Is DU all Gannon, all the time?

[kwassa]

I just did a search on the word "Gannon" in DU.

"Your search criteria returned too many topics. Only displaying first 116 pages.

116 topics match your criteria"

Uh, is anything else happening in the world?

[meisje]

1. DU has jumped the shark, it's like Yahoo in here now!

[kwassa]

3. what does "jump the shark" mean?

Excuse me, I am a somewhat newbie.

did a second search on thread title only, using the word Gannon.

"Your search criteria returned too many topics. Only displaying first 186 pages.
186 topics match your criteria"

[realisticphish]

10. "jump the shark"

is a term used by a lot of people. it refers to fonzie jumping over the sharks towards the end of happy days...

basically, it's when a show or some other long-running thing starts pulling stupid tricks to keep people's attention


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[kwassa]

12. Thanks for the explanation

and those Happy Days folks are looking old.

Donnie Most with white hair!

[Bluebear]

8. You think this topic should go away?

[kwassa]

66. not when we can get Gannon his first 1000 posts! Ask him anything!

[cags]

2. The first real news on MSM, of course we'll go nuts

[Dookus]

4. For now it is

it's a great story. Got it all... sex, lies, power, coverups.... it's perfect.

[Kinkistyle]

13. Potential "Watergate" that could sink Bush? HELL F'in YEAH!

This story RULES. I love that this place and all the liberal websites as a collective is fired up and raring to jump all over this story digging up details, rooting out connections, following ever lead. IT EXCITING and INTRIGUING and its invigorating.

We are finally shining a light on the cockroaches and DU is on the leading edge of that beam of light. So hell yeah, its not surprise that DU is all GanGuck all the time.

[Dookus]

17. oh, I don't think it'll sink Bush

unless some much bigger secrets come to light. But it's a fun scandal. It's got all the classic elements.

[kwassa]

22. It is pretty funny, but it can't really affect Bush at all

Hell, I've been in the White House press room. A very shabby place indeed. Those seats the journalists sit in look like worn-out theater seats from 40 years ago, yet they each have little brass plaques identifying the organization that gets the prime real estate.

[Squeegee]

29. Got more than just 'all'

Sex, lies, power, coverups... This has been standard operating procedure since the day GWB took office.

What makes this one so much fun is Karl Rove's involvement with a gay military man-ho. Now that's a story!

[Dookus]

32. There's really no link (yet)

between Rove and Gannon. That's speculation. What we have already is plenty fun without inventing other aspects.

[Squeegee]

40. Implication, speculation,

and spreading rumors are all part of the fun, at least for me. ;)

[Dookus]

42. the problem with that is

most people will not listen to ANYTHING you have to say if it's filled with obvious distortions or mistruths.

If half your story is true and half made up, nobody will ever believe the true half.

[Squeegee]

50. You're letting the truth get in the way of a good story.

:P

[dddem]

70. Or to quote one of my favorite lines from "The Daily Show"...

"Don't listen to the FACTS. Listen to the WORDS."

[kwassa]

71. Or, never judge a book by it's content!

another Daily Show winner.

[left is right]

41. Not to mention

the possibility that guckert might become one of that odd statistical group of people who have crossed or brought ridicule down on the house of * that later commit suicide or die in 1 vehicle accidents

[goodhue]

5. After a week an a half, CNN/MSNBC is finally all over it

Of course DU is saturated for the moment.

[Hissyspit]

6. Too straight hours of real questions on the issues. Finally. Give us some

slack.

Keith Olbermann: "How much more of this before we just blend into another branch of the government?"

kinda sorta an important issue.

[fresnobill314]

7. Until there is an arrest, yes!

Prostitution is not legal in Washington, D.C. Someone needs to lock that guy up now! He's a fucking hooker!

[kwassa]

9. what do you mean prostitution is not legal? What is Congress?

I mean, really.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

51. Oh, boy, that's funny! LOL nt

[Squeegee]

20. It'll never happen

Where would congressmen and Karl Rove go to get their studly military man-whores if he were locked up?

[newyawker99]

78. Hi fresnobill314!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[MikeG]

11. It's a big scandal. Deal with it.

[kwassa]

15. don't you think Gannon is a major nobody? how is it big?

He is not a major government official. He isn't really anybody.

Now, if you could get this kind of juice on Rumsfeld or Cheney, that would be something.

[MikeG]

23. If he was sucking the President's dick, is that big?

[against all enemies]

52. My guess is it's probably small, that's why he attacks countries.

[kwassa]

60. Yes. Was he?

[Bluebear]

24. He knew about combat operations before they started

He was privy to the Valerie Plame files. He is a nobody to you?

[Sgent]

19. I might be a medium size scandel

I don't see how this warrents any more coverage than say Vince Foster -- a couple of blurbs, an investigation, and that's it. However, the RW still talks about it -- like the left wing still is obsessed with this Gannon stuff.

Who cares if a political hack had potential ability to blackmail a mid-level whitehouse employee. There has yet to be any evidence of actual wrongdoing other than granting him press access.

A much bigger story (whic I have only seen mentioned once) is the release of documents by the ACLU showing ongoing torture in Iraq.

[Padraig18]

14. "All Gannon, all the time"

Yep, that pretty much sums up the current state of GD.

:puke:

[FULL_METAL_HAT]

16. Savor it! Its nice to see the same news on the tee vee as seen on DU! :)

[spanone]

18. Strike while the iron is HOT. Expose the fuckers.

[usregimechange]

21. DU is trendy but it is a machine!

[wildeyed]

25. It is completely over the top.

But sooooo much fun :evilgrin:

[DefenseLawyer]

26. The Daschle angle is important I think

because it is a concrete example and answer to the "so what?/ what's the big deal?" crowd. As Olbermann said, when shills like this pretend to be a news source, so pundits on the net or talk radio can then recount to propaganda as "news" (recall Hannity sourced Gannon to push the Rather documents story) is becomes, as KO put it, akin to money laundering. When you add to that the the bloggers in the SD case were on Thune's payroll, you see how Orwellian it really is.

[Generator]

27. Don't worry there will be plenty of time to go back to bitching

about how rotten the Democrats are.

We just want Chimpy to fall..and we live on every crumb that teases us into thinking we will no longer die of starvation.

But a crumb is not a meal.

We have high hopes...like that ant..oh grasshopper!

[kwassa]

59. But this story is, indeed, a tiny crumb. Hardliy sustenance

[WillowTree]

28. It would appear so, yes.

[CHIMO]

30. What Would Your Conclusion

Be if you used "Bush" instead of "Gannon."
What would your question be?

Ask MSM if anything else is happening.

What does MSM say about Gannon?

If one read the posts then one would not have to ask a rhetorical question.

[kwassa]

54. My response: Gannon is President? how did that happen ....

[paineinthearse]

31. We were bashing Coulter this morning. nt

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[lasttrip]

34. too many people here and around the net have spent countless

amounts of time researching this and MANY other * "scandals" only to see the legs get chopped off quick, shouting for any corp media coverage, etc. Result? many very frustrated but determined people.

now with corp coverage and "blog" credibility, the pressure needs to be kept on.


"Uh, is anything else happening in the world?" try searching for something other than "Gannon".

heres to a good week DU!

:toast:

[Bluebear]

35. CHEERS lasttrip

:toast:

[LynnTheDem]

36. 117 now, with your post.

Wasn't anything else happening in the world for you to post about?

[kwassa]

55. I could post about something else, but it wouldn't be Gannon

[Bluebear]

56. Why don't ya then? Whatever floats your boat around here!

:)

[kwassa]

62. I don't know. We might need more Gannon. How about a forum?

We could make Gannon a DU group.

[LynnTheDem]

75. But you chose instead to do another post about Gannon.

Bitching about DUers posting about Gannon instead of other events.

heh.

[deacon]

37. understand this, this is about deception coming from the white house

staged press conferences and press briefs,you are missing the point of all this.

[kwassa]

64. White House deception started on Inauguration Day

and this isn't the big lie, either, which is Iraq, of course.

[Carni]

38. As far as I am concerned it should be AG All The Time

This one may stick--

Whatever works is my mantra.

[seabeyond]

39. the story is just starting. you dont even know the fullness of the

story yet. how far it goes. what the reality is of it. how deep it is. and you want to stop

lol lol

so does rove

same they with election theft, ok nov 5 we are done, lets not investigate. election over. nothing to see

[Bluebear]

74. 'so does rove'

You said a mouthful!

[bpilgrim]

43. SEX sell's, baby - wooHoo

finally PROPAGANDA-GATE is gonna get EXPOSURE :bounce:

thank GORE he 'INVENTED' the INTERNETs :evilgrin:

peace

[wadestock]

44. YEAH, THE COUNTRY'S GOING BANKRUPT

as a result of incompetent fiscal policies....
rates being too low for too long...
we won't be able to get anyone to invest in the 10s of Billions of dollars that it will take to keep Bush's sinking ship a float.

The inevitability is raising interest rates...
but then the interest on the debt will be 350B, 400, perhaps over 500B per year by the time that Bush is out.

He will have left us with an irreconcilable financial disaster....

[Synnical]

46. YEAH!

Isn't Economic Plunder a "High Crime"?

[Synnical]

45. Guckert vs. Negroponte vs. Prison Abuse

The Corporate Cable Media is following the Guckert/Gannon story, due entirely to bloggers. That's good. (Not a word of it in my local paper, though.)

I worry that Negroponte being nominated for Head Security Dude is not being paid enough attention here on DU.

And the ACLU FOIA requests that showed evidence of even more prisoner abuse needs more attention. If only for the fact (if you don't care about abuse of prisoners)that the ACLU broke the story, not any news organization.

[seabeyond]

47. blogger vs. corporate media vs bush admin n /t

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

48. There are probably 50 forums on DU and Gannon is covered in about 4

Elsewhere in this thread you claim it is not a big deal. So why did you start a thread about it?

[jdj]

49. well, we did need another Gannon thread. n/t

[kwassa]

53. Somebody had to do it

[kwassa]

57. Besides, those 50 forums have less posts than Gannon, don't they?

[Wrinkle_In_Time]

58. Wow! How did you search DU when you are not a sponsor?...

... Please let me know. It would have saved me a lot of time if I knew how to do that. Apparently you have cracked the code. Please share your knowledge.

It's interesting that your "search" returned both 116 pages and 116 topics. One topic per page? That seems odd. Maybe you don't know how to search on DU without being a sponsor after all.

Hyperbole can be a very useful tool. Bullshit is seldom useful. Which is it?

[kwassa]

65. I click on the search button at the top of the page

and enter search terms!

Amazing, or what?

[Wrinkle_In_Time]

68. "Error: You must be a donor to use the search function."...

... to answer your question: it's amazing. Did your gold star fall off?

[kwassa]

69. I can see my gold star on my side! I must have been extra good.

[Wrinkle_In_Time]

72. My apologies, you do have a gold star...

... and can therefore search. I was wrong. Please excuse my passive-aggressive attacks.

I would still like to know why your search returned 116 Gannon threads and "limited it to 116 pages". Is there some glitch in the DU search?

[kwassa]

73. maybe some internal buffer limit, or some such thing

[Redleg]

61. No, a lot of time DUers criticize John Kerry and Howard Dean.

NT

[Eric J in MN]

63. What were the chances that a media whore would turn out to literally

be a whore?

This is historic.

[kwassa]

67. It is karmic congruence

[American Tragedy]

76. When the MSM deigns to mention it, maybe DU will let up

Till then, we're compensating for their glaring omission and obvious cowardice.

My family and friends would have never heard about it if I had not told them of my findings online. My mother positively devours newspapers, but said that she had seen virtually no reference to the story until the Maureen Dowd column.

[oasis]

77. We're riding Gannon all the way to the frontdoor step of 1600 Pennslyvania

Avenue. Make sure your seat belt's buckled.

[Misunderestimator]

79. LOL

riding Gannon... :bounce: