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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"Fredric L. Rice" |
| Date: |
17 Feb 2005 12:38:05 AM |
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"From the homo underground" |
I'm sorry, but the phrase "from the homosexual underground" to
be just too, too amusing. }:-}
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'Liberal' Media Silent About Guckert Saga
by Joe Conason
http://www.observer.com/pages/conason.asp
Proof that "the liberal media" is but a figment of right-wing mythology
has now arrived in the person of one James Guckert, formerly known as
Jeff Gannon. Were the American media truly liberal-or merely unafraid
to be called liberal-the saga of Mr. Guckert's short, strange,
quasi-journalistic career would be resounding across the airwaves.
The intrinsic media interest of the Guckert/Gannon story should be
obvious to anyone who has followed his tale, which touches on hot
topics from the homosexual underground and the investigation into the
outing of C.I.A. agent Valerie Plame to the political power of the
Internet. But our supposedly liberal media becomes quite squeamish when
reporting anything that might humiliate the Bush White House and the
Republican Party.
Until very recently, Mr. Guckert served as the White House
correspondent for Talon News, a Web site owned and operated by a group
of Texas Republican activists who also run a highly partisan site
called GOPUSA.com. Mr. Guckert resigned from his Talon job after
liberal bloggers exposed his ties to Web sites promoting homosexual
prostitution. On Valentine's Day, AmericaBlog.org posted new evidence
indicating that Mr. Guckert not only constructed those gay-play-for-pay
sites, but worked as a male escort himself-and continued to do so
until he got his first White House press pass in 2003.
Using his "Jeff Gannon" alias, Mr. Guckert soon became a familiar face
in the briefing room, where White House press secretary Scott McClellan
would call on him as "Jeff." No doubt Mr. McClellan welcomed his
mushy-soft, Democrat-baiting questions.
George W. Bush called on him during his most recent press
conference-a signal honor for a reporter from an obscure Internet
publication, and quite a surprise to the dozens of actual reporters
bypassed by Mr. Bush on Jan. 26.
Mr. Guckert's archived writings suddenly disappeared from the Talon
News Web site, but several of his greatest works have been preserved by
the watchdogs at MediaMatters.org. They show that he had no
journalistic purpose, let alone experience. His copy featured long
passages lifted directly from White House press releases. Last year,
during the Internet frenzy over Senator John Kerry's "intern
girlfriend," he falsely wrote that the young woman had "taped an
interview with one of the major television networks at Christmas
substantiating the alleged affair."
He also made a curious cameo appearance in the Valerie Plame
controversy. In late 2003, Mr. Guckert called former Ambassador Joseph
Wilson. During that interview, the Talon correspondent mentioned a
C.I.A. document that supposedly showed Ms. Plame had dispatched Mr.
Wilson, her husband, on a government mission to Niger to investigate
rumored Iraqi uranium purchases. That allegation was meant to discredit
the former ambassador, who had exposed White House intelligence abuses.
Administration leaks to the press about Ms. Plame's C.I.A. work are
currently under investigation by a special prosecutor.
What Mr. Guckert seems to have been is not a journalist but a
Republican dirty trickster. He was schooled at the Leadership
Institute-an outfit run by veteran right-wing operative and
Republican National Committee member Morton Blackwell. (It was Mr.
Blackwell who distributed those cute "purple heart" Band-aids mocking
Mr. Kerry's war wounds at the Republican convention last summer.) His
former employers at Talon News include leading Republican fund-raisers
and former officials of the Texas Republican Party who have been active
in partisan affairs for the past two decades.
How did this character obtain a coveted place in the White House? What
did the White House press staff know about him? How does his story fit
within the larger scandal of payola punditry, with federal funds
subsidizing Republican propagandists in the press corps? Did someone in
the Bush administration give him a classified document?
Such questions are evidently of little concern to our liberal media
outlets, whose leading lights prefer to deliver prim lectures about the
unwarranted invasion of Mr. Guckert's private affairs and his
victimization for his conservative views. In fact, everything known
about him comes from material he posted on public Web sites, but
that's beside the point.
Imagine the media explosion if a male escort had been discovered
operating as a correspondent in the Clinton White House. Imagine that
he was paid by an outfit owned by Arkansas Democrats and had been
trained in journalism by James Carville. Imagine that this gentleman
had been cultivated and called upon by Mike McCurry or Joe
Lockhart-or by President Clinton himself. Imagine that this
"journalist" had smeared a Republican Presidential candidate and had
previously claimed access to classified documents in a
national-security scandal.
Then imagine the constant screaming on radio, on television, on Capitol
Hill, in the Washington press corps-and listen to the placid mumbling
of the "liberal" media now.
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| User: "desertphile@hot mail. com Desertphile, American Patriot" |
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| Title: Re: "From the homo underground" |
17 Feb 2005 03:21:14 PM |
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:38:05 GMT, (Fredric
L. Rice) wrote:
I'm sorry, but the phrase "from the homosexual underground" to
be just too, too amusing. }:-}
Amusing, yes, but also accurate: look at all the homosexuals in
the Bush2 administration who have been "outted" no matter how much
they have tried to hide, no matter how much the fags have
denounced and castigated homosexuality themselves. It's like a
***** Roman spectacle.
'Liberal' Media Silent About Guckert Saga
by Joe Conason
http://www.observer.com/pages/conason.asp
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