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February 27, 2007

The Gay "EMILY'S List"

All political observers are familiar with EMILY's list, an organization that supports pro-abortion Democratic women for elective office. EMILY is an acronym for "Early Money is Like Yeast" and the group claims to have elected 67 female Democrats to the U. S. House of Representatives, 13 to the U. S. Senate, 8 governorships and 358 women to state and local office.

Now there is a gay group doing the same thing, but instead of supporting candidates who share their agenda, they contribute funds to the opponents of candidates they want to defeat. This is part of a disturbing political strategy - that is, the politics of division and dirty tricks that played a key role in the 2006 midterms - from a group that represents at most 7% of the population.

Posted by jeffgannon at 03:08 PM

February 24, 2007

Brokeback Obama

Posted by jeffgannon at 10:00 AM

February 23, 2007

Cheney Disses Old Media "Thumb-suckers"

The White House released the transcript of Jonathan Karl's interview with Vice President Dick Cheney that has Nancy Pelosi with her pantyhose in a wad. Another gem:

Q Is your influence where it was? You've been portrayed at various
times as being the all-powerful Vice President and now you've been
portrayed as being a Vice President that is somewhat on the outs.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: And probably both of them are inaccurate.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: My perspective, Jonathan, is that we get these
thumb-suckers, if you will, stories where people speculate who's up, who's down. It's like covering a horse race or a campaign; it's easy. It doesn't require much analysis. It doesn't require serious consideration of policy issues and options. And I think people fall into the trap of focusing on that and talking about it and reporters writing about it, but it rarely reflects reality. So I don't worry about those stories.

Cheney's talking about the Old Media!

Posted by jeffgannon at 12:42 PM

Anti-American, Anti-War Leader Exposed!

Richard Becker, an organizer for the pro-terrorist, Communist front group, International ANSWER crashed a press conference to announce details of the "Gathering of Eagles" event to protect "The Wall" from antiwar protesters on March 17 and got more than he bargained for.

A video of the press conference lists the activities and associations of the "antiwar" crowd. Toward the end of the clip, you will hear me questioning his group's ties to the Communist Party. WATCH

Watch the clip and then look at Becker's bio: Richard Becker

Posted by jeffgannon at 09:44 AM

Cheney Sticks To His Guns (Pun Intended)

"I said it and I meant it," was the response reporters got from Vice President Dick Cheney when questioned about his comments that the troop withdrawal plan of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. John Murtha would "validate tbe strategy of al Qaeda."

Classic Cheney money quote: "I'm not sure what part of it is that Nancy disagreed with. She accused me of questioning her patriotism. I didn't question her patriotism. I questioned her judgment."

Posted by jeffgannon at 09:13 AM

February 22, 2007

Pelosi Whines: Cheney Hurt My Feelings

House Speaker Nanacy Pelosi called President Bush to tell on Vice President Cheney for saying this during a visit to Japan:

"I think if we were to do what Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Murtha are suggesting, all we will do is validate the Al Qaeda strategy. The Al Qaeda strategy is to break the will of the American people ... try to persuade us to throw in the towel and come home, and then they win because we quit."

Pelosi's miffed because Cheney correctly assessed the direction the Defeatocrats' want to take America in dealing with the war against Islamofascicm. Considering the vile nature of the rhetoric that comes from the Left toward the Bush administration, I don't see where Madame Speaker has anything to complain about. Her juvenile response speaks volumes about her leadership capacity.

Posted by jeffgannon at 08:05 AM

February 21, 2007

Radical Base Devouring Moderate Democrats

Democrats and the Old Media have been complaining for nearly a decade that moderate Republicans are being driven from the GOP by ultra-conservatives and the Religious Right. Sen. Chuck Schumer said as much on Friday at the National Press Club that "theocrats and economic royalists" run the Republican Party.

However, much less talked about has been the purge of moderate Democrats from the party of John F. Kennedy and Henry "Scoop" Jackson. The jihad of the radicalized Hard Left base against liberal except on national security Sen. Joe Lieberman provided a look at how the Democrats are becoming the party of Ted Kennedy and Jesse Jackson.

Now the Hard Left is pressing hard for control of the party appartatus, controlled since 1992 by the "centrist" Clintons. Howard Dean's selection as chairman of the Democratic National Committee was a significant milestone in the lefward lurch of the Donkey Party. The target of the de-Baathification (re-Baathification?) of the Democratic Party is California Rep. Ellen Taucher, leader of the centrist New Democrat Coalition.

Good idea, throw the members that put Democrats in control of the House overboard.

Posted by jeffgannon at 12:44 PM

February 19, 2007

Washington Post = Fifth Column

Fifth column: Any clandestine group or faction of subversive agents who attempt to undermine a nation's solidarity.
(Britannica.com)

When she is not exposing classified national security secrets, Washington Post reporter Dana Priest is turning Americans against the war in Iraq. Her latest effort is aimed at the survivors of the global war on terror and pits them against the country for which they fought and sacrificed.

Priest pulls out the Vietnam War playbook and puts the template of lies over a new generation of American veterans. To her, the noble warriors are broken, brain-addled, drug addicts who were conned into a soldier's life; poor saps who didn't heed John Kerry's warning to stay in school or end up getting stuck in Iraq.

The Washington Post reporter and her accomplice file a one-sided piece, despite claiming to have spend "hundreds of hours" interviewing the subjects. Two glaring omissions in the article:

1. There is no mention of the morale among many of the troops recovering at Walter Reed - which is overwhelmingly positive. Instead, Priest focuses only on the negative and the most extreme cases.

2. Priest makes sure to mention her friends who protest the war outside the gates every Friday night - the anti-American, pro-terrorist group, Code Pink - without mentioning a larger contingent that shows up faithfully in larger numbers each week to offer support and encouragement to America's heroes - the DC Chapter of Free Republic, American patriots all.

Dana Priest, William Arkin, Dana Milbank, Walter Pinkus - the voices of the Washington Post, tearing America and her military down every day.

Posted by jeffgannon at 08:56 AM

February 13, 2007

FRONTLINE Faux Pas

I attended a video presentation and panel discussion about the new FRONTLINE series NEWS WAR. The event was hosted at the National Press Club by PBS, FRONTLINE and the UC Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism. Panelists included Washington Post editor Len Downie, Washington Post reporter Dana Priest, Dave Marash of al-Jazeera (no, seriously! Marash was with ABC's Nightline, so the Arab propaganda network isn't much of a stretch), a fellow from Yahoo and a gal from Merrill Lynch.

All of them discussed the economic peril faced by print and broadcast news organizations several of the panelists mixed in snide criticisms of the Bush administration. It was all rather depressing, and the clip that was shown of the upcoming four-part series suggested a full dose of liberal drivel.

The Q and A session was equally uninspiring, but I did have a chance at the microphone to ask:

"All of you talked about the media for nearly an hour without mentioning the "B" word. How much do you think the declining fortunes of the Old Media is driven by the perception of political bias?"

Downie was the only taker and gave some rambling nonsensical answer, still without saying the word "bias"! (I think, I need to check the transcript)

The best part of the evening for me came after the event concluded and I was in a one-on-one conversation with Downie. I was telling him how much I've enjoyed appearing on the pages of the Washington Post over the years when David Fanning, the producer of NEWS WAR bounds over to breathlessly tell Downie:

"Do you know who that was that asked the question about bias? Jeff Gannon!"

Then Fanning turned to me and I said:

"I'm Jeff Gannon and isn't this an awkward moment for you?"

Fanning was speechless.

Posted by jeffgannon at 06:06 AM

Old Media Still Lying About Tet Offensive

The Associated Press reported that Sen. John McCain feared a "Tet Offensive" type of attack in Iraq. The article described the Tet Offensive as follows:

"Tet, a massive invasion in 1968 of South Vietnam by Communist North Vietnamese, inflicted enormous losses on U.S. and South Vietnamese troops and is regarded as a point where public sentiment turned sharply against the war."

Undisclosed by the writer, Bob Lewis:

1. The Tet Offensive was a stunning defeat for the North Vietnamese. The Viet Cong were on the verge of surrender having thrown everything it had left into the offensive and failed to break the South Vietnamese and American forces.

2. The media, particularly CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite portrayed the Tet Offensive as a victory for the North Vietnames and convinced Americans that the war was lost.

That's what McCain was talking about.

Posted by jeffgannon at 06:00 AM

February 08, 2007

Liars Lying For Liars

Ted Wells, the attorney defending Scooter Libby against pejury charges in the Valerie Plame Affair SHREDDED NBC's Tim Russert on the witness stand on Wednesday. Russert's own faulty memory was exposed to jurors - as well as a pesky little incident where he contradicted himself - the precise thing that Patrick Fitzgerald used to indict Libby. Clarice Feldman has the details: Russert On The Hots Seat

Naturally, the Matt Apuzzo of the Associated Press tries to cover for the journalists, opening his report:

"To show jurors that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is believable, attorneys for the former White House aide are trying to undercut the credibility of reporters from some of the nation's largest media outlets."

Wells has already undercut the credibility of reporters and will continue to do so every time one of them is called to the witness stand. Naturally, The New York Times tucked the most important bit in the last two paragraphs of its story:

"In challenging Mr. Russert’s reliability, Mr. Wells homed in on a dispute he had with The Buffalo News in 2004 over his serving as a debate moderator. Using Mr. Russert’s technique, Mr. Wells displayed on the television screen documents in connection with the incident in which Mr. Russert had acknowledged that he had forgotten making a telephone call to a Buffalo reporter.

He also challenged Mr. Russert about initial efforts to avoid testifying. Mr. Russert had said in an affidavit that it was a matter of journalistic principle to refuse to divulge his conversation with Mr. Libby. But Mr. Wells, who also displayed this affidavit on-screen, noted that when Mr. Russert was first reached by telephone by an F.B.I. investigator, weeks before the affidavit, he spoke freely about it."

As Feldman points out, this is an enormously important element. Russert, ah...lied?

Andrea Mitchell and David Gregory are next.

Posted by jeffgannon at 07:20 AM

February 06, 2007

Joe Wilson The Only Proven Liar In "Leak" Case

The Old Media is breathlessly reporting on the tapes of Scooter Libby's Grand Jury testimony in the Valerie Plame Affair. The reporters/DNC operatives are certain that Libby lied, probably to protect Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, George Bush, et al. The question I still ask is: Lied about what? That loudmouth Joe Wilson's third-rate, desk-jockey analyst wife worked at the CIA? Why lie about that and so what if he did? The only proven liar in the entire saga thus far is JOE WILSON.

A Hard Left blogger is claiming that I led the "White House attacks on Joe Wilson." That accusation is UNEQUIVOCALLY FALSE. What is true is that while the rest of the White House Press Corps herd was chasing after members of the Bush administration to find evidence of a crime "worse than Watergate", I had accurately pegged Joe Wilson as a FRAUD. As a journalist it was my job to find out how and why an important mission was outsourced to such a man. The search for truth is not a smear campaign, it is the essence of journalism.

A sample of my questions:

Q "...Has the White House asked George Tenet or anyone else at the CIA why they would send a partisan like Ambassador Wilson on this mission? And because he is so partisan --

White House Briefing, 10/1/2003

Wilson lied about who sent him to Niger - it wasn't Dick Cheney - it was a group at the CIA that included his wife. Wilson lied about documents he never saw and what his junket in Africa discovered and what it didn't.

Libby is on trial for lying to investigators, but the only proven liar in the entire saga thus far is JOE WILSON.

Posted by jeffgannon at 05:32 PM