YEEhah! I found "that" Jeff Gannon pic!

[librechik]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/08/20010825-2.html

relevant text from stupid script '

" Q Some of your friends are surprised that you like to come out here basically in the middle of nowhere and just kind of be by yourself.

THE PRESIDENT: I guess they don't know what it's like to be the President. (Laughter.) I get plenty of quality time with a lot of really good people. Sometimes, it's important to just get away as well.

Plus, you know, one of the things we miss in Washington is our friends. And they're here. We've got the Weisses here, the Gannons are here, Pam Nelson is here. And we find it really relaxing to sit down on the porch with our buddies and just shoot the breeze. And, you know, it's amazing. You don't have to defend any policy you make. I mean, your friends are your friends. These people were friends of mine before I became President, they'll be friends of mine after I'm the President. And people just take you for what you are. "

The Gannons are here!



BTW, that looks like Jeff behind the prez- shoulder. Couldn't swear to it, though

[GetTheRightVote]

1. Thank you for the photo and the posting, love to stay informed

They are just scum.

:kick:

[w13rd0]

2. Anyone blown this up yet?

Wouldn't it be a hoot. Impartial reporter? Bush friend? Payola partisan propaganda peddler? Male prostitute...

[Luminous Animal]

6. Click on the link

And then click on the photo on the White House site and you'll get a bigger version.

[paineinthearse]

3. A blast from the past

This is from 2001. Do you see Gannon?

[KaliTracy]

4. blast that to media -- NPR did a pretty long report this evening on him

Send it to them [e-mail]

on edit it was All Things Considered in the evening.... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4492778

But I would blast it to both of them -- Morning Edition will probably cover part of the story tomorrow

[e-mail]

others to consider when you media blast

Diane Rheme [e-mail]
Talk of the Nation [e-mail]
Michael Moore [e-mail]

[stevedeshazer]

5. Great find

In plain sight...

Love this Bush quote: "And we find it really relaxing to sit down on the porch with our buddies and just shoot the breeze. And, you know, it's amazing. You don't have to defend any policy you make."

[imaginary girl]

7. And the doctor and nurse!

... in excellent health, though, isn't he?

snip

Q Now would the doctor and the nurse both normally be here, or is it the chainsaw that brought them out?

THE PRESIDENT: No, they're with me -- like when I ran this morning, they were here. They go everywhere I go on the ranch.

Q Not that they don't trust you with a chainsaw, huh?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, they don't trust me with my running, either. (Laughter.)

snip

from http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/08/20010825-2.html

[CoffeeCat]

13. Wow, this one interview is like a Pandora's box!!

Good catch imaginary girl!!!

Gee, I always run with a doctor AND a nurse at my side.

He admitted that a doctor and a nurse "don't like his running" and are with him when he does.

Does the man have Ebola or what?

[AZCat]

8. I don't think our boy is in the pic...

He wasn't a "reporter" until 2003 and this is from August 2001, and it looks like just press people in the picture.

Bush's comment would point to a closer relationship than has been thought, though.

[linazelle]

9. I hope you cache it or have a screen shot, you know this stuff

is disappearing like crazy. PLEASE send it to the MSM. Use DU's media list. Need some help writing a letter?

[Rapcw]

10. lol

thanks for this little timecapsule n/t

[CoffeeCat]

11. Ok, this is huge, major news...

...did you just dig this up???

Librechik--this is a total smoking gun.

Is Gannon visible in the pic?

*'s words, plus Gannon's photo could really blow this whole story to smithereens.

Has anyone else mentioned or displayed this photo anywhere?

BTW--a side note. In the text, a reporter asks Bush, "Shouldn't you be doing that with an axe?" Bush replies, "No that was Lincoln."
Ok......maybe I'm totally off here, but did Bush mean to say, "Washington." I don't recall Lincoln being famous for any "axe" incidents, but Washington is known for chopping down the cherry tree with an axe. Did Bush boof that one?

[librechik]

22. hilarious--didn't catch that

[Luminous Animal]

23. Lincoln was known as a rail-splitter. (n/t)

[CoffeeCat]

25. LOL!

...I think Lincoln would need more than an axe for that job.

But don't tell shrubby!

[LiberallyInclined]

32. ???

for what job?

[jdj]

36. he didn't want to bring up the "I can not tell a lie" thing.

Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit.

Our good friends the Gannons are here.

Wow.

Why would they be going by Gannon is their real name is gutcheck or whatever?

[paineinthearse]

12. Larger image....is that gannon on the right?

It may not be a show down at high noon, but a few good-natured shots are fired as President Bush gives the press pool a tour of his ranch at Crawford, Texas, Aug. 25. White House photo by Moreen Ishikawa.

[paineinthearse]

15. address

http://www. whitehouse. gov/news/releases/2001/08/images/20010825-2. jpg

Close-up the spaces after the periods.

[CoffeeCat]

16. Does anyone know what Gannon's wife looks like?

* said, "We have the Gannons"...so maybe she is in the picture.

[paineinthearse]

18. Maybe it's the guy in the CNN photo in the Brady press room. nt

[burn the bush]

29. Gannon's not his real name though is it?

[MADem]

45. I don't think he is married...n/t

[LiberallyInclined]

33. gannon is bald.

he's not in this pic.
besides- he was the white house reporter...i don't recall anything about his being in a travelling press pool.

[SpiralHawk]

35. Please Photoshop Gannon down to his Tighty Whities

That's the only way the press will be able to make a positive ID.

They will get to the root of the matter.

[Pachamama]

14. I don't think its Gannon/Guckert....sorry, that's a stretch....

Different profile and build....I've got a good eye for this and could literally after seeing someone briefly describe them and pick them out of a lineup, even with alterations to hair etc.

This isn't Gannon/Guckert....

Good try - keep looking...I'm sure that there has to be one or more out there in this kind of situation with the Prez....look hard now because I'm sure they are scrubbing their records and site quickly....

[paineinthearse]

17. FOI the pResident's daily logs and see who accompanied him on trips. nt

[Octafish]

19. Bush is an idiot (in his own words)

From librechick's White House source for the photo, evidence the guy's nothing but a psychotic moron:

President Gives Tour of Crawford Ranch

Remarks by the President During Tour of the President's Ranch

Prarie Chapel Ranch
Crawford, Texas

11:05 A.M. CDT

     Q    Shouldn't you be doing that with an axe?

     THE PRESIDENT:  I've got my earplugs in.

     Q    Oh, lucky.

     THE PRESIDENT:  What?

     Q    I was just asking, shouldn't you be doing that with an axe?

     THE PRESIDENT:  No, that was Abraham Lincoln.

     Q    My mistake.

     THE PRESIDENT:  I'll tell you what we ought to do.  What we're doing is, we're cleaning this out.  We're making a trail from the top to come down, over here.  Do you all want to walk in here?  It's kind of neat in here.  These cliffs are pretty unusual, from this perspective.  And then -- this is a very long canyon.  I'll take you down, if you want to see where the mouth of the canyon is, and the trail was cut up in here.  And then I've got another canyon, right next door, if you'd like to see that, that we've improved.  It will give you a flavor for the ranch.

     But what we're trying to do is to make these really beautiful cutouts available for anybody who wants to walk up in here.  I think you'll see that we make them pretty accessible without disturbing the natural beauty of the place.

     If you want the details, that was a dead hackberry.  H-a-c-k -- (Laughter.)

     Q    He's writing it down.

     THE PRESIDENT:  Anyway, what will happen is, is that when the rainy season comes, this all gets damp in here, we'll fire up this pile of leaves and stuff, and burn it.  This canyon -- you can see, behind you, all the erosion.  This gets a lot of water coming through here.  There's seven of these on the ranch, and when it rains, these all flow down toward the bottoms.  Eventually, in this case, these canyons feed into the middle fork of the Bosque River.  The guy from A&M we had out here, he spotted about 17 or 18 different variety of hardwood down below.

     So what do you want to do?

     Q    Come down.

     THE PRESIDENT:  Come on down here, or do you want to start from the bottom and walk up?  We'll start from the bottom and walk up.  I've got room for five people.  We'll get the scribblers, AP and Reuters.

     Q    Thank you.

     * * * * *

     THE PRESIDENT:  -- just use the cedar that we cut.  Used a crowbar to dig the hole.  We'll put another one below, and then make sure the steps are -- I've got a little more work -- do you see those two -- those are dead right there.  Those are ash.  Do you see the two trees there, the dead trees?  I'll cut them out.

     And so basically, what we've been doing in here, is we've been cutting out the dead trees, the trees that have fallen down.  And some undergrowth, just to open it up, so that when you sit out here for a picnic, you've got a pretty good view of this beautiful canyon.

     Q    Are you trying to make a hiking trail for people to use?

     THE PRESIDENT:  Yes.

     Q    Now would the doctor and the nurse both normally be here, or is it the chainsaw that brought them out?

     THE PRESIDENT:  No, they're with me -- like when I ran this morning, they were here.  They go everywhere I go on the ranch.

     Q    Not that they don't trust you with a chainsaw, huh?

     THE PRESIDENT:  Well, they don't trust me with my running, either. (Laughter.)

     Q    Won't the rain erode the trail?  How do you stop that?

     THE PRESIDENT:  Pardon me?

     Q    The rain, won't the water erode the trail?  Do you have to keep redoing it?

     THE PRESIDENT:  No, actually we're not going to put it on the creek bottom.  You'll see, there's a series of flats, as you come up the canyon. The canyon is not uniformly steep.  And so there will be -- one side of the canyon will be steep, and the other side will be relatively flat.  We've cut out a trail, mainly cedars.  Cedars are a -- you know, some of the big stands of cedars are important, because they become nesting materials for things like the golden cheek warbler, although we don't have any on this property.

     On the other hand, the little cedars, they crowd up on these beautiful hardwood, and they soak in a lot of water.  I mean, they take 30 percent of the water, more or less, that is taken in by these trees, are taken in by cedar.  And cedar is just a plague of a lot of places around Texas.

     Q    What did you mean when you said you burn it?

     THE PRESIDENT:  It means, we take a match --

     Q    I know that, but isn't there a risk of spreading fire?

     THE PRESIDENT:  No, in the rainy season, the wet season.

     Q    In the rainy season, I see.

     THE PRESIDENT:  Right now you can't burn because there's a burn ban. And obviously, we'll honor the burn ban.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/08/20010825-2.html

Hi, Mods and Readers! The above is from a US Government document in the public domain. It really demonstrates the depths toward witch our nation has sunk.

[FreepFryer]

20. Folks, ease back. There is no visible picture of 'Gannon' in that pic.

However, if another one surfaces...

[linazelle]

21. The picture is not the smoking gun....Bush's words are n/t

[FreepFryer]

28. His exact words were not 'Jeff Gannon'. "The Gannons", iirc. (n/t)

And, i fhe had a woman with him, that would be the kind of thing that someone pretending to know someone better than he does would do.

I'm not defending or hating, just trying to get at the literal truth.

[KharmaTrain]

24. Question Time...Did Gannon Travel?

We might just have touched on a Travelgate here, kids...

If "Gannon" had credentials, did he also travel with the POS...I mean POTUS...on his travels? If so, who paid for them? The major media is supposed to be responsible for re-imbursing the White House for their reporters travel aboard the WH Press plane. Now who paid for "Gannon". Anyone look down this road yet? Any sleuths interested?

[satya]

26. This script has the Barney and the armadillo bit from F911.

"Barney's big thing to do is to chase armadillo. And, you know, Laura has mulched our flower beds around the house and we water in the evening, so therefore the soil is very moist and armadillo love to dig the soil looking for bugs. And so I went out there the other day, and there was Barney buried in this hole, chasing an armadillo. (Laughter.) Both of them were in this hole. At any rate, Barney -- finally got him out of there and the armadillo wouldn't move."

The Gannons were one of the three couples he mentioned staying at the house, not in the press corps.

[Luminous Animal]

27. It could have been this Gannon

Department of Homeland Security appointments...


* John C. Gannon: likely candidate for undersecretary for information analysis/intelligence and infrastructure protection division; former CIA deputy director for intelligence; former vice chairman of Intellibridge Corp.; previously headed interagency National Intelligence Council (coordinated work of 11 federal agencies); oversaw internal reorganization at CIA (1997).<10> (http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/homelandappointments.htm)

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Department_of_Homeland_Security_appointments

[librechik]

30. Yeah--seems like someone collected it thinking it was

a Gannon pic, (becausue of the Gannons in the script? dunno, at the Kos diaries, where I found it, they were trawling for ALL references)On investigation, it doesn't seem likely. However, I maintain that the guy behind Shrub's shoulder could be "our" Jeff, but because the pic is only partial there's no way to demonstrate it for sure. Glad I found it though--the memory of seeing it and then losing it was driving me nutty!

(I have no life)

Thanks all!

[deutsey]

31. Wasn't there some article a while back in which Gannon was the only

reporter invited to the Crawford ranch? I probably have him confused with someone else.

[Renew Deal]

34. kick

:kick:

[understandinglife]

37. Perhaps someone at DU knows Moreen Ishikawa -- the photographer who...

....took the picture. If so, she'd likely know if Gannon is the one standing to the left and behind shrub.

Or, maybe someone knows one or more of the other press folk in the picture and could ask them if Gannon was at the ranch.

Peace.


TBO;24/7

[UTUSN]

38. I Dunno, Doesn't Look Like the Nose, the Hair, the Clothes

[librechik]

43. Thanks UTUSN! Was wishing for that graphic!

But the pictures may not be contemporary. Forensic scientists say that earlobes are the most distinguishable features for identification.

I still won't rule it out. However, it seems frivolous to believe it is him. The coincidence would be I also read today that "Jeff" admits to meeting BUsh exactly twice, both at Christmas parties with other reporters around, and this pic is from August 2001.

[understandinglife]

44. Shave the head, check the glasses with other pics of him, and .....

....look at the angle of his jaw in the Crawford photo, now mentally rotate his head clockwise and then look at the angle of his jaw in the cutie-boy photo.

Hmmm?

Would be helpful if someone knew any of the press folk, including the photographer who took the pic in Crawford, and could just ask the direct question -- was Jeffie boy there?

Peace.


TBO;24/7

[NervousRex]

39. He's at the bottom of the pic...

[librechik]

40. you're right!

I wonder why I didn't notice that in there earlier

Looks like he's just waitng for Shrub to get rid of the lookyloos and git down to bidness.



<snarf>

[ourbluenation]

41. But Gannon is a fake name

this has to be a different Gannon cuz the real guys name is Guckert or something like that...

Will the real Gannon please stand up!

[Haymare22]

42. I guarantee you.......

this stoopid Mf b*sh dont know the front end of a horse from the part the manure leaves outta.
If this dope knew a horse dont ya think they'd be showing non-stop pix of him riding?????? Ya know, like the last cowboy???

All he knows is manure.....