So, there's this guy, see? He's a journalist for a conservative "news" site (Talon News), having something to do with GOPUSA.com, though they're scrambling to disown him now. He likes to ask very slanted questions of Scott McClellan, of the "Has <name of liberal here> stopped beating his wife yet?" variety.
People (bloggers) think to themselves...Hm! Who is this schmuck lobbing softballs at the Prez like there's no tomorrow?
Hey! Who is this schmuck who's actually getting to ask the Prez a question? (We all know how much this President loves to give press conferences.)
Hey!! Who is this schmuck who maybe got to see the Valerie Plame Leak Memo?
Well, who this schmuck is, apparently,...is a gay hooker.
So he ain't all bad.
Reporter with prostitution links and false name got access to Bush: Questions surface on relationship with White House staff
EXPOSE: A man called Jeff
Propaganda-Gate: Jeff/Jim Gannon/Guckert Still Does Not Get It
[T]here is only one real story here. That is that for the past few years a man with a fake name, working for a fake news agency, infiltrated the White House Press Pool. That fake reporter then was relied upon by Scott McClellan and even George W. Bush in press conferences, where he would serve up the most inane, partisan, softball questions imaginable that had ZERO journalistic integrity and value. This same fake reporter may have got his hands on a secret internal CIA memo that he mentioned in an interview he had with Valerie Plame's husband, former ambassador and administration critic Joseph Wilson. This is the only story. This is a serious story. This is a story that needs REAL journalism to get to the bottom of.
There is only one story here and that is the continuing unraveling of the propaganda machine utilized by this administration. It is not “Gannongate”, because Jeff/Jim does not deserve that much attention. It is about Armstrong Williams, Maggie Gallagher, and Michael McManus. It is about an administration that thinks it can massage the truth, frame the truth, buy the truth or create the truth. It is about a President that thinks that it is ok to have Karl Rove give an exclusive interview to Sean Hannity so he can pimp the social security scam, and call it journalism. It is the abhorrent practice this administration has in assuming that the American people are just too plain stupid to realize that they are being manipulated and lied to.
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