[quote]Wreckless wrote:
JeffR wrote:
muffin man wrote:
I’m sure Bush would never do anything like that. Right?
Hey, muffin man.
Provide proof that George W. Bush or his campaign ever planted a single question.
If you can’t, then shut your gluttonous pie-hole.
Either way, thanks in advance.
JeffR
You shouldn’t have called my bluff Effr0.
Here’s my ace: Jeff Gannon.
This is what wikipedia has to say about him:
[i]Gannon first gained national attention during a presidential press conference on January 26, 2005, in which he asked United States President George W. Bush a question that some in the press corps considered “so friendly it might have been planted.”[1] Gannon stated that this question was not meant to be friendly, but to expose the hypocrisy of the left.[citation needed]
Gannon then came under public scrutiny, in particular for his lack of a significant journalistic background prior to his work with Talon[2][3] and his alleged involvement with various homosexual escort service websites using the professional name Bulldog
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Gannon routinely obtained daily passes to White House briefings. He attended four Bush press conferences and appeared regularly at White House press briefings. Although he did not qualify for a Congressional press pass, Gannon was given daily passes to White House press briefings “after supplying his real name, date of birth and Social Security number.”[/i]
And this is Gannon the Cannon at work, asking tough questions: “Senate Democratic leaders have painted a very bleak picture of the U.S. economy. Harry Reid was talking about soup lines. And Hillary Clinton 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?”
Had enough Effr0 ? ? ?
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MuffinMan,
You’ve got to be shitting me?
This is YOUR EVIDENCE of question planting by George W. Bush?
For everyone on this forum, please DO NOT USE WIKIPEDIA as your only source.
Try this on, muffinman,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36733-2005Feb18.html
here’s the newyorktimes: THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: 3-20-05: QUESTIONS FOR JEFF GANNON; Blogged Down - The New York Times
Here’s a discussion from accuracy in media:
http://www.aim.org/aim_column/2634_0_3_0_C/
Finally,
Here’s the White House Press Secretary discussing the issue:
To sum up, if you belonged to a published organization, you can get a daily pass.
He didn’t get a hard pass for any sensitive information.
Oh, please try and tell me that GEORGE W. BUSH USED THIS GUY as a plant for anything?
Don’t you (and the rest of the BUSH is an evil demon) crowd think they would have used someone ELSE as their plant?
He was telling them he wrote for talonnews and gopusa.
PRETTY OPEN WITH HIS PARTISANSHIP FOR A PLANT, wouldn’t you say?
Seriously. It doesn’t take much reading to figure out that this guy was openly partisan and had one hell of a personal background.
If George Bush was pulling a hillary and was looking to field only friendly questions: Why in the name of God would he EVER call on helen thomas, sam donaldson, or that jagbag from nbc?
Again, I asked for proof of planting questions. A single witness saying they were coached to plant questions would have sufficed? I thought I was very clear. I wanted proof. Not supposition. No possibility of coincidence. I wanted PROOF for your comment alleging that George Bush would plant people to ask specific questions.
This is what you respond with? An OPENLY partisan hack who made no bones about his Republican stances asks an incredibly partisan question at a press conference?
Stick to fighting caterpillars. I’m betting they have a LEG up on you in the brains department.
Beat the caterpillars before trying to outthink higher forms of life.
Good luck.
JeffR