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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 04:54 PM
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My Gannon letter makes it to my local paper
Granted, it's a free weekly for fairly rural Eastern Connecticut... but, my letter on Gannon made it in there. I will say that when I first moved to town, the "speak out" section was almost all Freepers. At least it is more balanced now. This was submitted over a week ago when the scandal first started breaking.

Gannon Undercover
First, three mainstream media members were outed as having been paid propagandists for Bush policies. Now comes word that Jeff Gannon of Talon News, who lobbed famously loaded softball questions at George Bush and his staff during White House press conferences, was really an undercover GOP operative with no journalistic credentials. Gannon also has connections to gay prostitution rings and participated in the outing of an undercover CIA operative. Yet, he was able to get White House press credentials. How soon until our media officially changes their name to Pravda?

http://www.remindernet.com/fr_spk.htm



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fooj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 04:55 PM
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1. Congrats! Way to keep the story moving...
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 04:57 PM
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thanks
There are a couple of decent ones in there that could have been written by a good librul and/or DUers as well.
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 04:57 PM
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2. Congratulations! Thank You. n/t
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 04:57 PM
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3. Good for you
Everything helps. :thumbsup:
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 04:57 PM
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4. Great letter, Jeff. LOVE the Pravda question!
:thumbsup:
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pnutchuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 04:58 PM
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5. Freepers think Pravda is a potato filled dumpling
Good luck getting them to make the connection.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 04:59 PM
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6. Kick ass NewJeffCT!
:yourock:
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julialnyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 05:01 PM
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7. what paper?
I'm from around there too.
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Straight Shooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 05:03 PM
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8. "Gannon also has connections ..." Absolutely brilliant.
You did not call him a hooker, or accuse him of being gay. You stayed on point and listed the facts in a no-nonsense manner.

A most excellent letter. :thumbsup:
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 05:23 PM
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12. well, I had submitted the letter...
I had submitted the letter prior to americablog actually directly connecting him to gay prostitution. At that point, it was just some odd domain names.
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Bethany Rockafella Donating Member (916 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 05:03 PM
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9. Way to go!
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 05:04 PM
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10. Pravda operatives probably had Some journalistic

credentials, albeit Soviet.

But they only pimped and laid for the regime.
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peacebird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 05:06 PM
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11. woo-hooo!
:yourock:

:toast:

well done!
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