Comments on: Associated Press Writer Taken in by Greg Packer

By: CPSIA: N.Y. Times prints Nancy Nord letter

CPSIA: N.Y. Times prints Nancy Nord letter — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:52:20 +0000

[...] received, the Times will print exactly one. The Times will also print one letter of thanks, from Greg Packer or someone affiliated with [...]

By: Nightly Ramble:Liar?; Packer; The virtues of limited powers; more; | BitsBlog

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:02:38 +0000

[...] on the street’ for all articles ever written” and banned by the AP, Greg Packer’s triumph over the MSM is complete: Patterico documents his Friday humiliation of the New York Times. … [...]

By: Conservative Donnybrook » Blog Archive » Greg Packer: unstoppable

Conservative Donnybrook » Blog Archive » Greg Packer: unstoppable — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:35:32 +0000

[...] AP went so far as to ban Packer quotes from its articles, although that didn’t keep him out of AP articles for long. And you can still see his name crop up from time to time. It is has evidently proved impossible [...]

By: Johnny Lumber

Johnny Lumber — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:05:34 +0000

With just a little effort we could make Greg Packer as ubiquitous as George P. Burdell.

By: Greg Packer

Greg Packer — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:01:11 +0000

Well, I plan on using the alias “Greg Packer” when/if I’m ever asked for a quote or interview for my local media.

I’m not alone.

Me and my circle of friends here in the midwest have decided to perpetuate the idea as a little bit of mischievous subversion towards media.

Why not?

By: Wikistan » Blog Archive » Greg Packer resurfaces

Wikistan » Blog Archive » Greg Packer resurfaces — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:17:09 +0000

[...] most oft-quoted man on the street resurfaces again, after being banned for several years. Couldn’t they at least get him remark on the [...]

By: kcom

kcom — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:10:13 +0000

He’s obviously the Jamil Hussein of the United States. He’s an expert on everything happening everywhere. Except, to his credit, he actually shows up at the places he purports to know about.

By: j melcher

j melcher — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:14:06 +0000

But if some pushy journalist happened to shove a mike in my face and demand to know what I thought about an event, I might just give some of the drivel he expects, a made-up address in Huntington NY, and the (fake) name of Packer …

What I’m saying is, how do we know the “current” Greg Packer is “THE” Greg Packer and not some copycat?

By: Claire

Claire — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 23:10:34 +0000

Sure — Greg Packer they catch on to; Iraqi “stringers” and fauxtographers? Not so much.

By: Ed Driscoll.com

Ed Driscoll.com — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:21:44 +0000

You Know Him, You Love Him, You Can’t Live Without Him…

Mickey Kaus writes that The Pack Is Back!This is becoming a moving story of the resilience of the human spirit! Huntington, New York’s Greg Packer, uncovered by Ann Coulter as “apparently the entire media’s designated man on the street for……