Why am I listening to Judy "Crypt Keeper" Woodruff go on for an hour about Prince Charles and Camilla? Another hour of dumbing down America.
Larry | 02.23.05 - 4:05 pm | #

Contact Harry Reid and tell him you expect him to be out there leading on the Gannon/Guckert scandal.

Washington
528 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-3542 / Fax: 202-224-7327
Toll Free for Nevadans: 1-866-SEN-REID (736-7343) -Restricted to calls originating from area codes 775 and 702-
Xman | Homepage | 02.23.05 - 4:06 pm | #

I've been negligent

Is it time to call in the Bulldog, hmmmm? I hear he leaves impressions . . . ;-)
Jerry | 02.23.05 - 4:07 pm | #

The White House Press Corps has been negligent. You've been remiss. :-)
Eligere | Homepage | 02.23.05 - 4:11 pm | #

Ask yourself what if Dan Rathers had been a male escort would the media attack him?
AHiddenSaint | 02.23.05 - 4:12 pm | #

bloggers overboard at homepage
tim | Homepage | 02.23.05 - 4:12 pm | #

I apologize for cross-posting, but I think this is important. tj

This is about 30 minutes old:

I live in PA. I emailed Arlen Specter, my only sane senate rep, and chairman of the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, imploring him to investigate the Gannon/Guckert scandal. I received an automated reply stating "...help me respond to your concerns in a more prompt and efficient manner..." and instructions.

Following his instructions, I called his Washington office, who transferred me to his Judiciary Committee office. The woman who answered the phone, asked me what my email was about and when I told her she said:

"I haven't heard anything about this."

After re-gaining my composure, I asked how that was possible. She said, "Well I watch the news all the time. There's nothing on Fox about it."

I suggested politely that this wasn't surprising. She put me on hold. When she came back she asked me to explain the story to her again.

After almost re-re-gaining my composure, I badly paraphrased the last week or so. She put me on hold again. This time, I prepared. When she came back, I made her listen as I read a 5-day-old story from the Washington Post, quoting Brian Williams' NBC report. She became a little annoyed and said "well, I watch CNN too and haven't seen anything about it."

I said "he was interviewed by Anderson Cooper on his show. You know, The Anderson Cooper Show?"

She suggested I fax my email to the office and after legal looked it over, it might warrant a memo to the senator in about a week.

Great. Thanks.

Here's my suggestion. *Everyone* that has any info on the Gannon/Guckert story fax *all* of it to:

202-224-9102
ATTN: Vianna

If they don't run out of fax paper, I'm going to be sorely disappointed in Ameriblog. Please, let's do this.
tj | 02.23.05 - 4:12 pm | #

I stand corrected. Call off the Bulldog.

Karl, baby, he's all yours.
Jerry | 02.23.05 - 4:12 pm | #

Question JimmyJeff didn't get to ask Shrub:

"How do you know if you don't try it?"
Joshua Norton | 02.23.05 - 4:12 pm | #

Sorry to deviate from Bulldogate matters, but this IS an open thread and as a national security junkie I just gotta' celebrate news like the below. Yet another reason I love Canadians! (excerpted from the BBC... no mention on US media sites last time I looked).

"Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin has reportedly decided that his country would not join a missile defence system being developed by the United States.
Officials told Canadian media that Mr Martin would make a formal announcement later this week, when he returns from the Nato summit in Belgium."
Horned1 | 02.23.05 - 4:13 pm | #

Response I received from the NY Times:

Another reader noted a similar concern which I've raised with a senior editor. You're welcome to check in with me in a few days at which point I hope to have a response. Thanks for raising this.

Best,
Arthur Bovino
Office of the Public Editor

At 01:19 AM 2/20/2005, you wrote:

Dear NY Times,

Concerning your recent story about Jeff Gannon/James Guckert by Ralph Blumenthal, you cite the Washington Post as having "revealed" that Guckert had created escort sites.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/2...l/ 20gannon.html

Please correct this error by noting that AMERICAblog.org revealed that fact, along with the help of DailyKos, Eschaton, World O' Crap and the blogosphere in general.

While I appreciate the mainstream media finally focusing on this story, please appreciate the hardwork of the blogging community and credit them appropriately.

The blogging community has taken a beating from the main stream media by them proclaiming loudly that bloggers have no journalistic credibility and the like. Please judge bloggers by their intent and results. As you know now, the mainstream media is at a defining point in journalism, recognizing the new media (bloggers) or continuing in denial and surely risk becoming extinct.
Larry | 02.23.05 - 4:15 pm | #

Obligatory blog plug: Last Midnight (homepage link)has a complete list of programs to be terminated or severely cut under the Bush budget. Read it and weep.

(Also, DC dwellers, I posted an "alternative" to that horrendous Second Look Project ad that is all over buses these days.)
The Witch | Homepage | 02.23.05 - 4:16 pm | #

"How do you know if you don't try it?"
Joshua Norton

Guckert knows that Bush has tried, and he likes.

But if you pay for it, it's not really gay.
KKKarl Rolve | 02.23.05 - 4:17 pm | #

I don't know about all of you, but when I went to High School we didn't have male cheerleaders. As a matter of fact, the very concept of male cheerleading was considered titally gay. Bush is about 8 years older than me...

Maybe ole JG did suck up all the way to the top after all!
mtnman | 02.23.05 - 4:18 pm | #

I think I'm going to have to watch the Oscar. Chris Rock sounds like my new hero
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/1...dline- finke.php

Deadline Hollywood
Will Chris Rock Be Oscar Dyn-O-Mite?
If Rock bombs he’ll have only himself (and maybe conservatives) to blame
by NIKKI FINKE

At a time when Hollywood crybabies and their Big Media daddies are crumbling under pressure from conservatives, Chris Rock is, well, like a rock. That’s why, at the Academy Awards this Sunday, you can count on the guy who may well be the funniest comedian working right now to break out of the mold of mediocrity that usually defines the broadcast’s opening monologue and blow up the status quo.

L.A. Weekly has learned that Rock has earmarked a segment of his standup to joke about George W. Bush. Ali LeRoi, a longtime Rock collaborator and part of the team of writers helping to craft the comic’s opening remarks as Oscar host, tells me: “The guy who says inflammatory stuff is going to say something inflammatory. He’s made a career of being outrageous so, yes, there’ll be presidential humor.”

It isn’t just worries about Bush bashing that have Oscar watchers on alert. No previous host has done as much lip flapping before the show as Rock. The result has been a manufactured brouhaha about his anti-Oscar banter. (“What straight black man sits there and watches the Oscars?” Rock asked Entertainment Weekly. To which Artie Lang on The Howard Stern Show replied: “Denzel Washington’s father.”) But lost in the headlines was the comedian’s history of razzing the White House and its policies.

Anyone who knows Rock’s act has heard his razor-sharp “Bush lied to me” riff. “Bush lied to me, man. He said we got to move on Iraq because they’re the most dangerous regime on Earth. If they’re so dangerous, how come it only took two weeks to take over the whole fucking country? You couldn’t take over the Bronx in two weeks. You’d need a month to get the Grand Concourse.”

L.A. Weekly has learned Rock will be tamer come Oscar night, but he will still crank up the political satire. According to LeRoi as well as people who’ve heard Rock trying out material recently, one Dubya joke is about the president’s intelligence, or lack thereof, and goes something like this (SPOILER ALERT): “Bush is not stupid. All you people who say that are wrong. You can’t be an idiot and get to be president. You gotta give the guy a little credit. Anyone that’s smart enough to get that far has got to be just acting dumb.”

No wonder the Red Staters are having heart attacks. These are the same rabid dogs, after all, who wouldn’t even let the Democratic presidential candidate speak ill of W. Now a comedian’s got a gig to do it in front of an audience of hundreds of millions. Rock is “the wrong host,” claimed Concerned Women for America (a.k.a. Conservative Operatives), “unless Hollywood wants to demonstrate how far out of touch it is with the rest of America.”

We know their drill come Oscar time: att
AHiddenSaint | 02.23.05 - 4:20 pm | #

I called both of my senators -- no need to call Boxer, she will be doing the right thing. I also called Harry Reid's office. The man who answered the phone seemed breathless -- like he had just gotten 10,000 calls about this. haha Good work and KEEP THIS UP! It seems to be slipping in the media. Just proves that it has NOTHING to do with being "sexy." It is ALL politics. You must admit, this beats Charles and Camilla in every way and they STILL don't cover it!
Ann | 02.23.05 - 4:21 pm | #

Very cool, Larry - it's nice to see they read their email
John Aravosis | 02.23.05 - 4:22 pm | #

MORE Breaking News

Scroll down to "The briefing."

Coulter, meanwhile, E-mailed: "Ron Silver is a great American, but Matt Drudge is my only true love!"

Question of the Day:
If Ann Coulter is a drag queen, does that make Ron Silver gay ...or simply stupid?

Talk amongst yourselves.

Michael Hawthorne | 02.23.05 - 4:24 pm | #

"I have been in a negligee" Karl
Size 17 | Homepage | 02.23.05 - 4:24 pm | #

I don't know about all of you, but when I went to High School we didn't have male cheerleaders. As a matter of fact, the very concept of male cheerleading was considered titally gay.

That's YELL leader, bucko!

Sis-boom-bah! Ask my pa!
Sid-boom-bay! We're not gay!
George W. Bush | 02.23.05 - 4:28 pm | #

TJ,

Doesn't "She suggested I fax my email to the office and after legal looked it over, it might warrant a memo to the senator in about a week." and
"I haven't heard anything about this." just *reek* of stonewalling?

It's amazing what they will try to get away with when they think no one is looking. :-\
DB | 02.23.05 - 4:31 pm | #

Q:If Ann Coulter is a drag queen, does that make Ron Silver gay ...or simply stupid?

Yes she is. And Ron Silver is both.
Jerry | 02.23.05 - 4:34 pm | #

Larry, excellent letter! Glad you got some sort of response.
Valleri | Homepage | 02.23.05 - 4:34 pm | #

The latest from gopbloggers.com on the Gannon scandal.

http://www.gopbloggers.org/

If you haven't already guessed---absolutely nothing. This reminds me of the early days of the Iraq insurgency when it could have been nipped in the bud but the Bushies were still insisting that the war ended when Bush strutted around in a flight suit and said "Mission Accomplished".
Jay | 02.23.05 - 4:35 pm | #

Was it ever proven or not proven that GOPUSA is connect to the Christian right?
AHiddenSaint | 02.23.05 - 4:42 pm | #

DB, what else in the world could it possibly be? I mean, for God's sake, the man is a former big city prosecutor (Philadelphia, back in the 1960's)!

He needs to wait for a week to have it vetted by a legal staff?
oddjob | 02.23.05 - 4:42 pm | #

"It's amazing what they will try to get away with when they think no one is looking."

This is why I hope Ameribloggers will tie up their fax line: so they know people are looking.
tj | 02.23.05 - 4:43 pm | #

John, you've never been negligent. ;)
mike fitzsimons | 02.23.05 - 4:45 pm | #

Dammit! Why do I still get blank stares and "I haven't heard about that" comments about Jeff Gannon from educated people? Especially our Congress people. This is really beginning to piss me off! Jesus, This is real meat news isn't it???!!!
Still Waiting | 02.23.05 - 4:48 pm | #

"Against a steady drumbeat of suicide bombings, assassinations, sabotage and mile-long gasoline lines, some White House staff members believed that such a positive take on the Iraqi reconstruction would undermine the White House's credibility," the Post reports.

White House "credibility." LMAO!!!!

Full Washington Post story here.
D. | 02.23.05 - 4:48 pm | #

Hello all. I called Sen Reid's office (number listed above) as a concerened democrat from Texas. They phone rep. said something to the effect of not being able to go into specifics now ... but assured me steps are being taken. He also said my call was one of "more than a few." He also mentioned that he and Sen. Reid share similar concerns ... so we'll see what happens.

I am looking to call my Sen., but I don't know how much good it would do to get Kay Bailey on the phone.

CS
Chris | 02.23.05 - 4:48 pm | #

On the Canadian decision against joining anti-missle defense:

For those who missed it, this came up during Bush' visit a few weeks ago. When he couldn't get PM Martin to commit, Bush said something like "it won't be me, but some future president may ask why we spend all this money protecting Canada." When Martin said there was a lot of opposition to it, Bush said "just tell them it is necessary for national security."

Martin and his aides were dumbfounded at the audacity and lack of diplomacy in the Bush comments.

Meantime, our wingnuts are busily pestering and in some cases threatening MPs over the upcoming national gay marriage vote. To put it mildly, this seems to be backfiring.
eternal optimist | 02.23.05 - 4:48 pm | #

tj, I posted your comment.
patriotboy | Homepage | 02.23.05 - 4:50 pm | #

Can anyone compose an articulate letter to the editor, in 250 words, on the last three weeks of this whole propaganda scandal? I've been editing all day.
hadenuf | 02.23.05 - 4:52 pm | #

knew this was coming

Allawi Forming Coalition to Fight for PM

Wed Feb 23,10:40 AM ET

Add to My Yahoo! Top Stories - AP

By MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Wednesday he was forming a broad coalition to fight for the post of prime minister after Iraq (news - web sites)'s dominant Shiite political party nominated a conservative candidate.

The haggling over the new government came against the backdrop of more violence. A car bomb killed two people and wounded 14 in the northern city of Mosul, and a U.S. soldier was killed in a separate bomb attack north of Baghdad, officials said.

Allawi, a secular Shiite, skirted criticism of Ibrahim al-Jaafari, who was nominated Tuesday by the United Iraqi Alliance as its candidate for prime minister. The decision made al-Jaafari the overwhelming favorite for the post.

When asked if he feared that al-Jaafari's alliance could impose Islamic rule, Allawi responded that he opposed the creation of any form of Islamic government.

"We are liberal powers and we believe in a liberal Iraq and not an Iraq governed by political Islamists. But as a person, he is an honorable man, fighter and a good brother," Allawi said.

Allawi would not provide details of his proposed coalition.

"There are other lists and other brothers in smaller lists which won the elections, and we are working with some of those lists to form a national Iraqi democratic coalition which believes in Iraq and its principles," Allawi said at a news conference, flanked by two interim ministers who are members of his secular party, The Iraqi List.

Kurdish parties have also weighed in with their own demands for top jobs, including the post of president.

Al-Jaafari is one of two interim vice presidents and leader of a religious party that fought Saddam Hussein (news - web sites).

In order to take the premiership, al-Jaafari must build a coalition to gain agreement from Kurds and others on the presidency and candidates for Cabinet posts before seeking the support of a majority of the National Assembly elected Jan. 30.

Al-Jaafari is "a man I can work with, but to discuss who will be the prime minister of Iraq, this still needs more time," Kurdish interim vice president Rowsch Nouri Shaways told reporters. "We aim to get high rank in the government institutions. We aim to get one of the top positions and we aim to participate in the Council of Ministers, suitable with our percentage in the elections."

Kurdish parties, which won 75 seats in the 275-seat national assembly, want Jalal Talabani, a secular Sunni Kurd and leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, to be Iraq's next president.
AHiddenSaint | 02.23.05 - 4:53 pm | #

Hadenuf,

Articulate or not, what big time editor is going to publish? The editor's uberfurors have spoken. No dissention in the ranks and no Gannon press. zieg hiel!
Still Waiting | 02.23.05 - 4:58 pm | #

Not talking big time editor, just local papers here in the NC Triangle area. It's worth a try.
hadenuf | 02.23.05 - 5:02 pm | #

My sources tell me that Cheney and Negroponte are traveling to Iran to confer on drafting new legislation to be introduced by W. I'm not sure what it's all about, but apparently it's somehow related to the below story, which Cheney allegedly called "super stupendous news!" Anyone got any ideas what it's about??

"An Iranian weblogger has been jailed for 14 years on charges of spying and aiding foreign counter-revolutionaries.
Arash Sigarchi was arrested last month after using his blog to criticise the arrest of other online journalists.

Mr Sigarchi, who also edits a newspaper in northern Iran, was sentenced by a revolutionary court in the Gilan area.

His sentence, criticised by human rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders, comes a day after an online 'day of action' to secure his release.

Iranian authorities have recently clamped down on the growing popularity of weblogs, restricting access to major blogging sites from within Iran.

A second Iranian blogger, Motjaba Saminejad, who also used his website to report on bloggers' arrests, is still being held."
Horned1 | 02.23.05 - 5:02 pm | #

Hadenuf, I know what you mean, I have been trying to compose a letter to my local paper for two days now, something I have not had a problem with in the past. This time, however, the subject has me so furious my letter turns into a blathering rant that serves no purpose at at all. I'm about ready to give up.
rikc | 02.23.05 - 5:07 pm | #

Michael Moore speaks out

http://michaelmoore.com/

Bush and McClellan Hire James Gannon/Guckert for the White House Softball Team! (video)
AHiddenSaint | 02.23.05 - 5:08 pm | #

Gene Lyons weighs in on Guckert:

Try to imagine the uproar if the Bill Clinton White House had pulled something similar. Every committee in Congress would run televised hearings 24/7. On "Hardball," GOP attack blondes would be speaking in tongues. Tim Russert might simply explode. The bitterest irony, of course, is that Bush, the most theatrically "manly" president since Ronald Reagan--he often dresses as if auditioning for the Village People--might never have been elected but for his 2004 campaign's calculated appeal to homophobia.

Full column.
D. | 02.23.05 - 5:09 pm | #

A separate topic, but one that may have significance down the road (or may not).

Mass. Governor "Perfect Hair" Romney tries to burnish his freeper credentials among the true believers in Dixie, seriously pisses off some Massachusetts folks in the process.

Guess he doesn't yet understand that (to put it very crudely) you can't polish a turd.
oddjob | 02.23.05 - 5:09 pm | #

On the Canadian decision against joining anti-missle defense:

THANK GOD(DESS) SOMEONE HAS SOME COMMON SENSE AND THE NERVE TO ACT ACCORDINGLY!
oddjob | 02.23.05 - 5:12 pm | #

John, you are the antithesis of negligent.
inDisbelief | 02.23.05 - 5:12 pm | #

"Gannongate," which is only now being mentioned by the mainstream news media, threatens to expose a potentially damaging GOP pedophile and male prostitution ring dating back to the 1980s and the administration of George H. W. Bush.


http://tinyurl.com/59sk5
Anonymous | 02.23.05 - 5:15 pm | #

this is a letter i sent to the pbs newshour.

Hello,

I have the highest regard for the NewsHour, and watch it daily. I believe it to be the best news broadcast on television, bar none.

However, I am very sorry to see that you have neglected to give any serious coverage to the serious issues surrounding the access Jeff Gannon, whose real name is James Guckert, was given to the White House over a two-year period.

This issue is often treated as yet another blogger lynching, and dismissed as such. There is, if you will look at the facts, much more meat to this story than there appears at first blush.

Do not let the sensational nature of some aspects of the story scare you away from the more consequetial aspects of it. Gannon was given a unique level of access to the White House. You know, of course, that this administrations dealings with the press are never hands-off. They micromanage even the most casual events. Their explanation of Guckert's access now is that everything seemed okay, so they let him come on in. That is not credible.

Guckert has been implicated in the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's name in retribution for her husband's lack of support for administration policy. He spread false stories about Sen. Tom Daschle to S. Dakota bloggers who later were found to be on the payroll of then candidate John Thune. There are other documented cases of his having received highly privieged access to information known only to people at the highest levels of the Bush Administration.

I strenuously urge you to look into this matter and bring it to the public's attention. If only what is currently known to be verifiably true about Guckert and his White House connection is ever discovered, then this is a serious story. If any of the more troubling accusations made about him, his organization (GOPUSA.com and its news arm Talon News), and their involvement in Republican party politics are verified, this story is destined to be among the biggest scandals since Watergate.

Do not shirk your responsibility to bring the full facts of this matter to light.

Thank you,
listen_more | Homepage | 02.23.05 - 5:15 pm | #

-John, you are the antithesis of negligent.

----

I bet he's a gentle and generous lover.
Fran | 02.23.05 - 5:18 pm | #

Both Houses of Congress Get Involved in Guckert/Gannon Case

By Joe Strupp

Published: February 23, 2005 4:55 PM ET

NEW YORK Two leaders of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee want the federal prosecutor investigating the Valeria Plame case to subpoena a personal journal of controversial White House reporter James Guckert, following Editor & Publisher's disclosure yesterday that Guckert claims he kept the journal for the past two years.




http://tinyurl.com/6ag5u
Anonymous | 02.23.05 - 5:24 pm | #

Check out the latest on DEM Magazine and Mitch Daniels over on The New Democrat!
Max | Homepage | 02.23.05 - 5:27 pm | #

>>>>>SHREK 2 CONTAINS TRANSGENDER THEMES?
READ MORE AT SUBURBANNOMAD.BLOGSPOT.COM
LJLY | Homepage | 02.23.05 - 5:28 pm | #

CHRISTIAN RIGHT ATTACKS SHREK 2!!!
READ IT AT SUBURBANNOMAD.BLOGSPOT.COM
LJLY | Homepage | 02.23.05 - 5:29 pm | #

Has anyone heard the Gannon/Guckert song yet? LMAO
http://www.12thharmonic.com/word...ordpress/? p=728
CC:Dick | 02.23.05 - 5:29 pm | #

Could anyone ask President Bush if Guckert charged him extra for a reacharound, and if so, how much and if so did he opt for the reecharound? - Oh yes and I have a two follow ups.


Follow Up 1:
Also, how much bargaining power does one have when one is in the midst of being bofuffed by a mail prostitute - in negotiating for a reech around?

Follow Up 2:
Is this alittle bit like what the American Public is undergoing in the midst of the Administration current post election efforts at Social Security phaseout/reform and tort reform malpractice caps?
The Wonder Moron | Homepage | 02.23.05 - 5:30 pm | #

It has been amazing to watch how the MSM disregards this blatant propagannon episode. Could it be because there are still more of them on the payroll, just waiting to be uncovered? Does Bobby Eberle give Leslie Blitzer a luxury box for Cowboys's games and such?

And of course there's Dan Rather's replacement Bob Schieffer, who has been photographed at a Ranger game with Poppy and W Bush, and whose brother is the current ambassador to Japan.

I think we've only seen the tip of the iceberg this media-payola scandal.
Heywood J. | Homepage | 02.23.05 - 5:31 pm | #

Negraponte & Cheney traveling to Iran??!!

Say what? Cheney would go near Iran. Shit, they would nuke him.
Still Waiting | 02.23.05 - 5:31 pm | #

Has anyone already mentioned this nice little ditty yet?
pope369 | 02.23.05 - 5:34 pm | #

Hey John how come your blog isn't listed, but Free Republic is listed as a blog on C-SPAN?

INDIVIDUAL/GROUP BLOGS:

http://www.c-span.org/resources/...urces/ blogs.asp
AHiddenSaint | 02.23.05 - 5:34 pm | #

Anyone want to comment on Gov. Romney's statement down in South Carolina that "he never supported civil unions"

Seems to me like yet another example of Republicans trying to sound moderate before an election and acting extreme after one.
Tom | 02.23.05 - 5:36 pm | #

We all know Romney has decided to go extreme anti-Gay because he is running for President. Lets help publicize his past.
Tom | 02.23.05 - 5:38 pm | #

Negraponte & Cheney traveling to Iran??!!

Say what? Cheney would go near Iran. Shit, they would nuke him.

And the Iranians would receive "thank you" cards from millions of grateful Americans.
D. | 02.23.05 - 5:41 pm | #

Romney has never been warm to civil unions, let alone gay marriage, and has pointed that out and the Globe verified it for their story. If Romney had his druthers he'd allow things like hospital visitation rights, plus a little more, but not much. I asked him about that early on in his gubernatorial campaign, back when the Goodridge case was still plodding through the appeals process.

I didn't vote for him then because of his stance on this matter, I sure as hell won't vote for him this next time (assuming said next time happens)!
oddjob | 02.23.05 - 5:42 pm | #

John & everyone

http://www.dailykos.com/story/20...2/23/164314/ 055
D9000 | 02.23.05 - 5:45 pm | #

DC SOCIALITE OFFERING REWARD $$$$$ FOR INFORMATION!

www.washingtonsocialites.com

John can you post something on this?
BOUNTY HUNTER | Homepage | 02.23.05 - 5:50 pm | #

tj - ok - you just motivated me to use Skippy the Kangaroo's link to ask my senators to support and sign Dick Durbin's letter requesting the WH investigate Gannongate.

And I added my request for a Ken Starr-like special prosecutor, and well as Congressional Hearings, into the whole Bush$Co ILLEGAL creation and use of state-sponsored media & proaganda, AND

what media conglomeration has done, and how cable PRAVDA-like stations like FAUX get away with their partisian broadcasts.

Skippy makes it easy!
brigitta | 02.23.05 - 5:51 pm | #

ok i love msm, a story is in the works showing bush's uncle profited directly from the iraqi war hmmm scandal anyone, another if this was clinton he would be fried side note, man gotta love fair and balance news geesh, but with all going on and of course no mention of afgan, for like hmmm a year and half, at least i know the top stories today, hmmm condi for pres, rom, for pres, and camila and charles
shawn | 02.23.05 - 5:53 pm | #

D.

Yeah baby, Yeah!!!
Still Waiting | 02.23.05 - 5:57 pm | #

Author Regrets Secretly Taping Bush Talks

http://apnews.excite.com/article.../ D88ED8SO0.html

LOL...we still don't care.
inDisbelief | 02.23.05 - 5:58 pm | #

This is typical:

During his trip to Germany on Wednesday, the main highlight of George W. Bush's trip was meant to be a "town hall"-style meeting with average Germans. But with the German government unwilling to permit a scripted event with questions approved in advance, the White House has quietly put the event on ice.

What, Chimpy might actually have had to answer a real question? Can't have that!

From Der Spiegel.
D. | 02.23.05 - 5:59 pm | #

Waaaay OT but nonetheless beautiful. Look to the east...beautiful moon rising.
inDisbelief | 02.23.05 - 6:02 pm | #

A question...

I know I should have seen this somewhere, but...Jim/Jeff is 47 years old (?)...and this stuff has been going on since 2002/2003 (?)

What has he been doing with his life for the years from say, 1982 till 2003?

He had to have some training, you know 'life experiences'

You don't just answer a newspaper add to become a Karl Rove buttboy...how did he smarm hi way into the inner circles etc?
couser | 02.23.05 - 6:07 pm | #

I am so mad at the idiot "Pope" that I could spit. His new "book" calls gay marriage "part of an IDEOLOGY OF EVIL."

IDEOLOGY OF EVIL?

So WE are the new "Axis of Evil"?

I'll be glad when this damn idiot Pope is gone to his maker. Maybe there he'll find out who murdered his pro-gay predecessor Pope John Paul I.
Hephaestion | Homepage | 02.23.05 - 6:07 pm | #

Uncle "Bucky" Bush

New on Yahoo!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/ news...fitedbushsuncle
Nepotism? | 02.23.05 - 6:09 pm | #

I wonder if Chris Rock knows about Gannongate...??? Someone tell him!
Cub | 02.23.05 - 6:13 pm | #

Gee just around the time that Gannon was trying to claim he is the victum and republicans were trying to defend him as innocent. Amazing how innocent Republicans are to true gays.


">When Sexuality Undercuts A Family's Ties

By Marc Fisher
Sunday, February 13, 2005; Page C01

Maya Keyes loves her father and mother. She put off college and moved from the family home in Darnestown to Chicago to be with her dad on a grand adventure. Even though she disagrees with him on "almost everything" political, she worked hard for his quixotic and losing campaign for the U.S. Senate.

Now Maya Keyes -- liberal, lesbian and a little lost -- finds herself out on her own. She says her parents -- conservative commentator and perennial candidate Alan Keyes and his wife, Jocelyn -- threw her out of their house, refused to pay her college tuition and stopped speaking to her.

Maya, 19, says her parents cut her off because of who she is -- "a liberal queer." Tomorrow, she will take her private dispute with her dad into the open. She is scheduled to make her debut as a political animal, speaking at a rally in Annapolis sponsored by Equality Maryland, the state's gay rights lobby.

She plans to talk about "what it was like for me growing up as a liberal queer in a very conservative household. I've known so many other people in a position like mine, where their families really don't want much to do with them. Maybe I can help by talking about it."
AHiddenSaint | 02.23.05 - 6:15 pm | #

Did anyone here see Kagan laughing at the guy getting the shit kicked out of him this morning?
Vinnie | 02.23.05 - 6:17 pm | #

I bet that reward is a shameless attempt to make the Drudge Report or AP. I hope if it is Democratic money that they remain anonymous, yes Terry McAulliffe?
Cur | Homepage | 02.23.05 - 6:17 pm | #

Will gay johns come out from under the rocks for $10,000?
Curious George | Homepage | 02.23.05 - 6:18 pm | #

i'd like to see more outrage from real reporters denied WH day passes... and i love the video of gannon's final question... he looks so nervous, like he knew that question was way too biased... too risky... too obvious.... but someone forced him to read it
x | 02.23.05 - 6:24 pm | #

As a gay man, had I met Gannon in the "scene", I would be screaming for free!
Adrian | 02.23.05 - 6:26 pm | #

OT - but you know that picture on the Washington socialite website - the one he's dressed neat in a white shirt/red tie? (John has one here, but its been cropped.) Can anyone enhance the book titles and see what's on his cheap bookshelf? (I know its cheap - I got one just like it, Waccamaw, $19.)
Anon | 02.23.05 - 6:27 pm | #

Then maybe ten thousand clams might grease your throat even more?
Curious George | Homepage | 02.23.05 - 6:28 pm | #

From the Onion's "News in Brief":

Bush Determined To Find Warehouse
Where Ark Of Covenant Is Stored

WASHINGTON, DC—In a surprise press conference Monday, President Bush said he will not rest until the warehouse where the Ark of the Covenant, the vessel holding the original Ten Commandments, is located. "Nazis stole the Ark in 1936, but it was recovered by a single patriot, who braved gunfire, rolling boulders, and venomous snakes," Bush said, addressing the White House press corps. "Sadly, due to bureaucratic rigmarole, this powerful, historic relic was misplaced in a warehouse. Mark my words: We will find that warehouse." Bush added that, after they are strengthened by the power of the Ark, U.S. forces will seek out and destroy the sinister Temple of Doom.
tireiron chef | 02.23.05 - 6:29 pm | #

Freepers support Jeff Gannon, but look at how they feel about real gays and they say we are the ones gay-baiting.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focu...s/1344976/ posts

Crocodile tears from a so-called "gay parent." How disgusting. Maya should be ashamed of herself, but the savage creature who wrote this is obviously incapable of that emotion.

5 posted on 02/16/2005 10:15:09 PM PST by Map Kernow
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Sadly for Maya Keyes, her father apparently has more affection for his ideology than for his daughter. She says her parents kicked her out of the house and have refused to pay for her education. (Thankfully, some of those evil gay people have come forward to pay her tuition at Brown next year through the Point Foundation.) Perhaps Mr. and Mrs. Cheney could find the time to call Mr. and Mrs. Keyes and explain how parents who actually value their families react when they learn one of their children is gay.

Oh, the horror, not paying for her education!

Keyes sticks with his principles and the author condemns him for it.
7 posted on 02/16/2005 10:16:36 PM PST by fortheDeclaration
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I am very sure that a large proportion of these so-called "gay" offspring are nothing of the sort.

These are otherwise innocents who have been proseletized, promoted, subverted and seduced by a relentless campaign of propaganda and pressure. I wonder if it is even a wise thing anymore to send a child to University.

These former places of refuge and learning are now swamps of leftist lies, perversion and hate.

We seem to be nearing the time that torches must be lit.

Figuratively, of course. I don't want to be seen as promoting violence. Especially aginst the slimeballs inhabiting our Universities. Like Ward Churchill, as he is of this same cloth.

13 posted on 02/16/2005 10:26:17 PM PST by John Valentine
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Extremely classless on the part of the daughter, not only for the harm it does to her father, but also with respect to the TMI given to the rest of us.

18 posted on 02/16/2005 10:46:05 PM PST by thoughtomator
AHiddenSaint | 02.23.05 - 6:32 pm | #

I know I should have seen this somewhere, but...Jim/Jeff is 47 years old (?)...and this stuff has been going on since 2002/2003 (?)

couser (& anyone else with similar questions), go back through the archives here. About two weeks ago when this all started busting open there was an explosion of fact finding on this blog, and you can go learn about the details (such as they are) back in the threads from that time. There's also half-decent educated guesswork. That should help you fill in some of the gaps, at least.
oddjob | 02.23.05 - 6:34 pm | #

----Negraponte & Cheney traveling to Iran??!!

Say what? Cheney would go near Iran. Shit, they would nuke him.

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That might result in me becoming religious again... As in, 'there must be a God' :-)
Jeff Fallert | 02.23.05 - 6:36 pm | #

I think that $10,000 reward for real evidence is a pretty good idea. No telling what could crawl out of the carpet.
R | 02.23.05 - 6:38 pm | #

Well, I got my first response from a letter I wrote.... And I wrote it to a talk show host here in Washington DC.....and here is the FULL response, I used cut and paste and x'd out both names.


xxxx...i just don't see this as talk show fodder. its an interesting story for sure... but i don't see where is goes. plus i hate the "outting" that is going on. XXXXXXX


So looks like the reason this story of Gannon is being held back by the media is A LOT of CLOSTED PEOPLE WOULD BE EXPOSED!

No wonder the media is afraid to touch this story!
No wonder NOBODY wants to put it on the front page.
There are SO many closted gay important people out there that this would be the bigger then Watergate or Monica Gate combined!!!!
Here in Washington DC | 02.23.05 - 6:49 pm | #

The most astounding remark of Mitt's was (in regard to LBGT's having children): "Some of them even have children born to them."

What's next? Regulating our reproductive rights?
Edina Monsoon | 02.23.05 - 6:56 pm | #

Here in Washington DC - I hear what you are saying, and I believe it would cross party lines. The public would say about Democrats "oh, it figures", but as to the Republicans - let it suffice to say it will be devastating. For the record, I am not gay at all, but am someone with and open mind. This story isn't just about homosexuality - it IS about using connections for inside info, and if sex, and especially sex for hire, is involved, then it IS the biggest scandal for a long, long time. One part of me hopes it isn't, as I am an American and proud of it. My more reasonable side says I hope it is, as this administration needs to be cut down and quick before they destroy the entire world.
mtnman | 02.23.05 - 7:11 pm | #

The other thing about it is that a signficant chunk of the story still fits inside the box a very, very large number of Americans would call "tawdry". They freaked at having to discuss blow jobs openly thanks to Bill C., how are those folks going to take to having MSM force them to openly, frankly contend with man-man sex?

They'll brutalize MSM for making them contend with it, and that won't do a thing for the corporate earnings of the MSM owners.
oddjob | 02.23.05 - 7:21 pm | #

Ann Coulter weighs in at Yahoo news.

Liberals keep rolling out a scrolling series of attacks on Gannon for their Two Minutes Hate, but all their other charges against him fall apart after three seconds of scrutiny. Gannon's only offense is that he may be gay.

From Google news search: gannon [sort by date]
Snoopy | 02.23.05 - 7:30 pm | #

What is more funny than Cheney and Negroponte going to Iran, is Limbaugh touring Afghanistan? And who is paying? And why is he there and how much attention is he going to be getting?
madatthemedia | 02.23.05 - 7:34 pm | #

love it when ann talks about hate
dad | 02.23.05 - 7:52 pm | #

Who is this Charlie Jarvis (usanext.com) guy, and what's in his closet? There must be some bloggers out there who know about this guy.
chuk | 02.23.05 - 7:53 pm | #

Romney is anti-gay to the core, no doubt about it. But didn't the leading democratic contender for governor in Mass., AG Reilly, oppose gay marriage rights and only recently switched his position now that he has to fight for the votes of Democrats in the primary? Surely Mass. voters who favor equal rights can do better than this, no?
Marc | 02.23.05 - 8:58 pm | #

Being anti-marriage doesn't make you homophobic. Being anti gay and anti marriage makes you homophobic like Romney!
Here in Washington DC | 02.23.05 - 9:57 pm | #

RE Mass AG Reilly

Id rather have someone with us for the wrong reasons than someone that isnt with us at all.

You know its yet another example of a so-called moderate Republican going hard anti-Gay when it suits them.

Next up....Rudy Giuliani..
Tom | 02.24.05 - 1:07 am | #