Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Jeff Gannon Still Plagiarizes, Somebody Stop Him
(Whoops - The breaking news story I promised about Jeff Gannon's plagiarism has been postponed until tomorrow morning. Along with the news I'll also be posting another example of Jeff Gannon's plagiarism of a real journalist. So to tide you over here's a recent "cut-and-paste" job that appeared on Jeff's "blog.")
A few weeks ago, on March 11th, "Groups Mobilize For Battle Over Judges" was the top "story" at "Washington correspondent" Jeff Gannon's blog. But Jeff didn't need to go to Washington to get this "exclusive." All he had to do was cut-and-paste some copy from a press release issued by the Judicial Confirmation Network (link) and switch around a few words in the last Talon News article written by Bobby Eberle which had already been reassembled from articles written by real journalists that write for the Associated Press and Reuters (hmmm...can Bobby sue his former employee for plagiarizing a story that he already plagiarized):
Gannon: "...the President threw down the gauntlet to incoming Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) by resubmitting the names of 12 judges..."
Eberle: "President George W. Bush figuratively threw down the gauntlet to Senate Democrats on Monday by resubmitting the names of 20 judicial nominees to the Senate Judiciary Committee."
Gannon: "...the Judicial Confirmation Network is partnering with more than seventy citizen and grassroots organizations across the country and circulating a national petition calling on Senators to act."
Press Release: "the Judicial Confirmation Network is circulating a national petition and is partnering with more than seventy citizen and grassroots organizations across the country calling on Senators to bring..."
I would like to credit Jeff for coming up with this Freudian line himself:
Gannon: "Republicans campaigned hard..."
Gannon: "Some political observers suggested that Democrats might rethink the strategy of obstruction that contributed to the defeat of their leader, Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD)..."
Eberle: "Then Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle led the Democratic minority in blocking some high-profile nominations in the last congressional session, a role that some say led to his defeat last fall..."
I love the change that Jeff made to this paragraph:
Gannon: "Gary Marx, JCN’s executive director said, “Our message is simple, the people want the Senate to do its work and our petition will remind Senators that they have an obligation to bring these nominations to the floor for a fair vote.”
Press Release: "“Our message is simple, the people want the Senate to do its work and our petition will remind Senators that they have an obligation to bring these nominations to the floor for a fair vote,” said Gary Marx, executive director of Judicial Confirmation Network."
I especially love that he did it again in the next one, too.
Gannon: "He added, “The rhetoric we are already hearing from the left is divisive and unproductive to the confirmation process. The public sees through the liberal extremist groups' campaign to deny confirmation to highly qualified nominees and will hold obstructionist Senators responsible. Middle America realizes that the fear and smear tactics leveled by some groups isn’t helpful to a fair confirmation process.”"
Press Release: "“The rhetoric we are already hearing from the left is divisive and unproductive to the confirmation process. The public sees through the liberal extremist groups' campaign to deny confirmation to highly qualified nominees -- and will hold obstructionist Senators responsible. Middle America realizes that the fear and smear tactics leveled by some groups isn’t helpful to a fair confirmation process,” Marx added."
Gannon: "The group has been distributing petitions via e-mail alerts to citizens and to dozens of other citizen activist organizations including Focus on the Family, Americans for Tax Reform, the Committee for Justice, Americans for Limited Government and the American Center for Law and Justice. The national petition is accessible by visiting JCN’s website at: www.judicialnetwork.com"
Press Release: "The group began distributing petitions this week via e-mail alerts to citizens and to dozens of other citizen activist organizations including Focus on the Family, Americans for Tax Reform, the Committee for Justice, Americans for Limited Government and the American Center for Law and Justice. JCN expects thousands of respondents in coming weeks. In addition, the national petition calling for an end to obstructionism is accessible by visiting JCN’s website at: www.judicialnetwork.com"
Off Topic Just A Little Bit
Cybercast News Service recently replaced Talon News as the conservative "news" client for Bobby Eberle's GOPUSA and his Eagle List which gets sent to over half-a-million subscribers, and they've also written supportive articles about Jeff "copy-and-paste" Gannon.
Earlier today an article entitled "Liberal Bloggers Pounce on Voting Fraud Watchdog Group" attacked The Brad Blog and little old me for exposing some of the shady talon-newsish background behind the American Center For Voting Rights which is run by Bush/Cheney 2004 shills and was allowed to testify at the recent congressional hearing in Ohio: "Bloggers on The Brad Blog and like-minded site called Why Are We Back In Iraq have noted that Hearne previously worked as a lawyer for the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign, served as Missouri counsel to the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign and was general counsel to Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt."
While I am psyched to be recognized alongside the "indefatigible Brad Friedman" - as Congressman John Conyers refers to him - I'm mighty pissed that the rat bastards didn't include my URL. Now all the wingnuts gotta Google me to find me and most of them don't know how to Google.
But make sure you go to The Brad Blog (especially this article with funny pictures) and check out the numerous stories he's posted (mine are here and here and also check out the latest article by the dissed-by-CNS but just as indefatigible Joseph Cannon of Cannonfire).
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