Each and every WH Reporter must be aware of the Gannon story

[SpiralHawk]

and be following it in some way, through real research, reading blogs, or just office gossip. They all know. The story is everywhere (except in the MSM). It is a damn juicy story, and it affects all WH reporters by association.

Are they all going to ignore the phony, lurid Elephant in the middle of their press room?

Which correspondent will have the guts to actually do the job and tell the whole Gannon truth, without favor or prejudice.

Just the facts. That's all you are asked to do, MSM. Just the facts.

You all know the story. Who will tell the story to America?

We are waiting...

[mike_c]

1. NPR did a segment on Gannon tonight....

Their whole interviw is apparently archive at npr.org.

[liberal43110]

5. NPR's piece covered almost nothing

It said a WH correspondent quit, and it mentioned that Jeff Gannon may not have been his real name. But it didn't go into:

* Fake names are not allowed for the WH press corps
* He doesn't have ANY journalist credentials (I'm not going to admit that a 2-day joke discussing the evil liberal media is any kind of credential)
* Therefore, his presence may have breached security protocols, rules, or laws
* He was refused a congressional press pass but has been receiving a daily WH pass for 2 years
* His "media" organization, Talon News, was essentially a Republican activist group funded from Texas
* Everyone else listed at the his faux media organization has no journalism credentials, only lots of Republican political activist credentials
* He is one of the only (perhaps THE ONLY) "journalist" who claimed to have received classified documents regarding the Plame scandal
* He has been a regular poster to FreeRepublic for the past 2 years, during which time people and he joke about his easy questions to McClellan
* He is tied to gay internet porn (which isn't, of course, the main point, but part of the story)

[Cha]

9. Can you imagine if there were

a MSM outlet that reported the whole, real news? The other stations would be left in the Dust like the old days when they were All battling to be the first.

[mike_c]

17. in fairness, they did cover some of those topics...

...--the lack of Capital Hill press credentials, for instance, and some of the Texas repig roots of Talon News, and his internet porn, although they partly covered that with his explanation that he put up those sights for "clients."

Still, it was not exactly a redhot story, and they played it with a sense of bemusement rather than alarm. Small steps, hopefully....

[GetTheRightVote]

2. This is a crime, I hope the other real reporters go after him

:kick;

[w13rd0]

3. I guess we have a better idea...

...of why reporters are not identified in the transcripts.

[DeaconBlues]

4. I watched the Olbermann segment on this

He showed the press conferences when this shill asked his questions. While he asked his questions, the other so-called journalists just sat there with these blank expression on their faces like the dude's questions were completely appropriate and not out of the ordinary. The entire press of this nation needs an enema.

[SpiralHawk]

7. That's great that they showed the reporters' blank expressions

They will feel a Righteous Wave of Shame when they see themselves in inaction.

Perhaps that shame will motivate some of them to act with integrity now and tell the story plainly all over the MSM, for it merits this kind of coverage far more than any Kobe or Scott Peterson story ever did.

[DeaconBlues]

10. Nah

I doubt many of these whores are actually capable of shame.

[MarianJack]

11. I Doubt...

...that they are, too. I think that they are so devoted to kissing the asses of their corporate masters and their boy king that they feel that they do a good job!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. It won't be the one who lobbed another one today...

with a twist..

"blah blah, isn't Medicaid maybe more of a problem than SS at this point? blah blah"

the Chimporer goes into a 2 min explanation of how it's just a mess, and he'll be looking into it... next target is Medicaid.

so, older folks won't lose any benefits from the SS dismantling, but oh, sorry, you'll be losing your health care instead!

[stevedeshazer]

8. I'm sure you're right

They ALL have to know. I wonder if they are waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Maybe there is a closet full of shoes ready to drop.

The silence is deafening...we've heard it for a long time. I believe there's MUCH more to be disclosed...and soon.

[Dhalgren]

13. But disclosed by whom?

Every time I tell someone about this Gannon slime they ask, "Where was that reported?" On the blogs, I say, and AAR. "Oh." they say. Somebody has got to punch this story through to the American public. This is a serious scandal, but no one knows about it - or won't admit knowing about it...

[stevedeshazer]

16. How about CNN?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/09/white.house.reporter/

[Dhalgren]

18. Excellent! Thanks!

Does this mean that the rest of the MSM will be permitted to run with the story?

[stevedeshazer]

20. They sure as hell should

Doesn't mean they will, though....

Okay, now the Washington Post is on it: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12640-2005Feb9.html

Getting legs now?

[grasswire]

26. Look.

I broke this story about the scurrilous Jeff Gannon a full year ago. February 18, 2004. I tipped Dan Froomkin at WaPo the story that night, and he reported a bit of it the next day, and linked to my blog.

I posted the info here on DU. It slid off the page, as so many important things do.

At the same time, I wrote Media Matters, and other media critics.

The silence was deafening.

Here's my original story:

http://webdems.blogspot.com

[diamond14]

12. the military escort service and M4M is HOT STUFF....the kind of stuff

that attracks main-stream-media.....this scandal has it ALL...everything....the Plame outing, SEX !,,,gay sex !!!, infiltrators, special privileges.....

better yet.....gannon DISSED the entire Press Corp....the Press Corp should be MAD AS HELL to get some payback.....


IMO, there's so much here, and the press is anxious NOT to get caught in some lawsuit over slandering these crooks....that they are JUST WAITING for a day or two....while they write their angle...


DC is called 'sin city' and gannon was doing up the MILITARY !!!!
some digging at the street level could easily OUT these crooks....LOTS OF THEM...like cockroaches.....

[Dhalgren]

14. From your lips (fingers) to Zeus' ears!

[Cleita]

15. Helen Thomas.

I don't watch the press briefings anymore since she got banned to the back seats. Is she still allowed to attend if not comment? If she has been totally banned, do we care? There is no real press in the White House anymore.

[Bill Bored]

19. In the last press conf, I assumed he was just some Fox guy!

But Fox is Gannon Lite!

<http://blog.democrats.com/gannon>

[Bill Bored]

21. Here's a media blaster!

So blast 'em!
Just change the subj. and content:
<http://www.independentmediasource.com/voteintegrity.htm>

[6000eliot]

22. The question is

who were the customers of this gay "escort" service and what might "Gannon" and his handlers have on them? I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but this sounds a bit "JFK" to me.

[diamond14]

24. they are the people who are THREATENING gannon....

of course, some of the Main Stream Media (MSM) IMPLY that it is the bloggers/Democrats/etc. who are threatening gannon, but IMO, it's gannon's Military GAY-SEX Customers.....

[Octafish]

23. The Presstitutes are paid to ignore the lurid Elephant.

If people were to hear the truth, the next thing Corporate McPravda would appear is bankruptcy court. You pegged it, SpiralHawk. How many, and how long have they known?

The members of the Fifth Estate are supposed to do their job in order for us to remain a free country. It's tragic:There are only a few White House reporters who are true journalists. Helen Thomas is one. There's a fellow who doesn't get called much from an irregular syndicate, but other than these two, I'm hard pressed to name a reporter who's actually tried to tell the truth abut the Bush gang.

Good thing there's DU. Otherwise, Rush the Dop, Tim GOPert and Ruppert Murdoch would hog everything we see and hear.

[tinrobot]

25. NY Daily News : Bush press pal quits over gay prostie link

WASHINGTON - A conservative ringer who was given a press pass to the White House and lobbed softball questions at President Bush quit yesterday after left-leaning Internet bloggers discovered possible ties to gay prostitution.

"The voice goes silent," Jeff Gannon wrote on his Web site. "In consideration of the welfare of me and my family, I have decided to return to private life."

Gannon began covering the White House two years ago for an obscure Republican Web site (Talon-News.com). He was known for his friendly questions, including asking Bush at last month's news conference how he could work with Democrats "who seem to have divorced themselves from reality."

Gannon was also given a classified CIA memo that named agent Valerie Plame, leading to his grilling by the grand jury investigating her outing.

http://www.nydailynews.com/02-10-2005/news/gossip/story/279466p-239417c.html

It's got legs... will it pick up speed?

[SpiralHawk]

27. Thanks, tinny

for The NY Daily News story. It should have legs...