Who the hell is Jeff Gannon?

[JohnKleeb]

Rich's brother? and dont make me go to GD.

[Dookus]

1. He was Paul Lynde's boyfriend.

[JohnKleeb]

2. ha and this is just being revealed?

[LeftCoast]

3. Oh what you missed today!

:)

Edited to add:

Here's THE link to explain the whole sordid affair:

http://www.americablog.org/

[JohnKleeb]

4. Yep, I was asleep from the time I got home from work

on ward.

[LeftCoast]

5. The Republicans got pantsed today.

Bad. :)

[JohnKleeb]

6. and?

cmon damnit.

[LeftCoast]

8. Sorry...go read the link for all the details

http://www.americablog.org/

But the story in a nutshell:

Jeff Gannon aka Jim sumptinerother is a supposed journalist from a supposed newspaper (Talon News) which is closely allied with the Repubs. He throws total puffball questions to Scottie Mc. He also writes homophobic hit pieces on kerry and others. Anyway, turns out that this red-blooded american has a little m4m military escort service on the side. And therer is at least one incriminating photo. :)

[sandnsea]

16. And he's connected to Plame

Some reports say he got one or the memo from the White House on Plame.

Mar 9, 2004

"A federal grand jury has subpoenaed White House records on administration contacts with more than two dozen journalists and news media outlets in a special investigation into the alleged improper leak of a covert CIA official's identity to columnist Robert Novak last July.

Talon News has learned that one of the journalists being targeted is Jeff Gannon, Washington Bureau Chief and White House correspondent for Talon News."

I copied some of the articles because they're scrubbed from his web sites.

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/gannon.htm

[sandnsea]

17. And he's connected to Plame

Hehe, I wanted you to know this so much, I posted it twice!

(Not really, just a booboo)

[Az]

7. Jeff Gannon is the psuedoname of a man posing as a reporter

As Gannon he was allowed to participate in numerous press confrences at the WH. He was vetted and allowed in even with his fake name intact.

At these press confrences he was often called on by the Press Secretary and took the opportunity to lob softball questions typically very damaging to the Democratic party. Even being allowed to directly ask the President questions as well.

The media source he worked for is turning out to be a front as well. Created by a group calle GOPUSA the Talon news source turns out to be a couple of repuke activists from Texas operating out of their aparment. Gannon is apparently their only reporter.

The added twist to all this is that the same name Gannon's site was registered under also has a couple of other sites registered. They are all male porn/prostitution sites with a focus on providing soldiers as escorts. Gannon/Guckert even has his own photo listed as available for duty.

It is quite clear that the WhiteHouse let this man into the press pool. Whether they deliberately had him in there to ask leading supportive questions to guide the media is the big question. He got through the security. Someone had to have greenlighted him. And then there is the prostitution angle that just keeps on giving.

[LeftCoast]

10. Oh, your summary is much better than mine

:)

[enigmatic]

13. Nice Synopsis..

This story keeps getting better and better...

[ignatius 2]

14. AND..he apparently received the CIA report that outed Valerie Plame..

imagine that, all of OUR tax dollars that are spent for security and not only is the guy using an alias, he receives classified information..

Yeah right..Rove's stooge..there is a thread on gd showing his posts on the freeper site..he is either totally arrogant or extremely stupid, he used the name Jeff Gannon

Unless,of course,he is being set up as the stooge to take the fall for the Valerie Plame affair.

Stranger than fiction,but then so is this whole goddamned administration..

[papau]

21. LOL - below are details on the Fake Reporter operation Howie Kurtz defends

This the "Jeff Gannon" operation that Howie Kurtz insists is a legitimate News Org that should be a standard question asker at White House news briefings.

In 1999 aerospace engineer Bobby Eberle started a Web-design company for Republican candidates. Eberle is the president and CEO of both GOPUSA, a news and commentary Website, whose motto is "Bringing the conservative message to America" and Talon. Brother Bruce Earle started GOPUSA and is CEO of Virginia-based Eberle Communications Group, a vast fundraising/direct mail/PR powerhouse that boasts such clients as Ronald Reagan, Operation Rescue, Oliver North and Paula Jones, and which illegally sold fund-raising lists to John Ashcroft during his failed United States Senate run for the seat from Missouri.

GOPUSA now gets about 30,000 page views every day. In 2000, when it started, it received about 3,000 views per month. GOPUSA is a 100 percent volunteer-run company. Bobby Eberle has served as president of the Houston Young Republicans, director of club development of the Texas Young Republican Federation and as a three-term state chairman of the Texas Young Republican Federation. He was a delegate to the 2000 Republican Convention in Philadelphia and was vice chairman at large of the Young Republican National Federation. In July 2003 he spoke on "Should Americans Who Don't Pay Taxes Have a Say?", asserting those who do not pay actual cash as a tax collected by the Federal Income Tax should not have a vote - no other tax collection payment should qualify one for a vote, but would give everyone the vote once the Federal Income Tax is replaced by a consumption tax.

Eberle notes. We have about 50 people involved nation wide with the day-to-day operations. We have folks in 40 of the 50 states who help update their state sections with news and commentary. Our e-mail magazine goes out on Mondays. And all that with no paid advertising. I believe in personal responsibility rather than collectivism, so it never occurred to me to call the Democrats. What I really like about Bush is that he stays on message and keeps coming. Family: Wife Kathleen, a physician children; Charlotte 7 and Robert III ("Tres"); Roman Catholic. Insists genuine religious faith inevitably influences political opinions http://www.gopusa.com/ http://www.talonnews.com/

http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Eberle_Communications_Group

Eberle Communications Group, is a fundraising/direct marketing/PR firm with extensive ties to Republican Party politics (clients list includes Reagan, Ollie North, Paula Jones) and whose is CEO of the Virginia-based company is Bruce Eberle, whose brother owns GOPUSA and the "news agency" Talon News and its White House correspondent "Jeff Gannon" is well-known for asking loaded pro-Republican questions at White House press briefings, and appears to be more a political organization than a media outlet From Right wing FreeRepublic website http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1075501/posts?page=264 "02/10/2004 This was the exchange at today's White House press briefing, much of which focused on George W. Bush's service records with the National Guard: 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?

MR. McCLELLAN: We've already commented on some of his views relating back to that period the other day. And, obviously, this was a time period also when he was going to get his MBA at Harvard. But the President was certainly proud to serve in the National Guard.

TERRY MORAN (ABC NEWS): And would the White House consider those actions by Senator Kerry, that Jeff mentions fair game in the political season?

MR. McCLELLAN: Terry, I think -- I know that that's a way to try to draw us into a Democratic primary that is ongoing.

Eberle Communications Group is:

Bruce W. Eberle & Associates, Inc.
Fund Raising Strategies, Inc.
InternetFundRaising.com, Inc.
Campaign Funding Direct, Inc.
Omega List Company
onlineresponsesystem.com
Kaleidoscope Publishing, Ltd.
Affiliations are GOPUSA, Talon News, BAMPAC

ECG's Board of Directors is listed on 1/31/05 as consisting of:

Jon Bruss
Carl T. Berquist
Katherine M. Eberle
Peter Hannaford
James M. Irving

ECG's Company Officers are listed on 1/31/05 as:

Bruce Eberle, President, Eberle Communications Group, Inc.
William D. Griffiths, Vice President
Sandra J. Redhage, Corporate Secretary
M. Declan Bransfield, III, President, Bruce W. Eberle & Associates, Inc.
Michael Hiban, President, Omega List Company

The Eberle Communications Group, Inc.
1420 Spring Hill Road, Suite 490
McLean, VA 22102
Telephone: [phone] http://www.ecgone.com/

Black America's Political Action Committee (BAMPAC) supports conservative policies and African-American candidates, even though numerous candidates listed on its website were either Caucasian or Hispanic. Its name misleadingly suggests that it represents the point of view of African-Americans, but in fact opinion polls and voting patterns show that the vast majority of African-Americans disagree with BAMPAC's political positions.

[diamond14]

9. gannon was a fake-reporter, who was able to get into White House

Press Conferences for the past 2 years....gannon is a fake name (not his real name)....gannon runs a fake news web site (only himself works on the news site, sometimes with help from his wife)....his web site is funded by a radical right-wing reTHUGlican guy from texas, who also funds/runs the organization GOPUSA.....


sooooo,,,,now that the TRUTH has come out about gannon (that he's not even a reporter, has no education or experience in journalism)...people are WONDERING how the hell a guy with no credentials, and only a one-person web site, manages to get WHITE HOUSE PRESS CREDENTIALS ????

gannon ALWAYS asks very radical pro-bush* softball questions at the WH press conferences, and he ALWAYS gets called on....


even more bizarre.... gannon runs a couple of internet gay-MILITARY-sex sites.....


this story is still unfolding...gannon QUIT his reporting job today...which is even more bizarre, because he told NPR that he never got paid for writing that he did.....


that's it in a nutshell...the STRANGE world of bush*....it's definitely generating a LOT of interest, and will continue to....

[Nomad559]

11. Do you have

a high speed Internet connection?

You can view the Keith Olbermann video here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=109x18420

[tcfrogs]

12. Have you seen that JibJab video with Kerry & Bush?

Just kidding, Kleeb. "Mr. G" has been quite the hot topic of conversation today.

[hfojvt]

15. he was also in this week's top ten

although if you are like me, you read that Sunday night and have already forgotten people like Cannon.

[Rhiannon12866]

18. This story has been the headline of Buzzflash, for at least the past two

Days. It's finally made it to the mainstream press, the NY Daily News. But aren't they the paper that reported that Gephardt was the nominee?:shrug:

Here's the story. Keith Olbermann's also talking up a storm about it!

Bush press pal quits over gay prostie link
http://www.nydailynews.com/02-10-2005/news/gossip/story/279466p-239417c.html

And Daily Kos put together this time line, connecting him to the Valerie Plame leak case:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/9/191334/0754

[bmovies]

19. To tell the truth....

I never heard of him (or Talon) untill one or two days ago myself. It seems to me that he is pretty small potatoes when it comes to the REAL world of REAL journalism.

[BurtWorm]

20. "Ali G without the satire"

according to Keith Olberman. ;)