Gannon to Rapid City Journalist - "Get off your butt and do your job."

[Roland99]

http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/politicalblog/

Then I got a personal contact from Jeff Gannon himself. He offered a brief, unsolicited email critique of my work on a story about rumors of voter-registration skullduggery in Pennington County. Conservative Web runners were pushing that as a Democratic deal. I was interested in that notion, but found no evidence to make a clear connection in print.

Gannon apparently grew impatient with my work, at least that’s how I took this portion of his email: “Get off your butt and do your job.”

Now, that’s always good advice. But I couldn’t help but wonder what he thought my job was. That became pretty clear recently when I watched Jeff Gannon lob an outrageously ingratiating softball to President Bush during a news conference on C-SPAN.

Jeff Gannon was clearly doing his job, as he sees it. That’s fine, as long as people don’t confuse his job with mine.


And check out the article a bit further down re: Gannon's work on the Thune campaign to bash Daschle. "Jeff Gannon and South Dakota (And a handy S.D. blog index)"

[edbermac]

1. Get off your butt? Hmmm....interesting choice of words there, Jeff...

:evilgrin:

[ashmanonar]

2. heh.

don't do it, it's a trap! ;)

[edbermac]

4. Cardinal Fang...put her in the...COMFY....CHAIR!!!

Confess old woman, confess! CONFESS!!!!

[DavidDvorkin]

3. "Bugger off, Jeff"

he should have replied.