Curiouser and curiouser

Well, well, well...

"Rob in Baltimore" over at Americablog has unearthed the C-SPAN archived video stream of a White House Press Briefing from February 28, 2003. And guess who shows up 32 minutes and 5 seconds in? None other than "Jeff Gannon."

So what's news about this? This press briefing took place twenty-nine days BEFORE Talon News was created. This means that Gannonguckert was in the White House Briefing Room even BEFORE he had any claim to working for anything even remotely resembling a media outlet.

So what was he doing there at that time? On what basis was he admitted?