What's Hannity's Connection To Jeff Gannon?

[Goldmund]

It was reported yesterday February 18 by Raw Story that Jaff Gannon bragged to Free Republic that he fed information to Hannity on September 10 about Mary Mapes which would discredit Dan Rather's sources on the National Guard story. Hannity started his all out assault on Rather and CBS on the same date.

Here is an excerpt from the Raw Story Report about Gannon and Hannity.

Gannon bragged about passing a scoop on who obtained the troubled Bush National Guard memos to Fox News’ Sean Hannity on the conservative forum Free Republic.

“Mary Mapes is DEFINITELY behind the story,” Gannon wrote in Free Republic on Sept. 10, 2004. “This is who I told Sean Hannity got the documents. She also obtained the Abu Ghraib photos.”


http://www.newshounds.us/2005/02/19/whats_hannitys_connection_to_jeff_gannon.php#more

And a Freeper thread about it:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1347504/posts

[Dr Fate]

1. Perhaps they were scooping each other...

...on stories...

I dunno- I saw some threads showing that Hannity was tied to Gannon...

I for one want to know more about Gannon's seedy underworld of "pimps", "Johns", shadow-journalists, web-pornographers, hard drugs & D.C. Republicans & black-mail...

[Al-CIAda]

2. Media Matters Hannity-"Gannon" archive

Here are three other instances in which Hannity cited Gannon or Talon News as a source on his radio show:

* HANNITY: He's apparently a liberal talk show host known for his disdain of the president and the Bush administration. And a report says that he called for the death penalty for the president and the Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld for war crimes. He apparently denied a report last week by Talon News, but the Internet site -- and said yesterday that they have a tape that proves that this host, Mike Webb, made the statements on the air.

* HANNITY: And apparently they're also, according to Jeff Gannon, the -- Talon News -- this woman, Mary Mapes, this Dallas producer , is under pressure for the network, and now there's doubts about their authenticity has taken place. Let me tell you what that means. That means everything's going downhill. And you watch. There's going to be somebody that has to take the fall here, and it's not going to be uh, it's not going to be Dan Rather.

* HANNITY: Now, Jeff Gannon, who is a terrific Washington bureau chief and White House correspondent for Talon News, actually shot me an e-mail today, and he's about to break a story in an exclusive about these CBS documents.






http://mediamatters.org/items/200502100001


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It is no wonder Hannity is running scared of Free Republic.