Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

Did the WHITE HOUSE create "Talon News"?

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread		 This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (Through 2005) Donate to DU
 
Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 08:25 PM
Original message
Did the WHITE HOUSE create "Talon News"?
Edited on Wed Feb-16-05 08:26 PM by Bluebear
Food for thought from another "liberal blogger".....

The Plot Thickens: Was Guckert in the White House Before Talon News? And If So, Was Talon News a Front to Keep Guckert's White House Access Intact?


Did Gannon/Guckert get brought into the White House by Talon News -- or was it the other way around?

According to the Daily Kos article referenced above, Gannon/Guckert was bragging online about asking then-Press Secretary Ari Fleischer a question at a press briefing (in March of 2003) weeks before Talon News was even founded.

Did someone with knowledge of Gannon/Guckert's prostitution activities bring Gannon/Guckert into the White House, only to tell him he needed a valid press organization not to draw attention to his "daily" press pass?

And was Bobby Eberle then called in to save the day?

Is this why Gannon/Guckert went to the Broadcast School of Journalism at the last moment to, for $50, "become" a journalist?

Is this why Talon News originally had him listed as a "volunteer"?

Is this why Eberle and Gannon/Guckert refused all queries from the Standing Committee of Correspondents on whether or how there was any distinction between Eberle's pro-Bush GOPUSA.com and Talon News?

Is this why McClellan is presently bunkered at the White House, and has ignored three calls from U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) asking for information (presumably, including dates) regarding Gannon/Guckert's press credentialing?

Is the White House scared tonight?

And are we finally starting to unravel this story?

http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/02/plot-thickens-was-guckert-in-white.html
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
jojo54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 08:28 PM
Response to Original message
1. That's an interesting question
But apparently they didn't do their homework beforehand. Somebody's head is gonna roll over this one, if it hasn't happened already.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 08:33 PM
Response to Reply #1
2. You may be literally correct.
I fully expect that whomever knows the "score" here will have an "accident."
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 08:38 PM
Response to Reply #2
3. Indeed.
I wouldn't be starting my own car if I were any of these guys.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
merwin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 11:24 PM
Response to Reply #2
21. The poor guy might be suicided
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 09:07 PM
Response to Reply #1
10. Can anyone think of a prominent Republican politician who
seems to have a thing about men with bald heads?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
TalkingDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 10:59 PM
Response to Reply #10
18. or likes to dress up in uniforms, perhaps?
Or needs a man date? Oh,..sorry...Or needs a mandate?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 08:40 PM
Response to Original message
4. This helps answer your first question.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3125761
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
justiceischeap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 08:47 PM
Response to Original message
5. You have seen this haven't you?
Jeff's GOPUSA bio from 4/2/2003. I know that's after the fact but the question is how long was he associated with GOPUSA before Talon News was originated.

http://web.archive.org/web/20030402101256/http://gopusa.com/bios/jeffgannon.shtml
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 08:51 PM
Response to Reply #5
6. Absolutely, so how long was he 'servicing' in the White House circle?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
bling bling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 08:54 PM
Response to Reply #5
7. GOP USA was the parent group of Talon.
What's amazing is that this kind of a leak would be engineered through such an obvious front group. The latest swipe at Wilson and Plame was executed by a right-wing (neocon) news agency, Talon News, whose parent group is called "GOP USA."

http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=1579
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 08:55 PM
Response to Original message
8. Don't you think that the whole package was invented at the WH? They
Edited on Wed Feb-16-05 08:55 PM by higher class
just had to get the Eberle's onboard and fine someone like Gannon. They may have just fed him stuff. He may not have written anything. Then, in their pomp aand arrogance, they assumed they had all the cover-up on their side - because all they had to do was clue in the ceo of the corporate propaganda network. No one from the foreign press would peep for figuring it out for themselves or being clued in over drinks - because the pass is too important to them and their country - if they got kicked out of the country, it may take way too long to get a visa for their replacement.

Yep - pomp and arrogance. All in one package.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
linazelle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 09:11 PM
Response to Reply #8
11. "...pomp and arrogance..." will be their downfall n/t
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DURHAM D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 09:02 PM
Response to Original message
9. Guckert's client list (for sexual services) would likely explain
his White House access. He is clearly not that bright or he would not have been running his mouth to Blitzer,etc. I don't think anyone with half a brain wanted him inside the White House but he has something (or a lot) on somebody like Ari or Scottie or a member of the Bush family.

Perhaps even pics.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 09:49 PM
Response to Reply #9
13. I agree, there is far more to this story. nt
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 09:47 PM
Response to Original message
12. It sure looks like this was a creation of the WH
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 10:23 PM
Response to Reply #12
14. Especially with the latest Gannon fact
That was in the pressroom with NO journalist credentials in February 2003.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
deacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 10:32 PM
Response to Original message
15. After injecting fraud into press briefs and press conferences and
staging fake campaign rallies, them starting Talon doesn't seem that far fetched at all.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
bling bling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 10:54 PM
Response to Original message
16. Gannon's interview with Wilson -
link here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040217110902/www.gopusa.com/news/2003/october/1028_wilson_interview.shtml

I just read the whole thing. I already thought he was a tool of the White House but the interview pretty much confirms it.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
kodi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 10:58 PM
Response to Original message
17. psyops
all the way. only this time they did in the US and in plain sight.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 11:03 PM
Response to Original message
19. My, my, my, isn't this getting INTERESTING...
The blogs on this (and people like those HERE) are doing some of the best investigative reporting/digging that this retired reporter has ever seen.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 04:13 PM
Response to Reply #19
22. Things must have changed since you retired
I am betting that you weep for your profession!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Carolab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 11:12 PM
Response to Original message
20. Scott got married November 2003
to Jill Martinez of Austin TX...is this timeframe meaningful?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun May 05th 2024, 04:09 PM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (Through 2005) Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators

Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC