Anonymous ID: 1f4b09 Oct. 6, 2021, 7:17 p.m. No.14736669   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6673

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https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeff_Gannon

 

"Jeff Gannon" is the pseudonym used by James Dale Guckert, unmasked in February 2005 by John Aravosis's AMERICAblog.org Blogspot and Media Matters for America, a liberal watchdog group based in Washington, DC, to be a fake White House "correspondent" working for the pseudo news organization Talon News, which is closely tied to GOPUSA, a right-wing site owned by a Texas-based Republican activist.

 

Gannon had access to the White House and was admitted to the White House press briefing room on day press passes for almost two years. He was recognized for editorializing before asking "softball" questions of the White House press staff and, even on occasion, of President George W. Bush, to break up lines of aggressive questioning by legitimate reporters, thereby assisting the staff in controlling press conferences.

Anonymous ID: 1f4b09 Oct. 6, 2021, 7:18 p.m. No.14736673   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Summary

Investigation has followed at a feverish pace by blogspots Media Matters for America, Daily Kos, The Raw Story, Crooks and Liars, Media Citizen, Editor & Publisher, and other bloggers, as well as interviews with Gannon on CNN and MSNBC and through other media outlets, which discovered that, among other things, "Jeff Gannon"

 

has no media experience other than a two-day training course at The Leadership Institute's Broadcast School of Journalism

was denied media credentials April 7, 2004, by the "Standing Committee of Correspondents, the press body that oversees the distribution of credentials on Capitol Hill"

was not working for a recognized media outlet

had access to the White House press briefing room before Talon News was operational

operates an online male escort service [1]

had a career as a $200-an-hour escort [2]. A particularly indiscreet aspect was that he used the same pseudonym for both his "escort" work and his "journalist" work!

posed nude in photos discovered on numerous gay web sites, including MaleCorps.com, WorkingBoys.net and MeetLocalMen.com [3][4]

owns several male gay porn websites, including military-themed escort domain names [5]

had access to the Valerie Plame CIA memo

raises questions about posing a security risk as he somehow bypassed both Secret Service and FBI screening to access the White House press room

raises questions as to how he gained access to the White House press room when legitimate journalists cannot

is suspected of being a "plant" for Republican operative Karl Rove

is suspected of assisting the GOP to "attack" Democratic Senator Tom Daschle

knew about shock and awe attack on Iraq four hours before it happened [6]

bragged to Free Republic that he fed information to Sean Hannity on September 10, 2004, "about Mary Mapes which would discredit Dan Rather's sources on the National Guard story" [7]

"Jeff Gannon"'s GOPUSA bio via the WaybackMachine, which is gone from both the Talon News and GOPUSA web sites.

"Jeff Gannon" in the Wikipedia.

"Jeff Gannon" in the dKosopedia.

For those to need to catch up, perhaps, see World O'Crap's version of "'Jeff Gannon / James Guckert' for Dummies," with links to other versions (February 23, 2005).