MSNBC: Olbermann analyzes Gannon's access to power - (VIDEO)

[dzika]

April 26, 2005

Video - MSNBC: Olbermann analyzes Gannon's access to power

Dana Milbank of the Washington Post calls the number of days passes "unprecedented".



Video in Real Media format (4 minute)

[Patsy Stone]

1. Thanks, dzika!

You know: :loveya: :)

[understandinglife]

19. Seconded. Your efforts are much appreciated, dzika! (nt)

www.missionnotaccomplished.us (stop everything and just think about it; do you dig having your America involved in countless atrocities committed by someone who stole two national elections)

[ChiciB1]

2. He MAY Have Called Them Unprecedented.... BUT

it seems to me that DANA was pretty much giving GANNON/GUCKERT another PAA-ASS! Didn't come down too hard on him, and essentially Olbermann stated the 2 FOI investigators didn't really "get" much!

Another dribble and the news has been FLUSHED!! I expected MORE from Keith!

[WhirlyGirl]

3. Folks without cable/MSNBC will appreciate this!

. . . Thanks, as always.

[ClintonTyree]

4. And that it's no big deal....

this jerk just likes to feel important. He'd go to the White House for the dedication of a new washroom. It makes him feel "connected" when he's actually a pathetic loser with no journalistic credibility. He brags about it on FR and to his friends (if the loser has any) and tries to give the impression that he's an "insider".
I'm beginning to think there IS nothing to this story but a pitiful, gay hooker trying his best to be liked and respected. He's like the groupie on the fringe at a rock concert that can never get backstage. He's not on the A-list, but he's trying his best to convince anyone who will listen that he is.
I think he's a pathetic, insecure, pseudo-journalistic loser. Even the right doesn't take him seriously.

[susu369]

11. So how did JJGG manage to go to

two invitation-only White House Press Christmas Parties (2003 and 2004)?

[FreedomAngel82]

20. That's what I want to know

He was also at Ari's going away party. Were other press people at that one?

[NYCGirl]

33. ClintonT, that's exactly how I feel about it.

He's just a wanna-be trying to get some attention. I don't believe anything Gannon/Guckert says.

[Fovea]

35. I have taken to calling him

'Monika' Guckert.

[KansDem]

39. "groupie on the fringe at a rock concert that can never get backstage."

But Gannon DID get backstage. He was able to slip in and out without being subjected to security measures (no burly bouncer at the door asking to see his backstage pass).

THAT'S the story here...why was he able to do this?

[nonny]

5. Strange eyebrows..............

Its like he shaved the outer 1/3 off.

Or maybe he has them waxed.

:+

[tinfoilinfor2005]

6. He looks like that guy in the kid's game,

where you move the metal shavings around with a magnet to give him eyebrows and hair and a beard. Only whoever did his face left out the hair and beard and only gave him little half way eyebrows.
Rats, can't remember the name of the game. Now I'll be up all night.

[Rooktoven]

7. Wooly Willy

he's a pirate--no, an englishman, no...

[tinfoilinfor2005]

8. Whew...thanks!

[Vickers]

9. Look up a picture of David Ferrie (JFK connections)

There is a precedent for them eyebrows. :spank:

[nonny]

14. Thanks Vickers -- I learned something tonight.

Very interesting to see the difference in Ferrie's young pictures as a pilot with the "real" eyebrows --- and then the completely different look with the fake ones.





Change the eyebrows --- change the man.

[FreedomAngel82]

21. Ew

That's scary.

[Nothing Without Hope]

27. Yes, it's WOOLY WILLY - thank goodness you remembered

I would have been wondering. And JimmyJeff really looks like him!

http://burlingamepezmuseum.com/classictoy/wooly.html


FUN FACTS!

Donald and James Herzog of the Smethport Specialty Company, Pennsylvania created Wooly Willy in 1955.

In addition to Wooly Willy, other characters with "magnetic" personalities include Hair-Do Harriet, Doodle Bug, Hair Bear Jr., and Whiskers the Cat.

Artist Leonard Mackowski designed Wooly Willy. He hid his name in the artwork, to the right of the mushroom on the back of every package.

The original Wooly Willy cost 29 cents. A larger version, Dapper Dan The Magnetic Man, sold for $1.

A Hollywood movie studio ordered a large quantity with pictures of a very popular leading male and female star. But the entire production was destroyed when the actress did not approve.

[On the Road]

32. I'm Waiting for Him to Grow a Moustache and Use the Same Method §

[peacetalksforall]

10. I have a question that - let me know if it has been answered....if DAY

PASSES are for Press Briefings...are DAY PASSES allowed at all when there are no Press Briefings? Did he hold a permanent pass for the days he entered on the no-briefing days?

Can Conyers and Slaughter now ask who issued any of the passes?

There is one thing all you Olberman/MSNBC fans should appalud - the clip that shows McClellan with that delighted smile. He's usually so grim. That was one hell of a clip. Remember that one because......

Soon...some story will be concocted soon to 'splain the visits and the records - it will be be equally transparent and perfect as the story they gave us about the great Zarqawi escape. Good as Zorro! And Scottie will be telling us the story and he probably won't be smiling.

[Clark2008]

30. The best part, imo, was the snark Keith displayed after

Milbank said Gannon should "receive a Congressional Medal of Honor" for attending so many conference and Keith, slyly remarked, "Well, that would play along with his whole 'military' appearance."

:rofl:

Keefy got in a sticker on Gannon's lack of military records. Heh!

[nonny]

12. Thanks dzika!

Great video.

You rock!

:hi:

[lala_rawraw]

13. Yeah, but managed to play down

the in/out stuff... i only caught the last 2 min of it.

[Sperk]

15. once again MSM shows an incredible LACK of curiosity

Love how Milbank assumes he knows the answers so no further investigation is needed. What bullshit. Yeah, I'm sure the SS has no problem with visitors not "beeping" out. Yeah, they might have left, maybe...maybe not. BULL!!

Why wouldn't reporters at least be curious enough to investigate this further, of course they would, such obvious bullshit.

Milbank must have received his check.
:puke:

These people are sooooooooo UNamerican

[EFerrari]

16. Did anyone catch this part?

Milbank said JimmyJeffy should get an award for attending so many briefings.

And JimmyJeff was not paid by "Talon" for a single one.

Now, is that a dedicated volunteer? Nope. There's an elephant in this room.

Milbank 'splained way too much. :)

[Nothing Without Hope]

17. I thought Milbank worked way too hard to downplay this story.

I thought Milbank was over-the-top in trying to downplay the importance of the "Gannon" WH visits story. When I saw in the newsletter that Keith would cover this story tonight, I suspected that his bosses would receive a call from the WH demanding that the story be suppressed or downplayed in some way. I wonder whose idea it was to invite Milbank? I thought he worked hard to deliberately project "nothing here, move on, move on." I mean, at the very least this is a truly BIZARRE and UNIQUE situation, and Keith forced him to admit the latter at least.

I suspect Milbank's motives.

I LOVED the fact that the previous graphic, the photo of the White House with the letters

FRIENDS

written across the front was still up behind Keith while he was talking bout the mysterious and numerous visits of JimmyJeff. I wonder if that was his way of leaking what he really thinks about this - maybe not, but I like the thought.

I hope Milbank didn't succeed in his clear goal of squashing this story. He reminded me of Rosemary Woods leaning over an impossible distance to show how she could ACCIDENTALLY erase the Nixon tape whle her foot was on the pedal of her machine.

Recommended. This is an important video clip. Thanks, dzika!

(edited to correct some sloppy editing in the first paragraph)

[tinfoilinfor2005]

18. More like Rosemary's baby...

these people are just evil.

[FreedomAngel82]

22. To me

whenever one of them downplays something like that and tries REALLY hard to it shows me there's something more there. I hope they uncover more.

[EFerrari]

23. Notice with me that Milbank

said Gannon deserved an award for attending SO MANY briefings.

And remember, unlike Milbank, Gannon was a volunteer for "Talon" -- a pseudo news outlet that didn't come into being until AFTER he got access.

lol.

How many briefings do you think Milbank would have attended as a "volunteer"?

I mean, he'd have to have some other source of income to support his community work?

Keith was a gentleman and he didn't touch that, this time. Milbank just didn't want to go there.

(Hello? There's this ELEPHANT right here?)

[fooj]

24. Yes. Guckwhatever enjoyed his role of IMPOSTOR so much that

he attended an UNPRECEDENTED amount of times FOR FREE! You're right, Lala! He TRIED to explain the comings and goings away--but he didn't. The defective machine routine was too much! So, if your card didn't "beep" they just flagged you through anyway? Right. These paranoid SOB's would really go for that! Hell, we can't even get near that place and it is OUR HOUSE, DAMMIT! Didn't he have the same pass # each day? How do you get that same # with a day pass? Those documents also show a time-line. We finally have official documents to work with. DOCUMENTS!!! :woohoo:

We just have to stay on this. NGU!!! :patriot:

Peace.

[EFerrari]

25. He used 3 day old one-day passes!

LOL!

Nothing to see here?

We aren't going away.

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[Daphne08]

28. Thanks, dzika. That's very kind of you.

All I can say is... what is NOT stated in a news story is often as important as what IS stated.

It's similar to 'reading between the lines' of a mystery story or a book.

Did anyone see the National Press Club's Who Are You Calling
a Journalist panel discussion? It seemed as if everyone in the room knew a secret.

[Tesla]

29. My friends are in a rock band

and I'm telling ya, I have been around their lives for almost 20 years,I can't even begin to tell you how many times I have seen their show.

Even there a day pass will only work for THAT day.

I can't imagine Roadies and Security guards being more hard ass about passes than the SS at the WH!!!

Give me a break!!!!



Also, I have seen little Scotty alot on TV, and I have NEVER seen him smile like that!!!

I think someone has a crush!!

[Catherine Vincent]

34. Everytime they play that clip of Scott smiling like that I cringe.

It's like they play it deliberately. That's probably the smile he uses when he's with Gannon.

[The Witch]

31. Um, if he dropped day passes in the slot...

then how can he have signout times? IS there a day pass PLUS an electronic card?

[FlaGranny]

36. Never an answer to the question

of why they gave passes to a prostitute and who approved them.

[mithnanthy]

37. How do we find the date...

when Chimpy "choaked' on the pretzel? Was Gannon "logged in" on that date? How do we check to see if the Chimp was in the WH during all Gannon's visits?

[peacetalksforall]

38. Good question...I think someone said they were going to check news

for each of those days to find out what was going on.

[Quakerfriend]

40. Yeah, and I'm sure they have some pretty hi-tech video

surveillance in the WH, too. We should be asking to see that as well.