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quaoar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 02:53 PM
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Gannon plans to attend WH Correspondents Dinner
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000809375

Gannon/Guckert Met Kerry at WH Reporters' Bash, Hopes to Go Again

By Joe Strupp


NEW YORK At previous galas he says he managed to meet Sen. John Kerry and Al Franken. But will James Guckert's recent notoriety as a partisan White House reporter who used a fake name, among other alleged activities, keep him out of this year's White House Correspondents Dinner?

Guckert, a.k.a. Jeff Gannon, doesn’t think so.

"I have every intention of attending this year's ," Guckert, a guest at the last two dinners, told E&P today. "Don’t you think I could? I'm sure someone is going to ask me or offer me the opportunity to go. It is a great publicity event." This year's dinner will be held on April 30.

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He said he attended the past two White House Correspondents Association dinners, which are limited to WHCA members and their guests. Although he is not a WHCA member, and has never sought membership, he claims he attended the 2003 and 2004 dinners as a guest of two different members.

"I got a ticket each year," Guckert said, declining to name those who brought him. "I paid, and I just wanted to be there. I met John Kerry at one of them and the cast of 'The West Wing.' I met Al Franken at the first one after he'd gotten into it with the Fox News table."
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 02:54 PM
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1. He's not a reporter, so how can he go?
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:18 PM
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13. The attendees can bring guests I assume
that how folks like Monica Lewinsky get invites.
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:47 PM
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16. Don't you think it will make his "date" look bad?
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:53 PM
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17. I want to know who his 'date' was
for the first two?
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:56 PM
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18. It wasn't Monica that was invited it was Paula Jones.
Republicans and their way of rubbing it in. Idiots.
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skypilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 02:55 PM
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2. Who will he bring as a date?
Matt Drugde? Andrew Sullivan? The reanimated corpse of Roy Cohn? Inquiring minds want to know.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:07 PM
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7. maybe a 'military escort"??
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skypilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:09 PM
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8. He'd have to snatch some guy off KP duty.
Gannon, or rather "Gannon" fancies himself a "top". He'd need someone he could dominate.
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 04:06 PM
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19. Drudge did get to go last year




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BR_Parkway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 02:56 PM
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3. So did he go as a reporter, or as a paid date for someone else?
Edited on Wed Feb-23-05 03:01 PM by BR_Parkway
on edit:

writing in a journal he has kept since he first began covering the White House in February 2003, a journal that could become a book.

"I have probably one page for each day at the White House, about 200 pages of stuff," said Guckert. "Is it all interesting? Probably not. But it could be . I haven’t thought that far ahead."

Guckert, who contends he still has a future in journalism, also added that entering the paid-speaker circuit is another goal. "It is likely that I will start making some appearances and speaking," he said, declining to name specific efforts he has taken in that regard. "There are people who are definitely interested in some of my behind-the-scenes work in the press room." That is certainly an understatement.


He's publically telling someone they better take care of him or else. A book, speaking tours, naming names! I'd love to stumble across that journal if it was online.

Maybe he's not so dumb, comments like this may be the only thing keeping someone from knocking him off to keep his mouth shut.
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beam me up scottie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:15 PM
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9. Of course he'll sell them out. He is a whore after all.
The sleepless nights spent worrying about the secrets he could tell.
Priceless.
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:16 PM
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10. This sounds a lot more like...
... Linda Tripp than Walter Cronkite. He'd better hope for non-refundable bulk sales on that book....
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asjr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:17 PM
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11. Maybe he has a secret stash of papers outlining
everything and he has told his WH "date" it will be revealed if somehow he goes down in a small plane.
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quaoar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:25 PM
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14. He is a good candidate
Edited on Wed Feb-23-05 03:26 PM by quaoar
to be found one day floating face down in the Potomac.

Someone is going to decide that the risk of him appearing before a grand jury is too great.
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AntiCoup2K4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:29 PM
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15. he's also publically setting himself up for a BCE "suicide".
Get those brakes checked, "Jeff".
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 02:58 PM
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4. God, I hope he does...
Along with Al Franken and a video crew...
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:18 PM
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12. The question is...
... will he send everyone an invoice afterwards.... :P
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cindyw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:05 PM
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5. Fox News? Is he saying he sat at the Fox News table?
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:06 PM
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6. he is as arrogant as the WH!!
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Dr.Phool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 04:10 PM
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20. Do you think he'll wear a blue dress?
You'd think this idiot would be smart enough to know he's already had too much publicity.
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 04:51 PM
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21. "I'm sure someone will ask me" probably Rove
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ncteechur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 11:54 PM
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22. Is he going as a correspondent or an escort--kind of like Vegas??
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solinvictus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:02 AM
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23. Guckert..
He's setting himself up for a "suicide" by persisting. I think he underestimates the lengths these people will go.
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