Jeff Gannon
Jeff Gannon
James Dale Guckert is an American conservative columnist better known by the pseudonym Jeff Gannon. Between 2003 and 2005, he was given credentials as a White House reporter. He was eventually employed by the conservative website Talon News during the latter part of this period. Gannon first gained national attention during a presidential press conference on January 26, 2005, when he asked United States President George W. Bush a question that some in the press corps considered "so friendly it...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted.
I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work.
If I am a Republican shill, wouldn't you think I am the least amount of a threat to the president?
If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they - the Administration - believe.
My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.
How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?
As I've said, I've been advised not to get into the specifics out there. Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely.
There's a lot of things being said about me out there. A lot of things that have nothing to do with the reporting I've done for the last two years.
I asked to come. They allowed me to come. And apparently there isn't a very high threshold as far as somebody's personal life to gain access.
And I'm hoping that fair-minded people will stand up and say that what's been done to me is wrong, and that-that people's personal lives have no impact on their ability to be a journalist, you know. Why should my past prevent me from having a future?