MrsSpringsteen
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diamond said:devious minds always jump to conclusions.
I hope you're not referring to anyone here
It appears to me the devious minds might be behind the throne so to speak
diamond said:devious minds always jump to conclusions.
I would still like to see that video of what he said, his earlier comments about his belief that journalists had been both deliberately killed and tortured by US soldiers in Iraq without producing evidence to substantiate.CNN News Executive Eason Jordan Quits
By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer
NEW YORK - CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan quit Friday amidst a furor over remarks he made in Switzerland last month about journalists killed by the U.S. military in Iraq
Jordan said he was quitting to avoid CNN being "unfairly tarnished" by the controversy.
During a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum (news - web sites) last month, Jordan said he believed that several journalists who were killed by coalition forces in Iraq had been targeted.
He quickly backed off the remarks, explaining that he meant to distinguish between journalists killed because they were in the wrong place where a bomb fell, for example, and those killed because they were shot at by American forces who mistook them for the enemy.
"I never meant to imply U.S. forces acted with ill intent when U.S. forces accidentally killed journalists, and I apologize to anyone who thought I said or believed otherwise," Jordan said in a memo to fellow staff members at CNN.
But the damage had been done, compounded by the fact that no transcript of his actual remarks has turned up. There was an online petition calling on CNN to find a transcript, and fire Jordan if he said the military had intentionally killed journalists.
A_Wanderer said:Just out of interest how many of you think that the media uses kid gloves with this administration?
linkage'Gannon' Interview: No Plame Subpoena, No Tie to White House, He Says
By Joe Strupp
Published: February 11, 2005 4:05 PM ET
NEW YORK In a lengthy, wide-ranging interview with E&P today, former White House reporter Jeff Gannon, whose real name is James D. Guckert, revealed that, contrary to many media reports, he has not been subpoenaed in the Valerie Plame/CIA case.
He also threw into question media accounts suggesting that he had seen a classified CIA document critical to the Plame case, saying he had made references to the “internal memo,” but adding, “I never said I had it or had seen it.” But when asked if he had in fact seen it, he declined to say.
Gannon/Guckert earlier this week resigned his reporting position for Talon News, a Web site run by a Republican activist.
In the interview with E&P, Guckert also:
• explicitly denied ties to White House officials,and claimed he had met Karl Rove just once, at a party;
• said that the presidential press conference two weeks ago that brought him to public attention was not the first he had attended, but rather the fourth, and that he’d managed to ask President Bush a question once before; and
• acknowledged he had been turned down for a Capitol Hill press pass not once but multiple times.
Guckert quit earlier this week after bloggers revealed that he had been reporting from the White House under an alias. They also alleged that he might have been “planted” by White House operatives to provide a positive spin for the administration, and they showed that he had helped set up several sexually oriented Web sites. His connections to the Plame case have now gained increasing attention.
Although Press Secretary Scott McClellan and others at the White House knew that Gannon was not his real name, they always referred to him by that name, he said in the interview. "My professional name is Jeff Gannon, and that is what people called me,” he explained, adding, in an odd reference, “It is like Kirk Douglas, they do not refer to him when they meet him by his real name."
Guckert said he was 47 years old, had never been married, and has no children. He revealed that he'd used the Gannon name since 2001 and vowed to keep using it. "Absolutely; it is my professional name,” he said. “I would be throwing away all of the things I built up over the past few years if I stopped using it."
Irvine511 said:anyone want to hear a really juicy, totally unsubstantiated rumor about how Mr. "Ganon" got inside the press room?
MrsSpringsteen said:Now I remember, I read that Raw Story thing a few days ago.
Interesting..As The WH Turns
Queer As Press Secretaries
It's irrelevant to me if Scott is gay, but obviously if it leads to blackmail and inappropriate shenanigans re press passes that's not good. Of course if he's straight those things could still happen. But the gay theories are plausible I suppose.
MrsSpringsteen said:Hairdressers always have all the dirt
So Scott is married?
Judah said:Hmm...when it comes to plausibility, i think that the "plant" theory is more believable than the potential "blackmailing" theory. That's a weird thing to ask as a blackmailer: "I want access to White House press conferences so i can make you guys look good. If you don't do it, i'll show everyone nekkid pictures of you and another guy."
The fact that so many of Gannon's questions were softballs (no pun intended) provides some credence to the plant theory.