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Saturday, February 19, 2005

Shill in the White House press

There is really no other way to put it. The White House Press Office gave James Guckert, a.k.a. Jeff Gannon, the first of numerous day passes in February 2003. With no credentials at all he managed to gain access to the President of the United States and toss the softballs he needed.
MAUREEN DOWD hits a home with her OP-ED on Guckert/Gannon.
This comes to light after we find out that the White House paid "journalists" with tax payer money to push their agenda.

posted by researcher at 7:39 AM |  permalink |  

Comments on "Shill in the White House press"

 

Blogger researcher said ... (10:03 AM) : 

Story has legs:
San Antonio radio producer Susan Farris could always count on James Guckert, a.k.a. former White House correspondent Jeff Gannon, to pitch an appearance on the shows she produces at conservative talk station KTSA.
Farris said:
"I said, 'How do you have such great sources?' and he just laughed it off," she told E&P Friday. "Now we all know how."
Guckert, she said, frequently passed on what he clearly thought was insider information, during his 12 appearances on KTSA during 2003 and 2004. She first heard from him the expression "shock and awe" to refer to the massive U.S. bombing attack at the start of the Iraq war, and he fingered Mary Mapes as the producer of the so-called "Rathergate" segment on "60 Minutes" before she had seen that mentioned elsewhere.

http://209.11.49.220/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000808600

 

Blogger researcher said ... (10:20 AM) : 

Guckert/Gannon and the White House will try and make this out to be an "anti gay" thing. But the issue is putting a shill in the press corps and pumping him with inside information.

 

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (6:48 PM) : 

Rove/Gannon connection
That is what CBS reports. There seems to be no doubt that someone "inside" the White House got this dirtbag in.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/18/opinion/lynch/main675050.shtml

 

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