WHITE HOUSE REPORTER WHO DOUBLED AS A GAY HOOKER FINALLY MAKES THE PAPERS!

[Imagevision]

It's out now! The Gannon/Guckert story is out in the mainstream!!
And it ain't pretty.

IF A REPORTER who doubled as a gay hooker had visited the Clinton White House nearly 200 times, think it would have made the news?

If "Jeff Gannon"/James D. Guckert had been unveiled, so to speak, as a liberal imposter who lobbed softball questions at Clinton administration press briefings, he would be as infamous as Michael Schiavo.

And if 39 of those White House visits were mysteriously unrelated to his "reporting" duties, imagine what innuendoes would be issuing forth from Planet Limbaugh. Imagine the organized phone call campaign demanding newspapers and TV stations report the story.
http://bradblog.com/

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. And when at least a half dozen of those visits

were at the same time Bush was entertaining visiting world leaders for the afternoon.

The WH didn't hire Gannon for his writing abilities.

[ebayfool]

26. Wonder - don't know if this is good, bad or indifferent ... you & DU are

mentioned @ jimmy/jeff's white house visits on The Truthseeker_Voice of the White House. Not MSM, but the freepers read it & scream - I'd say any exposure is good & can lead to more exposure. The sound of repug indignation, screaming in mortal pain might help keep this in the light 'till something breaks!

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?id=3058
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3059

I've always gotten the impression that this was a site to be wary of - that it might be used as a way to get something put on the web in a backhanded way (if that makes any sense?). If that IS the case, then it almost looks like a warning to jimmy/jeff to shut his mouth. This guy straight up is saying he's a dead man if he doesn't fade away. Course, that's kind of a no brainer. Still is eerie to read.

[DoYouEverWonder]

33. Thanks for the links

It's nice to see some of my work popping up on other sites, even if they are from the dark side. Looks like I must be on the right track.

[ebayfool]

34. No prob! Keep needling, it seems to have stirred things up a bit!

The 'Voice' seems to be a little agitated @ jimmy/jeff, doesn't he? LOL! Even if he's a repub, keeping the press fraud out front can only be good - if only to make somebody in the wh squirm.

[tanyev]

40. The Truthseeker is posting articles that are

originally posted at www.tbrnews.org. I cannot vouch one way or another for that site--I have seen one DUer assert that they know the person who runs that site is very careful about their sources and there is at least one other DUer who regularly warns that it is run by a Holocaust denier. So, there's your grain of salt.

[ebayfool]

48. Salt taken! The Voice guy says he's a repub, but I still check it ...

regularly just to see what his latest screams are about. He says he hates *ush & the arses in the wh, & that seems real - he looks to have a genuine hard_on for them. So I keep the salt handy whilst indulging in the peek - gotta take your fun where you can get it! O8) After seeing the garbage that *ushco have done publicly, I don't put anything he writes past them.

[geek tragedy]

51. Holocaust deniers and Nazis run thetruthseeker.co.uk

The only time they tell the truth is when they reprint other people's stuff. Not a credible source.

[seabeyond]

2. bradblog is msm? n/t

[dooner]

25. No, but Philadelphia Daily News might be...

Bradblog reported the article. It ran in the Philadelphia Daily News..

The Press takes a Pass on Gannon 5/2/05
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/11541660.htm

[fleabert]

37. Guckert/gannon was on Bill Maher last week...

it was good. He looked like he'd had a LOT of Botox before the show, and could barely put a sentence together. bill was great.

[paineinthearse]

29. What???? bradblog sold out?

Say it ain't so!

[imenja]

3. and the New York Times?

I turned up 11 articles in the NYT archive search. The first was on Feb. 11 of this year.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

4. How's this for depressing?

Today, just chatting with a friend who's bright and stays (she thought) informed, getting her news from the Washington Post, the New York Times, and network news, which she watches religiously, I was dismayed and then appalled to realize she had never heard of the Gannon scandal.

I mean, this is a woman who's a dedicated leftie, who takes her citizenship seriously, and she hadn't heard.

We are so fucked.............

[imenja]

5. that's because she didn't read the articles

Not because they aren't there.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

8. They're essentially "not there"

If they're buried inside the paper, that's the same as spiking them. Why on earth isn't coverage of this on the front page?

Gee, 11 articles since this broke in February. That's a staggering average of - what? - 3 a month?

Yeah, that's some really serious coverage.

[Dr Fate]

17. If it aint "on the TV"- it didn't happen.

The only way to get this in the news is for the top DEMs to SPEAK UP.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

42. Absolutely -

Loud and long and why don't they take a hint from Rove's playbook or the Lewinsky manner?

I am really mystified by the silence. We lose ground every day.

[imenja]

24. the newsflash in the OP

was that it had been covered in the newspaper at all. Since I recall seeing them myself months ago, I looked them up. Maureen Dowd wrote a column about Gannon. The Washington Post has fourteen stories. People do have some responsibility to educate themselves. Everything can't be spoon fed to them. It also got a fair bit of television cover for about two weeks.

We are at war, have genocide going on in Darfur, North Korean has developed nuclear weapons and Iran may have them as well. We have record deficits and a Republican senate that is trying to establish full tyranny of the majority. It really is shocking that your friend somehow missed the memo that a gay prostitute posing as a journalist was the most important development this year. She might have even thought genocide and war were more important. I can't imagine why.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

41. I'm sorry.

I guess I didn't make my point clearly enough for you. I apologize.

What I was trying to stress was that the mainstream media - if this were a Democrat administration - would be taking its cures from the opposition, and there would be tons of coverage of the Gannon matter, in the manner of the Monica Lewinsky debacle. As it is, the current opposition, along with the mainstream media, seems to be cowed or somehow off-course in what they cover.

Don't be shocked by what my friend doesn't find in the newspapers. She is a diligent and resourceful lady and she keeps herself wonderfully informed. She is, I fear, typical of many readers or listeners in the United States.

It is, indeed, a sad state of affairs when a runaway bride gets more coverage than a plant of any kind in the White House press corps.

[FinallyStartingToWin]

46. Amazing though,

All the time the papers have to promote news on Michael Jackson and Some Cold Footed Bride though, Huh...

If they had devoted a tenth of that time to the Gannon Story I'm sure that woman would've come across it just fine.

[Dr Fate]

6. Kerry, Dean, Hillary etc need to speak up about it on TV.

Tell me your friend as well as Red State voters would not know about it then.

We can longer expect the GOP owned media to repeat our talking points for us-They aint gonna do it.

[Stand and Fight]

7. I completely agree.

The Senators and chairman that you mentioned have the pull to get the media to listen to them. There is no reason why they should not be trumpeting these things.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

9. There is no reason

why they're so silent these days, sitting on their damn hands, as if they have tape over their mouths, when there are so many outrageous events taking place.

I am so completely disgusted with everything going on in this country. How bad is it when all I trust is The Daily Show?

[Stand and Fight]

14. Pretty bad, friend.

I remember the days when it was the running joke to say that watching the news was most depressing. Then -- back in the 1990s for me -- it was said with a light-heart. Now I say it with a heavy heart. Every time I read about another death in the Middle East or another scandal at home, a kind of hopelessness settles over me. Our Senators -- the Kerrys, the Clintons, etc -- do nothing while our country is fighting for its soul. Most Americans have no idea whatsoever just how much wrong has been (and is being) done in their names. Even politically like-minded people that I know are completely clueless. I am disgusted and deeply saddened. I love this country, and am disturbed by what I am daily witness to...

[SangamonTaylor]

19. Perhaps Kerry has more important causes to fight for?

Rather than worrying about this Gannon non-sense, Senator Kerry is out fighting to provide health care to the 11 million children in our nation that are uninsured. I wouldn't say that they "do nothing"...it's just that nobody is listening. Nobody reports on these things.

[Dr Fate]

21. Exposing media propaganda is pretty important.

As is destroying Bush's political & moral capital.

Giving Bush a pass on Gannon just invites even MORE Gannon/Plame/Rathergate/Swiftboating type tactics.

You are right though- no one reports on the things Kerry has been doing a good job on- the media needs "controversy"

I say we give it to them, but that is just me.

[Al-CIAda]

43. Yes sir. n/t

[Swamp Rat]

49. The Daily Show

The ONLY reliable source for news on TV.

Let's see, PBS... no, Paul Wolfowitz just took a crap there the other day. Hmm, the Big Three... nope, owned by the military industrial complex. Cable news? Nope. They are owned by the Lizards of Oz, like Moon and Murdoch.

Well, I guess it's just CSPAN and The Daily Show I trust now.

[Imagevision]

12. Corporate media and msm aren't one in the same

The reason they're not "trumpeting real stories is some reporters do earn a million++

Corpoarte media will spoon feed you the Schiavo's % Paula Abduhl stories and when it came to Ohio's election fraud findings.

"Someone" was getting very nervous . . . If the GOP wasn't worried about Conyers, why did they continue attacking him?

[KoKo]

10. Dr. Fate...your subject line is "on repeat." it's been that way for days

;-)'s

[Dr Fate]

11. I know- I dont even have to type anymore.

;)

[jbnow]

13. A gay or straight hooker in Clinton's White House

Would be reported on by MSM every day and even (gasp) investigate it.

Then the delusionally moral right would blast Clinton because now they had to explain to their children what a prostitute was.

This has been the craziest shift in reporting I have ever seen. Gannon is the least of what bush's administration has gotten away with.

[Dr Fate]

15. Plus, all the Top Republicans would be repeating it on the news shows.

We "could" do that too...

[Tigress DEM]

20. There would have been taped recordings of every sigh....

in whichever bedrooms Guckert was heaving to with someone in the middle of the nights he never signed out of the White House, and if he had a cigar in his butt, they would have the wrapper preserved in some intern's backpack or briefcase.

Much less, he could have been reporting the truth and had high journalistic integrity, but every word would be turned to lies because he was associated with DEMS.

Sigh.

[FreedomAngel82]

16. NOW they do the story

:crazy: I think they're a lil behind personally. Too caught up in Paula from "American Idol."

[Clark2008]

18. Who?

Oh... I don't watch MSM, erm, corporate hacks, and I don't watch that show.

(Yes, unfortunately, I do know who this is and the rumor, but I wouldn't give my dog's throw-up to learn any more about it).

[zann725]

22. ...or the "Runaway Bride"...

n/t

[Tigress DEM]

23. Even media that tries to stay current is behind....

Air America is so "last month" it seems to me. Also if I hear one more "Twins Stadium" conversation on their station, I'm going to kill my radio as well as my TV.

I get so frustrated because I feel I've been over the topics they cover and am into the next level of concern on the newest wave of lies and concealment.

The biggest one I don't understand is why reporters being murdered in Iraq isn't news. My God, just for self defense you think Journalists would want it on the record for their own protection.

Reporters without borders...

List:
JOURNALISTS KILLED
Name Nationality/Media outlet Date
1 Paul Moran Australian/ABC 22 March 2003
2 Terry Lloyd British/ ITN 23 March 2003
3 Kaveh Golestan Iranian/BBC 2 April 2003
4 Michael Kelly American/Washington Post 4 April 2003
5 Christian Liebig German/Focus 7 April 2003
6 Julio Anguita Parrado Spanish/El Mundo 7 April 2003
7 Tarek Ayoub Jordanian/Al-Jazeera 8 April 2003
8 Taras Protsyuk Ukrainian/Reuters 8 April 2003
9 José Couso Spanish/Telecinco 8 April 2003
10 Ahmad Karim Iraqi/Kurdistan Satellite TV 2 July 2003
11 Mazen Dana Palestinian/Reuters 17 August 2003
12 Ahmed Shawkat Iraqi/Bila Ittijah 28 October 2003
13 Ali Al-Khatib Iraqi/Al-Arabiya 19 March 2004
14 Ali Abdel-Aziz Iraqi/Al-Arabiya 18 March 2004
15 Nadia Nasrat Iraqi/Diyala 18 March 2004
16 Burhan al-Louhaybi Iraqi/ABC News 26 March 2004
17 Assad Kadhim Iraqi/Al-Iraqiya 19 April 2004
18 Waldemar Milewicz Polish/TVP 7 May 2004
19 Mounir Bouamrane Algerian/TVP 7 May 2004
20 Kotaro Ogawa Japanese/freelance 27 May 2004
21 Shinsuke Hashida Japanese/freelance 27 May 2004
22 Sahar Saad Muami Iraqi/Al-Mizan 3 June 2004
23 Hossam Ali Iraqi/freelance 15 August 2004
24 Mahmud Abbas Iraqi/ZDF 15 August 2004
25 Enzo Baldoni Italian/Diario della Settimana 26 August 2004
26 Mazen al-Tomaizi Palestinian/Al-Arabiya 12 September 2004
27 Ahmad Jassem Iraqi/Al-Iraqiya 7 October 2004
28 Dina Hassan Iraqi/Al-Hurriya 14 October 2004
29 Karam Hussein Iraqi/EPA 14 October 2004
30 Liqaa Abdul-Razzak Iraqi/Al-Iraqiya 27 October 2004
31 Dhia Najim Iraqi/Reuters 1 November 2004
32 Abdel Hussein Khazaal Iraqi/Al-Hurra 9 February 2005
33 Raeda Wazzan Iraqi/Al-Iraqiya 25 February 2005
34 Laik Ibrahim Iraqi/Kurdistan Satellite TV 10 March 2005
35 Hussam Hilal Sarsam Iraqi/Kurdistan Satellite TV 14 March 2005
36 Ahmed Jabbar Hashim Iraqi/Al Sabah 1 April 2005
37 Shamal Abdallah Assad Iraqi/Kurdistan Satellite TV 15 April 2005
38 Ali Abrahim Aissa Iraqi/Al-Hurriya 14 April 2005
39 Fadel Hazem Fadel Iraqi/Al-Hurriya 14 April 2005
40 Saleh Ibrahim Iraqi/AP 23 April 2005


MEDIA ASSISTANTS KILLED
Name Nationality/Media outlet Date
1 Hussein Osman Lebanese/ITN 22 March 2003
2 Kamaran Muhamed Iraqi/BBC 6 April 2003
3 Jeremy Little American/NBC 7 July 2003
4 Yasser Khatab Iraqi/CNN 27 January 2004
5 Duraid Isa Mohammed Iraqi/CNN 27 January 2004
6 Mohamad Ahmad Iraqi/Diyala TV 18 March 2004
7 Majid Rashid Iraqi/Diyala TV 18 March 2004
8 Omar Hashim Kamal Iraqi/Time 26 March 2004
9 Hussein Saleh Iraqi/Al-Iraqiya 19 April 2004
10 Rashid Hamid Wali Iraqi/Al-Jazeera 21 May 2004
11 (unknown) Iraqi (local media) 25 May 2004
12 (unknown) Iraqi (local media) 27 May 2004
13 Samia Abdeljabar Iraqi/Al-Sabah Al-Jadid 29 May 2004
14 Mahmud Ismail Daud Iraqi/Al-Sabah Al-Jadid 29 May 2004
15 Jamal Tawfiq Salmane American/Gazeta Wyborcza 25 August 2004
16 Ismail Taher Mohsin Iraqi/AP 2 September 2004

[NVMojo]

32. there are so many here in such a short time, this has got to be a policy!!

This is outrageous!!

[Tigress DEM]

50. That is only in Iraq, reporters are being killed in record numbers...

Around the world. Reporters Without Borders ( Reporters Sans Frontiers ) has the numbers on it, and it's getting worse.

We don't have any REAL reporters because the US is holding them HOSTAGE in IRAQ. And what happened 1-2 months ago? The whole Italian Reporter coming back and getting shot at... A female Iraqi reporter and her 10 year old son abducted. She was murdered and he was let go.

Check it out. Should start a new thread... but I've got somewhere I have to be shortly.


US army asked to explain why it is still holding CBS News cameraman after one month

http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=20
<snip>
Concern about arrests of other journalists...

6 May 2005 - Reporters Without Borders calls on General John Abizaid, head of US Central Command, to release the CBS News cameraman in Mosul, Iraqi national Abdel Amir Hussein, in the absence of evidence against him. A US army spokesman meanwhile has reported that nine journalists employed by seven western news media are currently detained in US and Iraqi detention centres, and that some of them have been held "for several months." The relevant authorities are urged to provide the identity of each detained journalist as soon as possible together with the reason for their detention.

[Nothing Without Hope]

27. Keith Olbermann and Jon Stewart have covered it on TV. Here's

the great Crooks & Liars video retrospective of the Gannon scandal and its TV coverage (shows Stewart and Olbermann as well as others). It's linked to in the opening post of this thread and must not be missed. The video is available in Quicktime and Windows MEdia formats and is about 13 minutes long. (I have a Mac and I had no trouble at all.)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1658261
Thread title: "Jeff Gannon retrospective in Video"

[JNelson6563]

38. Thanks for posting

Am downloading it now.

I've enjoyed every clip I've ever downloaded at Crooks & Liars. :toast:

Julie

[Beam Me Up]

28. Philadelphhia Daily News--DAMN GOOD READ

The link to the Philadelphia Daily News story that Bradblog is quoting is here: http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/opinion/11541660.htm

UNFORTUNATELY there is a rather lengthy and annoying "log in" process to get to it. I'm quoting a few paragraphs I particularly like and below that a link to the whole story not hosted on the Philadelphia Daily News site.

If reporters aren't worried about imposter journalists, at least they should smell a good story in a possible White House security breach.

With an explosion of media, much of it partisan, the role of actual journalism becomes even more critical. Yet the bright line between news and fair comment on one hand versus manipulation and propaganda on the other has all but disappeared.

Of course, Gannon/Guckert was only the most flamboyant of phony journalists to grace our airwaves in recent months: There are the paid hacks who got government money to laud government programs in their columns; there were the government video news releases made to look like actual TV reports - and which were run on many smaller stations.

Journalists get hopping-mad if CIA agents masquerade as reporters in war zones - it puts them at high risk. Yet these same journalists seem almost blasé at the assault on truth zones every day at the White House, on Capitol Hill and on a TV screen near you.

At a time when the radicals of the right, aided by the White House, seek to eviscerate constitutional protections, the news media have found a curious way to protect the First Amendment: Don't worry that Congress will abridge freedom of the press; The press will do the job of abridging itself all on its own.

Link to full story.

[paineinthearse]

30. First recorded instance of MSM story I can find is February 2

Massachusetts forum
White House-friendly reporter under scrutiny
Topic started by paineinthearse on Feb-02-05 03:41 PM (6 replies)
Last modified by paineinthearse on Feb-21-05 04:58 PM

It was done by the Boston Globe.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=158&topic_id=2936

White House-friendly reporter under scrutiny
By Charlie Savage and Alan Wirzbicki, Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent | February 2, 2005

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration has provided White House media credentials to a man who has virtually no journalistic background, asks softball questions to the president and his spokesman in the midst of contentious news conferences, and routinely reprints long passages verbatim from official press releases as original news articles on his website. Jeff Gannon calls himself the White House correspondent for TalonNews.com, a website that says it is "committed to delivering accurate, unbiased news coverage to our readers." It is operated by a Texas-based Republican Party delegate and political activist who also runs GOPUSA.com, a website that touts itself as "bringing the conservative message to America."

more.........

===========

Maybe I'm missing something, but this new Philly story is hardly the first. :shrug:

[BlueIris]

31. Nice. In that "really disgusting" sense. n/t

[Disturbed]

35. DEMs SPEAK UP!

Tops Dems won't talk about the Gannon Scandal. Why?

Rethugs won't and neither will the Fundies. Why?

[rodeodance]

36. Lets all email the editor to say THANK YOU--address below

...With an explosion of media, much of it partisan, the role of actual journalism becomes even more critical. Yet the bright line between news and fair comment on one hand versus manipulation and propaganda on the other has all but disappeared.

Of course, Gannon/Guckert was only the most flamboyant of phony journalists to grace our airwaves in recent months: There are the paid hacks who got government money to laud government programs in their columns; there were the government video news releases made to look like actual TV reports - and which were run on many smaller stations.

Journalists get hopping-mad if CIA agents masquerade as reporters in war zones - it puts them at high risk. Yet these same journalists seem almost blasé at the assault on truth zones every day at the White House, on Capitol Hill and on a TV screen near you.

At a time when the radicals of the right, aided by the White House, seek to eviscerate constitutional protections, the news media have found a curious way to protect the First Amendment: Don't worry that Congress will abridge freedom of the press; The press will do the job of abridging itself all on its own.

Carol Towarnicky is the chief editorial writer of the Daily News. E-mail [e-mail].

[Stew225]

39. with all due respect (read: an independent

opinion that might offend any DU'er for any reason), is Brad Blog "mainstream media"? If not, is there a link to mm?

[fromBrooklyn]

44. VANITY FAIR, ROLLING STONE, and ...

are lining up stories about Mr.Guckert to come out in the next month, or so.

The story is creeping out there; it maybe should have popped up a month ago, at least, but it is starting to break.

Hang tight.

[sabra]

45. But what angle is going to spun?

[Vox_Reason]

47. After $50 million spent on Lewinsky...

Where's the comparable effort to get to the bottom of the JimmyJeff GannonGuckert situation? Who's asleep at the switch?

Where is the fugging "liberal media"????

What a joke. A gay male prostitute is running loose in the White House, and even impersonates a valid WH Press Corps member, and no one says boo, much less investigates and turns this into the story it should be.

C'mon, folks--the repugs have been trying to turn gays into the equivalent of Jews in 30s Germany for the last 5 years. A gay prostitute apparently can come and go (sorry) as he pleases in the White House, apparently servicing an apparently needy client (or 2 or 3 or however many.) But that's not newsworthy? Not worth following up?

Who were GannonGuckert's clients? Could they be blackmail risks? What are the security risks to the United States? High crimes and misdemeanors, anyone?

We're truly through the looking glass.