The Nashua Advocate: Full Recap (With Quotes) of the CNN Gannon Interview

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Jeff Gannon (James Guckert) to CNN in Friday Night Interview: "I've Made Mistakes in My Past...of a Very Personal and Private Nature"

By ADVOCATE STAFF

In a Friday night interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper (host of the general news show "Anderson Cooper 360"), White House "journalist" Jeff Gannon (a.k.a. James Guckert) told the cable host that, indeed, many of his White House "reports" were simply copies of White House statements, which Guckert described as his attempt to bring people "the unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they believe."

Gannon/Guckert also tried to defend his use in the White House of the name "Jeff Gannon" instead of the name printed on his driver's license, James Guckert.

Guckert said that it is "not uncommon" for journalists, authors, and actors to use a pseudonym.

(While true for actors -- which Gannon/Guckert essentially was, pretending to be a legitimate member of the White House press corps -- Guckert's statement about "journalists" seems to be inaccurate; Dana Milbank, a reporter for The Washington Post, told MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Thursday night that he wasn't aware of even a single journalist whose real name was unknown by his peers. Nor did Milbank name any journalists who use pseudonyms in any capacity or context. On Keith Olbermann's MSNBC program on Friday night, Milbank said that Guckert "keeps saying things which turn out not to be true," and that the first time he met Guckert the man was wearing a press pass which said "GOPUSA." Milbank noted that he couldn't understand Guckert's inability to recall when his first article was published by GOPUSA -- an unforgettable event, Milbank implied, in the career of any real journalist).

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