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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-19-06 04:22 PM
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Jeff Gannon is jealous of Helen Thomas!
http://www.jeffgannon.com/

White House Press Corps Catfight!

While "Catfight" is a term used to describe a bit of nasty clawing between two women, I thought it was applicable to the review of of Hearst columnist Helen Thomas' book by the nominally-masculine Washington Post reporter, Dana Milbank. Thomas wrote that White House reporters were collectively softballing the Bush administration after 9/11 and failed to ask the tough quesetions that might have prevented the war in Iraq. This presupposes that the intelligence was manipulated to support the case for Saddan Hussein's ouster, but that's another discussion.

Milbank, one of the reporters Thomas criticized, objects to the characterization, since "softball tosser" seems to be the most insulting thing a White House reporter can be called. Milbank whines that he and his colleagues asked suitably biased questions.

Thomas complained that the White House Press Corps "gets to chummy" with those in power, a charge to which Milbank responds, "I’m rubber, you’re glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you!"

To support their own offended scribe, the Washington Post ran the review with the following photo from 1997. It appears that Thomas is either demonstrating her aggressive reporting technique or applying for that intern job...
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-19-06 04:33 PM
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1. Journalistic analysis from Jeff Gannon
is like sports ettiquite lessons from John McEnroe.

:headbang:
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-19-06 04:38 PM
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2. Jeff Gannon, Ollie North, Joe "kill and get away with it" Scarborough
Hannity, Coulter, Rush, etc.. These people are TRAITORS to their own country. Yet here they get away with anything and everything...the only real reporter left (Helen) gets ridiculed for being HONEST.

That pic of Clinton and Helen...so what's so bad, at least he is not trying to RUB HER SHOULDERS like Bush and the German Chancellor!

Report on that you traitors!
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-19-06 04:45 PM
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3. Please. What should we expect from a whore?
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Touchdown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-19-06 04:53 PM
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4. Such insight! Such skill. Jeff Gannon: Intrepid Journalist
Edited on Wed Jul-19-06 04:54 PM by Touchdown
"Thomas complained that the White House Press Corps "gets tochummy" with those in power"

Too bad real journalists know how to spell or at least use spellcheck. Oh' what were you saying again Jeff?:eyes:
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