UPDATE: Gannon/Guckert (supposedly) started a blog! Oh God, this is too funny if it’s true.
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A portion of the announcement on the Talon News website:
Talon News will be offline while we redesign the web site, perform a top-to-bottom review of staff and volunteer contributors, and address future operational procedures.
Meanwhile, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., and Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y are calling for an expanded investigation into the White House’s role in propaganda. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid has signed on too. I don’t like the phrase “pre-packaged stories” that showed up in the AJC article (login) though. I don’t think the desired outcome is to outlaw press releases.
Not that more than eight or ten people read this site frequently, but I’ve been trying to be careful about what I reprint since there’s a lot of disinformation floating around. For example, I suspect the supposed $10,000 reward offered for concrete information linking Gannon/Guckert to the Bush administration is fake, but I don’t know.
More reading:
- World Net Daily: No substitute for real journalism
- Detroit Free Press: At the White House, don’t duck the real questions
- Ann Coulter: REPUBLICANS, BLOGGERS AND GAYS, OH MY!
- New Yorker: Newshounds
- Tampa Tribune: Outing A White House `Reporter’
Also, there’s a column on the Fox News website that tries to make sense of blogs’ effect on public discourse. I disagree narrowly with its treatment of the Gannon/Guckert story, for reasons I’ve repeated on here multiple times:
Likewise, many of the same leftist blogs that castigate the religious right for intolerance didn’t hesitate to reveal the sexual peculiarities of White House correspondent/sympathizer James Guckert, aka Jeff Gannon.
Otherwise, I think it’s a pretty good column.
The AJC finally did an article on Gannon.
God damn. Note to self: Read whole posts. All I saw were the articles linked from other places.
Jeez. I don’t think Ann Coulter will ever stop lying. At least, not until she stops breathing. I don’t know what’s more sad: that she thinks the public is that stupid, or that there are people out there who actually take her seriously.
We’ve got to keep Ann Coulter around, if only so we can use her and Jerry Falwell as examples when the right tries to brand us as lunatics.
Coulter goes around calling for people like to me to be killed and murdered. I hate that bitch. She…must…disappear….
of ocurse, i mean that in a Christian way…