The Talons of Intimidation- Jeff Gannon's saga

various FR links & stories | 02-10-05 | the heavy equipment guy

[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)

[patj]

I have not been through all these stories yet, but can you tell me if anyone is talking about the fact that Tim Russert and Stephonopolus weren't real journalists when they got their jobs?

[backhoe]

can you tell me if anyone is talking about the fact that Tim Russert and Stephonopolus weren't real journalists when they got their jobs?

I've never heard anyone outside of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy mention this.

[G.Mason]

Article about Brock by Hitchens, from 2002

[Jonx6]

What is a Kos?

[Sirc_Valence]

This whole thing smells like a setup.

How was the LIEberal media investigating another reporter for being "White House Friendly" so quickly after "Jeff Gannon's" (who resigned from Talon News- see statement at bottom) false quote of Senate Democrat Harry Reid ?????!!!!

"Jeff Gannon" owned HotMilitaryStud.com, MilitaryEscorts.com and other such sites.

There's more to this story but I think he's a LIEberal who infiltrated and was bait which some at Talon News apparently took.

- Statement concerning former Washington, DC correspondent Jeff Gannon Talon News

Washington, DC reporter and White House Correspondent Jeff Gannon submitted his resignation from our organization effective February 8, 2005.

I understand and support Jeff's decision, and have accepted the resignation.

We are currently evaluating candidates to fill this critical assignment, and anticipate minimal interruption of Talon's coverage of our nation's capitol and the White House in the meantime.

-- Robert R. Eberle, Ph.D. Editor in Chief, Talon News

[mabelkitty]

I don't know why they care?
This is bizarre.
Now they are peeking into his bedroom and hoping to smear him with homosexual slurs? Are you kidding me with this?

Nice folks, those Democrats.

[hellinahandcart]

bump

[hellinahandcart]

ping

[mabelkitty]

It is a real news site.
During the Dan Rather-Tang bombshell, Gannon exposed Mary Mapes before anyone else even knew who she was.
Gannon is from Texas, as it all the filthy parties to the lie.
No wonder he had sources - Texas was crawling with trawling psuedo-journos like Dan Rather and Mary Mapes for months.

[OXENinFLA]

PING...

[Peach]

A great job (again), backhoe!

[mabelkitty]

??? I have no idea what you are trying to say.
Please repeat.

[backhoe]

[PGalt]

Thanks backhoe. FREEDOM is on the march.

[Mo1]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/18/25414/7565
(snip)
There's been questions as to whether I was paid by any of the campaigns I endorsed in the ineptly named Kos Dozen. The answers is no. Now, I didn't feel a need to disclose it because quite frankly, I don't think my every financial move is any of anybody's business unless I write about the topic.

[prairiebreeze]

ROFLMAO!!

[firewalk]

and while everyone is looking into this,
what else is going on I wonder...

[prairiebreeze]

Well exactly. This Gannon story combined with the Slimes dredging up yet another story about how clues were missed in the months prior to 9-11. Ho-hum, this is new?

WHAT is it that they are not wanting to cover? Condi? Iraqi successes? Iran? UN? All of the above?

[palmer]

from the link you provided:

As Jerome notes, we're at war with the Right, and the conservative bloggers see themselves at war with the Left. But I think we're seeing a measure of solidarity when our medium is under attack. And make no mistake about it, the media establishment is gunning for us

LOL, that's because you (Kos) are the weakest link.

[Duke Nukum]

So a guy like Ward Churchill can keep on spreading his hate and lies. And Nazi's can sponsor a highway in Salem OR. Because that's what free speech is all about.

But Jeff Gannon must be silenced.

Because that's the American Way. Free speech for the haters of freedom and a muzzle for the rest of us.