NSFW -- Obama's Drug Use and Limo Ride

this is hilarious, as are most of the responses dismissing the charges. coming from the folks who so aggressively trumpeted every potential scandalous charge about bush, ie cocaine use, drunkenness, awol, gay hooker loving, your defense literally has no cred.

not that i believe this btw...

 

secret service records would imply otherwise.

http://rawstory.com/exclusives/byrne/secret_service_gannon_424.htm

Secret Service records raise new questions about discredited conservative reporter

In what is unlikely to stem the controversy surrounding disgraced White House correspondent James Guckert, the Secret Service has furnished logs of the writer’s access to the White House after requests by two Democratic congressmembers.

The documents, obtained by Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) through a Freedom of Information Act request, reveal Guckert had remarkable access to the White House. Though he wrote under the name Jeff Gannon, the records show that he applied with his real name.

Gannon’s ready access to President Bush and his work for a news agency that frequently plagiarized content from other reporters and tailored it to serve a conservative message may raise new questions about the White House’s attempts to seed favorable news coverage. Democrats have sought to paint Guckert in the context of other efforts by the Administration to “plant” positive spin by paying for video news releases and columnists to espouse their views.

Guckert made more than 200 appearances at the White House during his two-year tenure with the fledging conservative websites GOPUSA and Talon News, attending 155 of 196 White House press briefings. He had little to no previous journalism experience, previously worked as a male escort, and was refused a congressional press pass.

Perhaps more notable than the frequency of his attendance, however, is several distinct anomalies about his visits.

Guckert made more than two dozen excursions to the White House when there were no scheduled briefings. On many of these days, the Press Office held press gaggles aboard Air Force One—which raises questions about what Guckert was doing at the White House. On other days, the president held photo opportunities.

On at least fourteen occasions, Secret Service records show either the entry or exit time missing. Generally, the existing entry or exit times correlate with press conferences; on most of these days, the records show that Guckert checked in but was never processed out.

In March, 2003, Guckert left the White House twice on days he had never checked in with the Secret Service. Over the next 22 months, Guckert failed to check out with the Service on fourteen days. On several of these visits, Guckert either entered or exited by a different entry/exit point than his usual one. On one of these days, no briefing was held; on another, he checked in twice but failed to check out.

“I’d be worried if I was the White House and I knew that a reporter with a day pass never left,” one White House reporter told RAW STORY. “I’d wonder, where is he hiding? It seems like a security risk.”

Others who have covered the White House say not checking in or out with the Secret Service is unusual, especially in the wake of Sept. 11. The Secret Service declined to comment.

“We responded to the FOIA request and can provide no further information,” Service spokesman Jonathan Cherry said.

Guckert declined to comment, directing all questions to the Service.

The records furnished by the Service are unlikely to finally answer who approved Gannon’s “temporary” day passes into the presidential residence. The Service keeps a record of who approved passes only for the last sixty days; previous records are kept by the White House.

Since December 2004, all but one of Gannon’s forty-eight temporary appointments were requested by Lois Cassano, a White House Press Office media assistant. One additional request was made by Peter Watkins, a press assistant who now works as deputy press secretary to First Lady Laura Bush.

Guckert sometimes stayed for an extended period of time before and after press conferences, particularly early in his tenure. This was especially common during his first few months, when he might be in the White House for as long as six hours.

A White House reporter dismissed this as insignificant, noting that sometimes reporters stay between events.

“You could probably find people who stayed there for nine hours,” the reporter said.

Occasionally, the former Talon News reporter visited the White House twice on the same day. This was also most common in the early months.

The Secret Service furnished the records after a Freedom of Information Act request from Reps. John Conyers (D-MI) and Louise Slaughter (D-NY).

Guckert drew fire from liberals after asking a question of President Bush earlier this year in which he misquoted the Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). Investigative bloggers at Daily Kos and AmericaBlog.org discovered that Guckert owned male escort sites, and was himself a male prostitute.

The now-blogger has also been accused of lifting copy from press releases and other reporters.

A Massachusetts editor and reporter have accused Guckert of plagiarism, which RAW STORY reported in March. The watchdog Media Matters for America has also found that many of Guckert’s stories lifted directly from White House press releases.

Talon News, which shut down after the fracas over Gannon erupted, was self-avowedly Republican. Bobby Eberle, the site's founder, told the Washington Post, "We make no bones about it: It's a partisan site."

In a February letter to President Bush, several Senate Democrats raised concern about Gannon in connection with what they believe is an attempt to “buy” coverage.

“The Gannon/Guckert affair is disturbing because of what we have recently learned about apparent efforts by some in your Administration to try to "buy" favorable news coverage,” the Democrats wrote. “These other efforts include paying news personalities … large sums of money to promote your Administration's education and marriage initiatives, and using taxpayer dollars to produce video news releases promoting the new prescription drug benefit for Medicare beneficiaries and other policies the Administration regards as accomplishments.”

The Administration has defended such efforts, and has sought to downplay their significance.

 

^^^^This is getting ridiculous.

 

I agree!

This thread and its owner is the personification of ridiculousness

 

Y'all didn't see my video?
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Of course, the current president has wealthy, influential friends, a dad who used to run the CIA and also happened to be a president.

Obama had his mom.

I don't think all people running for president have had affairs, snorted coke, taken bribes, etc. I do think everyone who reaches this level has made a few Faustian bargains where they exchange their ideals for expediency.

 

TJ and Texxx are really slipping... not once in these 7 pages has either of them mentioned that the crank in question is half-black.

 

Thank god... a realist.



Impeach Bush.

 

Then how come I have known for at least three years that he was a smoker. Oh, that's right, I have the ability to comprehend the written word.

No, he was quick to refer anyone accusing him of plagiarism to the person who he is accused of plagiarizing from. You know, the man who specifically said that he and Obama had conversations about that topic in those words on several occasions?

Again, reading comprehension.

You choosing to believe a mental patient who claims crack filled limo rides and homosexual blowjobs during a time when he was locked up in a mental institution shows me exactly how seriously anyone with half a brain should take your "very bad feeling."

 

Well played!

 

By that definition, he was also "plagiarizing" when he used JFK's, FDR's, and MLK's passages when it was obvious he was quoting. If you took the time (or had the ability to comprehend) to read where it was said that Obama and Deval Patrick had conversations specifically about "just words," you might be able to understand that (as Patrick specifically said) Obama's words were not plagiarism, but were the echos of thoughts shared by two men with the same worldview.

Reading comprehension includes the ability and willingness to read and understand ALL sides of an argument, not the narrow (and narrowminded), partisan distinctions you seem to throw around.

Context is the single most important thing to consider when accusing someone of plagiarism and in this context, it isn't.

And then, after the first post, you approach the topic as if it is all but proven that the mental patient in question was telling the truth simply because he offers to take a polygraph.

Again, reading comprehension includes looking at ALL of the subject matter, not just "the very first post."

The only embarassment from me is due to the fact that I continue to attempt to engage you in debate when I know that you are nothing more than a shill. I am embarassed that I feel like your bullsh!t needs to be debunked.

Most of all, I am embarassed that a high class institution like Rice would graduate someone like you when it is redily apparent that you deserve your degree as much as Bush does his.

 

If you're going to get so caught up in typos and proper spelling you should at least be aware that "ownage" isn't a real word.

 

Don't be a hater brah

 

Wow, you caught a single typo. That certainly makes up for your utterly futile attempts to refute any points I have made.

What a maroon! (FYI, that is a Bugs Bunny reference, Typo-boy)

 

Therein lies the difference - the ones about bush are all proven, true or otherwise credible.

Cocaine - he doesn't deny it, and only admits it in vague allusions to his "wild days", this is not disputed.

drunkenness- proven fact, convicted of DUI, matter of public record. this is not disputed.

AWOL - questionable, I suppose depending on the legal definition. What's not questionable is that he joined the ANG to avoid Vietnam, then skipped the last few months or weeks because he didn't feel like it.

gay hooker- another proven fact. A gay male escort named Jeff Guckert affiliated with some unknonw right wing weirdo media outlet, whose primary purpose appeared to be to ask softy questions to the president, was a prominent feature of the white house press corps for years. This is not disputed.

 

You do realize your "source" was a porno site four years ago, right? You expect people to believe you based on youtube videos and ex-porno sites? Really? I've never seen someone so readily believe a source as unreliable as this.


Maybe you should do some research on your sources