Why did the WH repeatedly breach security for Guckert?

[paineinthearse]

So the question remains: Why did the White House breach security repeatedly for this one apparently-unknown obscure man?

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Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Helen Thomas was a high-priced whore, apparently
by John in DC - 3/2/2005 08:11:00 PM

In addition to be an "old Arab," she apparently is now also a high-priced hooker. First, I simply love the fact that the most radical right-wing Web sites and rabblerousers are defending a gay male prostitute. We are truly winning the values war in this country when far-right-wingers embrace gay hookers. Putting that aside, the notion of comparing GannonGuckert's journalism experience to Helen Thomas' is simply bizarre. Gee, let's compare the two.

Helen Thomas: Served 57 years as a correspondent for UPI and as White House bureau chief.
James D Guckert: Worked as a car repairman, as a $200/hour and $1200/weekend high-priced whore, then attended a $50 two-day course in right-wing journalism and waltzed in to the White House, getting inside information on CIA scandals, the war, the Dan Rather scandal, and the Senate minority leader. Is America a great country or what?
Yeah, I can see how the far-right keeps getting the two of them confused.

Seriously, though, this is a real issue. The far-right is now trying to argue not only that mainstream journalists are all liberals (and we can see by their coverage of this story, or lack thereof, that they are hardly liberal-philes), but now the right is trying to claim that journalism doesn't even exist as a profession. ANYONE can join the fun - be a hooker on a Friday and a White House correspondent on a Monday, and no one should bat an eye.

Well, I bat. I got a writing degree in college. I went to law school and grad school to hone my critical thinking skills. I've had to write in all my professional jobs over the past 16 years, including preparing arms control memos for US Senators. I've worked as a stringer for the Economist, and have had articles published in the New Republican and beyond. I've ghost written articles for people you'd all know and love. That's why I'm confident calling myself a journalist and a writer, and it's why I'm confident in saying that you aren't a journalist just because you call yourself one.

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[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Well come on now.... didn't you notice that he

has a real perty mouth.... Deliverance 1972

[BlueEyedSon]

2. Naw, Guk is top. Scotty's got the purty mouth!