"It is a brilliant strategy. When the Bush administration isn't using taxpayers' money to buy its own fake news, it does everything it can to shut out and pillory real reporters who might tell Americans what is happening"
- Frank Rich.
SCLM silent on security issue
Apparently it's A-OK that a gay male prostitute was given secret, classified National Security documents that exposed a covert CIA operative, by someone in the Bush misadministration.
The intrinsic media interest of the Guckert/Gannon story should be obvious to anyone who has followed his tale, which touches on hot topics from the homosexual underground and the investigation into the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame to the political power of the Internet. But our supposedly liberal media becomes quite squeamish when reporting anything that might humiliate the Bush White House and the Republican Party.
Imagine the media explosion if a male escort had been discovered operating as a correspondent in the Clinton White House... Then imagine the constant screaming on radio, on television, on Capitol Hill, in the Washington press corps - and listen to the placid mumbling of the "liberal" media now.
Imagine the media explosion if a male escort had been discovered operating as a correspondent in the Clinton White House... Then imagine the constant screaming on radio, on television, on Capitol Hill, in the Washington press corps - and listen to the placid mumbling of the "liberal" media now.
- Joe Conason.
“To me, the really amazing thing is that you know have the clear record of a guy who was a fake reporter from a fake news organization asking fake questions at a presidential press conference with a very questionable pass, and the best the mainstream media can do is an article in the C-section of the Washington Post,” [a senior Dem House] aide said.
“This isn’t even in the news section, this is in the style section,” the aide added. “I just think this is pathetic.
“This isn’t even in the news section, this is in the style section,” the aide added. “I just think this is pathetic.
"Jeff Gannon" had decided to give an exclusive TV interview to a sober practitioner of by-the-book real news, Wolf Blitzer. Given this journalistic opportunity, the anchor asked questions almost as soft as those "Jeff" himself had asked in the White House.
Mr. Blitzer didn't question Mr. Guckert's outrageous assertion that he adopted a fake name because "Jeff Gannon is easier to pronounce and easier to remember." Mr. Blitzer never questioned Gannon/Guckert's assertion that Talon News "is a separate, independent news division" of GOPUSA. Only in a brief follow-up interview a day later did he ask Gannon/Guckert to explain why he was questioned by the FBI in the case that may send legitimate reporters to jail: Mr. Guckert has at times implied that he either saw or possessed a classified memo identifying Valerie Plame as a CIA operative.
Might that memo have come from the same officials who looked after "Jeff Gannon's" press credentials? Did Mr. Guckert have any connection with CNN's own Robert Novak, whose publication of Ms. Plame's name started this investigation in the first place? The anchor didn't go there.
Mr. Blitzer didn't question Mr. Guckert's outrageous assertion that he adopted a fake name because "Jeff Gannon is easier to pronounce and easier to remember." Mr. Blitzer never questioned Gannon/Guckert's assertion that Talon News "is a separate, independent news division" of GOPUSA. Only in a brief follow-up interview a day later did he ask Gannon/Guckert to explain why he was questioned by the FBI in the case that may send legitimate reporters to jail: Mr. Guckert has at times implied that he either saw or possessed a classified memo identifying Valerie Plame as a CIA operative.
Might that memo have come from the same officials who looked after "Jeff Gannon's" press credentials? Did Mr. Guckert have any connection with CNN's own Robert Novak, whose publication of Ms. Plame's name started this investigation in the first place? The anchor didn't go there.
- Frank Rich, god bless him, probably somewhere on page 29, section Z of the NY Times.
Meanwhile, the #ucking chickenshit cowardly Dems are spinelessly folding into their usual gutless lumps of ineffectual, pointless superfluousness.
Democratic congressmembers are quietly mulling whether to respond to an article in the Washington Post which raises serious questions of how a man who sought to prostitute himself got access to the president, and potentially to a confidential memorandum naming a CIA agent.
Some staffers are frustrated with the Democrats’ inability to raise the prostitution issue, which many agree would have certainly been raised had a prostitute surfaced in the Clinton White House.
Some staffers are frustrated with the Democrats’ inability to raise the prostitution issue, which many agree would have certainly been raised had a prostitute surfaced in the Clinton White House.
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