Gannon-Guckert and PajamasMedia hooks to Rathergate

[mctrotter5]

During Democracy Now during two different interviews re:Cartoon issue and Rathergate had a mention of a website: littlegreenfootballs.com. I looked it up to find it is a member of pajamasmedia which connects to Gannon-Guckert who recently resurfaced. This website was the one that VERY quickly led the attack on the Bush National Guard documents as soon as they were posted on the White House website. Listen to Democracy Now today and see how the pieces fall together with the Mary Mapes interview.

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. hmmm...pajamasmedia?

This is the same organization that Durbin called out a couple of days ago during a press conference. Dems were giving a press conf about the NSA spying and one "reporter" attempted to emulate Les Kinsling. Durbin asked him "who do you work for?" and the guy said, "Pajamasmedia". How DO these radicals get press passes to be in close proximity to our elected officials????

[Stephanie]

2. info on that fake "reporter"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=338787

[Norquist Nemesis]

4. Ahh, the next nominee to SCOTUS!

Thanks! (Haven't been around for several days) That explains a lot!

[hootinholler]

6. IIRC the guy said Dan Rather knows who we are. n/t

[Norquist Nemesis]

8. That's the one!

Frankly, it sounded like a threat to me. Capitol Security should have hauled this guy's ass out to the street!

[Canuckistanian]

3. PajamasMedia-Powerline blog-Talon News

It's all a big, interconnected mess. And they're hooked up to the same Rovian 'blast fax' network as the RW radio wingnuts such as Rush and his little butt-boy Hannity.

Ever notice that they all come out with the same talking points at exactly the same time?

[madrchsod]

5. little greenfootballs

is one of the scummiest sites on the web. how bad can lgf be when some members of the stormfront can`t stand the posters on the lgf site....

[emulatorloo]

7. Mary Mapes (Rather's producer) book excerpt has a lot on this -- Here:

http://www.vanityfair.com/commentary/content/printables/051114roco01?print=true

Inside the "Memogate" Affair
By MARY MAPES
As a veteran producer for 60 Minutes II, the author broke many stories, including the Abu Ghraib torture scandal with Dan Rather. Their next big scoop—the September 2004 exposé on George W. Bush's National Guard service—got her fired, accelerated Rather's retirement, and left CBS reeling. What happened?

<snip>

Things began to change at about 11 a.m., when I started hearing rumbles from some producers at CBS News that a handful of far-right Web sites were saying the documents had been forged.

I was incredulous. That couldn't be possible. When we'd shown the president's people the memos, the White House hadn't attempted to deny the truth of the documents. In fact, the president's communications director, Dan Bartlett, had claimed that the documents supported their version of events: that then Lieutenant Bush had asked for permission to leave the unit.

Within a few minutes, I was visiting Web sites I had never heard of: Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, Power Line. They were hard-core, politically angry, hyperconservative sites loaded with vitriol about Dan Rather and CBS. People posted their questionable recollections that electric typewriters in the 1970s did not do "superscripts," the small "th" or "st" suffixes following a number and lifted higher than the other letters. This was important because, in the Killian memos, "111th" was sometimes typed with a superscript. Other bloggers claimed there was no proportional spacing on old typewriters—using different widths for different characters—even though some of the old official documents had proportional spacing. The claims snowballed.

I remember staring, disheartened and angry, at one posting. "60 Minutes is going down," the writer crowed.

<snip>

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