Wing nuts and neo-cons are being driven crazy with all this Jeff Gannon/James Guckert crap. Their claims go anywhere from "bloggers should shut-up" to "a fine reported was personally attacked until he had to resign". All of this is bullshit.
The fact of the matter is that the only reason so many people dug so deep into his background was because he lied about who he was and when this became known, everyone wanted to know who he really was. He claims this has led to people harassing his family as far back as before people knew his real name. So I discount those reports out-of-hand. Especially in light of the numerous times he has been caught lying and contradicting himself since he has been caught.
But, none of that matters. The REAL story here is Whitehouse sanctioned and controlled propaganda. Further, a lot of it has been paid for with your taxes and that happens to be illegal.
There appears to be an enormous, coordinated and controlled effort to disseminate false or at least partisan propaganda in the guise of:
· Actors hired - using YOUR tax dollars - to portray reporters that do "news" stories with extremely partisan or even false view points: Illegal, Unethical and Un-American
· "Reporters" and "Journalists" that receive payment - from YOUR tax dollars - as long as they reflect the Whitehouse views in their stories: Illegal, Unethical and Un-American
· GOP friendly pundits and activists that get information outing CIA covert operatives, during a time of war, in an attempt to discredit anti-administration reports: Traitorous, Illegal, Unethical and Un-American
· A fake reporter planted in the Whitehouse press-room to provide a partisan foil to any real journalism that might happen to take place there: Unethical and definitely Un-American
· We also have a coordinated right-wing noise generator whose sole purpose is to keep the background noise level so high that real stories never see the light of day.
This is the real story. These are the real issues. If there was not a Republican controlled Congress, people would definitely already be in jail and others would be there soon.
As long as this machine is running, America will continue to be controlled by a few fascist leaders rather than the will of those who care about America. At no time in America's past would such a situation be allowed to exist let alone continue. Further, it is an insult to every patriot that has come before us.
There are legitimate, contrary points of view in this country. They deserve to be heard. But when the "conversation" is being paid for by your tax dollars, a line has been crossed that must never be crossed.
This behavior must be exposed. It must be stopped. It must be punished. It must never be allowed to repeat. It is time for the journalists and reporters and legitimate news organizations in this country to get off their fat, lazy butts and do their jobs. And I will remind those organizations that the "blogs" that everyone likes to criticize so much in the press and on television, would not even exist had they been doing their jobs in the first place.