MSNBC.com now calling "Gannongate" a "scandal"

[Walt Starr]

It's not a flap. We are now into a scandal.

[peacebird]

1. excellent!

:toast:

[Zeke]

25. Saved By Scandal...

SCANDAL: that word used on a Ffriday entering a 3-day
weekend saves the story from disappearing into the slow
weekend news cycle.

Go scandal! Go!

[BigBearJohn]

35. Where's the link? Inquiring minds want to know!!!!

[Walt Starr]

39. Here

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/#survey

[Pirate Smile]

41. Here is the picture

whoops - it won't show up


Gannongate
Feb. 17: People are wondering how a "news reporter" was able to enter the White House Briefing room and ask questions of the president and his press secretary. David Shuster reports on the growing scandal. • VIDEO

[Sparkle]

42. While everyone is there on MSNBC, DU that poll.

They are asking if you agree with the president* on too many class action lawsuits. It's being freeped.

[Ravenseye]

50. Well....No.

What if I think there are too many class action lawsuits, but I think the Presidents solution is horrible?

[notadmblnd]

57. It's not just a scanal....

it's a GROWING scandal. :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[emulatorloo]

53. better still, it is a 'Growing Scandal'

<snip>

Fake reporter?
Feb. 17: People are wondering how a "news reporter" was able to enter the White House Briefing room and ask questions of the president and his press secretary. David Shuster reports on the growing scandal.

<snip>

[Fovea]

69. Absolutely

"Scandal" is the journalists equivalent of one of those sticky page flags.

Now the question is whether Rove can force the Corportate Media to bury this story. Of course, now that it is a scandal, it sells, and
Karl is going to see what they mean by hostile takeover.
I think these guys stop at nothing. The primary symptom of this level of coruption is the bodycount. Any high ranked unmarried military commit suicide recently?

[HeeBGBz]

2. Right on. Gotta love a scandal

Bruhahahahaha

[jdj]

3. It's about damn time, isn't it?

So can we now bring the troops home? We'll need at least 72 million dollars to investigate this, so let's let them come home, and then we'll be okay.

[chicagojoe]

4. COOL!!!

[fertilizeonarbusto]

5. I really think this one is not dying

And the hypocrisy on the "private matter" reaction is not only blatant, it is clumsy.
Another little angle-I imagine only the most whorish and depraved WH reporter would not be angry as hell that an obvious impostor was given preferential treatment while most of them have to grovel to the likes of Ari and Scott or be blackballed. Even mice have pride, folks.

[aquart]

32. I have never met a mouse with pride.

[Stephanie]

6. yeah baby!

It's worse than a scandal, though. This White House is going to melt down over this. Someone just has to yank on the right thread and the whole thing will unravel. Follow the money!

[fertilizeonarbusto]

9. FOLLOW THE MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[Javaman]

15. Someone had to be paying this idiot...

Check his tax returns against his pay checks. I bet you there is a little extra money in his swiss bank account.

[EVDebs]

36. The military's black ops has a $2.3 Trillion slush account

See Rummy's quote in CBS's "War on Waste"

www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/ 01/29/eveningnews/main325985.shtml

So if the military's 'blank check' (as Tim Weiner's book of same name called it), he can also be paid under the CIA's Operation Mockingbird, media manipulation-mighty Wurlitzer, project.

Domestic activity of psy-ops military and CIA domestic needs oversight, as if we haven't been down this road before.

Why does it always take a 'Blowback' episode to get the domestic hijinx of these guys under control ?

[Me.]

54. Bingo

To me this has always been more than a "sex scandal" and your suggestion could have legs. I'd love to see how far up this blows back.

[EVDebs]

60. Propaganda, Operation Mockingbird and military's PsyOps domestic

all meld into this pot.

[ohioliberal]

7. It's about time!!!!

Yahoo!!!!:bounce:

[candy331]

8. I wonder what caused them to call it a scandal and what definition

/information they have in doing so.....

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. My god it took SEX to get the sleazy press to finally

see the scandal?

WOW

But this is to be expected

[Clark2008]

28. Well, of course. That's what the media thinks all Americans are

only interested in.
Steal our money, kill our troops, lie about crisises that don't exist and get no media coverage. BUT, add the element of a penis and whammo, bammo, you get a scandal.
:eyes:

[Warren Stupidity]

56. no shit

Gay Sex For Hire Scandal Rocks Bush Administration!

That has been and remains the wet unpleasantness that even the whore-media can't ignore.

Sex sells, and like all good whores, they can't resist a sale.

[solinvictus]

11. Two words: Special Prosecutor...

Let's bring back sex-obsessed Ken Starr to chase the semen stains in this case.

[Puglover]

14. Here's what's going to happen.....

TERROR ALERT SUPER DUPER ULTRA RED :scared:

[Walt Starr]

12. Check the web site

Here's the splash:



Gannongate
Feb. 17: People are wondering how a "news reporter" was able to enter the White House Briefing room and ask questions of the president and his press secretary. David Shuster reports on the growing scandal. • VIDEO
MSNBC

[global1]

23. Can They Pan Down On This Picture So We Could See Whether It's A .......

day pass or hard pass?

[Dookus]

27. Is there a link?

I'm looking all over msnbc.com and I'm not seeing it.

[Walt Starr]

37. Here

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/#survey

[bvar22]

13. Thank the InterNet.

CorpoMedia did its best to supress this scandal.

The Mainstream CorpoMedia is now irrelevant.
It has shamefully abrogated its Constitutional Charter as Watchdog!

[fertilizeonarbusto]

16. If this goes the way I hope

the best fringe benefit will be the exposure of the MSM for the cowardly shills they are

[Athame]

72. Maybe it will be a trifecta!

GHWB & w** & MSM propaganda all brought down at once and for all. We need a Gannon/Guckert Propaganda Prevention law with teeth! :grr:

[Webster Green]

17. About time for a terror alert!

Drip...drip....drip........Boo!

[Bluebear]

70. eek!

[saltpoint]

18. I hope the media see the "scandal" part as the Bush --

-- administration's effort to debase freedom of the press and not "scandal" as 'gay porn/escort.'

If nothing else, the folks over at Focus on the Family are NOT going to like this much.

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

19. MSNBC should give credit where credit is due--to bloggers

because the mainstream media was too busy pleasing THE MAN to do its job.

[ernstbass]

22. NBC Nightly News gave credit to bloggers last night

[lebkuchen]

30. Good to hear that NBC can accept a good amount of egg on face

without losing it.

[Clark2008]

45. Keith Olbermann always gives credit to the bloggers

Not sure I can say the same for Tweety and Squint, but the mighty KO is always careful to credit, not only bloggers, but the blogs from which the information comes.

[LibDemAlways]

20. I have a friend who works in the

newsroom of the CBS affiliate in LA. He swears up and down that the guys at the top have no political agenda and are only interested in ratings and the bottom line. I'm always telling him he's full of shit and that the press is owned by the BFEE. We'll soon see if this is just too juicy to pass up, damn the consequences, or if the vise grip the BFEE has on the corporate whores continues to tighten.

[TheFarseer]

21. Next weeks top 10 conservative idiots

is going to be a good one, I have a feeling.

[Ganja Ninja]

24. Better make that "Sex Scandal!"

"Sex Scandal!" :headbang: "Sex Scandal!" :headbang: "Sex Scandal!" :headbang: "Sex Scandal!" :headbang: "Sex Scandal!" :headbang: "Sex Scandal!" :headbang: "Sex Scandal!" :headbang: "Sex Scandal!" :headbang: "Sex Scandal!" :headbang: "Sex Scandal!" :headbang: "Sex Scandal!" :headbang: "Sex Scandal!" :headbang: "Sex Scandal!" :headbang: "Sex Scandal!" :headbang: "Sex Scandal!" :headbang: "Sex Scandal!" :headbang: "Sex Scandal!" :headbang: "Sex Scandal!" :headbang: "Sex Scandal!" :headbang:

[KharmaTrain]

52. We Better Make Sure It's More Than Sex...

If this story stays on "Gannon" or sex, dozens of other slimy "Gannons" get away and continue their dirty work of misinformation and distortion. The corporate media hacks will believe (and rightly), they control the news...and aren't accountable to anyone. Hate Radio will continue to pump out slander and lies...un-checked and with few outlets to respond. Stay on sex and all these elements will make lots of money from the sleeze and a lot of great, hard work will have gone to waste.

One thing I'll be looking forward to is when "Gannon" decides to sell his story. His M.O. spells "self-promoter" and if he prostituted himself at least two times we know of (gays, Repugnicans)...a $1,000,000 payday's gotten be in his dreams right now. The game is to figure which publication will cut the check (or the bags of $50s and $100s). Might be a fun thread for over the weekend.

[tblue37]

63. If he lives that long. eom

[Jackpine Radical]

71. Time for Larry Flynt to come rolling (literally) onto the scene

with a BIIIIIIIIG check.

[oldtime dfl_er]

26. yee har

and I have to say kudos to all DU'ers who helped keep this story alive and moving and growing until it became what it's always been-- a major scandal. and yes yes yes FOLLOW THE MONEY

www.cafepress.com/showtheworld

[Lone_Star_Dem]

29. Anytime it involves the Bush Admin, I love a good scandal

The choice of wording implies it's not going to fade away.

[KissMeKate]

31. if it were the Clinton WH the press would be interviewing Gannon's johns.

eom

[LibDemAlways]

58. If it were the Clinton WH the coverage

would be round the clock on every network. All programming would be pre-empted until he resigned in shame. Imagine the repuke indignation. Imagine the indignation coming from the likes of Joe Lieberman. Hey, where is Holy Joe on this one anyway? The silence is deafening.

[Raksha]

67. Good question about Holy Joe. n/t

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[Straight Shooter]

34. National security scandal! White House breached by two-bit partisan.

Popcorn. Where's the popcorn? We need popcorn!

[redqueen]

38. Gee, do they think?

Wonder what they think of the bush admin's track record of using PUBLIC MONEY to pay off journalists to shill for them. Do they think that's just a 'flap'?

:eyes:

Honestly, all the idiot repukes rant about pravda... yet it's plainly obvious they haven't a CLUE what they're talking about, or they'd be railing about bush's use of taxpayer money to spread his LIES!

Morans...

[Sparkle]

40. I'm still waiting to see....

WHITE HOUSE IN CRISIS

[barbaraann]

44. or "Male Prostitute Held Hostage"

Where is the guy?

[rniel]

43. This one has a lot of legs

SIMPLY because there's the whole Gay sex sensationalism angle.

Just like ole' bill clinton and monica.

[QuidditchFan]

46. If it were not for Air America, this story would be dead

In my humble opinion.

These guys are doing to the right exactly what the right would be doing to the left in the same situation. Do I like it? No. Is it the way that we are going to "win?" Unfortunately. Do I therefore find it a necessary evil? Yes.

Something about an unfolding scandal is both sickening and exhilirating. I hate being human.

[HootieMcBoob]

47. Good news!

There will be a lot more to come out about this before long. All of those corporate media types who poopooed it will have to eat an awful lot of crow before this whole thing is over.

[liberal N proud]

48. All good things start small

[The Backlash Cometh]

49. What comes after scandal?

A national disgrace?

[Bridget Burke]

51. They finally notice the Emperor's New Clothes do not exist.

And the media begin to criticize the Bush regime's even more serious problems.

One can hope, anyway.

[LiberalinNC]

55. This is great!

I hope the media drives this guy "crazy" like they did to Monica! Thankfully the bloggers won't give up! :)

[earth mom]

59. Yippee! It's about time for these a$$holes to be taken DOWN!

Kick em to the curb! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

61. Neither flap nor brouhaha nor a hubbub it be. nt

[LibertyorDeath]

62. YES!!!

:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce: YES!!!

[senseandsensibility]

64. What I like about it is

it's true. It really is a scandal, and no one is lying. Take that, pukes!

[Carolab]

65. THE LINK IS BROKEN! Help! n/t

[DemocracyInaction]

66. Put the Beer Bottles Down and Back Away from the Computer

I wish I had a dime for every time I've been in this exact same place--a place called "Hope" (as Bill would say). So they said it was a scandle. There are scandles and then there are SCANDLES. SCANDLES are of the Monica kind. "scandles" are of the: "a guy who empties wastebaskets in Scottie's office was having sex with this guy and got him in the front door and the doorman to the White House is implicated as being either dumb or gay" kind. In other words the word "scandle" doesn't mean they will ever EVER let it get above the White House cook level. This isn't going to rock the administration. It just means that some flunkie in Scotty's office will get fired. I've just seen too much of this to even hope. And I KNOW as a fact now that the media will protect this Bush bastard with their lives.

[mmonk]

68. Have they ever used the word

scandal with this administration before? It's a first step in that we know it can be applied.

[seventythree]

73. Olbermann tonight talked of the link with

Daschle and the bloggers and Gannon's part in the Thune campaign -- and there's CBS with the Rove link, and memogate, and Plame, and now, shock and awe -- usually I'd agree with you on this, but I think there are so many added elements here, including the CM having been shamed and the decent ones knowing they have been manipulated. Olbermann said -- are we just to become another arm of the government? I think some of them are just starting to see the light and now they have a personal reason to get involved -- like their jobs.