"Hi. My name is 'Jeff Gannon.' And I'm a fictional person."

Unbelievable. A lying piece o' shite named James D. Guckert makes up a fake reporter named "Jeff Gannon," gains acces to the White House press briefings for over TWO YEARS, files numerous "reports" - which are little more than GOP press releases - on a "news" site - which is little more than a propaganda machine for the GOP...and to make matters even worse, he has ties to the White House's outing of Valerie Plame. Which has led many to believe that either: 1)White House security is so lax, it will allow virtually anyone a press pass and access to confidential material relating to the CIA and National Security. Or. 2) The White House set up a fake news reporter to be a right-wing mouthpiece, feeding him press releases and classified info, safely hidden behind an anonymous veil of lies and deception.

Media Matters documents words of praise for the phony reporter from such credible sources like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh who remain, when last I checked, employed, despite their perpetuating the myth that Gannon is a real person.

Oh, and to make matters EVEN worse..."Talon News" has long been used by right-wing media to corroborate and "authenticate" FAKE news stories and rumors! I'm sure it will come as no surprise to anyone that it was "Talon News" that fanned the flames over the 'CBS fake memos story' - in fact, according to Sean Hannity, on The Sean Hannity Show, 9/10/04, it was Guckert (posing as Gannon) who BROKE THE EXCLUSIVE STORY on the National Guard memos being fake!

Gee, if I didn't know better, it almost seems like the fake reporter KNEW those memos were forgeries all along, and was just waiting for someone to take the bait so he could bust them. Almost like the fake memos were delibrately planted to entrap an eager reporter, looking for a smoking gun on Bush's military record. Oh, and by the way, while those specific memos were fake, the fact remains that the President DID NOT meet his service requirements, nor has he been forthcoming about it, a fact which the CBS memo scandal obscured, as Media Matters notes.

So what do we know? We know that Guckert has hidden behind a fake name to flog phony stories for the White House, and has been doing so for three years. We know that, at the very least, he's lied to the Secret Service and the American People and that his lying is potentially a criminal act. Oh. And he probably played a part in outing CIA agent Valerie Plame, thereby weakening our National Security and compromising Plame's own safety ... which is a felony.

I look forward to the day when Guckart is behind bars, but I doubt I'll ever see it. After all, it wasn't Guckert who did all those nasty, illegal things. It was Jeff Gannon. Good luck finding him.