Has Bill Sammon adopted Gannon's role?

[grasswire]

Bill Sammon, Moonie Washington Times, lobbed such a disgustingly mushy question to Bush today that it appears he is taking up the function Gannon-Guckert served.

Q Mr. President, you faced a lot of skepticism in the run-up to the Iraq war, and a lot of criticism for miscalculating some of the challenges of postwar Iraq. Now that the Iraq elections seem to be triggering signs of democratization throughout the broader Middle East, do you feel any sense of vindication?

[iconoclastNYC]

1. Quick, time to gannonize him! n/t

[barbaraann]

2. He's always been like that.

Does he have a wife?

[Catherine Vincent]

3. This guy has always asked softball questions.

Don't get me started on him. I have seen him on cspan several times and he ticks me off everytime. What a Partisan prick!

[Guckert]

4. Nope, this tool, Don Hammond, the new Washington bureau chief of Sinclair

check out this asshats question to John Kerry when talking about ANWAR. its on Media matters. I already sent him an e-mail about the cost of a B.J. for Karl Rove.

From the March 15 press conference:

HAMMOND: Senator Kerry, I'm Don Hammond from News Central. Can I ask you one question?

KERRY: Excuse me?

HAMMOND: Thank you very much. A great measure of a democracy also is letting people ask questions in forums such as this.

KERRY: Everybody's going to ask their questions, you know, and you clearly have a loud voice and will be able to get your voice --



HAMMOND: Thank you so much. And I know you shifted a little bit from ANWR to the budget, but now can I shift to Jerry Corsi, a man that's running against you --

KERRY: No, I --

HAMMOND: -- for the Senate. He's made some amazing accusations regarding your military career. Did you or did you not --



KERRY: What's the next question? What's your question?

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: This is for Senator Cantwell --

HAMMOND: You won't take my question?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. Republican Gannonical Law

One - "Thou shalt have no hardball questions before thy Chimp"

Discussion of the Republican Judicial Gannons of Ethics will be reserved for timely debate on another occasion.

[Warpy]

6. Bill Sammon is at least creditialed as a journalist

at least by Pox News. From the Daily Howler:

"When last we looked in on poor outraged Bill Sammon, he was pretending that loudmouth talker Chris Matthews had supported Gore in the 2000 campaign (see THE DAILY HOWLER, 5/11/01). We were critiquing a passage from Sammon’s new book which had been excerpted in the Washington Times. And we made a note to explore the full text when it became available at leading bookstores nationwide.

I"s it possible? Is it possible that Sammon—a high-placed member of the Washington press corps—could possibly think that Hardball host Matthews pulled for Gore in the last campaign? Assuming that Sammon is not insane, the notion is absurd on its face. Well, Sammon’s book is now in the stores, and it’s found on the best-seller lists as well. And in it, Sammon does what he likes to do best—he lies to abused readers about Gore. As it turns out, the passage about Matthews was just a taste of the dissembling—no, the lying—to come."

http://www.dailyhowler.com/h061801_1.shtml

and then there's "One of the many instances of journalistic misconduct in the Times that has caught my attention was committed by reporter Bill Sammon, who wrote the following in his best-selling book "At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried To Steal the Election", which was excerpted in the Times"

http://www.americanpolitics.com/20030310foxwatch.html

Sammon is a well known flack who substitutes opinion for fact. As to whether or not he's assumed Guckert's mantle, his "question" speaks for itself. It's just not quite as long winded as Guckert's rambling "prefaces."

The presence of Sammon and others still brings up the question "WHY GUCKERT???" There are right wing hacks aplenty to do the job, hacks with real credentials from biased outlets who could pass background checks under their own name.

[grasswire]

7. Why Guckert?

Probably because Guckert was top only and allowed kissing. Something like that. Who knows? I suspect that Guckert's sexual portfolio had as much to do with his being sponsored by someone in the WH as anything else.