Maureen Dowd of the NYT Bodyslams the Administration on Gannon

[dave123williams]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/17/opinion/17dowd.html

I think registration's required; it's worth it.


"I'm still mystified by this story. I was rejected for a White House press pass at the start of the Bush administration, but someone with an alias, a tax evasion problem and Internet pictures where he posed like the "Barberini Faun" is credentialed to cover a White House that won a second term by mining homophobia and preaching family values?

At first when I tried to complain about not getting my pass renewed, even though I'd been covering presidents and first ladies since 1986, no one called me back. Finally, when Mr. McClellan replaced Ari Fleischer, he said he'd renew the pass - after a new Secret Service background check that would last several months.

In an era when security concerns are paramount, what kind of Secret Service background check did James Guckert get so he could saunter into the West Wing every day under an assumed name while he was doing full-frontal advertising for stud services for $1,200 a weekend? He used a driver's license that said James Guckert to get into the White House, then, once inside, switched to his alter ego, asking questions as Jeff Gannon."

[DainBramaged]

1. It took the NYT long enough, and via the Op-ED and Arts pages

only (Frank Rick).

[ElsewheresDaughter]

2. it should be "above the fold front page" MSM stuff...she makes excellent

points........i nominated it for DU front page

[pretzel4gore]

3. good for bushinc!

denying this cheap mediawhore a press pass that a hard working punk like guck/gannon gets easily is poetic justice...goddammit i hope dowd ends up in jail someday (and if bushinc puts her there, even better!)

[ArtVandaley]

4. I love Dowd

great article

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[ElsewheresDaughter]

10. huh???

[pretzel4gore]

21. i was being facetious (freeper-ish)

to some extent but! dowd never done her job when bushinc could have been exposed....she had the clout to force the corp. media to allow criticism of the bushcrooks before they re-stole the white house....for that, dowd can never be allowed to pretend she's a bush critic (though any help against bush is welcome)
Dowd should at least reimburse society several years wages/benefits she was getting while, in effect abetting a criminal organization (the gop)

[dave123williams]

22. You're scary good at their kind of spin....

What's the secret?

[pretzel4gore]

24. immersed in rw logic, watching it twist in the breeze

for too many years, i've seen the nazipoos get away with murder etc...i will never forgive them fukking pigs for robert kennedy, and moreen dowd etc can pretend they're stupid all they want in the service of kennedy's killers but fukkem....

[progmom]

15. what the heck????

[Alisa]

5. I'm going to vote this up for greatest

Dowd has excellent points - great editorial.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

6. I read it this morning, and it soooooo good! I loved the ending.

"Even the Nixon White House didn't do anything this creepy. It's worse than hating the press. It's an attempt to reinvent it."

[lawladyprof]

19. I'd have chosen "subvert" or "corrupt" over "reinvent" eom

N/T

[EVDebs]

7. Just classic. They snub Helen Thomas and Maureen Dowd but

bend over backwards for this guy Gannon/Guckert. What's up with that?

Here's a Helen Thomas interview to whet your appetites:

http://www.realchangenews.org/pastissuesupgrade/2004_03_18/current/features/noapologies.html

[Supersedeas]

16. thanks for the link EVD

[RetroLounge]

17. "bend over backwards"

truer words...

RL

[mzmolly]

9. Bugmenot.com has a password setup

redrum7 = username
redrum = password

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/17/opinion/17dowd.html?oref=login

[ElsewheresDaughter]

12. wow thank you mzmolly!

:yourock:

[mzmolly]

13. No problemo!

:hi:

[quaoar]

11. Everyone should email Dowd

and thank her for such a great column

[e-mail]

[TexasSissy]

14. The American public deserves some answers on this.

This is shocking. We deserve, and should demand, an explanation from the W.H., who has mysteriously not commented yet, as far as I know. Or at least hasn't explained this Gannon business.

[cthrumatrix]

18. cmc (Corporate Media Cartel) refuses....it's all about power

[Shredr]

23. Yes!

[EVDebs]

20. Here's another link without registering to NYT for the article

Der Speigel printed it at
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,342235,00.html

Oh, and btw, Operation Mockingbird is something the CIA (and possibly jointly with the military--read PsyOps) have been doing since the '40's and no one has ever called them on it in the MSM, mainly because it IS payola. Can't do a story without the info, and if they withhold as 'payback', well....