Posted on 06/03/2008 6:00:36 PM PDT by ConservativeMajority
The Old Media feeding frenzy surrounding former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s “tell all” book continued unabated this week across television, radio, print and the Internet. However, something is noticeably absent from the volume that sparked a jubilant liberal orgy: Jeff Gannon.
Howard Kurtz noted the omission in his Washington Post column Monday pointing out McClellan’s first cable talk show appearance was an interview with MSNBC’s Bush-hating Keith Olbermann:
Olbermann hailed the book, "What Happened," as "a primary document of American history" that contained "poetry." Talk about role reversal: It was Olbermann who said in 2005 that "whenever I hear Scott McClellan talking about 'media credibility,' I strain to remember who it was who admitted Jeff Gannon to the White House press room and called on him all those times."
The Gannongate saga played out in the media for several months after I asked “The Question” in January 2005, the result of a political hit job by Media Matters for America and a smear campaign by rabid liberal bloggers, especially some particularly vicious members of the Angry Gay Left. Olbermann raged about it for weeks, yet when Scott sat down with him, not a single question was posed about Jeff Gannon.
Over 40 books have been written over the last few years that mention Jeff Gannon, all of them in a negative way except for one by Ann Coulter. Helen Thomas took a shot at me in her leftist rant “Watchdogs of Democracy?” and New York Times columnist Frank Rich accused me of being part of a plot to promote propaganda about going to war in Iraq in his anti-Bush screed, “The Greatest Story Ever Sold.” Other liberal writers have constructed more complex and sinister conspiracies about my two years as a reporter at the White House based on no facts whatsoever.
Most of those writers accused McClellan of facilitating my presence in the briefing room. However, despite the “still unanswered” questions about Jeff Gannon, McClellan has not been called on by interviewers to shed any light on one of the left’s favorite preoccupations or explain the reason the subject of such a controversy was not included in his “tell all.”
McClellan omitted mention of me from his book because he could not even offer speculation about Jeff Gannon. The reason for this is simple: I was exactly what I said I was. I was a New Media pioneer, the first exclusively online journalist to cover on the White House on a daily basis. I was not a plant whose job it was to “lob softballs” at President Bush or help Scott McClellan out of a jam when the questioning from the liberal lynch mob got too intense. Nor did I get passes into the White House for two years under suspicious circumstances or “visit” for a nefarious purpose other than a reporter covering a beat.
Scott knew nothing about my personal life, nor did anyone at the White House.
Ironically, the White House of the Patriot Act and “warrantless wiretapping” did not investigate journalists, but Democratic members of Congress like Reps. John Conyers and Louise Slaughter did in my case. It was left wing bloggers who invaded my privacy to wage their jihad to drive me out of the White House and destroy my reputation. Traditional media dropped the Gannon story – except for the most liberal outlets – when it did not amount to anything. There was no scandal, just an average guy who became the unlucky target of angry activists suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome.
This is a concept that the left refuses to accept or acknowledge because it does so much damage to its view of the Bush administration. Whether that Joe Wilson was proven a liar, Richard Armitage “leaked” Valerie Plame’s name to Robert Novak or Jeff Gannon was just a conservative reporter, liberals have a penchant for disregarding facts that contradict their cherished “truths.”
I am in no way disappointed not to have been mentioned in Scott McClellan’s book. In fact, I am pleased. The liberal slanders of “fake reporter”, “administration shill” and “press plant” are rendered null and void as the result of McClellan’s silence. For all of its bitter whining, flawed premises and inaccurate conclusions, McClellan’s book is a vindication for Jeff Gannon.
Does Jeff Gannon plan to write a “tell all” book?
[... liberals have a penchant for disregarding facts
that contradict their cherished “truths.” ...]
God bless Jeff Gannon and may the Lord restore
what the liberals (locusts) have eaten. (Joel 2:25)
He pretty much already showed all.
Gannon says he did when he self-published “The Great Media War” last fall. http://www.thegreatmediawar.com
Is Scott GAY?
Some folks think so, the rest don’t care.
Decal is glad that decal doesn’t refer to decal in the third person and come across as all pretentious as Jeff Gannon does.
Well, he is performing, well...ahem... upon the Democrats, isn't he?
More important question; does Jeff Gannon always speak of himself in the third person?
LOL
He got married in 2003, I am sure to a woman assuming the marriage was in Texas. TEXAS doesn’t put up with any of that gay marriage junk. That said, he acts quite strange:-(
Some would say he is too stupid to be parrot, but he proved he is a parrot, swallowing every word given to him by his liberal handlers and regurgitating all of their antiamerican rants. That makes him a great prostitute and a stinking husband! For him to attack Our Great President who trusted him more than any of Us could understand, is the lowest, most dispicable acts one can imagine. I hope his wife can still stand him as dispicable and stinkingas he has proven himself. mr. mcclellan,you are not even worth capitalizing any letters in your name.
I don’t care.
Rumor is....David Brock flipped him.
Ping for later!
Fat little Scotty is nothing but a pitiable mama’s boy trying to make amends to liberals so he can go back to the Peoples’ Republic of Austin and get invited to parties and such.
I apologize for saying that Scott McClellan is Gay....I do NOT know that....I just could not think of any other reason for him to be so disloyal. Dear Scott....please forgive me.
I can't remember the post where you wrote that. I do remember the question being asked. If he were homosexual, in my mind, it would tend to explain the undo influence of his publisher, and his sophomoric banter. (I know, I know, it's a gross generalization, but IMO, justifiable.)
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