Top 10 Conservative Idiot List
1. JEFF GANNON - Despite the best efforts of the Corporate Media (more on them in a moment) the Gannon Scandal kept rolling last week. Since last week's Idiots, a number of new stories have come to light. First, it was revealed that Gannon was in fact selling himself for sex online while he was a member of the White House press corps. Then it came out that Gannon was actually in the White House as early as February 28, 2003 - a month before Talon News even existed, which completely disproves White House press secretary Scott McClellan's recent statement that "
, like anyone else, showed that he was representing a news organization that published regularly, and so he was cleared two years ago to receive daily passes, just like many others are." (Maureen Dowd meanwhile revealed that White House press passes simply aren't that easy to come by.)
Gannon himself decided to return to the airwaves, appearing on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 to "clarify" some of the earlier fibs he told, such as this one to Wolf Blitzer: "...before I came to Washington, I had registered various domain names for a private client. I was doing Web site development. Those sites were never hosted. There's - nothing ever went up on them. And the client went on to do something else. There's been so much about me on the Internet that people have, you know, made assumptions about..." During the Anderson Cooper interview (video courtesy of Crooks and Liars), Gannon refused to deny that he'd lied to Wolf Blitzer and portrayed himself as a victim who'd had his privacy violated (despite the fact that he was the only person responsible for posting naked pictures of himself online).
Our Jeff also had an interesting take on "journalism" when confronted with the fact that he'd plagiarized entire sections from White House press releases for his reports. "If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue," said Jeff, "that's reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they believe." Jesus Christ. Meanwhile, Ari Fleischer revealed that even he had doubts about Gannon's presence in the White House.
And with stories coming to light that Gannon was the person who broke the news that Mary Mapes was responsible for the CBS documents, had early access to the infamous August 6 PDB, may have had four hours advance knowledge of the bombing of Baghdad, and led the charge on unfounded accusations that John Kerry had an affair, we can't help wondering where he was getting his information from. Finally, Gannon went so far last week as to consider suing the bloggers who'd reported on this story for "political assassination." So now you can add frivolous lawsuits to the growing list of hypocrisies involved in this scandal. Heck, bring it on, I say. Let's get the whole story out there.
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