{"id":4153,"date":"2007-02-15T16:10:10","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T00:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4153"},"modified":"2007-02-16T12:22:14","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T20:22:14","slug":"fake-journalist-jeff-gannon-responds-seeks-attention-in-wake-of-recent-brad-blog-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4153","title":{"rendered":"Fake Journalist &#8216;Jeff Gannon&#8217; Responds, Seeks Attention, in Wake of Recent BRAD BLOG Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/JeffGannon_SpiralContinues.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Oh, the indescribable irony continues.<\/p>\n<p>Former-hooker-turned-fake-journalist James &#8220;Jeff Gannon&#8221; Guckert responded<\/a> (sort of) to a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Bradblog.com\">BRAD BLOG<\/a> article referencing his White House &#8220;correspondent&#8221; fakery,  <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4117\">as filed<\/a> by our special Libby\/CIA Leak Trial correspondent Margie Burns.<\/p>\n<p>We failed to notice the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffgannon.com\/archives\/general\/index.html#a000871\">response\/obfuscation on his little blog<\/a> when it was originally published since, frankly, the traffic from &#8220;Gannon&#8217;s&#8221; site didn&#8217;t trigger high enough numbers for us to take note of it in our &#8220;incoming traffic&#8221; hit-counter.<\/p>\n<p>While we hate to draw any more attention to the silly, disgraced GOP operative, his presence in the White House briefing room &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4117\">dropping phony Administration talking points<\/a> (or perhaps more precisely, Office of the Vice-President) during the early days of the CIA Leak revelations &#8212; deserves notice and further investigation, in our opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Also of note is the subsequent scrubbing of White House website documents referring to &#8220;Gannon&#8217;s&#8221; questions at the time. That matter was <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4138\">also recently reported by Burns<\/a>, and seems to be in apparent violation of the Presidential Records Act of 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we&#8217;ll make &#8220;Jeff&#8217;s&#8221; day and send him a bit of traffic today by quoting the lead of his blog item, in which he knocks the irony meter off the chart by calling Joe Wilson a &#8220;proven liar,&#8221; and even goes so far as to write (apparently with a straight face): &#8220;The search for truth is not a smear campaign, it is the essence of journalism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen more minutes, then, for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffgannon.com\/archives\/general\/index.html#a000871\">silly &#8220;Jeff&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><b>Joe Wilson The Only Proven Liar In &#8220;Leak&#8221; Case<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Old Media is breathlessly reporting on the tapes of Scooter Libby&#8217;s Grand Jury testimony in the Valerie Plame Affair. The reporters\/DNC operatives are certain that Libby lied, probably to protect Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, George Bush, et al. The question I still ask is: Lied about what? That loudmouth Joe Wilson&#8217;s third-rate, desk-jockey analyst wife worked at the CIA? Why lie about that and so what if he did? The only proven liar in the entire saga thus far is JOE WILSON.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4117\">Hard Left blogger<\/a> is claiming that I led the &#8220;White House attacks on Joe Wilson.&#8221; That accusation is UNEQUIVOCALLY FALSE.<\/div>\n<p>You&#8217;ll have to read the rest of his piece to see how Republi-journaloid &#8220;Gannon&#8221; doesn&#8217;t actually bother to offer any actual &#8220;proof&#8221; for his case that Wilson is a &#8220;proven liar.&#8221; But in &#8220;Jeff&#8217;s&#8221; imaginary Fox &#8220;News&#8221;-based world, we suspect that simply saying something out loud &#8212; like &#8220;we know for a fact that Saddam Hussein has nuclear weapons&#8221; or &#8220;the insurgency is in its last throes&#8221; &#8212; is &#8220;proof&#8221; enough for him and the other Bush dead-enders still left out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, the indescribable irony continues. Former-hooker-turned-fake-journalist James &#8220;Jeff Gannon&#8221; Guckert responded (sort of) to a recent BRAD BLOG article referencing his White House &#8220;correspondent&#8221; fakery, as filed by our special Libby\/CIA Leak Trial correspondent Margie Burns. We failed to notice the response\/obfuscation on his little blog when it was originally published since, frankly, the traffic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,85],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cia-leak","category-gannonguckert","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4153"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}