Monday, April 25, 2005

He's Baaaaaack!

Just when you thought the Gannon/Guckert controversy had been successfully swept under the rug by the GOP and the MSM, the Secret Service has just been forced to release the security logs pertaining to the male escort/WH reporter, and it ain't pretty. From The Raw Story:

Guckert made more than 200 appearances at the White House during his two-year tenure with the fledging conservative websites GOPUSA and Talon News, attending 155 of 196 White House press briefings. He had little to no previous journalism experience, previously worked as a male escort, and was refused a congressional press pass.

Perhaps more notable than the frequency of his attendance, however, is several distinct anomalies about his visits.

Guckert made more than two dozen excursions to the White House when there were no scheduled briefings. On many of these days, the Press Office held press gaggles aboard Air Force One—which raises questions about what Guckert was doing at the White House. On other days, the president held photo opportunities.

On at least fourteen occasions, Secret Service records show either the entry or exit time missing. Generally, the existing entry or exit times correlate with press conferences; on most of these days, the records show that Guckert checked in but was never processed out.

In March, 2003, Guckert left the White House twice on days he had never checked in with the Secret Service. Over the next 22 months, Guckert failed to check out with the Service on fourteen days. On several of these visits, Guckert either entered or exited by a different entry/exit point than his usual one. On one of these days, no briefing was held; on another, he checked in twice but failed to check out.
How are the Democrats so ineffectual that haven't been able to capitalize on this shit at all?

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

obviously you haven't read this.

10:25 PM  
Blogger David said...

Can't say that I have, but having done so now, I got to say I think it's pretty stupid. Whereas, yeah, the term MSM is kind of dumb, only an idiot would not be able to understand what it means and who it is used to identify. Should I instead write out every major news source in the country? Blogs are part of the media now, I'll give the author that, but to say that there is no difference between a blog and say, the New York Times, is just ignoring simple facts. The NY Times is read by millions of people a day. No blog receives as many hits nor as much respect. In essence, the NY Times and its ilk are, what's the word, oh yes, mainstream, while blogs and underground or startup publications are not.

10:37 PM  
Blogger David said...

By the way, I say all this with much respect to the MetaFilter man.

10:56 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

maybe the term is still useful, but I think this reinforces his point

11:27 AM  

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