"Jeff Gannon" on a recent edition of
"Anderson Cooper 360":
GANNON: I use a pseudonym, because my real name is very difficult to pronounce, to remember and to spell. And many people who have been talking about me on television have yet to pronounce it correctly.
If you believe this for a second, you're an idiot. So, for the purposes of rebuttal, here's a short list I assembled:
Reporters with harder names to pronounce, remember and spell than James Guckert
Lakshmi Singh, National Public Radio
Christiane Amanpour, CNN
Rosanne Rosannadanna, NBC's "Weekend Update"
Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times
Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times
T. Herman Zweibel, The Onion
Jim Miklaszewski, NBC News
John Seigenthaler, MSNBC
John Podhoretz, Fox News, Weekly Standard
Danny Concannon, Washington Post, "The West Wing"