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June 20, 2005
The Silence of the Jackals
Nearly three weeks ago, I appeared on the PAX-TV reality program, “Lie Detector” where I agreed to submit to a polygraph test and have the results revealed during the broadcast. The question to be answered was if I had been planted in the White House press corps by the Bush administration. This is the only relevant issue in the entire episode now known as Gannongate.
Former network news reporter and “Inside Edition” weekend anchor Rolonda Watts hosts the show. A world-renowned polygraph expert, Dr. Ed Gelb, who counts among his previous subjects such notables as John and Patsy Ramsey, and former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman, conducts the test.
Several news outlets noted that I would be in the hot seat, including the Chicago Tribune and Editor & Publisher. Mike Duffy, television critic for the Detroit Free Press, prejudged the outcome in a particularly nasty piece. The polygraph test determined that I was telling the truth about my role as an independent journalist. The allegation that I was a plant was disproved.
Yet not a single media outlet reported the results. Not Dotty Lynch of CBS who suggested a Karl Rove-Jeff Gannon connection, nor Howard Kurtz or Dan Froomkin of the Washington Post who have written about me extensively of the past few months. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews made no mention of it either. Michael Isikof, who interviewed me for Newsweek wasn’t interested in a follow up. The New York Times’ Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd similarly ignored my vindication. In fact, there has been a complete media blackout of hard evidence that refutes the central point of an alleged scandal.
But anyone writing about Jeff Gannon in the future will need to forgo using terms like “plant” and “shill” as well as “fake,” “phony”, “faux” and “fraud.” I was a real reporter and remain a real journalist.
In response to accusations from Reps. John Conyers and Louise Slaughter, the General Accounting Office ruled last week that I didn’t violate a federal propaganda law. This too, has gone unreported. But nonetheless, “propagandist” must also be dropped from the list of words to describe me. Jeff Gannon can no longer be associated with some liberal conspiracy theory about media manipulation.
Instead, the Gannongate legacy will be an example of 21st century McCarthyism waged against a journalist by the very same people who perpetually decry such tactics. When my name is invoked it will be to represent the politics of personal destruction being used against a reporter. Furious attacks came from liberal media activists desperately trying to preserve what has long been an exclusive franchise, the White House press corps. A conservative journalist in the briefing room could not be tolerated.
For the record, I resigned from my position as a White House correspondent after threats were made against my person, property and family. Those threats stopped, but the stalking by the nameless, faceless activists continued for weeks and is still in progress on the internet. Oddly enough, the same people who complain that the Patriot Act violates privacy rights and civil liberties had no problem illegally obtaining personal information about me and posting it online. Now my social security number, some medical records, financial information and private, personal correspondence is all floating around in cyberspace.
Sadly, the unintended consequence of Gannongate is that open season has been declared on journalists of every stripe. The chilling effect on a free press that liberals are always shrieking about has actually been brought to a new level by their own overzealous pursuit of a scandal that didn’t and doesn’t exist.
Gannongate is the story of the political takedown of a journalist. Liberal activists are proud to have bagged a chipmunk, as Jonah Goldberg observed. But in the process they have lost far more than they have gained. They demonstrated how easily they shed their high principles whenever it benefits their agenda. Few will sympathize with them when the tables are turned and the target of the witch-hunt is one of them.
Posted by jeffgannon at June 20, 2005 08:11 AM
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