Jon Stewart, Now You Can Get a WH Press Pass

The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart has always proudly claimed they do fake news, and he’s a fake news anchor. Even so, Stewart does some of the best political reporting on television. But alas, being a self-confessed fake newsperson, he would never have been able to get press credentials from the White House. Mirabile dictu! Thanks to Jeff Gannon’s groundbreaking foray into being a fake Washington bureau chief from a fake news outlet who used a fake name and who still got White House press credentials, the door has just opened for Jon Stewart. Although, truth to tell (and God knows, there’s very little of that going on) it might not be so easy for left-leanng Stewart to get a WH press pass as it was for Gannon who was a shill for the Republican GOPUSA web site. When Gannon, aka James Guckert was outed by World O' Crap, AmericaBlog, Mediacitizen, Daily Kos and Eschaton, he whined to his former-hometown newspaper (Wilmington Delaware News Journal) that “it could happen to you”. He said, “it happened to me, what reporter is safe?" Well gee, Jeff...um...James, maybe a real reporter from a real newspaper who used his real name wouldn’t be in the pickle you’re in. But here’s the real lesson in this morality play. Gannon/Guckert had every advantage. His mentor, Morton Blackwell, is also an associate of White House dirty-tricks maven Karl Rove. Gannon/Guckert always got called on to ask his left-bashing questions in White House press conferences. And yet...is the White House scrambling to shield and protect their favored fake correspondent? Of course not. They are scurrying around like rats in a maze to find a way out of yet another PR disaster. And Gannon Guckert can twist in the wind. But of this you may be sure...Gannon/Guckert will slither forth in a new incarnation. And he will be very little harmed by all the revelations coming out about him, his associates and his brand of journalism. Look to your laurels Bill O’Reilly and the gang at Fox News. A younger, more corrupt, sleazier understudy is standing in the wings.