Who is Gannon?

[GOPBasher]

I'm serious. I've been in a hole this entire week, working all day and all night. I haven't touched the TV or anything. Yesterday was the first day I got on the internet in a long time. I've seen his name tossed around DU. What's the story? Come pull me out from under the rock I've been hiding in. :-)

[mr_hat]

The latest victim of leftist spite, ad hominem and hypocrisy. Also,

a victim, nay, martyr.

[brainshrub]

5. You forgot he's also: A hardworking journalist

with decades of experience and a Socratic mind.

[KurtNYC]

1. Great play by play

at the WaPo (Froomkin):http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14148-2005Feb10.html

clip:
Gannon -- I'm going to call him that for now, since I'm used to it -- worked for a Web site called Talon News, and his writings appeared on that site as well one called GOPUSA.com, both of which were operated by Texas Republican activist Bobby Eberle. On his personal Web page, Gannon had a section called "Behind Enemy Lines: Stories from Inside the White House Briefing Room."

Pretty much every day, Gannon got cleared into the White House briefing room by a press office that knew his real name. Press Secretary Scott McClellan frequently called on him during the mid-day briefings, using his fake name. McClellan was consistently rewarded with questions that -- in stark contrast from most of what passes for questions in that room -- were more expressions of conservative dogma than actual attempts to elicit information. Members of the press corps individually confronted Gannon and told him that he didn't belong there. But nothing more serious than that happened -- until Bush called on him at his televised Jan. 26 news conference and he asked a loaded, inaccurate question partly derived from a Rush Limbaugh joke.

[GOPBasher]

2. Thanks for that link. :-) n/t

[DrGonzoLives]

3. Isn't he the main bad guy in the Legend of Zelda?

:shrug:

[GOPBasher]

8. Also the quarterback for the Raiders. :-) n/t

[jpgray]

4. Here's a picture

[SnowGoose]

6. And most importantly

he obtained access to classified CIA information when apparently no one else had this information. It is part of the outing of Ms. Plame as a CIA operative.

[3days]

7. Great article on KOS

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/9/191334/0754