better known by the pseudonym
Jeff Gannon. Between 2003 and 2005, he was given credentials as a White House
reporter. He was eventually employed by the conservative website Talon News
during the latter part of this period. Gannon first gained national attention during a presidential press conference on January 26, 2005, when he asked United States President
George W. Bush
a question that some in the press corps considered "so friendly it might have been planted."
Gannon routinely obtained daily passes to White House briefings, attending four Bush press conferences and appearing regularly at White House press briefings.
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act|Welfare Reform Act comes up this year for renewal. Is the President supporting efforts to insert meaningful work requirements into the bill, for today there is none? — February 18, 2004
Doesn't Joe Wilson|Joe Wilson owe the President and American an apology for his deception and his own intelligence failure? — March 15, 2004
I'd like you to comment on the angry mob that surrounded Karl Rove|Karl Rove's house on Sunday. — April 1, 2004
In your denunciations of the Abu Ghraib|Abu Ghraib photos, you've used words like sickening, disgusting, and reprehensible. Will you have any words left to adequately describe the pictures from Saddam's rape rooms and torture chambers? Will Americans ever see those images? — May 10, 2004
Why hasn't the administration made more of the U.N. Inspector's report that says Saddam Hussein was dismantling his missile and W.M.D. sites before and during the war? — June 15, 2004
With all the reaching out that's going around here, the President said Thursday in his press conference that he was reaching out to the press corp. What did he mean by that and why would he feel the need to reach out to a group of supposedly non-partisan people? — November 8, 2004