WTF?! I'm Cheering Helen Thomas???!!!

[mookiemookie]

I don't see how this anywhere near as bad as creating a fake news agency so you can hire a male prostitute that you can call on to ask loaded questions like Bush did.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

I don't see how this anywhere near as bad as creating a fake news agency so you can hire a male prostitute that you can call on to ask loaded questions like Bush did.

Wow never heard that one before. Id love to read about it if you could post some links. You would have thought the press would have had a field day with that given their driving desire to destroy and besmirch the Bush admin.

But now a press 'in love' with the current administration is calling him to task.

Anyhow what makes this bad is it is not an isolated or unique incident. It seems that all of the press conferences and 'town hall' meetings are scripted and the attending audiance selected. Which in its nature is contrary to the intent of a town hall meeting.

It all reminds me of some bad Sci Fi movie.

I hope this is the start of the press actually taking up their role as the foil to the president. Their advasarial role is the only thing that can keep the gov't in check on a daily basis and is absolutely neccessary for a healthy democracy.

Up to now the press has been an embarassment to themsselves and the profession. Which is why the press is regarded with the same disdain as lawyers and politicians.

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Wow never heard that one before. Id love to read about it if you could post some links. You would have thought the press would have had a field day with that given their driving desire to destroy and besmirch the Bush admin.

But now a press 'in love' with the current administration is calling him to task.

Anyhow what makes this bad is it is not an isolated or unique incident. It seems that all of the press conferences and 'town hall' meetings are scripted and the attending audiance selected. Which in its nature is contrary to the intent of a town hall meeting.

It all reminds me of some bad Sci Fi movie.

Jeff Gannon Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Gannon

And Jeff Gannon is linked to male prostitution: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2005Feb15.html

[SteamWake]

Most recently, Gannon operated JeffGannon.com, a blog where he criticized those who exposed him, the "Old Media" and the "Angry Gay Left", accusing them of promoting a double standard.[6] The site has since been taken offline and the domain expired. He recently published a book titled The Great Media War.

LOL the angry Gay left... :rotfl:

Thats rich.

I guess they should have chosen there plant a little more carefully.

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

LOL the angry Gay left... :rotfl:

Thats rich.

I guess they should have chosen there plant a little more carefully.

I thought the whole thing was funny myself. I'm sure every President going back to when they started having a White House press corps has had their own plants.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

I thought the whole thing was funny myself. I'm sure every President going back to when they started having a White House press corps has had their own plants.

Yes of course, but dont you find a 'town hall' meeting filled with a selected audiance and scripted questions a tad offensive?

It is a portrayel of something that it isnt.

This is a pattern with the current administration.

That is what distrubs me.