E&P: "Pot, Meet Kettle: Gannon Comments on First Blogger at WH Briefing "

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Pot, Meet Kettle: Gannon Comments on First Blogger at WH Briefing

By E&P Staff

Published: March 07, 2005 12:25 PM ET

NEW YORK On his Web site today, he slams Mark Jurkowitz of The Boston Globe and hints that he knows Sen. Joe Biden. But former reporter and escort James Guckert -- a.k.a. Jeff Gannon -- also highlights news that a blogger, after several attempts last week, had finally been cleared to attend a White House press briefing today. The new blogger on the block is Garrett M. Graff, who writes FishBowlDC. (See separate story.)

Gannon writes: "The New York Times is hailing the first blogger to be issued a 'day pass' to a White House press briefing. It goes to great lengths to play up his genealogical background in journalism, but fails to mention that the Vermont native served as deputy national press secretary on Howard Dean's presidential campaign last year. Hmmm... no political ties there!

"According to the 'Gannon Standard,' I am expecting to see other bloggers' reports on his sexual and financial history as well as some conspiracy theories about who this guy is.
"Actually, I like the guy, we've talked on the phone several times. I wish him luck and am pleased that others will gain from what I pioneered. Now I'm looking for a conservative blogger to step up and get in there!"

Gannon fails to mention that, whatever his political background, Graff is not currently employed by a partisan political organization (as Gannon was during his two-year stint at the White House), nor does Gannon differentiate "sexual history" from "selling sex."

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[CottonBear]

1. Guckert is such an attention whore.

He just can't seem to shut up. I thought he got a lawyer who told him to be quiet. I wonder how long until he's mysteriously disappeared?

[Sannum]

7. attention whore...

He is just a whore in every way. He practically has a credit card scanner installed on his body.

[CatWoman]

17. guess where you can swipe it?

:evilgrin:

[CottonBear]

19. Ewwww!

:puke:

[merh]

20. Gosh, no credit cards please, they leave trails - no receipts!

Cash only! Next!

[uppityperson]

10. Attention whore- I like the term

shut up JimmyJeff, we really don't care

[Eloriel]

23. "Narcissist" works as well

if not better.

And for Narcissists, nothing's ever their fault, always someone else. They're always being picked on, treated unfairly.

[Brooklyn Michael]

18. Nice addition of the word "Attention"

.....all this time, I've just been calling him a whore!

[crispini]

2. LOL, whoda thunk it?

E&P's bringin the funny. And they're usually so sober, too. :P

[Obviousman]

3. everyone just needs to tune this guy out

he's more than insane

[catzies]

5. Actually, that makes me want to hear him more. The "more rope" theory

Hope he hangs others along with himself.

[Fridays Child]

15. I think JimmyJeff's reprise of his blog is a cry for help.

Really.

[Guckert]

4. "sexual history" and illegal male prostitution by a member of the Morals,

family values, and Rule of law Party is a different thing.

Im sure the party of Morals and family values can even figure that one out. DUH.

[intheflow]

22. Yeah, but they've managed to keep that "P" word out of most

broadcast and cable news, haven't they? And I'll be the small rural papers have omitted that fact, too (if they reported on G/G at all). So how's Ma and Pa Moral 'sposed to know? We are a rare breed at DU. We seek to educate ourselves. Most people would rather stay stupid, imo.

[jdj]

6. So now he's a pioneer?

A real renaissance man, there.

[fooj]

8. He's certainly no wallflower, is he? I think that his most important

omission is that the new blogger isn't posing "scripted" questions...peace.

[peacetalksforall]

9. Gannon - a rovian sidekick who has learned some twist tie tactics.

[Misunderestimator]

11. "I... am pleased that others will gain from what I pioneered"

Pioneering male escort websites? Being the first complete charlatan
with WH access? Selling your body to the same people you interview?
:wtf: does he think he pioneered?

[phoebe]

12. the "White House" should be renamed he "Whore House "where one

goes to get "Whitewashed". Any takers??

[xxqqqzme]

13. kinda hard 2 B a 'pioneer'

in the world's oldest profession.

[MGKrebs]

14. Oh, there is probably a blog somewhere that will

report on Graffs' sexual history. And since he is apparently left of Ashcroft, if he doesn't have his sexual history conveniently posted on the internet already, that blog will just make something up!

[Garbo 2004]

16. Thus Graff's entry cannot be said to be based on political alliances with

the political party of the WH or the WH itself. That is something that cannot be said with Gannon's own access to the WH, who was allowed entry to the press corps prior to the existence of the online "media outlet" he was supposed to be representing.

[rocktivity]

21. Gannon put his sexual history on the Internet

and if you don't pay your taxes, it IS a matter of public record. I mean, I've lost out on jobs because my credit was bad!

:headbang:
rocknation

[rocktivity]

24. I guess it takes someone who's divorced from reality

to know one.

:headbang:
rocknation