NYT Times softball article on Gannon

[kohodog]

Web Site Operator Says He Knew of Reporter's Two Identities
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL

HOUSTON, Feb. 19 - The operator of an activist Republican Web site and news service said Friday night that he had known for two years that his White House correspondent went by two identities.

But the operator, Robert R. Eberle, denied in an interview that the correspondent, Jeff Gannon, whose real name is James D. Guckert, was an administration plant or was given preferential treatment as a Republican partisan to ask soft questions at briefings.

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http://nytimes.com/2005/02/20/national/20gannon.html

Very safe, nothing new. They're probably hoping it will go away.

On the other hand, in The Art's section Frank Rich goes to town.

[annabanana]

1. This may mean that Blumenthal is either "bought" or

"compromised". It very disappointing to see the NYT do so badly with so much real information so freely available.

[Ronbrynaert]

2. Softball..this article is stupid

The Times hit my blog for 45 minutes the other day...I'm guessing it wasn't Ralph stupid ass Blumenthal.


"Mr. Eberle said that in the two years that Mr. Guckert worked for him, he had not kept track of his volunteer reporter."

Ummm...read the freeper threads, Mr. Blumenthal...Bobby keeps tight tracks of all of his volunteer reporters cause he hypes them up everywhere on the web.

There's no way in hell that money never exchanged hands between the two either...(maybe eberle didn't write checks to Mr. GUCKERT but instead gave him cash plundered from baghdad)...

Still, he said, the backlash surprised him. "I had no reason to think he was not adhering to professional news standards."

ummmm....professional news standards...bobby's a plagiarizer so is his whole rotten staff...

mr. professional news standards Eberle "I don't know if I actually asked about his background and training."


blumenthal: "Mr. Guckert resigned soon after a news conference when he asked Mr. Bush: "How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?" referring to Senate Democrats.

Mr. Eberle said it was not his idea of a proper question. "I would have phrased it differently,"

do some research, bloomie

(freeper thread about gannon's question on february 2, 2004:

JEFF GANNON (Talon News): Since there have been so many questions about what the President was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard?

Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda, denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam?

Did he testify before Congress that American troops committed war crimes in Vietnam?

And did he throw somebody else's medals at the White House to protest a war America was still fighting?

What was he doing after he was honorably discharged?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1075501/posts?q=1&&page=101

Who is this Jeff Gannon guy??? I say he's fired!

Ha! Just kidding... Great job Jeff.

Bobby Eberle

Blumenthal: "Mr. Eberle also said he had no inkling that Mr. Guckert had created pornographic Web sites or offered himself as a gay escort. Those revelations came in recent accounts in The Washington Post"

um no they didn't bloomie..did you even read those post articles...let alone the blogs that the info came from (not mine...i agree with frank rich...i don't care about this aspect of the story...the bigger story is talonnewsgopusa and its numerous links to the right)

Blumenthal: "Texas Republicans said he was not well known in the party."

Ummm...they're lying...bobby's been involved and fronted tons of republican texan organizations...it was even listed on his bio at his websites..bloomie...he's well well known in the right wing blogosphere...and you've gotta be clueless to think that the party doesn't keep tabs on it's bloggers...just like our party does too

Blumenthal: "Mr. Eberle said he himself got temporary press credentials to attend a White House briefing. "I think I asked a question about a U.N. resolution on Iraq," Mr. Eberle said."

Thanks, bloomie, you actually did dig something up new...of course..you useless waste of space...why didn't you take the time to find out what comment that was...im sure hundreds of bloggers are at work at that right now...(im about to search myself..won't take long for me...i have a good idea when that question was asked)

I'd like to add one thing...

so far...i haven't found any articles in which jeff gannon plagiarized from the mainstream press...but ive found lots of that by bobby eberle and his other talon writer/volunteers....

ANd here's the 500,000 member question: why would bobby eberle take control of millions of americans if he wasn't making enough money to pay his "staff"?

peace

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