This is incredible artful, but probably fake.
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February 19, 2005
Billmon: The Creation of Gannon
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The latest in the Gannon story right now is a CNN interview Gannon had last night. Editer & Publisher has the transcript.
Media Matters asks Gannon attended White House Christmas parties — but who invited him?
The Nashua Advocate is looking into a Gannon-Rove connection.
Which CBS assumes is existing.
More can be found on Propagannon central, barfly SusanG’s and the individual writers’ site. If you have time and/or resources to help, please go there.
There are some 1,600 links on Google news with the search word “Gannon” now. The blogsphere is having a big effect here.
Probably fake? LOL! Michaelangelo is rolling over in his grave.
😉
Posted by: Kate_Storm | Feb 19 2005 11:30 utc | 2
Here is another opinion of this latest greatest washingtonian scandal. BTW, anybody remember ‘washingtonienne’ who was in a similar “field of work” ?
Posted by: name | Feb 19 2005 11:58 utc | 3
I see Ari, Scotty, and Karl. Who is the guy behind w’s left shoulder?
Posted by: dan of steele | Feb 19 2005 13:12 utc | 4
The irony is that the rethugs use gay bashing all the time, yet here is this gay escort they set up as a shill in the WH press corp. Also, rumors have been that the Rethug chairman is gay, and I found an old article by Googling about Limblohard being gay. I was listening to the Tony Tripiano show and he read the article, so later I looked it up. I don’t have an address, but I found it easy.
This show the hypocracy of the rethug party. They lie, lie, lie, about everything. The means is always justified. Gannon is just another shill in their quest to get their economic darwinistic agenda through. This is the typical look over here while I steal over there.
Posted by: jdp | Feb 19 2005 14:06 utc | 6
BILLMON IS BRILLIANT! this is so over the top i love it.
once again, my theory. gannon didn’t write those articles. a guy cannot go from not being a writer to popping out 5 stories a week. bilmons suskin link /interview w/ DiIulio
“Five days later, on July 9, at the administration’s six-month senior-staff retreat, DiIulio writes that “an explicit discussion ensued concerning how to emulate more strongly the Clinton White House’s press, communications, and rapid-response media relations—how better to wage, if you will, the permanent campaign that so defines the modern presidency regardless of who or which party occupies the Oval Office. I listened and was amazed. It wasn’t more press, communications, media, legislative strategizing, and such that they needed. Maybe the Clinton people did that better, though surely they were less disciplined about it and leaked more to the media and so on. No, what they needed, I thought then and still do now, was more policy-relevant information, discussion, and deliberation.”
he was always a plant, he just had to play a part and feed the press. that’s how all the shit, shock an awe/plame/kerry’s affair/ everything. he was their man. i just love this , the best soap opera , and it’s just opening now. hm, i’m ready for the nick berg connection.
Posted by: annie | Feb 19 2005 17:04 utc | 8
I dunno. I think Gannon’s lying again. That doesn’t look like 8+ cut to me.
Posted by: semper fubar | Feb 19 2005 17:45 utc | 9
Billmon may be brilliant but it is Susan G. that is really stomping on the terra these days.
And her simple, but ingeneous long form in-depth Email interview technique….
….double-secret probation brilliant!
oh i totally agree. she is the , what are they calling her at kos blogqueen or something. it’s beyond. i want to see her interviewed on the telly. i need to peel myself away from the drama and attend to my life.
Posted by: annie | Feb 19 2005 18:19 utc | 11
semper fubar- heh heh.
I have to admit that when I was just a little squirt (sometimes with badly permed hair,) and my elementary school class would go on field trips to important places with statues…
I always used to wonder about male genitalia. Did it look like a curly leaf with a thick little stem?
btw, billmon gets major creds for his photoshopping technique from me.
in version 2.0 he should have Rove handing Guckert the Plame memo, the Rather docs, and Daschle’s residency papers.
oh, and another thing…just who is Bush’s beard? Maybe Laura’s face should be in their, upsidedown?
Posted by: fauxreal | Feb 19 2005 18:26 utc | 12
Saw this post this morning and oh how astute. If Bush were to be God, as he must think he is, it is just exactly the kind of man he should be able to create — a jeff gannon self loathing, totally corrupt, lying masochistic exhibitionist like james guckert — created of course in his own image.
Posted by: anna missed | Feb 19 2005 21:20 utc | 13
Billmon is on a roll now. Glad to see this 🙂
Though, since he no longer writes articles but just great, clever collages – that still take good research time -, I wonder what’s the reason. Does it take less of his precious and too limited family time? Or was he found out at his job, then (since it may not be the most progressive-friendly place), was he kindly asked not to post his deviant thoughts anymore if he still wanted to have a job (in which case just copy/pasting bits would be a nice way of going on with his blog and his treasonously dissenting opinions as well as complying to the letter of his commitment not to write his own subversive ideas anymore?
Right now, he has a little play on the GOP wingnut last “unreality-based” bogus – we find WMDs in Iraq on a daily basis. Paralleled with the WWII equivalent of “there are no Americans in Baghdad, that’s a lie; we have defeated them and they all committed suicide in the desert.”
Oh, I also should hate him for spoiling Michelangelo for me, for a very long time…
Posted by: Clueless Joe | Feb 20 2005 2:30 utc | 14
@Clueless Joe: I’ve been wondering about the reason for Billmon’s exile from original words myself. I can’t believe the cutting & pasting takes less time. He assembles a dozen quotes to make a point he could make, in his own eloquent words, in two sentences. Your second theory makes a bit more sense, but if he was caught at work the time spent blogging would be as much of a sore spot with the employer as the actual content. I find it a challenge just to post a few comments a day when I’m at work, unless the boss is out of the office (which usually results in my reading blogs and playing online games all day).
Posted by: kat | Feb 20 2005 2:52 utc | 15
Related material: Anti-Creationism
Privatization of public spaces
Posted by: biklett | Feb 20 2005 7:04 utc | 16
@Biklett’s 1st link. Interesting. I wonder if he’d be facing jail had he not violated a cardinal tenet of patriarchy? Wouldn’t the muralist otherwise just be given 30days to remove it?
But it’s a serious offense when you violate the converse of the law Lynndie England violated. She’s facing jail for Violating the Cardinal Law of Patriarchy – A Mere Female shall Never Humiliate a Man, the Very Image of God. He violated the Thou Shalt Never Deify a Mere Female.
Posted by: jj | Feb 20 2005 7:19 utc | 17
second link, privatization of pub…
This should suprise no one a little familiar with the great Christo. Frankly, the fucking guy has and probably always drive me always up the preverbial wall. I suppose it could be some old memories of having meet him, and listening to to his own carefully crafted and eloquent assesments of just how great an artist he really was, or maybe it’s the wanna- be industrialist/capitalist scale of his work, or maybe it’s the way his work uses nature as a dimunitive backdrop as in, wrapped up, drapped over, dressed up, or crossed over or gated up, or maybe it’s just a fact that all anybody talks about with his work is how big, how much, all the meetings, all the permits, all the promotion, and all the financing, I mean shit, if someone should have been an industrial architect why couldnt it have been him, then we could all just ignore him and his stuff as run-of the- mill, which it is.
It sort of drives me crazy that the left is suppose to be, for some unknown reason, this guys apologist. He and all his work reeks of the worst of capitalism, pointless abstraction giftwrapped and left with giddy anticipation on the doorstep of the cultured left, like some holloween trick involving dog shit and fire. So, all his little droogies patroling for copywrite violation or photographers or whatever, should come as no suprise, and are indicitive of the larger logic at work in all he does.
Posted by: anna missed | Feb 20 2005 8:40 utc | 18
anna missed,
last thing Christo did, was raping trees here in Switzerland, at the Beyeler Museum, near were I live. I found this stupid and was sorry for the trees. What amazed me most, was that people came from all over the world to see it and all this cueing and oohing and aahing. I was always wondering if I was just culturally ignorant, not having well-developed artistical talents myself. But after reading Olberman (I’m not wild about Saffron ) on this topic and now you, I do feel better.
Posted by: Fran | Feb 20 2005 9:43 utc | 19
Sorry, the correct link is this: I’m not wild about Saffron
NEW YORK – They’re uglier than I thought.
“The Gates” – the artist Christo’s long-planned installation of 7500 orange portals in Central Park here – are now complete. They, as The New York Times put it, “blossomed today,” as rectangles of similarly-hued fabric were draped from each of the gates that sit astride all of the park’s 23 miles of pedestrian walkways.
They look like crap.
The great thing about being an artist, of course, is that you can call anything you make – from $21,000,000 worth of ‘gates’ to a 25-cent phone call – “art.” And if anybody disagrees with you, you can call them a philistine.
Posted by: Fran | Feb 20 2005 9:49 utc | 20
i was living in sonoma county during the year christo’s fence went up
and had the opportunity to work on it. i don’t remember meeting christo. we were just a bunch of hippie college kids. but i liked it. very clean, billowy, transcendental.i love the hills there. yellow grass.
Posted by: annie | Feb 20 2005 10:54 utc | 21
The Reichstag in Berlin wrapped by Christo was great. He makes money out of it? Fine with me as long as he doesn´t think he has to restrict my rights to do so.
The gates in NYC might be nice, but these orange “gates” are even more artful.
The Observer on the US media landscape:
The mole, the US media and a White House coup – The reporter who wasn’t is part of a wider press scandal, writes Paul Harris in New York
b – thnaks for the orange gates, it’s a nice touch.
Modern art has been defined for ever for me by Calvin and Hobbes, whose main conclusion is: “modern art, you don’t know who’s pulling whose leg the most”
Posted by: Jérôme | Feb 20 2005 14:34 utc | 24
Frank Rich provides an an overview of the administration’s covert propaganda program.
From the article:
The money that paid for both the Ryan-Garcia news packages and the Armstrong Williams contract was siphoned through the same huge public relations firm, Ketchum Communications, which itself filtered the funds through subcontractors. A new report by Congressional Democrats finds that Ketchum has received $97 million of the administration’s total $250 million PR kitty, of which the Williams and Ryan-Garcia scams would account for only a fraction. We have yet to learn precisely where the rest of it ended up.
Even now, we know that the fake news generated by the six known shills is only a small piece of the administration’s overall propaganda effort.
The “small piece” we know about is less than .5% of what Ketchum received and less than .2% of the total budgeted for administration PR.
Posted by: lonesomeG | Feb 20 2005 18:23 utc | 27
I think I need to correct myself on the identity of the guy behind w’s shoulder. It appears to be Ken Mehlman. The fact that he is apparently homosexual adds a twist to the image.
Posted by: dan of steele | Feb 21 2005 10:33 utc | 29
But b, you got to wrestle with him too.
Some say, a fool and his money are fun to go out with…
Posted by: beq | Feb 22 2005 13:51 utc | 32