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The Talons of Intimidation- Jeff Gannon's saga
various FR links & stories | 02-10-05 | the heavy equipment guy

Posted on 02/09/2005 11:15:05 PM PST by backhoe

 Jeff Gannon - -A Voice of the New Media - The voice goes silent. -- Jeff Gannon  ran an independent news service. He got White House credentials, and was targeted by the Boston Globe in a hit piece because he isn't a "real," that is to say, "anti-administration" journalist.
 
Online Reporter Quits After Liberals' Expose
 
  White House Fights Back - and Wins (Rush Limbaugh Issues Defense of Jeff Gannon)
 
 Conservative Reporter Resigns Amid Controversy (NPR joins all-out war on conservative reporters) 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1338350/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1338316/posts
 
 Representative Louise Slaughter's Dan Rather Moment --
 this is the age of Google and web searches, the greatest equalizer since the Colt revolver --
On February 7th, US Representative Louise Slaughter, D-NY, issued a press release on Jeff Gannon, a reporter from the web news site Talon News -- And then, in order to support her charges against Gannon, Representative Slaughter cited an open letter from the Niagara Falls Reporter, which levelelled, among other things, allegations published in the Philadelphia Daily News:
 Congresswoman Asks for Probe After 'Gannon' Quits WH Reporting Post
 
 
Rep. Slaughter Calls on President Bush to Explain Emerging White House Briefing Room Scandal -- Unbelieveable. FR got Dan Rather and all they can do to respond is go after Gannon and Talon News.
And they did it with a falsified attribution to the Philly Daily News. I had a source there confirm that they ran no such article.
Ms. Slaughter-- why she is issuing a press release without confirming the facts?
 The left is spinning so fast that I can't leave the house for a few hours without falling behind. This is so coordinated that it's transparent.
 
 White House Correspondents Criticize Alleged 'Softball Thrower' -- and Jeff Gannon Fires Back
 
 Media Matters Asks Scott McClellan to Consider Revoking White House Press Credentials of Talon News
 
 Brock Demands McClellan Revoke WH Credentials of Talon News Reporter/RIGHTALK Host Jeff Gannon
 
 Jeff Gannon: you are getting noticed at the daily briefings
 
 Webb Attacks Conservative Media After Being Exposed for 'Death Penalty' Remarks Against Bush
 
 Website Exposes Kerry's 1971 Antiwar Book, Activities (FRN)


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gannon; jeffgannon; jellybean; leftwingsmear; talonnews
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To: MEG33
Powerline is one of my favorites- thanks for the link.

A snippet:


The Insanity of the American Left

I can't count the number of emails we've gotten from Democrats on the Jeff Gannon "story." For the most part, they drip with venom and irrational hatred. I'd like to believe that there is some kind of a respectable left in this country, but where is it? It sure isn't showing up in our email inbox.

This missive, which came in this morning, is typical:

I guess you "holier-than-thou moral values conservatives" don't have a problem with gay male prostitutes who pose as conservative reporters as long as they are republican, huh? Hypocrites. If there is a god, you hypocrites are all going to hell. (I don't think God will forgive you, even if you ARE republican.)

The stupidity of these people, as well as their malice, is mind-boggling. Can anyone discern what this guy, and the dozens if not hundreds of Democrats who have sent more or less identical emails, are talking about? Why are liberals obsessed with the fact that Jeff Gannon was once a gay escort? Beats me. Why does this character think that as conservatives, we are duty-bound to hate gay escorts? Beats me. We've done close to 10,000 posts on this site, and I doubt that we've ever mentioned gay escorts one way or another. Would I want my son to be one? No. Do I think that having once been a gay escort should disqualify Jeff Gannon from becoming a reporter, or entering any other occupation? No. Why do liberals find this so hard to understand? And how on God's green earth does this make us "hypocrites"?


As I mentioned to JohnHuang2 on an early morning post, our gay bretheren had better note carefully and well how fast their alleged friends & allies on the Left will throw them to the wolves when it's to their even slight advantage.

121 posted on 02/21/2005 5:51:06 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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To: backhoe

I saw the interview mentioned in PowerLine...I wanted to add this to the story.


122 posted on 02/21/2005 5:57:11 AM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: sauropod

Check out later.


123 posted on 02/21/2005 6:04:09 AM PST by sauropod (Hitlary: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.")
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Web Site Owner Says He Knew of Reporter's 2 Identities

124 posted on 02/21/2005 9:26:57 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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No substitute for real journalism: Joseph Farah on lessons to learn from the Gannon-Guckert scandal

125 posted on 02/23/2005 3:29:32 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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 Republicans, bloggers and gays, oh my!(Ann Coulter) -- Is there a website where I can go to and find out how the Democrats want me to feel about gay people on a moment-to-moment basis?
 Both Houses of Congress Get Involved in 'Gannon' Case -- Keep diggin', Dems, keep diggin'....
 The Truth is Out There
 No sex, please: We’re liberals!: Jeff Gannon and the MSM
 Maurice Hinchey, Dem Rep Who Accused Rove of Planting Rathergate Docs, on Hannity Tonight
 

126 posted on 02/23/2005 11:58:58 PM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
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FYI Jeffgannon.com

127 posted on 02/24/2005 3:09:30 PM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
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