Is This Gannon Thing Simply A Ploy To Avoid Any FallOut Over The......

[global1]

52 pre-911 warnings we've had from April to Sept 01? To me that is the bigger story. I don't know why the 911 families aren't incensed by this and why we're not hearing anything about this. Does anybody have any additional info on the 52 warnings? Is this info published somewhere?

[corbett]

1. Wouldn't Surprise Me

As press corps scandals go, this one's pretty big. Neither story seems to be gather much steam, though. That's no coincidence with KKKarl on the scene.

[EFerrari]

2. Agree with corbett. Chaos is a great diluter of focus

Geeze, half the time, I don't have time to assimilate the last outrage before a new one is trotted out.

Maybe this is an organizational thing. Rather than all of us reacting/responding to everything, we should cut up the pie. Have 5 or 6 flash response teams to take it right back to them. (File: good idea.)

And this in the context of the electorate being traumatized by fake terror alerts for years.

[jahyarain]

3. a VERY good idea

hmmmmmm. is something to this nature not already being done on here?

[EFerrari]

4. I don't think so, but I'm relatively new to DU. How would we

set it up? As a project of the framing group? Or?

Really, the opposition floods us nearly every day. If we could come up with a simple structure to respond, betcha we could hold our own.

[jahyarain]

5. i'm in

i'm in front of a monitor 1/2 the workday reading the news anyway. instead of just emailing stories to my friends, i should be utilizing this knowledge as a weapon against the administration of evil. how could we start?

[EFerrari]

6. I just put it out to the Frame the Debate Group,

pointing out that it's hard to frame something that keeps turning into 5 new things.

When they get back to me, I'll post here and PM you. Thanks,
Beth in SF

[sendero]

7. Let me ask you..

.... who broke the Gannon story? Are they under "Rove's" control? Because the only way your speculation can be correct is if the WH controlled the timing, not just the facts.

So let me get this straight - the WH hires a homo hustler complete with implicating web sites and lets him into the press corp, close to the president, and see classified materials - so they can distract from a bigger story?

Sorry, Rove does not control the world, despite what some of you think.

[Just Me]

8. No. Majority of folks have simpler lives which are impacted by SEX, SEX,

SEX and LIES, LIES, LIES scandals. Most Americans are way too busy just trying to exercise their "freedom" to SURVIVE to have wherewithal about the "52 pre-911 warnings". The only time they have left at the end of their encumbered days is to capture bits and snips from CM.

"Culture in Decline" (teenage SEX), new advance HIV (SEX-RELATED) disease, Michael Jackson (SEX abuse), etc. are all utilized to mold public opinion.

The story of a particularly "special" male prostitute/escort easily obtaining a WH press pass to advance deceptive/manipulative propaganda IS HUGE NEWS TO THE AVERAGE AMERICAN and the right-wing propaganda machine KNOWS IT!!!

Hence, that very impactful and truly sordid and disgusting story is being,...flooded, diminished, destracted from,...by those who either want it to go away or those who are too chickenshit to fully expose it.

[TNMOM]

9. Think of it as the "machine-gun" approach

Play up every stinkin' scandal this adminstration gets itself muddled in (and there are so many). Something will stick.

[TNMOM]

10. Think of it as the "machine-gun" approach

Play up every stinkin' scandal this adminstration gets itself muddled in (and there are so many). Something will stick.

[ailsagirl]

11. I've wondered that myself... is this another ploy to distract us

from a larger story??

That's how (blecch) Rove operates...