Thursday, February 17, 2005

Gannon/Guckert has Surfaced on Old C-SPAN Footage

An interesting development has come up in the saga of Gannongate. Confirmed by the White House Press Corps archives, and via C-SPAN archival footage, a video has surfaced of Jeff Gannon/Guckert sitting at a White House daily briefing asking Ari Fleischer a question about Maine schoolchildren being subjected to taunts and jeers due to their supposed anti-war teacher. Ari answers that he's not aware of this report about the Maine schoolchildren, but he adds that we all must honor the First Amendment. Why is this important at all you may be asking? Well, this footage comes from February 28, 2003---over 1 month before Jeff Gannon/Guckert began working at Talon News (which was created on March 29, 2003, and a mere 96hrs later, Gannon/Guckert had a White House Press Corps pass as a "journalist" for Talon). Now, the question everyone must ask is this: How did he get into the elite Press Corps when he wasn't a journalist for Talon News on Feb. 28 of 2003? Which news organization did he claim to be working for in order to sit in at a White House daily briefing? Are we to actually believe that he just wandered in from off of the streets...conveniently w/pen and paper in hand? Puh-lease...this guy was somehow cleared (while using a false name, mind you) to attend the ELITE White House Press Corps while not working for a news service? If you buy that, then my mother is the F***ing Queen of England. Now, his byline did appear at GOPUSA, an ultra-right wing operation based in TX, in the "News" section of their propaganda publication in January of 2003...but is GOPUSA a credible news organization that gets access to the White House Press Corps? ABSOLUTELY NOT--which, by the way, Talon News doesn't meet the Press Corps credentials, either. But should we be shocked if Gannon/Guckert was planted by someone working for Bush to sit in the midst of the corporate media whores? ABSOLUTELY NOT. Would those bloodsuckers at the Press Corps even give another whore a passing glance...maybe...but probably not enough to take the time to question it. Face it...this thing goes deep and has far-reaching implications...and it seems the NY Times feels that way, too.
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