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Me 
 
Bruised
but not broken 
 
I'm
baaaaaaack! If you thought I was going to slink away - then you
don't know much about me. Someone still has to battle the Left and
now that I've emerged from the crucible, I'm stronger than before. 
 
Despite all the pleas from the Left to go over to the 'dark side' and
expose the 'corrupt Bush administration' simply isn't going to
happen. My faith and my ideology are rock solid. 
 
Still, the last few weeks have been difficult for my family and my
associates. To them I offer my apology and gratitude for their
support. 
 
In regard to the allegations about my personal life, I have been advised
by my attorneys not to comment on any of the details pending the outcome
of any possible legal action I might pursue. Therefore, I won't be
discussing any of that stuff here. 
 
Contact 
 
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Fear and Loathing in the Press Room<o:p>
</o:p>
 
 

For the last two years, the Old Media figures at the White House thought
of me as a gadfly, a right-winger with an agenda, harmless, someone to be
ignored. From time to time
there were grumbles among some of the reporters and one or two
confrontations, but there was never a serious attempt to remove me from
their midst. During my tenure
I developed some good friends there who welcomed the refreshing
perspective I brought to the briefings and respected my courage for asking
the questions that I did.

It
wasn’t until I asked “The Question” that everything abruptly
changed. Initially, my
colleagues had no reaction to the query posed to President Bush.
It wasn’t until Rush Limbaugh drew attention to it that there was
any interest at all. But that
was enough to get a liberal group dedicated to attacking conservatives in
the media to mobilize. It was
horrified that the relentless string of hostile and a few downright
disrespectful questions had been broken. My greater sin in their eyes, however was that I dared to
suggest that two Senate Democratic leaders held an illogical view of the
economy’s weakness and the strength of Social Security. <a href="Column%20archive/fear_and_loathing_in_the_press_r.htm">MORE</a>


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</a>Gannonblog 
 
March 7, 2005 
 
Mark Jurkowitz of the Boston Globe presents a one-sided view of the
Washington press corps, failing to acknowledge that there might be liberal
bias at work or a political agenda being pursued by some news
agencies. This from a newspaper that many times sounded like a
mouthpiece for the Kerry campaign. <a href="http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2005/03/07/communication_or_manipulation/">STORY</a> 
 
7:30am 
 
Randell Beck, editor of the Sioux Falls (SD) Argus Leader simultaneously
tells readers not to trust what is found on blogs but then repeats distortions from them in discussing Gannongate. <a href="http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050306/COLUMNISTS01/503060308/1057/COLUMNISTS">STORY</a> 
 
7:17am 
 
The New York Times is hailing the first blogger to be issued a "day
pass" to a White House press briefing. It goes to great lengths
to play up his genealogical background in journalism, but fails to mention
that the Vermont native served as deputy national press secretary on
Howard Dean's presidential campaign last year. Hmmm...no political
ties there! <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/07/technology/07press.html">STORY</a> 
 
According to the "Gannon Standard", I am expecting to see other
bloggers' reports on his sexual and financial history as well as some
conspiracy theories about who this guy is. 
 
Actually, I like the guy, we've talked on the phone several times. I
wish him luck and am pleased that others will gain from what I
pioneered. Now I'm looking for a conservative blogger to step up and
get in there! 
 
5:45am 
 
March 6, 2005 
 
I just finished up on the Steve Yuhas Show, and was glad to finally get a
chance to talk about the important elements of this story. I'll be
doing more of this from this point on and I have a lot to say. There
is so much more to this story that has yet to be told. 
 
10:01pm 
 
***MEDIA ADVISORY*** 
 
I will be a guest on the <a href="http://www.steveyuhas.com/">Steve Yuhas
Show</a> Sunday night, March 6 at 9:00pm EST. The segment will be LIVE -
I'll be talking about Gannongate and the Hyper-Hysterical (and not in a
funny way) Homosexual Hypocrites and their enablers in the Old Media who
played the "gay card" to try to destroy me. 
 
"I'm here, I'm conservative. Get used to it!" 
 
5:58pm 
 
A sore loser from the failed re-election bid of Sen. Tom Daschle complains
about my coverage of last year's race, but says it didn't have any
effect. So what's the beef Hildy? <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2005/03/06/front/top/news01.txt">STORY</a> 
 
4:17pm 
 
I watched a clip of Sen. Joe Biden on Bill Maher's HBO crapfest. I
wonder why he didn't mention meeting me some years ago. C'mon Joe,
think... 
 
1:18pm 
 
More interesting observations about the Washington press elite from Fred
Brown in the Denver Post. <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~145~2743735,00.html">STORY 
 
</a>12:47pm 
 
James Joyner wieghs in with an interesting observation on the Outside the
Beltway blog, <a href="http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/9501">Why
is Sgrena Called a Journalist?</a> 
 
12:40pm 
 
The impartial Helen Thomas takes a break from her Bush-bashing column to
share her views about Gannongate. <a href="http://www.troyrecord.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14087628&BRD=1170&PAG=461&dept_id=7021&rfi=6">STORY</a>
She was interviewed during an appearance at Siena College's First Woman
President Symposium held coincidentally following the release of its own
poll that said a majority of Americans are ready for a female
commander-in-chief and that Hillary Clinton should run in 2008. 
 
10:15am 
 
Johanna Neuman of the Chicago Tribune has an interesting article about
the White House press corps. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0502270492feb27,1,2642071.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true">STORY</a> 
 
Doug Schmitz at MichNews.com takes a thorough look at Gannongate with <a href="http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_7032.shtml">The
White House press clubhouse: No conservatives allowed</a>. 
 
8:27am 
 
***MEDIA ADVISORY*** 
 
I will be a guest on the <a href="http://www.steveyuhas.com/">Steve Yuhas
Show</a> Sunday night, March 6. The segment will be LIVE - I'm
coming out swinging and fighting back! 
 
8:00am 
 
Frank Rich gives Maureen Dowd a run for her money to be the most asinine
columnist at New York Times with <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/06/arts/06rich.html?8hpib">Gonzo
Gone, Rather Going, Watergate Still Here</a>, but Maureen still manages to
maintain a two-Prozac edge. 
 
7:25am

Russell
Cobb of the Daily Texan implies that I drove Hunter Thompson to suicide in
<a href="http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2005/02/23/Opinion/From-Gonzo.Journalism.To.Bootlicking-873420.shtml">Gonzo
Journalism to Bootlicking</a>. 
 
6:05am 
 
March 5, 2005 
 
CK Rairden, managing editor of the National Ledger is talking about <a href="http://www.nationalledger.com/scribe/archives/2005/03/the_post_jeff_g.shtml">The
Post-Jeff Gannon Era</a>. 
 
9:43pm 
 
White House correspondent Les Kinsolving, who is recovering from
triple-bypass surgery following a January heart attack, wrote of the
colorful history of the Washington press corps, for World Net Daily in
2002. <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27833">STORY</a>
I send my best wishes and continued prayers to Les and his wonderful wife. 
 
1:01pm 
 
March 4, 2005 
 
Congressional Democrats continue their assault on a free press with an
unprecedented request for an inquiry into a conservative journalist who
attended White House briefings for the last two years. <a href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000827011">STORY</a>
Who is behind this 21st Century McCarthyism? <a href="usual_suspects__rep.htm">THE
USUAL SUSPECTS</a> 
 
3:05pm 
 
House Democrats are clamoring for an investigation into how a journalist
was allowed inside the White House press room. Jennifer Harper at
the Washington Times quotes Rep. Louise Slaughter saying, "This is a
matter of national security..." <a href="http://insider.washingtontimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050303-110422-9026r">STORY</a> 
 

8:51am 
 

Ohio Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur signs onto the "Divorced From Reality™"
team in an article from the Toledo Blade in which she claims I
misrepresented her remarks TWO YEARS AGO and then proceeds to take a big
gulp of the conspiracy Kool-Aid. <a href="http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050304/NEWS09/503040327/-1/NEWS">STORY</a> 
 
8:34am 
 
March 3, 2005

Democrats
unveiled "the house that Daschle built" Tuesday night. The
new headquarters for the National Democratic Senatorial Committee will
bear the name of the former Minority Leader who was FIRED by constituents
last November. The Sioux Falls (SD) Argus Leader presents a wistful
account of the unveiling, <a href="http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050303/NEWS03/503030309/1001/NEWS">Democrats
name building for Daschle</a>. The former South Dakota senator was
the first party leader turned out of office since 1952 - that's something
to be remembered for. 
 
2:03pm 
 
Steve Yuhas, a terrific radio host in Southern California scores with <a href="http://www.steveyuhas.com/column.html">Media
Matters for America Doesn’t: David Brock is just one angry Mary</a>.
Ha! 
 
12:51pm 
 
Brent Bozell, president of Media Research Center has a an article posted
at Townhall.com where he asks, <a href="http://www.townhall.com/columnists/brentbozell/bb20050303.shtml">Is
the liberal media dead?</a>. Seriously wounded maybe and still
dangerous, I'd say. 
 
12:30pm 
 
After a month of Media Matters for America smearing me as a political
operative instead of the independent conservative journalist that I am, it
has been revealed that my accuser is itself a political operation of
sorts. Marc Morano of CNSNews.com exposes the financial connection
between MMA with liberal activist groups funded by convicted insider
trading billionaire George Soros, <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=/SpecialReports/archive/200503/SPE20050303a.html">David
Brock Group Backpedals on Soros Funding.
 
 
</a>9:01am <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=/SpecialReports/archive/200503/SPE20050303a.html"> 
 
</a>CNSNews.com highlights
the position of the Divorced from Reality™
 crowd with Senate Dems
<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200503%5CNAT20050303a.html">'United'
Against 'Goofy Privatization Scheme' 
 
</a>8:49am 
 
Ann Coulter again lambastes the Left for its hypocrisy with <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=108&ncid=742&e=10&u=/ucac/20050302/cm_ucac/callingthekettlegay">Calling
the Kettle Gay. 
</a> 
6:10am 
 
March 2, 2005 
 
I just had an email from some folks who have been away and don't know
how this all got started. For those who are playing catch-up on the
news, I am providing a link to my column about "The Question", <a href="Column%20archive/touching_american_journalism.htm">Touching
American Journalism's Third Rail</a>. 
 
3:50pm 
 
Tom Bevan has an great piece at Real Clear Politics, <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/blog_3_1_05_1432.html">PLAYING
HARDBALL WITH MAUREEN DOWD</a>, in which he makes some good points about
this gal who probably needs a bit of the old Jeff Gannon to relieve some
of that pent up whatever. He also describes the media bubble that
protected John Kerry from pesky questions like those about releasing his
entire military record until after the election. This is the same
bubble that keeps Sen. Hillary Clinton from having to reconcile her
statements about the economy and Social Security that I so elegantly
framed in "The Question." 
 
12:54pm 
 
The Media Research Center rips apart the bias deniers at Hardball with <a href="http://www.mediaresearchcenter.com/cyberalerts/2005/cyb20050301.asp#3">Matthews
& Carlson Reject Notion White House Press Corps Liberal</a>. 
 
12:45pm 
 
Jay Rosen at Pressthink is spouting another conspiracy theory about how
the White House created Jeff Gannon. <a href="http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2005/02/25/wht_prss.html">In
the Press Room of the White House that is Post Press</a> puts Rosen onto
the "Divorced From Reality™"
Express. 
 
12:37pm 

 
Senate Democrats gathered in Washington Tuesday night to honor their
fallen leader, Tom Daschle. It was billed as a celebration, but
turned out to be more like a wake. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64660-2005Mar2.html">For
Daschle, Democrats Are the Farewell Party </a> Sen. Chuck Schumer
seemed to suggest that Daschle consider running for Senate in Maryland if
Paul Sarbanes decides to retire. Why not? He doesn't live in
that state either. The Foxhall Road homeowner once proclaimed,
"I'm a DC resident!" 
 
10:08am 
 
Howard Kurtz writes about former White House Press Secretary Ari
Fleischer, who is currently on a tour to promote his book "Taking
Heat" in <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61542-2005Feb28.html">Ari
Fleischer's View From the Briefing Room</a>. Of course no discussion
of the White House Press Corps these days is complete without a mention of
Jeff Gannon. 
 
6:05am 
 
March 1, 2005 
 
I just noticed a snarky bit by MSNBC's David Shuster on <a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7013421/#050224B">Hard-blah-gger</a>.
When you're done with that, take a look at my piece on Shuster from last
September, <a href="Column%20archive/shuster.htm">Shuster's Shame</a>. 
 
4:13pm 
 
Bloggers are again doing what the Old Media will not, that is, giving
me an opportunity to answer questions without editing, filtering or
interpretation. Therefore, I am granting interviews to both
conservative and liberal bloggers. 
 
I took 10 questions from Aaron at <a href="http://www.lifelikepundits.com/archives/000318.php">Lifelike
Pundits </a> 
 
12:39pm 
 
Garrett Graff at FishbowlDC is featuring an interview I did with him
yesterday, <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/online_media/default.asp">"Gannon:
It's a Making Lemonade Thing" </a> 
 
10:29am 
 
The Old Media still doesn't get it. Dick
Polman,
a political analyst for the Philadelphia Inquirer promotes the idea that
Gannongate is part of a larger conspiracy by the Bush administration to
manipulate the news. In <a href="http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/11009432.htm">"White
House stirs debate on media tactics,"</a> Polman demonstrates that
those of his ilk who have dominated the media for decades cannot grasp
that there could be possibly be an independent, conservative
journalist. Is that because those on his side are unabashed
operatives themselves? 
 
8:12am 
 
February 28, 2005 
 

The White House Correspondents' Association decided against changing
the policies that allowed me (and others) to attend briefings on a
"day pass." The article by Joe Strupp of Editor &
Publisher, <a href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000818837">"White
House Correspondents Want No Role in Credentialing"</a> is good news
until the very end. "Posing as a journalist?" Some
of these guys just don't get the reality of the New Media. Would
there be anyone else in that briefing room "posing" as a
journalist? 
 
9:45pm 

 
With all of the nasty email I've gotten, it's good to have a few
friendly words of support. Sher Zieve heralds my return with <a href="http://www.webcommentary.com/asp/ShowArticle.asp?id=zieves&date=050225">"Jeff
Gannon is Back!"</a> I hope to be here for some time to
come. There is still so much to tell... 
 
6:23pm 
 
Ken Hughes at The Conservative Voice gazes into the future of what
might happen to me after "Gannongate" and wonders <a href="http://www.theconservativevoice.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3325">"Is
Jeff Gannon The New Matt Drudge?"</a> From his keyboard to
God's flat screen monitor! 
 
6:12pm 
 
Cliff Kincaid at Accuracy in Media gets it right again with <a href="http://www.aim.org/aim_column/2709_0_3_0_C/">"Watchdogs
Ignore Facts in 'Gannongate'."</a> This guy should be cloned -
a lot. 
 
5:58pm 
 
So what are Lefty columnists to do now that their team has decided to sit
on the sidelines while history marches by? Instead of putting grey
matter to the development of policies that might actually appeal to
voters, they've gotten caught up in a make-believe world of conspiracy
theories. What is most surprising is that major newspapers actually
give them space to do it. One of the milder missives on media
manipulation is Harley Sorenson's <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/02/28/hsorensen.DTL">"Wead
Whacking and Gannon Fodder"</a>, brought to you by the San Francisco
Chronicle. 
 
3:19pm 
 
Bush-hating New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd puts down her cocktail glass long enough to make her bid to be
included among those who are "Divorced From Reality™" with a
fantasy about President Bush's 'Potemkin press village' in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/opinion/27dowd.html?">"W's
Stiletto Diplomacy."</a> She takes a shot at yours truly,
implying that Fox News and I are the only news outlets the White House
speaks to. But the last time I looked, the daily briefings are still
populated by NBC's David Gregory and Nora O'Donnell, ABC's Terry Moran,
CBS's John Roberts, CNN's Dana Bash and Jon King, NYT's David Sanger,
Richard Stevenson and Elisabeth Bumiller, the Washington Post's Mike Allen
and columnist Helen Thomas. 
 
12:43pm 
 
A letter sent to President Bush by Senate
Minority Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.), and a group of Senate Democrats
demanding “immediate and thorough investigation into the Gannon/Guckert
matter” asks: “How is it possible that a man using a fake name,
with dubious journalism credentials, was able to clear the White House’s
extensive security screening process and gain such close access to you and
your staff for such an extended period of time?” 
 
To put this request in proper perspective, we turn to the 1999 <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/archive/ois/cases/filegate/AldrichDec.htm">declaration</a>
of former FBI agent Gary Aldrich, who served the White House at the
beginning of the Clinton Administration. Ten years later, we still
don't know who hired Craig Livingstone, the DIRECTOR OF SECURITY in the
Clinton White House who had dubious security credentials. In his
eye-opening book, 'Unlimited Access', Aldrich talks about the security
problems and questionable conduct involving White House staff, none of
which Democrats on the Hill took much interest in then or now. 
 
But a conservative reporter needs to be thoroughly investigated. 
 
8:21am

February
27, 2005 
 
Cliff Kincaid at Accuracy in Media nails it again in an article <a href="http://www.aim.org/aim_column/2694_0_3_0_C/">"The
Phony 'Gannongate' Scandal"</a>. 
 
4:36pm 
 
February 26, 2005 
 
Men's News Daily has a piece written by John Hawkins that talks about
the new criteria for determining who can be a White House reporters.
<a href="http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/h/hawkins/2005/hawkins022605.htm">Applying
the "Gannon Standard"</a> 
 
6:47pm 
 
February
25, 2005

I
have to hand it to John Byrne at RAWSTORY. He must have an inside
connection with the Democrats on the Hill since he was the first to post a
copy of the letter Sen. Dick Durbin has been passing around asking for an
investigation of me. <a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=128">Five
Democratic Senators sign letter to Bush calling for Gannon inquiry</a>
I see that one of the
signatures affixed to the letter is none other than of John F. Kerry who
has yet to put a pen to a Form 180 that would release rest of his military
records. 
 
4:37pm 
 
Somebody
on the Left has some sense. My good friend David Corn of The Nation
risks the scorn of his base with <a href="http://www.davidcorn.com/2005/02/problems_with_g.php#comments">Problems
with Gannongate 
 
</a>3:15pm 
 
February
24, 2005

Daniel
J. Phillips at the Biblical Christianity blog hits the nail on the head
about what the Left has gained from Gannongate. <a href="http://bibchr.blogspot.com/">The
Gannon/Guckert "scandal": a golden opportunity 
 
</a>2:37pm 
 
RAWSTORY reports that Senate Minority Leader Harry 'Soup Lines" Reid
will join in the investigation of me. He should be thanking me since
I helped get him his promotion. <a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=121">Democratic
Leader Reid joins for call for inquiry into Gannon affair 
 
</a>7:11am 
 
Ann Coulter slices and dices the hypocrites on the Left and their
handmaidens in the Old Media. <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43011">Republicans,
bloggers and gays, oh my!</a>

February 23, 2005


Not
to be outdone by his Democratic colleague Rep. Louise Slaughter, Rep.
Maurice Hinchey told CNN's Judy Woodruff that he believes Karl Rove is
behind the phony CBS documents and that I should be investigated because I
am not "a legitimate press person." <a href="Imported%20articles/judy_woodruff.htm">
Rep. Hinchey Calls for Media Scrutiny</a> 
 
9:51am 
 
John
Byrne at RAWSTORY reports that Sen. Dick Durbin is spearheading the
political revenge on a reporter that helped bring the beloved Tom Daschle
down. The letter was leaked to the 'journalist' who operates an
online news service, no wait, political propaganda site. <a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=117">Senate
Democratic leadership joins push for Gannon inquiry 
 
</a>8:35am 

 
Michael Isikoff at
Newsweek helps me serve notice on the Lefties in a short blurb, <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6999385/site/newsweek/">Gannon's
Enemies List</a>. It sure does save the cost of sending all those
certified letters. 
 
He got it wrong about Media Matters though, because I didn't identify any
potential targets of legal action as per the advice of my highly-paid
legal team. I mentioned that Brock's group got this all started by
taking advantage of the liberal-dominated media and getting the New York
Times' suburban rag, the Boston Globe to run an 'investigative report'
based on its press release. 
 
Rush Limbaugh's take on the beginning of my political assassination said
it all. <a id="0002" href="Imported%20articles/boston_globe_uncovers_friendly_w.htm">Boston
Globe Uncovers Friendly White House Reporter 
 
</a>7:22am
 
 
February 22, 2005 
 
So is Gannongate a
story that's over or isn't it? Tom Maguire at Just One Minute has a recap
for those of you just returning from Mars. <a href="http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2005/02/james_guckert_t.html">James
Guckert for Dummies</a>

Joe
Curl, a White House correspondent for the Washington Times offers an
insider's view on Gannongate. <a href="Imported%20articles/fourthestate.htm">There's
a Fourth Estate and a Fifth Estate</a> 
 

February 21, 2005 
 
The Grey Lady's
leader says he will keep on drinking. 
Bill
Keller, the executive editor of the New York Times announced
Friday that “This is not a time when editors swear off alcohol.”
I'm not sure if that is what has been fuelling their coverage for the last
50 years, but it would explain a lot, especially Maureen Dowd. <a href="http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/21/4219954bc022f">NYT
Journalist Talks Journalism</a>

February
20, 2005 
 

John Hinderaker at
Powerline really gets Gannongate. 
This is one of the
best pieces on the real story of Gannongate. <a href="http://powerlineblog.com/archives/2005_02.php#009616">
Have They No Shame? No, Actually, They Don't</a>

February
19, 2005 
 
Howard Kurtz of the
Washington Post writes a solid piece after an interview. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36733-2005Feb18.html">Gannon
Admits Past 'Mistakes,' Berates Critics</a>

February
18, 2005 
 
Cliff Kincaid at
Accuracy in Media tells the sad story of my demise. <a href="http://www.aim.org/aim_column/2634_0_3_0_C/">The
Destruction of Jeff Gannon</a>

February
17, 2005 
 
Media Research
Center's Tim Graham takes us on a trip down memory lane to the Clinton
years when the White House Press Corps had an entire softball team in a
piece for National Review Online. <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/graham200502160746.asp">Gannons
to the Left of Me</a>

February
16, 2005 
 
Jonah Goldberg puts
Gannongate in its proper perspective for National Review Oniline.
I don't like the chipmunk comparison, I think of myself more like a
badger. <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg200502140940.asp">Raines,
Rather, Jordan...</a>

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Briefing Question 
 
While I am on hiatus from the White House briefing room, I'm going to post
the question I would have asked had I been there. It will be
interesting to see if anyone else asks it. 
 
March 7, 2005 
 
"In 1999, Sen. Harry Reid said, 'Most of us have no problem with taking
a small amount of the Social Security proceeds and putting it into the private
sector.' On Saturday, he said that he would not negotiate with the
White House on Social Security until 'privatization' was taken off the
table. Are you hoping to convince the Senate Minority Leader once
again change his position and support the concept of personal savings
accounts for Social Security?" 
 
REID SKATES AGAIN 
 
March 4, 2005 
 
"On CNN Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid called Fed
Chairman Alan Greenspan 'one of the biggest political hacks we have in
Washington.' Does the White House agree or disagree with Reid's
opinion?"
IT IS AS IF IT NEVER
HAPPENED, but we did get this "unbiased" question: "Scott,
those surveys that you mentioned a couple of times also show the more the
President talks, the less Americans seem to trust him on the issue of
Social Security, and the less they like the notion of private or personal
accounts. What accounts for
that?<o:p>
</o:p>
" 

 
March 3, 2005 
 
"Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan told members of Congress on Wednesday that the
U.S. economy is growing at a "reasonably good pace" and
recommended that budget deficits be fixed through spending cuts instead of
tax increases. Does the White House consider this an endorsement of
its fiscal policies as opposed to Democrats who still want to roll back
the Bush tax cuts?" 
 
NOT EVEN CLOSE - It looks as if continued job growth and a
strengthening economy will go unreported until the Old Media can make it
look like it would have happened anyway or find a way to give Democrats
credit for it. 

 
March 2, 2005 
 
"West Virginia Democratic Senator Robert Byrd took to the Senate
floor Tuesday and likened Republicans' efforts to get an up or down vote
for the President's judicial nominees to the fascism of Nazi
Germany. Would you comment on those remarks?" 
 
NOT ASKED
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