Rove-Gannon Connection?

[liberal N proud]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/18/opinion/lynch/main675050.shtml
Gannon says that he met Rove only once, at a White House Christmas party, and Gannon is kind of small potatoes for Rove at this point in his career.

But Rove's dominance of White House and Republican politics, Gannon's aggressively partisan work and the ease with which he got day passes for the White House press room the past two years make it hard to believe that he wasn't at least implicitly sanctioned by the "boy genius." Rove, who rarely gave on-the-record interviews to the MSM (mainstream media), had time to talk to GOPUSA, which owns Talon.

GOPUSA and Talon are both owned by Bobby Eberle, a Texas Republican and business associate of conservative direct-mail guru Bruce Eberle who says that Bobby is from the "Texas branch of the Eberle clan." Bobby Eberle told The New York Times that he created Talon to build a news service with a conservative slant and "if someone were to see 'GOPUSA,' there's an instant built-in bias there." No kidding.

Some of the real reporters in the White House pressroom were apparently annoyed at Gannon's presence and his softball, partisan questions, but considered him only a minor irritant. One told me he thought of Gannon as a balance for the opinionated liberal questions of Hearst's Helen Thomas. But what Gannon was up to was not just writing opinion columns or using a different technique to get information. He was a player in Republican campaigns and his work in the South Dakota Senate race illustrates the role he played.
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This week Democrats, who have serious case of Rove envy, went a little nuts and started sending around information and graphic pictures of Gannon and his porn Web sites. But it is the more routine part of Gannon's life that deserves serious scrutiny. Planting or even just sanctioning a political operative in the WH press room is a dangerous precedent and Karl Rove's hope to become a respected policymaker will be hampered if the dirty tricks from his political past are more apparent than his desire to spread liberty around the globe.

[Blower]

1. Mouth to contents of zipper (under pot-belly) n/t

[ixion]

2. the connection

that leaves an opening for sooooooo many gay jokes, I just don't know where to begin. :evilgrin:

[robbedvoter]

3. Sorry, Karl, but beardgate took you out of this. It's W not you.

or maybe you too, but who cares?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1610408#1610587

[whistle]

4. The operative word used by Eberle is "slant"

[GalleryGod]

5. "the opinionated liberal questions of Helen Thomas": Sure!

that's what the problem with the Sheeple in the Press Room: Helen's got 45 YEARS in that room. But this Male Whore's "presence" thus "balances out" Helen. Asswipes!:puke: :argh:

[Dhalgren]

6. Any "real" reporter who would have said that

Gannon "balanced" Thomas should be immediately dismissed from his/her job! What utter bullshit!

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. Does anyone have a link to Eberle's interview with Rove?

I haven't been able to find the actual interview and I think it would be interesting to see what the questions were and familiar Bobby and Karl were with each other.