http://www.americablog.org/Mr. Fitzgerald, are you listening?
by John in DC - 2/24/2005 04:05:00 PM
Democratic Underground has discovered a few of Gannon's old postings on a conservative Web site bulletin board on which he writes:
"I am one of the only conservatives in the regular White House press corps."
Then, in response to a statement by someone else who tells Gannon "may your tribe increase!" Gannon writes:
"Not likely! There are many obstacles for admittance."
1. What did Gannon mean when he wrote that he was in the "regular White House press corps"? He told the media, and the White House confirmed, that he simply got day passes to the White House. I thought day passes were for media who do not attend on a regular basis, not the White House press corps, no? I mean, if someone with a day pass could be a "regular" attendee in the White House press corps, then why do they have hard passes at all?
2. Gannon in his recent interviews, and the White House, led us to believe that it was a cakewalk for anyone to walk in off the street and get a day pass (simply email the night before with you social security number, then show up at the gate the next morning with your driver's license).