Oh, God, they're starting the counter-attack already. Check it out:

[BigBearJohn]

Left-Wing Activist Poses as Reporter At White House Press Briefings - Where's the Outrage from the Media?

WASHINGTON -- Accuracy in Media charged today that a liberal activist and associate of Ralph Nader has been obtaining access to White House press briefings while claiming to be a legitimate news reporter.

Russell Mokhiber, who sells a $795 a year newsletter that bashes corporations, attends the briefings to make obscure anti-Bush political points. Recently, for example, he asked spokesman Scott McClellan whether President Bush violated one of the Ten Commandments by invading Iraq. Mokhiber, who told AIM that he has never taken a journalism class in his life and was denied a permanent White House press pass, posts his ludicrous questions and answers on a far-left web site under the title "Scottie & Me."

Other Mokhiber topics have included industrial hemp, Israel's 1967 attack on the USS Liberty, possible war crimes charges against Bush, and Halliburton.

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2982

[latteromden]

1. They blew the whole story with "associate of Ralph Nader." Try and pin it

to the Democrats NOW, huh? They're none too bright.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Yes, but is Mokhiber a gay prostitute and purveyor of web porn?

I didn't think so.

[peacetalksforall]

25. And did he have a document related to WMD and SOTU and law

breaking by revealing a CIA operative?

[SpiralHawk]

3. Wait till the next wave of salacious "Jeff Gannon" stories

They are sure to come.

This time BushCo will be prepared with MASSIVE DIVERSIONS of the TERRA kind.

Mark my words.

[Generator]

4. Accuracy in media is so slanted to the right

I fell over in my chair.

Inagural address backed by deeds.

Really funny stuff. Better than some Daily Shows even.

http://www.aim.org/

Really when the words "fairness and balance" are on the front page-it's a clue. Quack quack.

[LittleClarkie]

8. Rather like Accuracy in Academia I'm sure

Which was first?

Seems to me they've been around since Reagan. Yes?

[alcuno]

5. I'm assuming that Russell Mokhiber's name is Russell Mokhiber.

Or are they saying that there are even MORE people in the WH press corps operating under an alias.

[Generator]

6. And unlike JD Guckert

http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?S=R&wauth=Russell+Mokhiber&siteID=PmFI5OlCKw4-Gs.aCwq6i9louhe6jo9nAw

Russell Mokiber has actually (GET THIS) written books!

And columns!

And they don't just re-print everything the great emperor says!

Oh and I don't want my press all Left wing or Right wing-but I want it to ask REAL QUESTIONS and have an independent thought.

Otherwise it's PROPAGANDA.

[Nite Owl]

7. He's listed over at

www.commondreams.org
He covered Ari Fleisher too. And I bet he can account for his weekend activities.

[punpirate]

14. I'll bet the folks at Common Dreams...

... are chuckling over the "far-left website" comment. That's where "Scottie & Me" appears.

That said, the White House press corps needs many more Mokhibers and many fewer Gannons.

[paineinthearse]

9. I smell a plant.

Investigating.......

[paineinthearse]

16. IshCon

Actually, Scottie & Me (formerly known as Ari & I) is part of a blog named IshCon.

Example:

http://www.ishcon.org/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=190

Scottie & Me: The White House at Work
Date: Tuesday, November 25 @ 07:56:06 EST
Topic: Mother Culture at Work

Scary and funny at the same time, Scottie & Me is a collection of excerpts from White House press briefings in which a reporter tries to get straight answers from White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan about various issues, and is constantly redirected/ spun/ ignored. A fine example is where the reporter asks about John Ashcroft's policy of not talking to print reporters (like himself), and is told to talk to Ashcroft about it. But, "e won't talk to a print reporter."

[charlie]

19. IshCon is a news aggregator

A community of user-submitted links and stories. Mokhiber isn't part of that, someone just posted a link to his series there. Common Dreams is where Scottie and Me resides:

http://www.commondreams.org/scottie.htm

[Bluebear]

10. So sorry, Nader is not a Democratic candidate!

But nice try, Scott!

[charlie]

11. Mokhiber got in under the auspices of Common Dreams

an established news outlet. Talon was created a mere 4 days before Guckert's first insertion into the press pool. Bit of a difference.

And if Mokhiber got anywhere near the President, I'd like to hear about it.

[RaleighNCDUer]

12. Does 'Accuracy in Media' ever cover the slant coming from

Faux News? When's the last time they called O'Liely on his rhetoric?

Never mind.

[BigBearJohn]

13. It never ceases to amaze me how the pugs will do anything to CYA

[Binka]

15. Take Mokhiber On At Your Own Risk RW AssTards

Dude is so tight he makes Gannon's tighty/whites look like ole lady baggies. Hey RW take on Russ come on I fuckin dare ya. Double dare ya. Russ will sweep their shit off their own floor. Dare ya RW fucktards.

[newyawker99]

28. Hi Binka!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Webster Green]

17. Oh Scotty....

[SmokingJacket]

30. I don't watch TV and have never seen McClellan, but doesn't he

look like exactly like the lost love child of Bill O'Reilly???

Are these guys all grown in the same lab?

[Dr.Phool]

18. I've read Mokhiber for years

On the Corporate Crime Reporter.

[roguevalley]

20. there are journalists who write newletters that fat cats buy in giant

subscriptions. they are legit. nice try.

[grasswire]

21. Does Mokhiber enter the WH under an alias?

Well?

End of story.

[dweller]

22. yeah, but does Snotty even answer Russ' questions?

Mokhiber: Scott, last night, in an
amicus brief filed before the U.S.
Supreme Court, the Justice
Department came down in favor of
displaying the Ten
Commandments at courthouses
and statehouses around the
country. My question is - does
the President believe in
Commandment Number Six -
thou shalt not kill - as it applies
to the U.S. invasion of Iraq?

Scott McLellan: Go ahead, next
question.

yeah, some softball.
dp

edit: link...http://www.commondreams.org/scottie/020105.htm

[Carni]

23. Associate of Nader? LOL! Guess that's a RW connection!

Someone had better let the right know that Nader took donations from the GOP...this is too flippin stupid.

[lonestarnot]

24. LOL! Is this all they've got! ROTFLOL! n/t

[raysr]

26. My question to

the "conservative voice", "So what's your point?"

[goodboy]

27. unless this guy leaked an undercover CIA agent's name, and ran

a gay porn/prostitution website...I don't give a shit.

[anarchy1999]

29. Simply UN-F'ing-believable. Attacking Russ??? WTF???

Read www.commondreams.org and

Scottie & Me
White House Briefing
Tuesday, February 1, 2005

Russell Mokhiber: Scott, does the President believe in Commandment Number Six - thou shalt not kill - as it applies to the US invasion of Iraq?...
http://www.commondreams.org/scottie.htm

It used to be "Ari and Me"

Good God! This is truly a "bizarro world" we are being forced to live in. The last two days on CNN with "let's meet the blog world and what are they saying" has been the same. It's extreme and IMHO scary.