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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (37596)	2/18/2005 12:57:16 AM
From: one_less	Respond to of 173976

I doubt that any GOPwinger would walk into such an obvious bated ruse but I will happily comment on it. It looks like when it benefits the left agenda to act like a bunch of snickering homophobes you are more than happy to do so. Does the left wing have any base left ... other than yeaaa blue and booo red. Y'all need to re-discover what fundamental principles, integrity, and honor are.

To: PartyTime who wrote (37596)	2/18/2005 2:17:21 AM
From: geode00	Respond to of 173976

Creepy Republicans show they can also be incompetent Republicans. This is such a strange thing. How in the world did this guy get caught up in the Plame affair? Right-wing ridiculous talking points for servile sheeple: 1. If you're against the war, you're against our troops and want them to lose. 2. If you're against Bush, you're against the US of A. 3. If you're giggling about Guckert/Gannon the gay prostitute then you're a homophobe. ROTFLMAO. Where there's a sexually perverted scandal, there's a Republican. In comparison to this thing (ditto Newt and Barr's whacko meanderings) Clinton looks positively middle-of-the-road. ==========http://199.249.170.220/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?schema=&vnu_content_id=1000799881&WebLogicSession=QhWVOZ7FxK9v1A3BrLpj4N7cMGzApv2KX2760G2zl5ZKpiPNi52P\|3216956802988064038/177738805/6/7005/7005/7002/7002/7005/-1 "...Last week, Guckert, who resigned from Talon News on Wednesday after his real name and links to sex sites were exposed by bloggers--and has also been questioned by the FBI in the Valerie Plame case--told E&P that he attended four Bush press conferences since mid-2003. He also appeared at press briefings regularly. McClellan always called on him as “Jeff.” Asked if he'd ever talked with Guckert outside the briefing room or at social events, McClellan said, “Nothing like that.” The press secretary also did not find fault with Guckert, who has admitted that he set up escort-service Web sites, reporting from the White House under an alias, as long as his legal name was the basis of his security review. "People use aliases all the time in life," McClellan said, "from journalists to actors. He was cleared under his legal name." Asked if he knew any other White House reporters who had used an alias, McClellan declined, saying he didn't know. McClellan stressed that he personally plays no part in who is credentialed and he likes it that way. But he saw no problem with Guckert attending press events, even four presidential press conferences, since he passed the required security reviews. "He was cleared in and received day passes under his legal name," said McClellan, "In terms of the news organization, he showed he represented a news organization that published regularly, and it was not a process I was involved in." When asked if Guckert's link to several explicit online sites should have had an effect on his getting credentials, McClellan said, "I don't think it is my place to express my personal opinion." But, he added, "I wasn't aware of any of that." Asked if Guckert would get credentials if he hooked up now with a news organizaton, he said, “I'm not involved with that process,” but he sidestepped the question, saying he didn't think Guckert would apply again. McClellan said the credentialing process is worth reviewing, but stressed that he does not want to be the one deciding who is credentialed. "If a press secretary starts getting into picking and choosing, people would have more concerns about that," he stated. "I don't think it is for me to judge."