Air America Given White House Press Pass

Tuesday, July 26, 2005 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

Liberal blogger Eric Brewer, who writes for the blog BTC News, wrote that a 'reporter' for Air America radio has been given a White House press pass.

Brewer says he met the new 'reporter' while going through security to cover yesterday's White House briefing by Scott McClellan.

The Air America reporter is identified as a lawyer from Aptos, California named Paul Sanford. A quick search shows that Mr. Sanford does have a law practice there, but according to his Website he does not have an education in journalism. However, he is a law professor which might explain his erudite debut question to the White House press secretary:

"There has been a lot of speculation concerning the meaning of the underlying statute in the grand jury investigation concerning Mr. Rove. The question is, have the legal counsel to the White House or White House staff reviewed the statute in sufficient specificity to determine whether a violation of that statute would, in effect, constitute treason?"

McLellan responded,"I think that in terms of decisions regarding the investigation, those are matters for those overseeing the investigation to decide."

Sanford is mentioned in a July 15 article in the Monterey Herald here: KOMY will feature six hours of programming from the liberal Air America broadcast network. The new lineup will include Franken, author of "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" and "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations"; commentator Randi Rhodes; Alan Colmes; and Santa Cruz lawyer and Democratic Party activist Paul Sanford, who will be involved with programming 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. every day.

Hmmm....Democratic party activist.....Mr. Sanford will be right at home in the White House press corps.

[kristinn]

Jeff Gannon was destroyed by the press corps and liberal bloggers because he was an openly conservative reporter writing for a conservative Internet site. Funny how when the politics are reversed everything's just ducky.

[weegee]

Goebbels would be proud.

[weegee]

Lord Haw Haw is laughing tonight.

[TBarnett34]

Pardon me while I hold my breath for the MSM to pick this one up.

Good find, Kristinn.

[weegee]

If it was an act of treason, who did Rove knowingly give aid, comfort, and support to?

The left are traitors. Ask convicted American-Nazi broadcasters Axis Sally and Lord Haw Haw.

[mewzilla]

Is this the guy?

[OXENinFLA]

ping.....

[mewzilla]

Duh. You linked to it. Defends alleged drunk drivers. Lovely.

[general_re]

Jeff Gannon was destroyed by the press corps and liberal bloggers because he was an openly conservative reporter writing for a conservative Internet site.

Uh, well, the gay escort-service thing didn't help either.

[Howlin]

But is he gay?

[Howlin]

DUIs?

FGS, I'm applying tomorrow.

[cubreporter]

Did Jeff Ganon fight for his rights?

[Lazamataz]

But is he gay?

I've read on the internet that he is.

[balch3]

Whose dumb idea was this? Cutting our own throats.

[rintense]

No, he was destroyed for his personal life, not his reporting capabilities.

Liberals wrote the playbook on this.

[weegee]

Barney Frank still has a job despite his aides.

[You Dirty Rats]

I have no problem with openly partisan reporters representing openly partisan broadcasters, newspapers or other media having a WH press pass. At least Airhead America is honest about their views -- unlike the alphabet networks. Plus, giving Airhead America more publicity doesn't exactly help the Left convince sober citizens that they are ready to govern this country and aren't a bunch of kooks.

So when will Free Republic have a WH press pass?

[weegee]

They are not unlike other despotic leaders.

[mewzilla]

He's also been involved with something called the Human Care Alliance, and was a lawyer for some homeless people who were squatting at a camp called Camp Paradise. Doesn't sound like he's going to be doing too many good deeds if he's becoming a WH presstitute.

[weegee]

Not sure but I think that WND was repeatedly refused.

According to News.google, FR is NOT a news source despite the regular editorials that are published only here (or here first) by members.

News.google does believe that DU is a news source.