Jeff Gannon Returns To Fray With Book Blasting Media's 'Liberal Bias'

Source: E&P

CHICAGO Two years after he became a famous, or infamous, White House correspondent, Jeff Gannon is back with a book excoriating his former colleagues, and recounting his days of reporting "behind enemy lines" at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

In a publication announcement, Gannon says his book, "The Great Media War," names names of the liberal activists with press passes he says dominates the Washington press corps -- and he takes aim at those who made him the center of a sensational scandal that included getting daily White House access with an assumed name, allegations he advertised himself on a gay escort service, and maintained Web sites including hotmilitarystud.com.

"The basic premise, which is revealed in the title, 'The Great Media War,' is that for decades liberals controlled the media," Gannon said in a telephone interview Wednesday, "and when conservatives tried to at least get a fair representation in the major media, they had to fight to get there. And now the liberals are fighting to hold onto their once-exclusive franchise.

"I'm a casualty of that conflict," Gannon added.

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The book also lashes out at some of the people, blogs, and news organizations that publicized Gannon's past. The DailyKos blog, for instance, publishes the work of "stalkers and hatemongers." Media Matters for America are "smear artists and character assassins," and the "Angry Gay Left" are "vicious and conflicted hypocrites."

Read more: http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003635263

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:rofl:

Or just that we were mean to mention it?

as well even though the chance his book is terrible is the reason no publisher wanted it---including Regan books.

None of the half-dozen right wing screed-mills would touch it.

Because he's got the gay, I guess.

EOM

why is he commenting on "journalism" ? What qualifications does he has as a "journalist? Hmmm?

it didn't involve any lectures...

Inquiring minds want to know.

Delicious!

actual government affairs has a "liberal bias" now? :wtf:

Faux News 'liberally biased'?!! :crazy:
:rofl:

I've been referring to them as the "Celebrity News Network" lately.

So he's dishing all the dirt about fellow male prostitutes, then? :sarcasm:

Excoriating prostitutes...well, he's not the first to take that brave stand!!

After watching a video with Mike Papantonio speaking with Sam Seder (posted here) about the multiple republican sex scandals. (Pap comments on how Gannon serviced rove in the WH) I did a google search and the first thing to come up was this CBS piece:

Rove-Gannon Connection?
Dotty Lynch: Gannon A Player In Republican Campaigns





WASHINGTON, Feb. 18, 2005




(CBS) Dotty Lynch is the Senior Political Editor for CBS News. E-mail your questions and comments to Political Points

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One of Gannon's first projects was an attempt to discredit the South Dakota Argus Leader, South Dakota's major paper, and its longtime political writer, David Kranz. According to the National Journal, which reported on this last November, Gannon wrote a series of articles in the summer of 2003 alleging that Kranz, who went to college with Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle, was not only sympathetic to him but was an actual part of the Daschle campaign. These articles then got a huge amount of play on the blogs of John Lauck and Jason Van Beek, and were picked up by other conservative sites and talk radio. The paper was bombarded with messages about its bias and acknowledges that these had an impact on its coverage.

Daschle opponent John Thune's campaign manager was Dick Wadham, an old political crony of Karl Rove's; the kind of pal Rove could ask to hire his first cousin, John Wood, a few years back. Wadham put the bloggers on the campaign payroll and the symbiotic relationship between the campaign, the bloggers and "reporter" Gannon continued. On September 29, Gannon broke the story that Daschle had claimed a special tax exemption for a house in Washington and the bloggers jumped all over it. According to a November 17 posting on South Dakota Politics – a site that Van Beek, who has become a staffer for now-Sen. Thune, has bequeathed to Lauck – "Jeff Gannon, whose reportage had a dramatic impact on the Daschle v. Thune race (his story about Sen. Daschle signing a legal document claiming to be a D.C. resident was published nearly the same day Thune began to run an ad showing Daschle saying, "I'm a D.C. resident) has written an analysis of the debacle."

Daschle aides told Roll Call, "This guy (Gannon) became the dumping ground for opposition research." The connections are so strong that there is an FEC challenge which could be a test case on the limits of the use of the Internet in federal campaigns.

Gannon also had Thune on his radio show "Jeff Gannon's Washington," and the White House correspondent for Talon became touted as the "resident D.C. expert on South Dakota politics" by the bloggers. Thune and Wadham (who has been hired by aspiring White House Republican Sen. George Allen) have become go-to guys on the use of blogs in campaigns. Thune was cited in The New York Times as introducing "Senators to the meaning of 'blogging,' explaining the basics of self-published online political commentary and arguing that it can affect public opinion."

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/18/opinion/lynch/main675050.shtml

Sam Seder commented that shortly after questions were asked about Gannon's "scrubbed" passes to the WH, it seemed like Rove started a rumor saying he was having an affair with a woman. Ha Ha! I don't think it was Jeffy poo-the hot military stud who played the role of a woman.

I would like to hear someone ask Gannon (during what will surely be a book tour) about his relationship with kkkarl.

dude is out there bringing up the story of him being a male prostitute who got into the white house under a false name - every time he opens his trap (which we all know he LIKES to do!), and I couldn't be more happy about it! GO on JEFFY, tell everyone about your Conservative values as a male whore for someone in the White House!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

:bounce:

... I am glad someone else recalls this information/disinformation campaign, and also, the Club for Growth was in on it, too. I am a South Dakotan and I followed as much of this as I could stomach.

What could possibly qualify him in that field?????? :silly:
He was never actually anything even in the same universe as a journalist.
Guess he figured if OJ's book could get published, he might as well join the fray too.

come, come into the light jeffy - Let the mainstream media shine its spotlight on you and let the public decide if you were a prostitute or not - and then let the Whitehorse explain why it would open itself up to all the blackmail and the extreme security risks that come with it. Yes, jeffy, walk towards the light....

:7

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read my self-published review at www.whogivesashit.com .

And, there are a looooong list of questions to be asked --

in the mens room?

for all the republican hypocrites.

Talk to Hannity, Dobbs, Glenn Beck...y'all can fill in the rest!

:eyes:

Don't forget that. Before Media Matters snapped to him, he and Talon News were exposed as frauds on DU.

:toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast:

The only thing that came to mind while reading this buffoon's garbage was the following. Everybody sing:

Something familiar, something peculiar
Something for everyone: a comedy tonight
Something appealing, something appalling
Something for everyone: a comedy tonight

Nothing with kings, nothing with crowns
Bring on the lovers, liars and clowns
Old situations, new complications
Nothing portentous or polite
Tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight

Comedy, comedy, comedy, comedy
comedy, comedy, comedy, comedy, co-me-dy tooooniiiight!

:rofl:

geez, project much there Jeffie boy?

The Angry Gay Left forced me to post those pictures on several sites on the internet!
The Angry Gay Left forced me to accept money from other men who answered those ads!
The Angry....


Oh, never mind.

..who trash more reputations than any media company in the world ?

If he appears on any talk show, the first question should be "Have your hourly rates gone up, man-whore?"

Seriously,

SHUT THE FUCKING HELL UP YOU GODDAMNED SCUMBAG AND STOP SELLING OUT YOUR OWN PEOPLE.

FUCK GANNON OR WHATEVER THE FUCK HIS NAME IS. HE IS A WHORE IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD.

PLEASE, GANNON, JUST SHUT UP AND REFLECT ON YOUR 15 MINUTES.

(sorry if I seemed a little angry. Gay people selling out their own REALLY pisses me off.)

...and he's their Poster Boy.:banghead: :rofl:

Oh Brother.

reinstated.

that was TOO PARTISAN for White House press access, yet you made UNEXPLAINED visits to the Bush White House while advertising yourself IN THE NUDE as a GAY PROSTITUTE on the Internet! Your credibility therefore totals LESS THAN ZERO! Why should ANYBODY take stock in ANYTHING you have to say???

:rofl:
rocknation

Y'know, the kind you kill and they keep coming back to life?

He hasn't one shred of credibility, or common sense, or shame. I wouldn't touch his book with a ten-foot pole.

if I do say so myself.

:headbang:
rocknation

Although, we don't know, do we, how MUCH a discreet male prostitute makes in Rethug circles these days. Maybe he *is* making REAL money now.

"Gigadittoes, and Jeffy looks Totally Buff in his official Republicon diapers"

- Senator David Vitter (R)

in the toilet!


rocknation

...if he thinks anyone gives a rat's ass about his "book".

I'd rather watch him in a porn movie than read his "book".