Even Fox smells a rat!

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Heh ... being a journo, I might find this a tad more interesting than the average, Kar-totin\' G?nther usually found lurking on these here pages. But what the hell ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/06/arts/0...gewanted=1

(you gots to register):roll:

[joeb]

me not want to register...

just quote the entire article

[Sgt. Boomer]

The whole article is too long, here are the highlights:

\"Gonzo Gone, Rather Going, Watergate Still Here
FRANK RICH March 6, 2005

TWO weeks ago Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide. Next week Dan Rather commits ritual suicide, leaving the anchor chair at CBS prematurely as penance for his toxic National Guard story…

What\'s missing from News is the news. On ABC, Peter Jennings devotes two hours of prime time to playing peek-a-boo with U.F.O. fanatics, a whorish stunt crafted to deliver ratings, not information. On NBC, Brian Williams is busy as all get-out… to waste his time looking closely at, say, anything happening in Washington.

…today\'s White House press corps is less likely to be invaded by maverick talents like a drug-addled reporter from a renegade start-up magazine than by a paid propagandist like Jeff Gannon, a fake reporter for a fake news organization (Talon News) run by a bona fide Texas Republican operative who was a delegate to the 2000 Bush convention.

Though a few remain on the case … the Gannon story is fast receding. In some major news venues, including ABC and CBS, it never surfaced at all. Yet even as Mr. Gannon has quit his \"job\" as a reporter and his \"news organization\" has closed up shop, the plot thickens. His own Web site - which only recently shut down with the self-martyring message \"The voice goes silent\" - has now restarted as a blog with Gonzo pretensions.

As a blogger, Mr. Gannon\'s new tactic is to encourage fellow right-wing bloggers to portray him as the victim of a homophobic left-wing witch hunt that destroyed his privacy. Given that it was Mr. Gannon himself who voluntarily exhibited his own private life by appearing on Web sites advertising his services as a $200-per-hour escort, that\'s a hard case to make. But it is a clever way to deflect attention from an actual sexual witch hunt conducted by his own fake news organization in early 2004. It was none other than Talon News that advanced the fictional story that a young woman \"taped an interview with one of the major television networks\" substantiating a rumor on the Drudge Report that John F. Kerry had had an extramarital affair with an intern. (Mr. Kerry had to publicly deny the story just as his campaign came out of the gate.) This is the kind of dirty trick only G. Gordon Liddy could dream up. Or maybe did. Mr. Gannon\'s Texan boss, Bobby Eberle, posted effusive thanks (for \"their assistance, guidance and friendship\") to both Mr. Liddy and Karl Rove on Talon News\'s sister site, GOPUSA, last Christmas.

Mr. Gannon, a self-promoting airhead, may well be a pawn of larger forces as the vainglorious Mr. Liddy once was. But to what end? That Kerry \"intern\" wasn\'t the only \"news\" Mr. Gannon helped stuff in the pipeline during an election year. A close reading of the transcripts of televised White House press conferences reveals that at uncannily crucial moments he was called on by the White House press secretary, Scott McClellan, to stanch tough questioning on such topics as Abu Ghraib and Mr. Rove\'s possible involvement in the outing of the C.I.A. spy Valerie Plame. We still don\'t know how this Zelig, using a false name, was given a daily White House pass every day for two years. Last weekend, Jim Pinkerton, a former official in the Reagan and Bush I White Houses, said on \"Fox News Watch,\" no less, that such a feat \"takes an incredible amount of intervention from somebody high up in the White House,\" that it had to be \"conscious\" and that \"some investigation should proceed and they should find that out.\"

Given an all-Republican government, the only investigation possible will have to come from the press…
Don\'t expect news organizations dedicated to easy-listening news to get to the bottom of it.\"




And here’s a good view from the other side:
http://www.anncoulter.org/cgi-local/arti...article=43

And here’s a good view of the other side in a slinky black dress:
http://www.anncoulter.org/cgi-local/phot...nblack.jpg

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Well she may be a hack, but certaintly no hag. Nice sum-up, BTW!

[Sgt. Boomer]

She puts the fox in FOX News [and she’s not a hack, she’s a genius ]

I can’t believe the Times is still going on about that. If Bush had used the guy’s escort services and then perjured himself about it, THAT would be a scandal!!!! :eek:

I think the most revealing thing is that when Clinton needed a friendly journalist to ask softball questions when he was in trouble, he had a reporter from the NY Times. Bush doesn’t even get that kind of blind partisanship from FOX, he’s got to go to some blogger that nobody had ever heard of. And people say there’s no left wing bias in the media.

[izzybob7]

oh oh oh instaboner!

[tomcat ha]

what do you have with instaboner\'s izzy?

[izzybob7]

i am easily aroused, ide probly get an instaboner from lookin at your mom

[Smithcraft]

I saw this on The Daily Show a few weeks ago. That is I saw the deal about the hooker sneaking into the White House, not Izzy\'s vascular status.

Of course then there is also the security issue. As indicated here.

SC

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Lol, good one. For those too lazy to click: