Ooooh, HUGE LIE spewd by Gannon! And another "mean libruls" lie!

[LynnTheDem]

HUGE lie:

On CNN, "Gannon" just claimed that Talon News had 700,000 users. But according to Alexa, it's ranked 640,000 on the web. That is, there are roughly 640,000 sites on the web with more traffic than Talon News.

For comparison, Daily Kos, with 365,000 average daily visits, ranks 3,365. Instapundit comes in at 6,918, with about 171,000 average daily visits.

Talon News isn't 700,000 users strong, obviously.

"Mean libruls" lie:

Today on Blitzer's pathetic interview, whiny JD Guckert claimed that people (bad evil liberals) had followed him to church.

Anything's possible, I suppose, but his real name was first revealed to the world Monday night at 11:54pm, after the week's prime churchgoing day was long over.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/10/184759/717

But then, as the world other than America now knows for a FACT, Gannon/Guckert is in good company with such PROVEN LIARS as Condi Rice.

Rightwingnuts are LIARS. Period.

[King Coal]

1. Maybe he's a third day adventist.

Besides, I bet it was that damn underpants that followed him to church. LOL!

[Az]

2. To be fair, 700,000 users does not mean daily users

He's still a schmuck but we don't need to call him on stuff that may not be false.

[LynnTheDem]

7. He said subscribers, regular users.

He lied. Big huge lie.

[Az]

8. They can count each unique IP hit as a reader

And reader can be synonimous with subscriber. Not saying he isn't playing games. Just that he has an out if someone tries to call him on it.

[LynnTheDem]

12. But if Talon had 700,000 unique hits they wouldn't be listed as #640,000

on Alexa.

[Az]

14. Is Alexa counting daily or life long histories

Oh sure he is spinning like crazy. But the art to spinning is to lie without lying. Find some numbers that support your argument or seem like they do and flaunt them. He is guilty of dissembling, but not quite of outright lying.

[LynnTheDem]

17. He said 700,000 DAILY. He outright lied.

Alexa Traffic Rank for talonnews.com

Today 11,684

1 wk avg 42,906

3 mos. avg 640,777

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=http://www.talonnews.com

[Az]

19. Got a link for his quote?

Lets look at what he said.

[LynnTheDem]

21. Sure no problem.

Just as soon as CNN produces their transcript.

Gannon...CNN...Talon News...700,000 daily users.

A total absolute lie.

[Az]

23. Glad to wait

Keep in mind that the recent hoopla concerning the site may catapult the site into 700,000 a day.

[uncle ray]

25. he said it in the NPR interview

i'm listening to the whole thing right now. sickening!

he hcearly said "700,000 people, per day".

when asked about stuff like political affiliations, comtributions to candidates etc, and how that can't be verified without confirming his real name, he says "you'll just have to take my word for it".

[LynnTheDem]

30. He outright LIED; "700,000 daily subscribed readers"

Wolf: were you there in the briefing room on a daily basis to change the subject and give softball questions to Scott McClellan? or were you there as a real journalist to get the story?

Gannon: Talon News is a legitimate conservative online news serive. My questions are things that my readers, 700,000 daily subscribed readers want the answer to; I created the questions, nobody fed the questions to me. Scott McClellan certainly never knew what was coming. He knows, he certainly knows...

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0502/10/wbr.01.html

[Az]

33. That looks like two confirmations: He lied

Liar liar pants on fire.... ok I am still on meds from my root canal so I may not be making the most sense right now .... wombat. :silly:

[LynnTheDem]

34. OUCH!!! Enjoy the meds coz when they wear off...!

:hug:

[jdj]

35. here's what Alexa says about rankings over 100,000

Boosting your Alexa Traffic Rank
It is fairly easy to artificially boost your Alexa Traffic Rank by installing the Alex Toolbar and browsing your site extensively. Doing this on a regular basis can get your web site an Alexa Traffic Rank near 100,000.

*****Alexa Traffic Ranks above 100,000 are not considered reliable because of this fact.****

http://www.internet-search-engines-faq.com/alexa.shtml

[KharmaTrain]

22. I Posted This Last Night

I heard that 700,000 and my old webmaster's mind went catatonic.

700,000 means nearly 35,000 "hits" per hour...surely something that would bog down the best server. With that kind of traffic, "Gannon" would be on par with Drudge, and we know who Drudge is.

"Gannon" attempts to think he's gonna be protected by his right wing and White House puppetmasters. Time will tell if that happens. At least Leslie Wolfman is following Mehlman's script just as written.

[BlueEyedSon]

3. I bet he's right. I'm sure Talon has had 700,000 unique visitors ("users")

Especially in the past month or so.

But your point is well taken, the Alexa rank is probably a better measure of overall popularity.

[ewagner]

6. 700,000 hits

Since the story broke...............

that is believable.....

[Shredr]

32. Exactly

700,000 since the story broke, maybe.

[Avalux]

4. Actually -

the lie is much worse. Guckert claimed 700,000 SUBSCRIBERS; which implies people have paid to read Talon News. Talon news does not have a subscription service or paid advertising - two things a legitimate news agency possesses. That's why Guckert was denied a press pass on the Hill - Talon is fake.

[chookie]

5. Has his religious affiliation been named?

In all the details i have on this guy, although I know he claims to be a born again, I have not heard of his affiliation or a specific church.

The notion of people stalking this idiot into his church is laughable. I discern that this is an utter lie.

He was instructed to say this, to play into the myth that liberals are enemies of decent Christians and persecuted solely for their faith. He is a paranoid wingnut among many other paranoid wingnuts.

[DARE to HOPE]

18. By his own description, he said he was a "2 holiday" Christian...

...in his bio originally on his website, and that he usually votes Republican because they most often support conservative values. (cough)

Uh, those holidays are usually Christmas and Easter, in my years of church experience. Ash Wednesday was this last week (the beginning of the Lent-Easter cycle)--but by that time--he had already quit.

[chookie]

29. Does that mean non-Catholic?

Is he telling us he is against "Popery" too?

[Spazito]

28. He belongs to the church of the male, 4m4 escort services...

and their go-to-church dress is white undies and white undies only.

[miss_kitty]

9. maybe he's had 700,000 page views total, since it started

be that doesn't equate to users. What a dipshit

[PurityOfEssence]

10. Yeah, the "family" and "church" bleatings were classic

Much as I despise Blitzer, at least he called this weasel on the usage of "family". What "Gannon" was doing was trying to elicit sympathy for his poor doe-eyed children being harrassed by filthy bolsheviks; when pressed, "family" was defined as his mother, sister and brother-in-law.

The church usage was classic Republican greasiness. At the end of the interview, he chirped that "when god closes a door, he opens a window". Personally, I'd be happy to see Sgt. Crock get defenstrated.

Samuel Johnson was wrong; patriotism isn't the last refuge of a scoundrel, religion is.

[CindyDale]

13. LOL, Purity

[LynnTheDem]

24. HOW did them libruls harrass his mother, sis, and bro 2 WEEKS AGO

whe his real name wasn't known until Monday night???

DMAN them libruls are GOOD at investigation!

[Botany]

11. Wolf also skipped these 2 things.

HANNITY: Now, Jeff Gannon, who is a terrific Washington bureau chief and White House correspondent for Talon News, actually shot me an e-mail today, and he's about to break a story in an exclusive about these CBS documents.

Hannity said that in fall 2004 So a Fox news/ Gannon/ Rather Memo/ link
(this should tie to the white house and be the grounds for impeachment)

Also he let Gannon say that he changed his name for professional reasons ....
Sure and "Ginger" who wants to give me a $20.00 lap dance changed her name
for professional reasons too.


Stephanie :loveya: Miller

[LynnTheDem]

15. Then why are female reporters NOT ALLOWED to use their professional

names, if different from their maiden name if single or married name if married, to get WH press creds???

[Botany]

16. Because he was a plant by Rove ....

..... and not a reporter. So why bother with the rules?
Talon came into being in the last week of March '03 ......
5 days later Gannon was in the White House. He is part of
the White House / Rove / bush / neo con war on all of us.

:bounce:

[LynnTheDem]

20. That would be the logical rational sane conclusion

Which of course means it's one the rightwingnuttery won't come to.

[DARE to HOPE]

31. Really!!

[Sparkle]

26. I really think he's lying that his family was threatened.

Liberals don't do threats, Conservatives do.

[flobee1kenobi]

27. BS detector has SPIKED!

2 holiday Christian?
ok-the last holiday was CHRISTMAS!
no-one knew his real name at that time- no-one followed him home at that time.

THE MAN IS A LIAR!!!!

Do we have a THIRD Bush planted reporter?

[Carolab]

36. This guy is a complete hypocrite.

Look at this posting from December, for example:

Why would he bother?

Posted by Jeff Gannon - White House Correspondent, Talon News
12/06/2004, 09:48 AM
If the press corps was more interested in real answers instead of helping to promote a political agenda, perhaps there would be more press conferences.

Don't forget it was John Roberts of CBS who confronted Dan Bartlett with the phony Bush service record documents and it was the New York Times that printed a front-page, above-the-fold article by Elisabeth Bumiller that was about a rumor that Vice President Dick Cheney would be replaced on the ticket.

How many versions of "What mistakes did you make?" during a prime-time press conference should be tolerated? Remember, the previous president didn't admit his mistake until the DNA test results came in.

http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=background.view&backgroundid=0039