Even Fox smells a rat!

[jones0430]

Oh Turbojugend,


You are so not right-wing.


I suspect you would not enjoy living in Texas.


Of course, neither do I. I never thought Bush was an adequate govenor. I still don\'t, and now he\'s President.

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jones0430 Wrote:Oh Turbojugend,

You are so not right-wing.

Not totally true! I\'m kinda conservative by european standards; pro-EU, pro- USA (allthough I don?t agree with the current administration), pro-free trade, pro-globalization (just not the Robber Baron type vehemently backed by Bush, cuz i\'m also pro-justice.).

Basically, I\'m just using these here forums to vent ...

[Sgt. Boomer]

I caught an interview with the “rat” ;} in question on PBS (Tucker Carlson). You can watch it on Realplayer or read the transcript:

http://www.pbs.org/tuckercarlson/thisweek/plus2.html#

Quick highlights:

Gannon: I think the question was valid. There\'s a lot of people that want the answer to that question. How do you expect to work with people who have expressed no desire to work with you? As a matter of fact, they have said that they\'re going to oppose you at every turn. And his answer was a good answer. I\'m going to go directly to the American people. Meaning that he\'s going to bypass the Democrats and he\'s also going to bypass the mainstream media in getting his message about his agenda through to the American people.

Carlson: There have been allegations -- there are allegations floating around the internet that that question, as you know, was a setup. People have said that you were attempting to give the president breathing room, an easy question so he could collect his thoughts. Is there any truth to that at all?

Gannon: That\'s an insult to the president. He certainly doesn\'t need me to do that. He did a briefing without me yesterday and I think he did just fine. My question was my question. If you look at the 2004 map election, not the state map but the county map, all that red space out there, those are the people that want to hear the answers to the questions I ask. My colleagues have the blue areas along the two coasts covered pretty completely. But there are people that like the questions I ask.



Carlson: Jeff Gannon.com your website is owned by the same person or company that owns a couple of websites with pornographic sounding nargese military stud.com or whatever got a lot of press. I\'m not going to ask about those sites beyond what they apparently are. Here\'s my question. Isn\'t it obvious to you that that\'s sort of discrediting in the eyes of a lot of other people? Why would you have any tie at all, if you want to be a mainstream journalist or -- regardless, a legitimate journalist, to websites with names like that?

Gannon: First of all, people misunderstand what those names represented. They\'re just website names, domain names. Years ago I was doing website development and these names were reserved for a private client. They were never hosted. Nothing was ever on them. And as we know on the internet, things never disappear. These are all things that are from a long time ago that people have dug up just to destroy my credibility and damage my reputation.



Carlson: Yet you\'re -- and so you\'re essentially outed in public, at least somebody who owns these racy sounding, gay sounding domain names. Did you have any gay friends who said we\'re not talking to you anymore?

Gannon: Actually, the reaction has been fairly supportive. I\'ve had messages of support. I don\'t ask anybody to be responsible for -- for my past, for personal issues, anything that I\'ve done prior to this. And I wouldn\'t ask anybody to defend those things. That\'s my responsibility. I will do that at some point in time when I\'m able to clear the air and counter some -- some of this very inaccurate information that\'s out. There. I think -- that\'s out there. You\'re seeing more tolerance on the right than you are the left. The left is -- loves diversity except for people that don\'t agree with them.



Oops, that’s more like 2/3 of the interview. Oh well. I was quite impressed with him actually. I think maybe he did get kind of a bum deal.

Er, no pun intended.