Thursday, February 17, 2005

Reinventing the Press for Political Reasons

Maureen Dowd, while still awaiting her clearance for a White House press pass, has written an article that susinctly sums up the right wing propaganda machine.

I have really stayed away from writing about the Gannon/Guckert story because I didn't really have very many details about it. I know its been all over the internet, but since I had limited internet access until just recently, I didn't really have the ability to follow the story closely enough to understand the crux of the problem. Now that I have had a chance to read back articles about this issue, I have a clearer understanding.

I have an impossible time believing that the government didn't know who this guy was. According to Dowd, he used his real driver's lisence to get into the press room and then switched identities and went by another name in the press room. Huh? This tells me that the White House Secret Service is allowed to know who he really is, but the rest of the press and the American public are not. What is going on here? If this isn't an example of a known republican operative pushing the republican agenda, I don't know what is. And you mean to tell me that the Secret Service, FBI and White House couldn't find out about his secret life as an escort? I don't buy it.

"With the Bushies, if you're their friend, anything goes. If you're their critic, nothing goes. They're waging a jihad against journalists - buying them off so they'll promote administration programs, trying to put them in jail for doing their jobs and replacing them with ringers. "

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