Why do I get the feeling that Gannon will do a David Brock?

[Sparkle]

That would be good news, imo. He could spill the beans on all those he slept with in D.C. Think about it. He did appear on CNN both times last week.

[LisaLynne]

1. Heh. Yeah, maybe when the WH has successfully ...

squashed the story in the Payola Press, old Gannie Boy will decide he sort of liked all the attention and maybe he'll be willing to tell all in order to get that little slice of fame back.

[Mz Pip]

2. Wouldn't that be nice

I wonder if the RW might be a bit concerned about that. I haven't heard any of the usual "lifestyle" police out there trashing him. Maybe they don't want to alienate him. He would make one hell of an enemy for them.

Can you imagine what would have happened if this had happened during the Clinton administration? There would be calls for a special investigation and more money would have be funneled to Ken Starr to investigate what Gannon knew and when he knew it. And what Gannon did and who he did it with. And many prayers that it was with someone high up. Ah yes, the silence from this current crowd is deafening indeed.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Sparkle]

9. Here are a few that you don't hear peep from:

Dan Burton, Tom Delay, Bob Barr (although he's not in congress anymore), and Orin Hatch etc.

[benddem]

11. Gannon is thinking

about a career making speeches. He figures he could make a bundle. He still thinks he is a journalist. He is in denial.

[Skidmore]

20. He just hasn't found the right casting couch yet. nt

[FreedomAngel82]

14. Where's Ken Starr when you need him?

Too bad he couldn't get Guckert. :shrug:

[StClone]

3. I wish he would

Brock was talented and a very effective anti-Dem. Jeff is a hack that would instill delight if the beans were spilled. He could publish a tell all for some quick cash. Truth for him maybe hard to come by though.

[Mabus]

4. D.C.'s version of Heidi Fleiss

I've wondered how much Scaife has had to do with this Talon News Service crapola.

Makes me also wonder about Armstrong Williams (http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=536) who paid for making a pass at his body trainer. AW might like them buff like Bulldog.

In 1997, Williams was sued in a massive $200,000 50-charge sexual harassment suit for repeatedly kissing his once male trainer Stephen Gregory who he had promoted repeatedly into his talk-show staff. Gregory claimed Williams had also grabbed his buttocks and genitals and climbed into bed with him on business trips. After rebuffing him, Gregory alleged, the pundit retaliated by reducing his pay and subsequently firing him.

[KittyWampus]

19. What The Heck? I Hadn't Seen That.

[Mabus]

21. Fleiss or Williams?

I thought everyone knew about them and both their sexcapades.

Right now I'm hoping Armstrong takes Gannon to the WH Reporter bash this year. The Bulldog and the Lapdog.

[KittyWampus]

22. Williams Sexually Accosting A Male

[Mabus]

23. MSM was too busy following the trail of Whitewater to notice

that one of their own was being sued for sexual harassment. To report it would have required them doing their jobs. As it was, they preferred doing what Gannon did, i.e. copy the RNC talking points and report it as news. For some strange reason Armstrong's story didn't make the cut.

But now that you know, make sure it gets out more.

[KittyWampus]

26. Thanks for the blast of info from the past... so much gets swept under

the tide of corporate media bs.

[bahrbearian]

5. Yes, He'll turn straight, to show its a choice, not a life style.

Jerry Falwell will be his new mentor.

[FreedomAngel82]

15. Of course

It'd be something he could do. :sigh:

[colonel odis]

6. if gannon did something like that, his life wouldn't be worth

two cents.

the only question would be whether he dies in an airplane crash or "commits suicide." these are nasty, nasty people he's in bed with, so to speak.

[liberalitch]

7. I really don't think he has the morals or the backbone

[NVMojo]

8. yeah, wouldn't it be funny if an investigation into Gannon revealed

that his special job was a payoff to keep quiet about his man-friends in the Repuke Party? I would LMAO!!!

[Ian David]

10. Didn't The Mayflower Madame right a book? eom

[Ian David]

24. I'm so embarrassed I misspelled "write"

[Clark2008]

27. At least you know you did..

Read some comments sent to Keith Olbermann by the wingnuts. It's embarrassing to me that so many people in Tennessee (my state) sound as though they've never even heard of education!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6844293/#050222a

— Chris, Denver, North Carolina:
“P.S. I think Jesus said it best when he said, ‘Get behind the (sic) Satan.’” Right, kids! Come on and show your support!

— Dee, Hixson, Tennessee:
“Your prejudism is definately showing.” I can’t even contemplate what people who oppose prejudism would be called.

— Lewis, Walla Walla, Washington:
“I am writing to express my opposition to the ‘SPONGE BOB’ TYPE VALUES THAT ARE TRYING TO BE TAUGHT in education today.” Just because you put it in them big letters, Lewis, still doesn’t mean it’s English.

— S. Stephanie, Shady Valley, Tennessee:
“I won’t respond to any of this about Dr. Dobson, you people aren’t worth the time of day!!!” Umm, Ma’am, I hate to break it to you, but you just did respond.

— Tami & Eric, Dieterich, Illinois:
“It came up a long time ago that Spongebob was gay. It is a theory not a fact. It is a general belief among society that Spongebob is gay.” It’s good that even at this late date we can learn where America’s “general beliefs” are kept: Dieterich, Illinois.

— Pam, Estes Park, Colorado:
“Our family is deeply concerned by your callous remarks about Dr. Dobson. I believe him to be correct in his assumption of homosexual references in the show. We have watched this cartoon for years and recently, it has appeared to us to be more homosexual in nature. There’s several episodes where I just sat there and thought, this is really, really weird. I couldn’t get over the gay undertones.” Hang on - Dr. Dobson insists he never said anything about the character or the show or the videotape being “gay” - he claims he was only questioning the motives of the foundation that distributed the video. Gee whiz, if some of his supporters read what he wrote and inferred Dobson was criticizing the show for having “gay undertones,” then, golly gosh, didn’t Dr. Dobson infer that there was something untoward about the show and the character? At least he did to Pam.

— Loretta, Vancouver, British Columbia:
“I knew when I herd your reports about Spong Bob… I needed to ivestigate further… and sure enough you not only left out the most important part of the story, but that misrepresented Dr. J. Dobson. I feel that we need to protect the inocence of children. And I feel that right as a parent is being taken away by Homosexuals who slip there docterin in on the sly…” I wish some homosexuals would have slipped in some grammar docterin’ during your inocence.

— Todd, Middletown, Ohio:
Todd’s ‘subject’ line said it all: “Stupid Intellegenece.”

There, now don't you feel better. :)

[Ian David]

28. Thank yous. I feels much butter now. Thems freepers cant spells good. eom

[Al-CIAda]

12. a 2 day, $50 course in propaganda is not a 'degree'

and he is a far more accomplished PROFESSIONAL prostitute than 'journalist'.

[FreedomAngel82]

13. It would be nice

but I don't think so. He's playing the whole sensitive "they ruined my life" type of thing. I think he'll just disappear. It would be nice if something happened like that and he could team up with Mr. Brock.

[rman]

16. can he be trusted?

[Bethany Rockafella]

17. One never knows.

I believe David Brock can be trusted by his actions after the fact. We'll have to see Guckert's actions after the fact.

[PeaceProgProsp]

18. Do you think Gannon is smart enough for that?

Brock was a smart person who overreacted to being less liberal than his classmates at Berkeley by going overboard in the opposite direction. He felt he could intellectually justify late 20th century conservative thought. After a couple years seeing it up close, he realized that he couldn't.

Brock was sufficiently talented to do good journalism from the start, and it was actually the process of being a good journalist on the Clinton book that separated him from the person he was when he wrote the Anita Hill book.

Gannon was never a good journalist. AFAICT, he's never even tried to apply a journalist's paradigm to what he does -- which was, apparently, pretending that he was a journalist. Furthermore, he probably doesn't have the academically rigorous undergraduate experience that Brock had which would be a foundation for "doing a David Brock."

Gannon looks like he's always been nothing more than spinning ideologue. I don't think people like that have changes of heart.

Brock, on the other hand, always wanted to be an intellectually rigorous journalist, and he had the tools to do so, and that's why he started to interpret the facts more honestly.

And even if Gannon did turn (however unlikely) -- even if it he got pissed off at being used -- what would a tome on that be worth? Not much.

The left (and journalism for that matter) doesn't uninteresting, obvious, vengeance-driven attacks on the hands that used to feed offered by people who had no principles before or after their reversals of fortune. It needs smart, honest, accurate, informed, incisive statements of the truth.

[bklyncowgirl]

25. Not gonna happen. This guy's a true believer.

And apparently none too bright too.

[Ian David]

29. The freepers feel betrayed because he's "a fake conservative"

They say that you can't be a gay prostitute and still be conservative.

Well, at least The Log Cabin Republicans should get the hint that they're not wanted.

They're concerned about "fake conservatives" and we're concerned about "fake journalists."