On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:46:47 GMT, "Jim," wrote:

GANNONGATE -- MAINSTREAM MEDIA BLACKOUT: It's a story flush with
intrigue -- CIA secrets, White House malfeasance, hidden identities,
even male prostitution. Yet, as Salon.com's Eric Boehlert describes, the
serious questions surrounding White House "reporter" Jeff Gannon
(http://www.americanprogressaction.or...P7H&b=387763#2)
have received only scant coverage in the mainstream media; two of the
broadcast television networks, "as well as scores of major metropolitan
newspapers around the country, have completely ignored it
(http://salon.com/news/feature/2005/0...age/index.html) ."
And evidence of a double standard is plentiful. Just two months ago,
"virtually every major news outlet" covered a similar (yet far less
egregious) story involving Edward Lee Pitts, the Tennessee reporter "who
helped a National Guardsman craft a tough question posed to Secretary
Rumsfeld regarding the lack of body armor for U.S. soldiers fighting in
Iraq."


And......

No one gives a rat's ass!!!

He *did* ask a great question though...

"Thank you. Senate Democratic leaders have painted a very bleak picture of the
U.S. economy. [Senate Minority Leader] Harry Reid [D-NV] was talking about soup
lines. And [Senator] Hillary Clinton [D-NY] was talking about the economy being
on the verge of collapse. Yet in the same breath they say that Social Security
is rock solid and there's no crisis there. How are you going to work -- you've
said you are going to reach out to these people -- how are you going to work
with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?"

John H

On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD,
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
Rene Descartes