White House embeds operative in White House press pool
 

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/wa...nder_scrutiny/

http://tinyurl.com/56xbv

They could have tried one that wasn't so obvious.

Hmmm... getting caught "planting" a reporter to ask favourably leading questions was the reason for resignations up here less than a month ago...

Critics? Media Watchdog Group? Internet bloggers? It must be true...

Probably as true as any criticism of coverage from the "other" side.

But hey, a little news management to deflect and bad coverage -- what the hell, I'm sure that's what the framers of the Constitution had in mind when they created the mechanisms for a free press and adversary media.

I have to admit that the political parties are pretty good at manipulation.

Agreed.

Anyone who thinks that any one political party has the moral high ground concerning its mechanics is sadly mistaken. (and isn't that a bad commentary on our humanity?)

http://mediacitizen.blogspot.com/200...r-inquiry.html

I'm sure the fact he got a White House press pass 1 month after Talon News started up and never had any journalism experience prior to Talon News may have helped his downfall as well...

Even Fox, who is loath to criticize the White House much, had a pretty good time dumping on this guy over the weekend.

Proof?

-Rudey

Watch them.

I did. I guess compared to Dan Rather, anyone else "is loath to criticize the White House much."

-Rudey

Not much of a Rather fan either. I do miss Brokaw.

This guy is the best journalist...ever...http://www.mclaughlin.com/

-Rudey
--His yelling gets me all excited

I've Only seen this guy once...

More comment/opinion than journalism -- at least that day.

Oh but the story takes a wierd, and gay prostituteish twist......

lol.

2/14/2005
Reporter with prostitution links and false name got access to Bush; Questions surface on relationship with White House staff

Questions fly on Guckert’s relationship with White House

RAW STORY

The former White House reporter for the conservative website Talon News, who resigned after his links to military escort domains appeared on the Web, is said to have paid two individuals to set up a site on which he intended to prostitute himself, RAW STORY has learned.

These individuals claim to have invoices which show the name of the reporter Jim Guckert’s personal business as paying for the website’s development.

AmericaBLOG’s John Aravosis has discovered previous images of the site through an Internet service which keeps records of sites that have been taken down. The images of the site seem to definitively show Guckert in various indiscrete poses. The images also match with images of Guckert that have appeared in the press, down to personal accoutrements, such as his watch.


http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=73

(Ok, I know its not the most relaiable of news sources (dont really consider blogs too relaible) BUT the linked site americablog.org (bout halfway down the page) makes a pretty damned good argument with lots of more than graphic photos)

Crazy

If Raw Story is right then it sounds like Kitty Kelly may have been telling the truth in her book when she talks about the White House being used for male hookers and Bush's "special male friend".

Sounds like the WhiteHouse is inhabited by the Republican Village People.

Heres a better story, written from a more reputable site; salon.com

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/20...non/index.html

I didnt read Kitty Kelly's book, so I cant comment on that, but I bet there are a few dudes who bat for the other team workign there. They work everywhere. Its an issue becasue Bush has been so anti-gay lately. It makes him look liek a schmuck. Or at least his staff looks like a schmuck.

It was only today that I realized Scott McLellan (White House Press Secretary) was Carol Keyton Rylander Strayhorn's son. She started off as Mayor of Austin and then in 1994 got elected to the position of Texas Treasurer (a position that she worked to abolish and evolve into the controllers office) Bush won the governorship of Texas in 1994. Had a huge victory event at some hotel in Austin. A bunch of us went up there to it. Carol Keyton Rylander (later Strayhorn was added) was elected and was having her celebration across the hallway as were most all Republican state-wide candidates. They had a better party over there and the booze was flowing. So we hung out over there and watched the rest of her numbers come in. It was cool. All three of her sons were there and I knew they were her sons, just didnt exchange names or really meet them. We all just stood around and talked for brief amounts of time throughout the evening. Wow. Who ever thought that I would have met the future WH Press Secretary and didnt even know it.

There is no way I could even come up with this.

Jim Guckert, a gay prostitute and republican operative using the pseudonym of Jeff Gannon, was apparently given access to documents that revealed the identity of secret agent Valerie Plame, who was outed by Bob Novak as apparent retribution for her husband's outspokenness on some of Bush's dishonesty regarding Iraq's non-existent WMDs. Incidentally, this story was arguably first put into motion by Rush Limbaugh.

Seriously, this should be front page for a week, just on all these different points.

Oh- and Washington Post too:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2005Feb15.html

It's great that Republicans are so accepting of them gays.

-Rudey

shouldn't they be impeached for that....seriously, that is the second time they have tried to screw with the free press, these people are dangerous and want to get of rid pres. term limits and nationality restrictions. The reason that 35 is min. age for pres. is that in 178? 35 was old and that insurned that even if someone crazy siezed power as president, they would probably die soon thereafter no mater what happened.

That's a little cynical.

While there are some folks, I suppose, who have the maturity to run a country under thirty-five, but on the whole I'll wait for a little more experience.

The whole Gannon affair is getting wilder. I wonder if the Daily Show have touch on this yet.

Yup. The Daily Show did a segment the other night.

How was it?

Hilarious. But when is the Daily Show not funny? :) Jon Stewart basically cracked on the media by saying that bloggers are doing the journalists' jobs. And, of course, he made comments about Gannon owning gay military escort sites.

WTF!?!? :eek:

So much for homeland security. A man with pseudo name belonging to a newsgroup that did not exist when he was given clearance is able to access the White House.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005...lled-jeff.html

http://americablog.blogspot.com/logo02xx.jpg
http://americablog.blogspot.com/malecorpsxx.jpg

We know found out that he is also a tax evader.

Link to the Story

Just learned he is a member of a fraternity.

SigEp?

-Rudey

Nope

He is a TKE.

-Rudey

I found in like 2 seconds by typing Jeff Gannon and Fraternity into Yahoo!.

Bet Reagan would be proud.

Well us Republicans are accepting of everyone. :P

-Rudey

wait, you're going to throw your own brother under the bus to make a really, really sad attempt at a political jab? dude . . . that's . . . awful

Don't have to like or agree with everything certain brothers do. Jeff Gannon may have been some bad stuff but he will always be a brother. I don't see the Reagan comment as a political jab but as humor. Cleary Reagan would have been unhappy with the situation. I think Rudey got that. I think from past post about Reagan people can tell I liked him. I like Reagan despite we didn't agree politically, he was a good president though and a life long loyal TKE.

Jeff Gannon is his made up for TV name. His real name ( the one hes being sued under and the name his sites are registered too) is Jim Guckert.

He might be implicated with the Valerie Plame affair. This story is getting juicier and jucier.

I'm 2, 3 days ahead of you: