So Kurtz' only source....is the dailykos and some other web sites. The folks at the Howard Dean campaign admitted that dailykos' Zuniga was on their payroll. And it is shown true on Zuniga's company web site
www.armstrongzuniga.com
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So Kurtz runs with the basis of his story being mainly from the internet. Which is funny since, at first, he was against the memogate story ...based on its blogbase...and the memogate story had many other sources.
No shock...on another thread...someone posted this info that shows Kurtz may have been working with the folks at dailykos. (see below line). Keep in mind..what the dailykos poster wrote below...is factually wrong. The White House does not handle press passes. Those are handled by the Congressional Press Galleries.
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http://georgia10.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/7/203035/3282 There's no indication in the column of when McClellan said this, however. Kurtz did get one important thing out in the open: that Gannon uses a pseudonym "he declines to reveal." (No one has yet attempted an explanation of why the Secret Service would approve a "reporter" with a false name, which tells me that they know very well what his real name is.) In an effort to find out a bit more, and to see if he could tell me how to apply for White House press credentials, I called Kurtz. But he never called me back. I guess when you're a big-time columnist, you're awfully busy.
However, a long-time friend who writes for one of our larger metropolitan dailies was able to give me the name and phone number of the person who handles administrative matters for their international news desk. That person was extraordinarily helpful and, once I had explained that I was trying to discover the process to apply for White House press credentials, offered to call the DC bureau for me.
The information returned from the large metropolitan daily's Washington bureau confirmed what I suspected all along: Anyone seeking a White House press pass must write, on official letterhead, to Jeff's friend Scottie."
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