Gannon plans to attend WH Correspondents Dinner

[quaoar]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000809375

Gannon/Guckert Met Kerry at WH Reporters' Bash, Hopes to Go Again

By Joe Strupp


NEW YORK At previous galas he says he managed to meet Sen. John Kerry and Al Franken. But will James Guckert's recent notoriety as a partisan White House reporter who used a fake name, among other alleged activities, keep him out of this year's White House Correspondents Dinner?

Guckert, a.k.a. Jeff Gannon, doesn’t think so.

"I have every intention of attending this year's ," Guckert, a guest at the last two dinners, told E&P today. "Don’t you think I could? I'm sure someone is going to ask me or offer me the opportunity to go. It is a great publicity event." This year's dinner will be held on April 30.

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He said he attended the past two White House Correspondents Association dinners, which are limited to WHCA members and their guests. Although he is not a WHCA member, and has never sought membership, he claims he attended the 2003 and 2004 dinners as a guest of two different members.

"I got a ticket each year," Guckert said, declining to name those who brought him. "I paid, and I just wanted to be there. I met John Kerry at one of them and the cast of 'The West Wing.' I met Al Franken at the first one after he'd gotten into it with the Fox News table."

[BlueEyedSon]

1. He's not a reporter, so how can he go?

[DoYouEverWonder]

13. The attendees can bring guests I assume

that how folks like Monica Lewinsky get invites.

[BlueEyedSon]

16. Don't you think it will make his "date" look bad?

[DoYouEverWonder]

17. I want to know who his 'date' was

for the first two?

[Catherine Vincent]

18. It wasn't Monica that was invited it was Paula Jones.

Republicans and their way of rubbing it in. Idiots.

[skypilot]

2. Who will he bring as a date?

Matt Drugde? Andrew Sullivan? The reanimated corpse of Roy Cohn? Inquiring minds want to know.

[rodeodance]

7. maybe a 'military escort"??

[skypilot]

8. He'd have to snatch some guy off KP duty.

Gannon, or rather "Gannon" fancies himself a "top". He'd need someone he could dominate.

[DoYouEverWonder]

19. Drudge did get to go last year

[BR_Parkway]

3. So did he go as a reporter, or as a paid date for someone else?

on edit:

writing in a journal he has kept since he first began covering the White House in February 2003, a journal that could become a book.

"I have probably one page for each day at the White House, about 200 pages of stuff," said Guckert. "Is it all interesting? Probably not. But it could be . I haven’t thought that far ahead."

Guckert, who contends he still has a future in journalism, also added that entering the paid-speaker circuit is another goal. "It is likely that I will start making some appearances and speaking," he said, declining to name specific efforts he has taken in that regard. "There are people who are definitely interested in some of my behind-the-scenes work in the press room." That is certainly an understatement.

He's publically telling someone they better take care of him or else. A book, speaking tours, naming names! I'd love to stumble across that journal if it was online.

Maybe he's not so dumb, comments like this may be the only thing keeping someone from knocking him off to keep his mouth shut.

[beam me up scottie]

9. Of course he'll sell them out. He is a whore after all.

The sleepless nights spent worrying about the secrets he could tell.
Priceless.

[punpirate]

10. This sounds a lot more like...

... Linda Tripp than Walter Cronkite. He'd better hope for non-refundable bulk sales on that book....

[asjr]

11. Maybe he has a secret stash of papers outlining

everything and he has told his WH "date" it will be revealed if somehow he goes down in a small plane.

[quaoar]

14. He is a good candidate

to be found one day floating face down in the Potomac.

Someone is going to decide that the risk of him appearing before a grand jury is too great.

[AntiCoup2K4]

15. he's also publically setting himself up for a BCE "suicide".

Get those brakes checked, "Jeff".

[edbermac]

4. God, I hope he does...

Along with Al Franken and a video crew...

[punpirate]

12. The question is...

... will he send everyone an invoice afterwards.... :P

[cindyw]

5. Fox News? Is he saying he sat at the Fox News table?

[rodeodance]

6. he is as arrogant as the WH!!

[Dr.Phool]

20. Do you think he'll wear a blue dress?

You'd think this idiot would be smart enough to know he's already had too much publicity.

[WI_DEM]

21. "I'm sure someone will ask me" probably Rove

[ncteechur]

22. Is he going as a correspondent or an escort--kind of like Vegas??

[solinvictus]

23. Guckert..

He's setting himself up for a "suicide" by persisting. I think he underestimates the lengths these people will go.