"Jeff Gannon" to appear on "Wolf" Blitzer's show now

[i miss america]

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. I bet the Blitz shitz is going to make us wait 54 minutes through his

show before putting him on.

[moobu2]

2. Pass the pop corn...Wolf is saving it for last ....N/T

[pbartch]

36. WONDER IF WOLF WILL ASK HIM ABOUT THE TAX CHEATING???

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1584555#1584569

Via the intrepid Billmon

State of Delaware vs. James D. Guckert
State of Delaware
County of New Castle

I, William M. Remington, Director of Revenue of the State of Delaware, do hereby certify that assessment of: PERSONAL INCOME TAX tax (SEE ATTACHED - MULTIPLE PERIODS)


Tax in the amount of $9,484.00
Penalty in the amount of $7,697.69
Interest in the amount of $3,560.71
Totaling $20,742.40

Was made against:

JAMES D. GUCKERT
5721 KENNETT PIKE
GREENVILLE, DE 19807

That Notice thereof was given to the taxpayer by letter dated and mailed 09/09/96; that the same remained unpaid for ten days (10) after the assessment became final; and that the total assessment of $20,742.40 has not been paid to date.


Don't tell me his background check didn't show this up either?
Burying the Lede

[i miss america]

3. Maybe so. He hyped it before the commercial break and now he's doing

an abortion rights story first. Stay tuned...

[Ready4Change]

10. Did I miss it somehow?

Saw him hyping the Gannon story as coming up, but haven't seen it yet?

Did I phase out and miss it?

[i miss america]

17. You didn't miss it ... he's still stringing us along

[otohara]

4. Desperately Seeking Liberal Viewers

they know that we've abandoned them for being more than a PA system for White House.

[fooj]

8. Excellent point! Thanks for the reminder of just how shitty our "MSM"

has become! Manipulative little bastards...just like the Commander-in-Thief!

[RadiDem]

5. Sorry, but Camilla and Charles is MUCH more important !

Or so the Corporate News Network seems to think.

WHORES

[fooj]

6. Welcome to DU! I miss America, too!

This whole Bin Laden thing really pisses me off! I should be nice and primed for the "Gannon" BS!! UGH! You can be sure that Blitzer will hold the story until the end...just like he did yesterday! The weanie!

[i miss america]

47. Thanks! :-)

[satya]

7. Let us know what he says--I've given up on "Wolf".

I sat through his show yesterday just to hear another snowjob--not falling for that one again. CNN can go after the FAUX viewers; I'll get my news from Free Speech TV, Link, and Air America.

[moobu2]

9. I completely agree and

never watch CNN, well I havent in months anyway. I just want to see this one interview, then CNN is gone.

[Kahuna]

11. How obvious can CNN be? I'll bet Wolf tries to help and rehabilitate him..

Then tomorrow Rush and Sean will bleat out whatever talking points freeper Blitzer set up for them. :puke:

[Kahuna]

51. Ding ding ding ding ding! I called it right on. A total set up ..

to rehabilitate the guy. I almost hurled when Gannon said he was being followed when he goes to church by liberals. :puke:

[Ready4Change]

61. Assuming it's liberals following him...

When it could just as easily be neocons, mapping his movements to better make good on threats they've made to force his silence regarding Plame.

[Kahuna]

65. I doubt that anyone has been following him at all.

nt

[mod mom]

63. Gannon/Guckert described himself as a 2 holiday Christian. nt

[fooj]

12. interesting how Blitzer gets the first interview, isn't it?

All I can say is "Get those e-mails ready, gang!" I'll be ready to fire mine off, that's for sure! Think about it...Blitzer better watch his step! You never know what the crazy bloggers on the internet may find on him! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...you know that these reporters "in question" must be thinking that!

[snippy]

20. I would have expected him to appear first on Fux. n/t

[Vickers]

13. Compliments on a very clever thread title!

:thumbsup:

[ThorsHammer]

14. Just curious - why is "Wolf" in quotes?

Did he create some alternate name for his career like Gannon did?

[fooj]

15. No...I think he/she is referring to the animalistic attributes of a wolf!

Very clever, indeed!

[i miss america]

16. It's not his real name - link inside

http://sadlyno.com/archives/001010.html

[ThorsHammer]

18. Thanks, that is hilarious

I kinda guessed he had a neuter name, as "Wolf" seems like an obviously exagerrated masculine pseudonym.

[jaysunb]

19. Wolf says...

coming up we'll be talking to the White House reporter that ask Bush soft questions, in his first tv interview.

Now if that ain't some shit !

Talk about framing......

[jpgray]

22. Right, as compared to the "hard news" of Wolf's show

Overcompensation, thy name is Leslie.

[fooj]

21. MSNBC is talking about it right now...slamming "Gannon"!

Especially Ron Reagan...he's ripping him up!

[Coltrane]

46. WHat show was Reagan on?

[Quakerfriend]

52. Yeah, Ronnie was great!

Kept bringing up the pseudo-name GANNON!

Why isn't anyone willing to ask about the pic of him in his skivies??

[fooj]

23. Kurtz is a pantie-waste!

I wonder how much he is getting paid?

[moobu2]

24. I knew it..."THE LIBERAL BLOGGERS"

[fooj]

25. What the hell is he doing sitting across from Blitzer?

Boo hoo hoo! What a tit baby! They sure can dish it out...don't like taking it, though!

[moobu2]

29. Wolfs just letting him lie through his teeth.

[caligirl]

26. So far Wolf is opening wide and inserting the tool

[caligirl]

30. Talon existed on March 29, you walked in to the WH on April3

[pbartch]

27. hahahaha he is talking about the SEX websites now

[RadiDem]

32. What about the semi-naked PIC of studmuffin ?

Huh ?

[snippy]

28. That shifty eyed POS sure is blinking a lot. n/t

[fooj]

31. Way over the line? What about his bullshit!??

He's too much! Talon News is not legitimate! That's why he couldn't get a permanent press pass. Now if I know that, surely "Wolf" knows that, too!

[caligirl]

33. GOp and Talon connection says it is common ownership

and talon is separate.

[MARALE]

39. Thanx Caligirl!

Those of us at work appreciate this!!!:toast:

[Democrat 4 Ever]

55. Leslie and Jeff need to form a softball team.

Add in Kurtz and a couple of more shills from Faux News and they could hit the rubber chicken circuit. Leslie's questions were just as lame and incomplete as Jeff's were to Snotty Scotty and GeorgyPorgy. I'm hoping the powers to be at CNN are finally rolling their eyes. When will they see they are being out reported by the other networks? Maybe, just maybe they will get their heads out of their butts.

How about a little proof that Gannon's life or that of his family have been threaten? If people were showing up at their door shouldn't there be a police report or an eye witness or something? Anything? Just a little piece of something.

Why not ask what job field he is looking into? Political? Media? Painting trucks or as a court reporter?

Maybe all that proof is tucked away in the same file that has the background check for Jeffy to get into the White House.

[caligirl]

34. Puff peice for Gannon, favors? no challenges to anything he said. Not one!

[Kahuna]

54. Wolf said he doesn't know what a pornographic website is...

Total whore. If you ever needed proof that CNN is a propaganda tool for the WH, today is all the proof you need.

[98geoduck]

76. Baghdad Blitzer swallows another one for the team.

[snippy]

35. So now he probably is going to work for the RNC. n/t

[moobu2]

37. FAUX has a new reporter?

He said he had offers from someone, didnt elaberate though.

[Pirate Smile]

38. What a hard hitting interview

:eyes:

[EFerrari]

40. Missed it. How did they handle the whoring? (Can I say that?!) nt

[fooj]

41. Real journalistic investigating there, Blitzer.

:puke: Come to think of it...how much do you guys think they are paying Blitzer? OMG! MSNBC had at least a 10 minute segment on this and it was hardly favorable! CNN has been bought off! No doubt about it! It's how I see it!

[EFerrari]

44. Agree. Chicken noodle news, as one DUer put it. n/t

[estherc]

59. No followup as usual by Wolfie

Here's a prime example of Wolfie's inability to do any followup. Wolfie said that GOPUSA and Talon News were owned by the same "wealthy Texan." Gannon replied that he didn't know if the guy was wealthy, and implied that he wasn't. Wolfie just let it go at that. A decent reporter would have shot back with the guys net worth and said "he's wealthy."

[grasswire]

42. he said...

..that people were phoning threats and slurs to his mother and his brother, and that people were following him around his neighborhood and threatening him via email.

[grasswire]

45. did ya notice...

...how he kept looking off to Blitzer's left? Like he was looking at someone slightly off camera as he talked.

[EFerrari]

49. Really? Did you do that? I didn't do that. Does he have

any proof? Or, is he just lying as usual?

[DoYouEverWonder]

58. Well, I guess he's finding out

how folks like the Clintons feel.

[peaches2003]

43. Harry Reid quotes

Why didn't Wolf ask him about negatively quoting Harry Reid in a press conference when he actually was quoting Rush Limbaugh?? I didn't believe you all about Wolf before, but do now for sure!

[RedSpartan]

48. CNN is a disgrace.

It's the Daily Show and Keith O on MSNBC for me from here on out.

[RadiDem]

50. Of COURSE no mention of the REAL issue - PLAME !

what a whore wolfie is.

[Ready4Change]

62. Not a one.

.

[Dinger]

71. That Ugly Ass Novak Apparently Runs CNN (nt)

[thereismore]

53. Your family...what did you mean by that?

"My (pause) mother, my brother and his wife." "Terrible things said about me"

I didn't think Wolf would ask. He made this guy say that he has no wife and no kids.

[fooj]

56. Welcome to DU! Good observation! I completely missed it!

[The Backlash Cometh]

60. Very important catch.

[Quakerfriend]

57. Yeah, I noticed that too.

And, that GANNON slipped in one about going to church!

All I can say is, he sure seemed nervous!!

We need to keep digging. This is not over!

And, BTW Welcome to DU thereismore. We're glad to have ya!:hi:

[me b zola]

64. Did you also notice...

that Gannon told Wolf that he used his legal name to gain access to the press briefings. Doesn't this imply a relationship to the WH because both both Scottie & the pResident called on him by saying Jeff, they didn't use the name he used to gain access, James.

[thereismore]

66. Exactly! And one more thing:

I noticed that but forgot. If he had used his legal name to get in, how is it that they called him "Jeff"?? They must be closer to him than they admit.

Regarding the "alleged" sex websites,
he also said that he just registered some domain names 5 years ago for someone else but those websites never went up. At least that's
what I heard. They didn't go up?? They had a lot of pictures on them didn't they? So which is it.

[rocktivity]

77. he registered the domain names 5 years ago for someone else?

WHY? Why couldn't his friend do it? Did he pay for five years all at once, and if not, who renewed it annually?

:headbang:
rocknation

[thereismore]

67. Thanks. I have been around, just pretty quiet. DU is a great resource. n/t

[HootieMcBoob]

68. BS on the church BS

I wish I could find it but I remember on one of Gannon's own websites he described himself as "a two holiday christian" meaning that he only goes to church on Christmas and Easter.

[HootieMcBoob]

70. Here's the info from the website re" 2 holiday Christian"

the website doesn't exist anymore but here's what was there at one time.

[chookie]

83. I haven't seen his church affiliation mentioned anywhere

I've read a lot of stuff about this guy, but regarding his religious affiliation, nothing beyond him being a "born again" "christian".

Anyone else catch this detail?

I suspect he is fabricating this to make it look as though they/we are persecuting him ONLY because he is a devout Christian. Yeah right.

He was instructed to say this by one of his handlers, to feed into the fascist psychosis that supports him.

[Nothing Without Hope]

69. It's Swift Boat Liars II. Don't challenge the lies and avoid the truth

Wolf Blitzer was spinning so hard, he'd better reglue his beard.

This is appalling. We need to write LTTE about Gannongate, to CNN and elsewhere. These people are supporting lies and distortion and fully expect to get away with it AGAIN.

[fooj]

73. "reglue his beard"...LMAO! Thanks for the giggle!

[Nothing Without Hope]

74. You're welcome, Fooj - after all, he has a certain image to uphold

and it wouldn't do for him to look like his beard was really one-sided ear hair.

[golden voyages]

78. ROFL!!! I'll never look at Wolfie the same way again.

[Dinger]

72. I Watched This, and When Scotty Said That

bu$h didn't know, well, that was total bullshit, like everything he says. But when he said something about "anybody" can get in, etc. etc. Something came to mind . . . .

Where the hell is Helen Thomas?

[liberal43110]

75. The REAL Issue Is the Plame Connection

The threats to his family and gay porn sites are just salacious details that distract from the real issue: that Gannon was involved in the Plame affair, he was the third "journalist" (after Novak and the NRO's May) of claiming that Plame's status was widely known and therefore not illegal to mention. Also, Gannon went on to claim to have seen a classified CIA memo regarding Plame and her husband's trip to Niger. So either Gannon was used by the WH administration to discredit the Wilson/Plame issue and illegally received classified information, or Gannon lied about that too.

[golden voyages]

79. BULLSEYE!

And that hot military stud :puke: also managed to break the story about the CBS documents being forgeries.

There's a real story here and it has Rove's slimy fingerprints all over it.

[Jersey Ginny]

84. Blackmail/Black book?

How can a nobody male prostitute/pimp get this access? Whose he slept with? Is there blackmail involved. Has the FBI removed his computers for this inquiry?

[lonestarnot]

80. Thanks for the headsup...

:*

[moobu2]

81. Wolf Blitzer/ Jeff Gannon interview transcript

BLITZER: And Jeff Gannon is joining us now for an exclusive television interview, his first TV interview since leaving his job.
Jeff, thanks very much for joining us.
Should I call you Jeff or James?
GANNON: Please call me Jeff Gannon.
BLITZER: So what -- explain the discrepancy. Your real name is James D. Guckert.
GANNON: Yes. Well, it's pronounced Guckert.
BLITZER: Guckert.
GANNON: It's a professional name. I used it because Jeff Gannon is easier to pronounce and easier to remember.
BLITZER: But you haven't legally changed it?
GANNON: No.
BLITZER: So your driver's license still has Guckert?
GANNON: Absolutely.
BLITZER: So, when you went into the White House and you showed your driver's license, it was under the name Guckert.
GANNON: Absolutely.
BLITZER: And so you just did this because it was easier to pronounce, presumably.
If you didn't do anything wrong, why did you resign?
GANNON: Well, since I asked my question, people that disagree with me have harassed and threatened not only myself, but my family. And I believe that leaving my post would bring that to an end.
BLITZER: When you say they harassed your family, what was going on?
GANNON: Well, the -- on -- I've been receiving threats. People have been stalking me in my neighborhood, have followed me to church, followed me down the street. And then there are phone calls and hate mail that I've gotten over the Internet.
And it's been very troubling. And when it went toward my family, then I said that I needed to put an end to it.
BLITZER: And when you say your family, could you be a little bit more...
GANNON: Well, I mean -- I mean my -- when my mother and my brother and his wife received telephone calls that -- you know, that contained threats and all kinds of terrible things being said about me, it's very disturbing. And that's way over the line. And I needed to put that to an end.
BLITZER: Because one of the things, as you know, that were said is that you had some sexually explicit Web sites that you were working on. I don't understand what that is, but maybe you could explain that.
GANNON: Well, several years ago, before I came to Washington, I had registered various domain names for a private client. I was doing Web site development. Those sites were never hosted. There's -- nothing ever went up on them. And the client went on to do something else.
There's been so much about me on the Internet that people have, you know, made assumptions about. And I just can't -- I don't even know them all and I can't address them all here.
BLITZER: I was going to say, were you there in the White House briefing room on a daily basis to try to change the subject, if you will, send softball questions to Scott McClellan, the press secretary? Or were you there as a real journalist trying to get the story?
GANNON: Well, Talon News is a legitimate conservative online news service. And my questions are things that my readers, 700,000 daily subscribed readers, want the answer to. And those are my questions.
I created the questions. Nobody fed questions to me. Scott McClellan certainly never knew what was coming. He knows -- he certainly knows...
(CROSSTALK)
BLITZER: Because you wore your politics on your sleeve. Everyone knew you were very conservative.
GANNON: Absolutely.
BLITZER: Why did you not get credentials, real credentials, from Capitol Hill from the U.S. Congress?
GANNON: Well, I made an attempt to do that originally when I was going to be covering Washington for Talon News. Our business -- Talon News' business model didn't fit the criteria of the Senate Press Gallery. And while we've been trying to comply, I couldn't stop doing the news. So I went on the basis of a daily pass. And that's -- it's all under the procedures that the White House has established for that.
BLITZER: What's the connection between GOPUSA, the political Web site, and the Talon News Service? It's owned by the same wealthy Texas Republican.
GANNON: I wouldn't say wealthy. I don't know that to be true or not. But...
BLITZER: Bobby Eberle.
GANNON: Bobby Eberle.
But it's common ownership. That's all. Talon News is a separate, independent news division. I work for Talon News. I write articles for Talon News. And that's it.
BLITZER: So what are you going to do now?
GANNON: Well, there's -- you know, God closes doors and opens windows. And I believe this is going to be a good opportunity for me, even though it's been painful. And I'm going -- I believe that there's a silver lining out there.
BLITZER: Do you have something already in the works?
GANNON: I've had some people call and make inquiries to see if I had any interest in certain positions.
BLITZER: Jeff Gannon, thanks very much.
GANNON: Thank you, Wolf.

LINK

[otohara]

82. Leslie Blitzer Kiss Ass Fest

Thank you Wolf for letting me tell my story about big bad bloggers being mean. I bet the threats are bullshit - that's something republican's do, not dems.