correct on BOTH counts, freeps. It certainly looks like Jeffie is "out" now and it looks as if "deep throat" describes Jeffie as well. Good work!

[frictionlessO]

44. Who the f**k are these freeps talking about???

I mean taking it as it is with the time stamps its confusing....

Explain context better?? Thank you it looks interesting!

[janetle]

16. This was always my gut feeling

I know we cannot go on gut feelings or assumptions nor can we jump to conclusions. Gosh, we need evidence, proof, reliable sources but this was still my gut feeling.

[Callboy]

19. i still think rove is working this deal

[troubleinwinter]

20. Up until now,

Gannon had a weekly one-hour radio show on RightTalk radio, at 3:00 ET, Thursdays. Now he is suddenly "on hiatus", and his show time is being filled in by "Best of RightTalk... host TBD(to be determined)".

I wonder what a one hour a week of crap radio show pays.

Talon had to make some special arrangements to give Gannon some "pay" purely in order to make him a paid, "legitimate" reporter to get the Daily Pass under Talon's name.

So.... now he does not write for Talon. His radio show is gone. His 'Conservative Guy' website where he offers to give speeches to your organization is dead.

Nobody is likely in the DC are to be hiring his services as an "escort" (hahahaha), out of concern for being spotted with him.

Doubtful that any school districts will be hiring him to be a teacher any time soon.

So where is this guy now getting an income? If GOPUSA/Talon is paying him, it would look like hush-money, since he is apparently not performing his work duties anymore.

[Algomas]

30. Hey trouble, he could handle PR...

for Negropontes death squad operations.

[classof56]

47. What? The "gay escort" biz has dried up?

Such a waste of 8" Cut. I'm guessing it's probably gone "covert", so to speak, and the hush money must be rolling in, as well. Can't quite figure why such sleaze bags always manage to come out on top, so to speak again, when it comes to the money thing.

And they want to cut my social security and medicare. Family values abound in Bushland. I can only shake my old gray head.

Class of 56

[sallyseven]

56. What is an 8 inch cut. I am not familiar

enough with some terms.

[immoderate]

57. Circumcised penis + optimism.

--IMM

[classof56]

58. Whoops!

Truth is, I don't know, either. It was a phrase "Jeff Gannon" referred to (seemed like with pride) on one of his escort websites. I was trying to be humorous on my post. Thought I might have guessed what it meant, but spouse of almost 40 years says he doesn't know either. I confess, I'm an "elderly woman" on Social Security and pretty far out of the mainstream, it's obvious. I often say I'm the Tired Old Cynic. Now I'm embarrassed, too!


Yikes!

[Vinca]

26. If Gannon/Guckert/Bulldog broke the CBS story, does it make sense

that maybe Eberle paid someone to cook up the documents and give them to the moron - whose name I can't recall - who Rather had complete confidence in? All to discredit "liberal" CBS and to squash any hopes the Democrats had of revealing Dubya's pathetic National Guard service. It's a theory.

[BuyingThyme]

36. Makes sense to me.

Similar scenario with Plame.

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38. Scott McClellan Reveals That Gannon/Guckert Got GOPUSA Press Pass

oops!


http://209.11.49.220/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000808705:spank:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

39. Your link isn't working.

[newyawker99]

55. Hi cinci_democrat!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[cinci_democrat]

41. Sorry...new link Scott McClellan Reveals That Gannon/Gucker...

Scott McClellan Reveals That Gannon/Guckert Got GOPUSA Press Pass


http://209.11.49.220/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000808705

[Blue Belle]

43. Gannon on CNN... TONIGHT!!!

According to Editor&Publisher, Jeff Gannon/Jim Guckert/Agador Sparticus will be on Anderson Cooper's CNN show tonight.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000808726

[Callboy]

45. When The Smoke Clears

I think we democrats will be left holding the bag, esp after the D Rather stunt.

[demgrrrll]

49. Nah. eom.

.

[TheModernTerrorist]

48. I've got a question

maybe someone here can help me with this. "Gannon" (since he still wants to be called that) said in his interview with Anderson Cooper that when he interviewed Ambassador Wilson and mentioned the memo, he had said that he was referring to it because it was mentioned in the Wall Street Journal a week prior. So, what I'm curious about (and can't find all the information for) is when this supposed article was published. Since I don't read the WSJ, nor do I have an online subscription to their site, is when this article was published. I can't say whether it happened or not, because I don't have any of the info on it, but if anybody knows where I could possibly find it, I'd appreciate it. :-)
thanks

[JohnyCanuck]

51. Oct 17, 2003. Link to WSJ article here

The Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2003
Memo May Aid Leak Probe

Document Details Intelligence Meeting On Iraq-Niger Reports

By DAVID S. CLOUD
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

WASHINGTON -- An internal government memo addresses some of the mysteries at the center of the White House leak investigation and could help investigators in the search for who disclosed the identity of a Central Intelligence Agency operative, according to two people familiar with the memo.

The memo, prepared by U.S. intelligence personnel, details a meeting in early 2002 where CIA officer Valerie Plame and other intelligence officials gathered to brainstorm about how to verify reports that Iraq had sought uranium yellowcake from Niger.

Ms. Plame, a member of the agency's clandestine service working on Iraqi weapons issues, suggested at the meeting that her husband, Africa expert and former U.S. diplomat Joseph Wilson, could be sent to Niger to investigate the reports, according to current and former government officials familiar with the meeting at the CIA's Virginia headquarters. Soon after, midlevel CIA officials decided to send him, say intelligence officials.

Classified memos, like the one describing Ms. Plame's role, have limited circulation and investigators are likely to question all those known to have received it. Intelligence officials haven't denied Ms. Plame was involved in the decision to send Mr. Wilson, but they have said she was not "responsible" for the decision.

http://www.cryptome.org/plame-memo.htm

I found this link from Justin Raimondo's article at www.antiwar.com

Sex, Lies, and Jeff Gannon - The unmaking of a media whore by Justin Raimondo

What I wrote last winter about the Plame case applies equally to l'affaire Gannon:

"This case is about much more than the outing of a CIA agent: It's about a cabal of ruthless liars who stopped at nothing – not even treason – to achieve their goals, and kept lying (and committing forgery) even after they were caught. It's about a bogus war fought on account of faked 'evidence.' It's about the hijacking of American foreign policy on behalf of interests that are neither American nor morally defensible."

- Justin Raimondo

[TheModernTerrorist]

52. :-)

thank you very much >^.^<

[AnneD]

61. If they were smart....

They'd start reporting the REAL news. However, I think they have been cowed as witness by the CBS exec meeting with the WH. I suspected a Rove setup from day one (a typical MO) when the bloggers first broke the story that the documents were a fake. The WH needed a tool to deflect the story, and it worked. The memo became the story, not Bush's AWOL and subsequent cover up and the sanitizing of his history.
What is not surprising is that the press is sitting around with 4 aces and not looking at them, let alone playing their cards.