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September 26, 2006

For a Good Time Call a Certain Former White House Reporter

by AltHippo @ 5:37 pm. Filed under propaganda

Jeff Gannon never ceases to amuse me:

Another classified document “leaked” to the New York Times and the Washington Post that is damaging to the Bush administration. Democrats seize on the information for political gain. The administration can’t fight back becasue the document is still classified. Every time this happens, I wonder if Americans have figured out that these are fraudulent political stories. After a succession of phony stories beginning with Rathergate, the trustworthiness of the Old Media is as low as it’s ever been. That suggests Americans are onto the game.

Of course, lovers of logic everywhere know that the media being untrustworthy does not imply anyone knows that they’re untrustworthy. In fact, the premise of the Emperor’s New Clothes was that people had lied to themselves (in the case of the story, so that others wouldn’t know that they were unfit for their posts, like certain right-wing columnists that we know). The repetition of that lie had created an alternative reality not unlike the one Ron Suskind famously wrote about. It was the kind of imaginary world where a guy who ran an escort service was treated like a journalist.

I just find it ironic that Jeff Gannon, liked the Emperor, worked naked.

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One Response to “For a Good Time Call a Certain Former White House Reporter”

  1. KathyF Says:
    September 28th, 2006 at 1:12 am

    Best line I’ve read today:
    “I just find it ironic that Jeff Gannon, liked the Emperor, worked naked.”

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