Gannon attended White House Christmas parties -- but who invited him?

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Gannon attended White House Christmas parties -- but who invited him?
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Former Talon News Washington bureau chief and White House correspondent Jeff
Gannon (aka James D. Guckert) attended at least two invitation-only events
in Washington, D.C.: the 2003 and 2004 White House press Christmas parties .
Gannon has been discredited by numerous charges -- most notably that he is a
Republican activist who has reproduced sections of Republican Party and
White House materials verbatim in his own "news reports," and not a true
news reporter. So the question arises: who invited Gannon to these exclusive
events?

In a February 11 interview with Editor and Publisher, Gannon claimed that
"The only connection I had with [White House press secretary] Scott
McClellan was when he got married and I sent him a card." McClellan told
Editor & Publisher that Gannon was not issued a permanent White House press
corps pass, but obtained only daily passes. And according to a February 18
New York Times article , McClellan said that White House "credentialing is
all handled at the staff assistant level."

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