Jimmy Jeff Guckerton SMEARS CNN for "hiding truth about Saddam"

[Bluebear]

I guess if you're a male prostitute asking the President questions and you are informed about military operations hours before they occur, you know these things? He criticizes Eason Jordan for "keeping stories bottled up inside him"...I wonder what stories Jimmy Jeff Guckerton has bottled up inside him? Later he quotes someone from the "Iraqi American Council" who warns: Professional journalists need to always report the truth! Hahahahahahahahaha this is rich.


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by Jeff Gannon, April 14, 2003

CNN's Chief News Executive revealed Friday that his network suppressed stories about Saddam Hussein's reign of terror in Iraq in order to maintain a bureau in Baghdad. In an Op-Ed piece for The New York Times titled, "The News We Kept To Ourselves," Eason Jordan wrote, "I felt awful having these stories bottled up inside me." Those stories are accounts of atrocities committed by Iraq's regime over three decades....

Media reaction has been virtually non-existent, the most notable blackout occurring at CBS. The network has repeatedly declined to discuss the conditions if any, under which Dan Rather was able to interview Saddam Hussein in February of this year. Once the regime fell last week, the CBS anchor was able to return to Baghdad, arriving on Friday.

In contrast to the silence from the television networks, talk radio has been ablaze with expressions of outrage over what many see as CNN's complicity with Saddam's propaganda campaign. One host recalled Jordan's October 2002 interview by Bob Garfield of WNYC, a New York public-radio station. The topic was an article written by Franklin Fodor in The New Republic that accused the Western press of appeasing the Iraqi regime to remain in the country should war break out. Jordan dismissed the claim saying, "We are not going to make journalistic compromises in an effort to make that happen."...


There was disagreement with Jordan's statements even before Friday's confessional. Bob Bevelacqua, former U.S. Army Major and Fox News military analyst told Talon News, "CNN is an organization with an agenda - the agenda of the Left. That's why we in the military called them the Clinton News Network. When they would come around, we would go in the opposite direction."....


Aziz Al-Taee, President of the Iraqi American Council, when asked to comment by Talon News, denounced the network for making "a bad decision. Professionals need to always report the truth. Were it not for their self-serving actions, there might have been more support for ending the regime sooner," Al-Taee said.

http://www.ifa-usapray.org/NFOW/NFOW2003/Jan-June%202003/CNN%20Hid%20Truth%20About%20Saddam%20Horrors%20-%20April%2014%2C%202003.html

[havocmom]

1. Pretend journalist dukes it out with pretend news network...

film at 11... on the WWE!

[madhat]

2. Hey Aziz!

You the same guy that was friends with Nick Berg?

[madhat]

3. source

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/extra/archives/001469.html

[Bluebear]

4. Wow Aziz has quite a past too. nt

[pacalo]

5. It seems like "Gannon's" got his hands in a lot of this administration's

questionable business.

Gannon/Guckert's interview with al-Taee -- just a few days after the former gay prostitute declared himself a journalist -- has raised a lot of eyebrows at Daily Kos, which along with Americablog has been key in breaking this scandal wide open. It probably shouldn't, though -- because from reading the clips it looks like al-Taee met Gannon at the March 2003 outdoor rally and was simply talking to anyone with a microphone or tape recorder.

(snip)

<...>His (Al-Taee's) partner in one of his ventures, called Babylon Towers, was none other than American Nick Berg -- the same Nick Berg whose May 2004 beheading, captured on videotape, caused a global outcry.

In fact, a number of reports had al-Taee as maybe the last known person to speak to Berg -- a fact that, given al-Taee's link to the Bush-backed propaganda campaign -- only fueled the many conspiracy theories on the Web. And now we learn that al-Taee was in cahoots with "Jeff Gannon" -- where will this tangled web stop?

In fact, here's one more freaky coincidence. According to that same World Net Daily article about al-Taee speaking to the Free Republic chapter, both Free Republic and MOVE-OUT were reportedly closely monitoring the activities of left-wing anti-war group A.N.S.W.E.R. On March 7, 2003, around the time of the "Gannon"-al-Taee interview, a Freeper posted an online "enemies' list," that included Nick Berg's father Michael, who belongs to A.N.S.W.E.R, and Berg's business, Prometheus Methods Tower Service.

"Gannon's" preferential treatment by the White House for getting into WH press briefings/press conferences/Christmas party is likely to be just the tip of the iceberg.

[Bluebear]

6. My my my all these 'coincidences'! MEDIA??????

[golden voyages]

7. Being a "journalist" was just a convenient cover

and simply JJ/GG's newest profession. I firmly believe the real reason he was there had a whole lot more to do with the oldest profession.

I suspect this is going to get mighty interesting. :bounce:

[pacalo]

8. It's the scandal that keeps on giving.

It's not surprising that Big Brother is watching. Karl Rove is nervous.