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mod mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 07:18 AM
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538 (Poblano): Guess Who's Blogging for the National Press Club? JEFF GANNON
Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Guess Who's Blogging for the National Press Club?

Last time I'll delve into this particular off-topic topic, but I was directed today to the writings of Steve O'Hearn, the chair of the National Press Club's New Media Committee who maintains a blog at the National Press Club's blogging website. Suffice it to say that I disagree with pretty much everything that Steve has to say -- from his position on Larry Sinclair to his insistence (three days after the Montana and South Dakota primaries and one day after Clinton announced that she would concede) that the Democratic nomination race was "far from over", to his calling Tom Shales, the Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize- winning media critic, a "cretin". And then there's the matter of his preferring AltaVista to Google...

But that's not what I wanted to draw your attention to. Instead, I wanted to see who else had a blog on the National Press Club's website. Not very many people do. There is O'Hearn's blog, and then blogs for several of the NPC's committees, and a blog for the Press Club's softball team. And then there is a blog for...

Jeff Gannon.

Yes, that Jeff Gannon. The fake reporter from a fake news organization who asked fake questions at White House press conferences. And who also happens to be a gay escort.

This man has a blog at the National Press Club's website.

-snip
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

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mod mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 07:21 AM
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1. Gannon's latest blog says Code Pink has ties to terrorists:
Edited on Tue Jun-17-08 07:39 AM by mod mom
Code Pink Banned, Still Makes NPC Record
June 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Members of Code Pink, the radical antiwar and terrorist-supporting group may not be permitted to enter the Nation Press Club premises, but their protest of Vice President Dick Cheney made The Record anyway. Over the past few years, members of Code Pink have disrupted public and private events at the Club, but their antics seem irresistable to the press.

In March of this year, members of Code Pink rioted during a press conference hosted by a pro-troop group, Move America Forward. At a breakfast program with guest speaker Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Code Pink members shouted demands for him to resign. One demonstrator tried to handcuff herself to a chair to prevent her removal.

In other venues I have discussed Code Pink and its long history of subversion and ties to terrorists and repressive regimes around the world. One of the group’s founders, Jodie Evans is a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Yet the press that appears so eager to amplify the message Code Pink hopes to convey with their outrageous and sometimes violent behavior is loathe to do any investigative reporting about what the group actually represents. The ladies in pink are not harmless “peace” activists but until the media does its job Americans will be unaware of the threat they pose.

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http://pressblog.org/npc/jeffgannon/
MAYBE WE SHOULD START QUESTIONING HIS ACCESS TO THE WH AGAIN!
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mod mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 07:27 AM
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3. "loathe to do any investigative reporting about what the group actually represents"
Hey Jeff-SPEAKING OF LOATHE TO DO ANY INVESTIGATIVE STORY-WHAT ABOUT YOU-ASSHOLE? WHY DIDN'T THE MEDIA LOOK INTO WHAT YOU WERE DOING? WHO YOU WERE? HOW YOU GOT ACCESS?
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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 07:33 AM
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4. wrong link. nt
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mod mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 07:39 AM
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10. my bad-sorry. here's the corrected link:
Edited on Tue Jun-17-08 07:39 AM by mod mom
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Dollface Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 07:35 AM
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6. I know. I've warned my kids to stay away from any place where people are wearing pink.
Perhaps we should start a group that wears yellow to show our support for fake journalist fear monger liars.
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Glorfindel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 07:23 AM
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2. Well, don't fake reporters who also happen to be gay escorts
deserve a voice? :evilgrin: :rofl:
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 07:35 AM
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5. I want to know
Does he still have regular access to the White House?
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Dollface Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 07:37 AM
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8. Well yeah... Closeted gay republicans need love too.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 08:00 AM
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16. I don't care about that
I hope he has a happy & healthy sex life and is able to marry a partner of his choosing.

However, I do care about the hypocrisy of a White House that has used homophobia to generate votes having a gay escort with better access to the White House than nearly anybody else.

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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 07:39 AM
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11. "So sorry. That's protected under Executive (Smirk) privilege." - Commander AWOL
Commander AWOL embraces Jeff Gannon, official White House republicon male escort:
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 07:36 AM
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7. Did he bring all the empty chairs from when he was in charge of The National Day of Prayer? n/t
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 07:38 AM
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9. Since when has "respectability" been a requirement for membership in the National Press Club?
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 07:39 AM
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12. You mean..Jeff/James/Johnny Gannon/Guckert/Gosh,. how can a homosexual prostitute using an Alias
of a dead man get a security clearance to the White House..??

http://www.total411.info/2005/02/jeff-gannon-johnny-gosch-hunter.html ????this is interesting
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mod mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 07:45 AM
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14. Strange how corporate media never delved into this. It certainly wasn't because it wasn't juicy eno
Isn't this tied into the Nebraska Boys Town Scandal?
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 08:38 AM
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17. yea, the same bunch of pediphiles.. in the Reagan/BU$H White House

http://educate-yourself.org/tg/goschcradiointerview19aug03.shtml
Apparently, based on what you've learned, your son was taken for the very reason that he fit a profile that somebody wanted. This came out in court testimony by Paul Bonacci, one of the young victims of the Franklin affair, who was at first charged with perjury and sent to jail for daring to make accusations under oath about the Franklin affair. With De Camp's help, Bonacci has since won a $1 million judgment against Lawrence King and the people who abused him. He's essentially been vindicated.

NG: Paul Bonacci testified in his civil suit that he was one of the people who helped kidnap Johnny. He was the first to sexually molest Johnny. He told all of the gruesome details. The judge asked, "Why did they want Johnny Gosch when they could have their pick of a lot of runaway kids?" Bonacci looked at the judge and told him, "Johnny fit the profile of what they were looking for. They sell kids to pedophiles who want certain kids with certain features."

AFP: Bonacci testified that they had followed Johnny on nights when he was coming home from school and had photographed him and those photographs were put in a book and a pedophile picked him out.This must have been awful for you to learn about. Did you first hear about this in court?

NG: No, I had previously gone to the prison to meet Bonacci when he first confessed. That was a few years before the court case where the judge finally ruled that he was telling the truth. Paul Bonacci waited 10 years to be vindicated. When he first came forward about this, the police said he was nuts and the West Des Moines police department that was in charge of Johnny's case would not even interview him.



http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/boys_town_abuse.htm
.....this is the documentory


http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=boys+town+prostitution+ring&btnG=Google+Search
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mod mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 10:35 AM
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19. Thank you for the headline! Just what I was recalling!
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 03:59 PM
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21. i met one of the kids they used in 1982, he told us this fantastic story about being molested in dc.
by politicians, when the boys town thing came out it was word for word same story, only he had more details,
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mod mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 08:14 PM
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24. I never understood why the Washington Times (moonie) ran the story and then it disappeared.
The Moonies are aligned w the GOp/Bush folks so why did they break it? and why did it disappear?
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 07:45 AM
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13. Jeff Gannon the presstitute, up to his old tricks.
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 07:52 AM
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15. So!. . Larry Sinclair isn't a "stretch" for them? This explains a lot.
Now it makes perfect sense that they would insist on hosting that disgusting liar Larry Sinclair. Jeez.. You'd think "The National Press Club" was a regular respectable sort of organization.

Now we KNOW that's not true.
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lifesbeautifulmagic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 09:37 AM
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18. How Does This Happen? Why no investigation? Come on, national
press, investigate this like, you know, Democrats were involved.
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 04:01 PM
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22. because they get..."BLACKLISTED"
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libodem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 12:14 PM
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20. Oh gag
retch and ralph. If they can use that aging boy-scout, Oliver North, as a legitimate commentator or or KKKarl 'Ratfucker' Rove, any thing can happen. How do those disgraceful, shame-ridden, A-holes, have the nerve to think they are taken seriously by anyone with any sense. I heard a Christian Media Watchdog, say on a video, that he thought KKKarl, was the recipient, of the, stealth, nocturnal visits. I've always wanted to know 'who'?
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TroglodyteScholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 04:25 PM
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23. Just goes to show...
...it's not WHAT you know. It's WHO you BLOW.

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libodem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 11:45 PM
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25. Yeah baby
just kicking so this doesn't go down, so to speak.
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