The Jeff scandal keeps on coming...

...whether or not the Democrats or the "liberal" press want to participate

he leap to a possible Rove connection was unavoidable. Gannon says that he met Rove only once, at a White House Christmas party, and Gannon is kind of small potatoes for Rove at this point in his career.

But Rove's dominance of White House and Republican politics, Gannon's aggressively partisan work and the ease with which he got day passes for the White House press room the past two years make it hard to believe that he wasn't at least implicitly sanctioned by the "boy genius." Rove, who rarely gave on-the-record interviews to the MSM (mainstream media), had time to talk to GOPUSA, which owns Talon.
  CBS article

The article points to a possible link between the smearing of Tom Daschle by Gannon and Karl Rove's known history of masterminding those types of smears.

San Antonio radio producer Susan Farris could always count on James Guckert, a.k.a. former White House correspondent Jeff Gannon, to pitch an appearance on the shows she produces at conservative talk station KTSA.

He was not only anxious about pushing his story of the day, but seemed to always have some kind of inside knowledge about the White House, as well.

"I said, 'How do you have such great sources?' and he just laughed it off," she told E&P Friday.

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Guckert, she said, frequently passed on what he clearly thought was insider information, during his 12 appearances on KTSA during 2003 and 2004. She first heard from him the expression "shock and awe" to refer to the massive U.S. bombing attack at the start of the Iraq war, and he fingered Mary Mapes as the producer of the so-called "Rathergate" segment on "60 Minutes" before she had seen that mentioned elsewhere.

"He very often called me and offered to be on the show to talk about his stories," she said. "I used to book him all the time. We used him on tons of White House stuff." She said she "had no idea" that Gannon was not Guckert's real name.
  Editor & Publisher article

From his first post in 2003 until his last post on Jan. 26, 2004, he was anything but discreet.

“I don’t eat anything before the breifing [sic],” he quipped in February of 2004, “thus minimizing the possibility of a ‘gastric projectile release.’”

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Gannon didn’t mince words about Democrats.... Democrats were “frauds,” “Demo-nuts;” those who protested the Iraq war were “commies.” Hollywood was rife with “leftist anti-Christian bigotry.”

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[H]e penned himself in March of 2004, “I’m a loose cannon! I’m Jeff Gannon, loose cannon…locked and loaded and pointed in your general direction!”
  Raw Story article

Typical Bush Cowboy. Fits in well with Tom "I am the federal government" Delay, "Fuck Saddam-we're takin' 'im out-Bring 'em on" Butthead, and the rest of the arrogant, perverted lot.

The reign of Emperor Caligula has returned.

Gannon background

Update 2/19/05 10:01am:

NEW YORK Former Talon News reporter James Guckert obtained his first White House press credentials as a representative of the pro-Republican Web site, GOPUSA, not as a Talon News reporter, as previously believed, Press Secretary Scott McClellan told E&P today.

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He also said that Maurren Dowd's column in The New York Times did not tell the whole story about her credentialing woes, pointing that she was refering to a "hard" pass while Gannon only received day passes. He said he has now asked his staff to get the process going for her again to get a hard pass.
  Yahoo News article