Gannon didn't tell the truth about when he started using pseudonym

[tuvor]

From AMERICAblog:

by John in DC - 2/19/2005 03:55:00 PM

1. According to Editor & Publisher he began using a pseudonym in 2001:

He began using the Gannon name in 2001, while working in Pennsylvania to help a friend with a start-up business in auto repair, one of several jobs he said he'd had outside of journalism prior to coming to Washington.

2. He actually began using the pseudonym "Jeff" in 1999.

Gannon/Guckert started using the name "Jeff" by September 1999 at the latest. Gannon told Paul Leddy, the man who built his escort Web site, that his name was "Jeff," and several of the photos on the escort site are named variations of "Jeff.jpg." Also, an escort customer left a review on one of Gannon's escort sites stating that he hired "Jeff" in the winter of 1999 (the review was posted in July of 2000 and refers to the prior winter).

3. So why does Gannon appear to be hiding when he really started using the pseudonym?

4. Gannon told E&P in the same interview cited above:

GANNON: I use a pseudonym, because my real name is very difficult to pronounce, to remember and to spell. And many people who have been talking about me on television have yet to pronounce it correctly.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/02/gannon-didnt-tell-truth-about-when-he.html

ON EDIT: Sorry if this isn't considered LBN. Hard to know what's considered a real news source and what isn't these days.

[KC21304]

1. So in his interview with Anderson Cooper

when he listed the professions who use pseudonyms, he just forgot to include prostitutes. Easy mistake.

[tuvor]

2. Especially when so many reporters use pseudonyms.

:eyes:

[UTUSN]

3. Transcript--------Link-----Here:

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http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0502/18/acd.01.h...

COOPER: For the past two years, a man known as Jeff Gannon regularly showed up at the White House. He got a daily press pass and worked as a reporter. No one paid much attention to him, until a few weeks ago when he asked the president a question during a White House press conference. Since then, his past has been laid bare, he's resigned from his job, and more questions continue to be raised about how and why he got into the White House in the first place. ....

I started by asking him why he doesn't use his real name?

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

GANNON: I use a pseudonym, because my real name is very difficult to pronounce, to remember and to spell. And many people who have been talking about me on television have yet to pronounce it correctly.

COOPER: But I mean, your real name is James and you used the pseudonym Jeff.

GANNON: Yes.

COOPER: How is James so much harder than Jeff?

GANNON: No, no, I meant my last name.

COOPER: Well, your real last name is Guckert, and the pseudonym you used is Gannon.

GANNON: Yes. It's easier to pronounce, to remember and to spell.

COOPER: But when you would go into the White House to get a pass for a briefing, you would use the name James Guckert.

GANNON: Yes, because that's the

[truthisfreedom]

7. he was being fed answers through an earpiece for the CNN interview.

you could tell because of the halting speech and obvious discomfort, and there were other signs that are clearly visible in the actual video footage.

[LinuxInsurgent]

4. he's lying

and on the anderson cooper interview he was obviously uncomfortable and making up lies on the spot.

Gannon lied about his Talon links, when he joined in the White House, what his affiliation was (to GOPUSA), etc.

Listen...the man's a liar...has pictures of male prostitution...do we need anything else to condemn him to the same credibility status as the local Ho?

He's a man slut who lies...let's get over that part of it...and focus now on who in the White House gave him the obvious and not innocent access he had.

[bettyellen]

5. he used jeff gannon, so he could keep all his momgrammed thingeys.....

otherwise his first choice would have been chest rockwell.

[Eloriel]

6. Important detail needs

a kick.

E&P sure is doing good work on this.

:kick: