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Gannon-Guckert Blogger Panel

By Jeralyn, Section Media
Posted on Fri Apr 08, 2005 at 12:42:57 PM EST
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Crooks and Liars has the video of the National Press Club blogger panel. It's been distilled down to 17 minutes. Wonkette and Matt Yglesias both lit into the unjournalist Jeff Gannon aka Jeff Guckert. You can watch the whole thing on C-Span2 at 8pm ET tonight.

John at AmericaBlog live-blogged the action which aired on CSpan2, and writes about Wonkette (Ana Marie Cox):

Wow. She blew me away. The woman totally kicked his $200 an hour a*s. It was incredible theatre. I'm a truly truly truly impressed. For all the sh*t folks give Ana (aka Wonkette), and she gets sh*t, she did us proud today. Not to rehash the entire saga, but there's been some concern among liberal political bloggers that the the mainstream media always picks Wonkette to represent serious political blogging at panel discussions, etc., when she's not a serious political blogger, rather she's a raunchy political humorist. A very, VERY funny raunchy political humorist, but still, if you're a serious political commentator, it's understandable that you'd get tired of people always having you represented by a comedienne, even a very funny one.

Anyway, she kicked GG's a*s today. Relentless. I think he ticked her off when he started defending Armstrong Williams by saying the administration had to pay him because none of the mainstream media would report fairly on No Child Left Behind. I get the feeling that while she plays one on the Web, this is a woman who tolerates no fools. Kudos.

More over at Wonkette. Crooks and Liars adds,:

Most popular question for Gannon from an off-camera audience member after the panel ended. "DID YOU EVER SLEEP WITH SCOTT McCLELLAN? It comes at the end of the video.

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    Gannon-Guckert Blogger Panel | 15 comments (15 topical)
    Re: Gannon-Guckert Blogger Panel (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Apr 08, 2005 at 01:16:03 PM EST
    unjournalist and non-marine and male prostitute!

    Re: Gannon-Guckert Blogger Panel (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Apr 08, 2005 at 01:31:44 PM EST
    Gannon/Guckert is the coolest phallus headed GOoPer there has ever been, and he makes me proud to be an American. Yipee for the "Bulldog"!

    Re: Gannon-Guckert Blogger Panel (none / 0) (#3)
    by Che's Lounge on Fri Apr 08, 2005 at 02:07:27 PM EST
    The White House boy toy.

    Re: Gannon-Guckert Blogger Panel (none / 0) (#4)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Apr 08, 2005 at 04:30:41 PM EST
    Awesome: I need to watch tonight, I am hearing some of the sound bites on AirAmerica, She really kicked his a$$!

    Re: Gannon-Guckert Blogger Panel (none / 0) (#6)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Apr 08, 2005 at 08:34:51 PM EST
    PPJ must just be missing being able to repeatedly visit JeffyLube's website for his primary business! JeffyLube is a simply a perfect representative of the Bush era -- a complete phony!

    Re: Gannon-Guckert Blogger Panel (none / 0) (#8)
    by Che's Lounge on Fri Apr 08, 2005 at 08:50:53 PM EST
    Guckert ended the session in hysterics.

    Re: Gannon-Guckert Blogger Panel (none / 0) (#9)
    by Sailor on Fri Apr 08, 2005 at 09:08:37 PM EST
    ppj - look over there! another strawman! Imagine what ppj would say if a male hooker had a permanent 'day' pass into Clinton's whitehouse;-)

    Re: Gannon-Guckert Blogger Panel (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Apr 08, 2005 at 10:27:44 PM EST
    off topic comment deleted.

    Re: Gannon-Guckert Blogger Panel (none / 0) (#7)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Apr 08, 2005 at 10:28:18 PM EST
    off topic comment deleted, please post this in an open thread.

    Re: Gannon-Guckert Blogger Panel (none / 0) (#11)
    by cp on Sat Apr 09, 2005 at 12:08:18 AM EST
    read it earlier today, wasn't impressed. was that really ana marie cox, or a pod person? after all, she made no mention of her copious drinking or sex habits. must have been a pod person. this was the best "serious" journalists could do with this bozo? no wonder the right wingers have no fear. geez, i'm not a "journalist", merely an old country cpa. i'd have torn him a new one, strictly on the merits of the case. pathetic, just truly pathetic.

    Re: Gannon-Guckert Blogger Panel (none / 0) (#12)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Apr 09, 2005 at 07:47:28 AM EST
    et al - Gannon was a loose cannon who was doing no particular good for the Repubs and no particular harm to the Demos. By their continual attacks, the Left is making a hero out of this guy, while demonstrating their own hypocrisy. I especially love it when Matthew Y comes out complaining about plagiarism. I would guess, and someone can prove me wrong, that he has made no negative comments about Ward Churchill's and on going investigation of that subject. Beyond that I wonder why the NPC even brought him on, outside of a desire to try and make bloggers look bad. I'm unsure if Gannon even is a "blogger," since the term itself is so loose. But outside of hero worship of the MSM, bloggers might consider that they have more in common with Gannon than they wish to understand.

    Re: Gannon-Guckert Blogger Panel (none / 0) (#14)
    by Sailor on Sat Apr 09, 2005 at 08:21:12 AM EST
    yep, repubs and religiofascists are are just clamoring to stand behind this fellow and his 8+, heaven knows they don't want to stand in front of him;-) Only lying, plagiarizing rightwing wh0re$ have anything in common with guckert.

    Re: Gannon-Guckert Blogger Panel (none / 0) (#15)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Apr 09, 2005 at 08:36:59 AM EST
    sailor - I repeat. If bloggers think the MSM is a friend, then they have a problem. They love Gannon because he is such a poster child for not letting anyone they don't like into the room. DA - You know, TL zapped two posts of mine for being off topic. I didn't whimper one little bit. I should have taken time and framed my argument rather than using someone else's. So take your attempt to bring up Schiavo someplace else. Sailor - You can't win on Clinton. First of all, I never had any problems with Clinton's BJ, and said so. I thought he was dumb not just to admit it rather than lying, but so what. I thought the Repubs were dumb in making a big deal out of it, and said so. As for a male pro and Clinton's Whitehouse... well, we would have known he wasn't doing business with the CINC.

    Re: Gannon-Guckert Blogger Panel (none / 0) (#17)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Apr 10, 2005 at 06:45:45 AM EST
    DA - Prediction? Shill? Keep wanting.

    Re: Gannon-Guckert Blogger Panel (none / 0) (#19)
    by jondee on Mon Apr 11, 2005 at 04:18:09 PM EST
    "The MSM". This is the newest laughable code-phrase for any portion of the media that COULD include a left/liberal perspective,unlike the Fox/Clear Channel nexus. PPj,if nothing else,always keeps us current on the latest right-wing memes making the rounds.

    Gannon-Guckert Blogger Panel | 15 comments (15 topical)