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2005-02-11 02:56 | User Profile
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Iââ¬â¢m telling you, this administration is knee deep in homos. Bush handpicked Jew Ken Mehlman, whoââ¬â¢s widely rumored to be gay, to head up the party. In response to those rumors, Mehlman refuses to say whether or not heââ¬â¢s attracted to women. Where I come from, we have a word for men who wonââ¬â¢t say if theyââ¬â¢re attracted to women. ââ¬ÅFag". Same deal with Congressman David Dreier, who headed up Californians for Bush. Rumored to be gay, and wonââ¬â¢t say publicly when asked that heââ¬â¢s not a pervert. Two of the top execs at the RNC are openly gay. The head of the Franklin County, Ohio GOP, one of the largest Republican organizations in America, is openly gay. The head of the local GOP in Washington, DC is openly gay.
Now comes the ââ¬ÅJeff Gannonââ¬Â affair. ââ¬ÅJeff Gannonââ¬Â was a reporter for something called Talon News, which no one knew anything about. For the last couple years, heââ¬â¢s been given White House press credentials under the name of Jeff Gannon, and heââ¬â¢s often lobbed softball questions to Bush and the press secretary, who would often turn to him to get out from having to answer a tough question or follow up. It was all very strange, and some liberal bloggers decided to look into it. Turns out the guyââ¬â¢s name is J D Guckert, and heââ¬â¢s the owner of several ââ¬Ågay prostitution themedââ¬Â website names, and has posted a picture of himself in his underwear trolling for gay butt sex. ââ¬ÅTalon Newsââ¬Â turns out to be a front for something called GOPUSA. As I said, itââ¬â¢s all very strange:
[QUOTE]This ââ¬Åbegs further investigation,ââ¬Â James Pinkerton, a media critic for Fox News, told the online magazine Salon.com. He recalled that in the six years he worked for Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush, the White House was ââ¬Åstrict about who got in. Itââ¬â¢s inconceivable to me that the White House, especially after 9/11, gives credentials to people without doing a background check. ââ¬Â¦ If [Gannon] was walking around the White House with a pass that had a different name on it than his real name, thatââ¬â¢s pretty remarkable.ââ¬Â
Dana Milbank, the former White House correspondent for The Washington Post, said the ââ¬Åscandalââ¬Â of the whole episode was that it was blogs, and not the White House, that ultimately exposed Gannonââ¬â¢s ruse. Milbank, on Keith Olbermannââ¬â¢s MSNBC program, said heââ¬â¢d seen Gannon at the White House as recently as Monday.
Gannon, amazingly, also has ties to the Valerie Plame/CIA scandal.
Adding another twist, NPRââ¬â¢s David Folkenflik, in his report Wednesday night, referred to revelations arising from liberal blogs earlier in the day, connecting Gannon to sexual Web sites such as HotMilitaryStud.com, among others.
ââ¬ÅThese sites are registered to an address in Delaware thatââ¬â¢s the same as one held by a James Guckert,ââ¬Â Folkenflik said. ââ¬ÅAnd thatââ¬â¢s the name that Gannon used to apply for press credentials on Capitol Hill. ââ¬Â¦ As for those Web sites, Gannon said he created them for clients of a software company he used to work for. And Gannon said his Christian faith has enabled him to receive forgiveness for the sins of his past.ââ¬Â
The New York Daily Newsââ¬â¢ story on Thursday carried the headline, ââ¬ÅBush press pal quits over gay prostie link.ââ¬Â Washington reporter Helen Kennedy wrote: ââ¬ÅA conservative ringer who was given a press pass to the White House and lobbed softball questions at President Bush quit yesterday after left-leaning Internet bloggers discovered possible ties to gay prostitution.ââ¬Â[/QUOTE]
Here the White House spokesliar admits that he called him ââ¬ÅJeffââ¬Â during press conferences, even though he knew that wasnââ¬â¢t his real name. And he doesnââ¬â¢t bother to explain how a man using a fake name gets through tight security at the White House, or how or why the White House apparently knew and approved of him using false WH press credentials, and how itââ¬â¢s possible that bloggers could find the guyââ¬â¢s link to gay prostitution, but White House security couldnââ¬â¢t. Of course, ââ¬ÅGannonââ¬Â says heââ¬â¢s just a victim of the liberal media:
[QUOTE]E&P has not been able to reach ââ¬ÅGannonââ¬Â since. But he told the daily paper in his hometown in Delaware, the News Journal of Wilmington: ââ¬ÅI asked a question at a White House press briefing and this is what happened to me. If this is what happens to me, what reporter is safe?ââ¬Â[/QUOTE]
Sean Hannity weighs in on the tragedy:
[QUOTE]Sean Hannity was quoted as saying that Gannon was, ââ¬Åa terrific Washington bureau chief and White House correspondent.ââ¬Â The same Sean Hannity who then went on to pretend to be a journalist by allowing Karl Rove to read off his talking points in an ââ¬Åinterviewââ¬Â. Howard Kurtz on CNN actually painted Jeff Gannon as a victim of the mean bloggers who investigated his personal life. [/QUOTE]
Are you kidding me? Memo to Howard and Sean. The manââ¬â¢s name was not really Jeff Gannon, he was lying. He was not a journalist, he was lying. He worked for a fake news organization, he was lying. Are you following me? A man with a fake name, fake credentials, and working for a fake news organization was granted free and unfettered access to the White House press pool, for the apparent sole purpose of bailing out the President or his representative. The story here is how the government planted a fake reporter in their pool to further their propaganda efforts against the people of this country. Letââ¬â¢s see if Sean or Howard covers that story or if they are just whores for this administration.
My moneyââ¬â¢s on ââ¬Åjust whores for the administration". Hannity and Kurtz donââ¬â¢t want the facts coming out. The rubes in the Bible Belt donââ¬â¢t need to know this White House is knee deep in homos.
2005-02-11 03:01 | User Profile
[url]http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000798395[/url]
WH's Scott McClellan Says He Knew "Gannon" Was "Guckert"
By E&P Staff
Published: February 10, 2005 2:35 PM ET
NEW YORK To the surprise of no one, the saga of former White House correspondent James D. Guckert, also known as Jeff Gannon, took center stage at a briefing conducted by White House spokesman Scott McClellan today.
Gannon/Guckert quit his post at an obscure Web site, Talon News, Tuesday night after bloggers exposed the fact that he had been working under an alias and had possible links to sex-oriented Web sites. Questions have emerged about how and why the White House allowed the reporter to attend briefings and even ask President Bush a very friendly question at his recent press conference. (See previous E&P Online story.)
McClellan admitted today that he knew that "Jeff Gannon" was not the reporter's real name. Yet at numerous televised press briefings he addressed him as "Jeff."
Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) today asked McClellan to immediately release all documents related to what the White House knew about "Gannon," and when they knew it.
From the transcript of todayââ¬â¢s briefing:
Q: Jeff Gannon. How did he get a White House pass, or what kind of credentials did he have?
McClellan: Just like anyone else who comes to the White House.
Q: Hard pass?
McClellan: No, he had never applied for a hard pass. He had a daily pass. I think he's been coming for --
Q: Was he coming for --
McClellan: Hang on. I think he's been coming for more than two years now.
Q: Under what name?
McClellan: Sorry?
Q: Under what name?
McClellan: Well, you have to get cleared. You have to -- just like anybody else that comes to the White House, you have to have your full name, your Social Security number, and your birth date. So you have to be cleared just like anybody else.
Q: So he was being cleared under James Guckert, or whatever his name is?
McClellan: My understanding, yes.
Q: OK, and how did he get picked to get a question asked at the last news conference?
McClellan: He didn't. The president didn't have a list. The president didn't -- he was in the briefing room. There are assigned seats in the briefing room. We didn't do any assigning of seats, and the president worked his way through the rows, and called on people as he came to them. He doesn't know who he is.
Q: Were you aware that he had another name?
McClellan: Was I aware? I had heard that. I had heard that, yes, recently.
Q: But did you know during all this time that he really wasn't Jeff Gannon?
McClellan: I heard at some point, yes -- previously.
Q: As Press Secretary, what do you think about this whole --
McClellan: Well, like I said -- what do I think about it? Well, let me explain a few things. First, as the press secretary, I don't think it's the role of the press secretary to get into picking or choosing who gets press credentials. Also, I don't think it's the role of the press secretary to get into being a media critic, and I think there are very good reasons for that. I've never inserted myself into the process. He, like anyone else, showed that he was representing a news organization that published regularly, and so he was cleared two years ago to receive daily passes, just like many others are. The issue comes up -- it becomes, in this day and age, when you have a changing media, it's not an easy issue to decide or try to pick and choose who is a journalist. And there -- it gets into the issue of advocacy journalism. Where do you draw the line? There are a number of people who cross that line in the briefing room.
And, as far as I'm concerned, I would welcome the White House Correspondents Association, if they have any concerns or issues that they want to bring to my attention, they know my door is open and I'll be glad to discuss these issues with them. I have an open dialogue with the Correspondents Association. No one's ever brought such an issue to my attention, in my -- during my time as being press secretary. And you all cover the briefing room on a regular basis. You know that there are a number of people in that room that express their points of view, and there are people in that room that represent traditional media, they represent talk radio, they represent -- they're columnists, and they represent online news organizations.
Q: Was the White House aware at all -- was the White House aware -- was the White House aware at all about the online Web sites that he was linked to?
McClellan: No. This has only come to my attention through the news reports, just a few reporters calling in.
My understanding was, when he started coming to the White House about two years ago, the staff asked to see that it -- that he represented a news organization that published regularly. And they showed that, so he was cleared and has been cleared ever since based on that time.
And this is just now something that's come to my attention more recently because it's been an issue raised in some media reports.
E&P Staff (letters@editorandpublisher.com)
2005-02-11 03:36 | User Profile
[QUOTE]Letââ¬â¢s see if Sean or Howard covers that story or if they are just whores for this administration.[/QUOTE]
They're whores.
Weisbrot,
Al Franken was one time said that Hannity could say something that could be an out and out lie, but in his own mind as soon as he said it, it was the truth. No doubt the same operating principle will be employed here. For once I agee with Franken.
2005-02-12 00:34 | User Profile
Weisbrot,
Here's our buddy Boortz on this "reporter".
THE FAKE REPORTER
There is a lot of [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/11/politics/11gannon.html?oref=login]controversy about this White House reporter[/url] that asked a question during President Bush's recent press conference. Since the question was not hostile to the president, immediately the leftists that run [url=http://americablog.org/]liberal blogs[/url] and websites immediately tried to find out who he was, where he came from and why he wasn't a Bush-hating Democrat like so much of the rest of the White House press corps.
Well, they got their man. His name is James Guckert, and he works for the Talon News Service. He uses a stage name, Jeff Gannon. Once he was outed, he [url=http://www.jeffgannon.com/]announced he was quitting[/url] "in consideration of the welfare of me and my family." Hmm...was he threatened? It sure sounds like it.
So who is Talon News Service? It turns out it is a small news service run by a GOP activist named Bobby Eberle, who also runs the GOPUSA organization. But does it mean anything? Hardly. Sure...he comes from a partisan political organization, but at least they admit their leanings.
What about the Associated Press, CBS News, The New York Times and on and on? They are most certainly partisan Democrats. As for him not using his real name, that's nothing new either. You don't really think people on TV and in print always use their real names, do you?
Lawrence Harvey Zeiger Live just doesn't have much of a ring to it.
No big deal to him. Now, let's get to bitching about "liberals and Democrats" and "Islamofascists!
2005-02-12 00:42 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]Weisbrot,
Here's our buddy Boortz on this "reporter".
[url="http://boortz.com/nuze/index.html"]http://boortz.com/nuze/index.html[/url] ====================== No big deal to him. Now, let's get to bitching about "liberals and Democrats" and "Islamofascists![/QUOTE] Ahhhh! Sert, why do you have to keep quoting Boortz?! I have a Pavlovian response of absolute loathing for that man. Every time I simply see his name, I want to strangle someone, and I vomit a little in my mouth. Boortz is the most odious, shrill, miserable, shabbos goy, worthless excuse for a human being I can think of. He and Hannity's eternal punishment in Hell will be to be strapped together, unable to turn away, listening to the other yabber on incessantly for all eternity.
2005-02-12 01:55 | User Profile
Q,
I'm delighted you enjoyed that post. :D
I do have some bad news for you. Your ideal of punishment for Neal and Sean would be heaven to them. You see, they are good friends from years ago in Atlanta. Hell, the way they talk to one another they might even be gay lovers. With Boortz one can't be sure. A better punishment would be to chain Hannity to Al Franken and Boortz to Michael Moore. That would be hell. :lol:
[QUOTE]I have a Pavlovian response of absolute loathing for that man. Every time I simply see his name, I want to strangle someone, and I vomit a little in my mouth.[/QUOTE]
I can commiserate you. I hear this silly ass all the time down here. He truly is a modern day scalawag.
2005-02-12 02:56 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]Q,
I'm delighted you enjoyed that post. :D
I do have some bad news for you. Your ideal of punishment for Neal and Sean would be heaven to them. You see, they are good friends from years ago in Atlanta. Hell, the way they talk to one another they might even be gay lovers. With Boortz one can't be sure. A better punishment would be to chain Hannity to Al Franken and Boortz to Michael Moore. That would be hell. :lol:
I can commiserate you. I hear this silly ass all the time down here. He truly is a modern day scalawag.[/QUOTE]
I rode the train at Hartsfield Airport with Boortz the other day. So much for his claims of being a macho pilot; he flies Air Tran coach with the rest of us. Wanted to ask him about his latest paycheck from Israel, but he 'roach-scuttled away before I could catch him. He's way uglier in person than he appears in his publicity photos- true radio face.
My wife despises only one person more than Hannity, and it's Boortz. I married the right woman; maybe there should be a Hannity litmus test out there for anyone considering marriage...
2005-02-12 03:04 | User Profile
[QUOTE=weisbrot] Iââ¬â¢m telling you, this administration is knee deep in homos. [/QUOTE]
I believe it. Too many of them in government and in public education, the media etc.
2005-02-12 03:18 | User Profile
[QUOTE]...he flies Air Tran coach with the rest of us.[/QUOTE]
Weisbrot,
That comes from hanging out with Clark Howard too much! :lol:
2005-02-16 05:33 | User Profile
More stuff:
Mysterious White House Reporter Linked to Homosexual Websites
A conservative ringer who was given a press pass to the White House and lobbed softball questions at President Bush quit yesterday after left-leaning Internet bloggers discovered possible ties to gay prostitution....
[url]http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/279466p-239417c.html[/url]
2005-02-16 06:23 | User Profile
"A Man called Jeff"
[url]http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/02/man-called-jeff.html[/url]
[QUOTE]So in the end, why does this matter? Why does it matter that Jeff Gannon may have been a gay hooker named James Guckert with a $20,000 defaulted court judgment against him? So he somehow got a job lobbing softball questions to the White House. Big deal. If he was already a prostitute, why not be one in the White House briefing room as well?[/QUOTE]
[url]http://thepoorman.net/gl/article.php?story=20050214161107130[/url]
[QUOTE]Hacktacular White House reporter Jeff Gannon is not, in fact, a man-pimp, as we had previously reported. He is actually a self-pimping e-he-whore. (Link not safe for work, or dinner.) The Editors apologize to Mr. Gannon for the error.
Everyone is still missing the point of the story. The story is not, as nitwits like Howie Kurtz maintain, that people are being mean to someone just because he's conservative. The story is not that Gannon is a hypocrite for promoting an anti-gay agenda. The story is not even that the White House gave such access to a reporter for a dummy news service operating under an assumed name, and may have used him to expose Valerie Plame. This is not the story.
The story is that God exists.
Think about it: what are the chances that a media whore like Gannon would turn out to be an actual whore? It's impossible. It boggles the mind how infinitely unlikely this is. It's like if you found someone pirating CDs, and it turns out he actually had a peg leg and a parrot on his shoulder and sailed around the Caribbean saying "arrrrrr!" and plundering booty. You wouldn't believe it. But there it is: impossible, but true. Impossible truths are miracles, and only God can work miracles. Ergo, God exists. Q.E.D.
The rest of the story is that God's metaphors are about as subtle as a David Byrne art concept or, equivalently, getting clocked on the head with a cinderblock. Yeah, "whore". It's a "big suit", David. We get it already. I think brainless plankton on Neptune get the symbolism here. Jesus.[/QUOTE]
2005-02-16 06:32 | User Profile
So, "Jeff Gannon" is a FReaker in good standing...pass the vaseline, RimJob! :D
2005-02-16 13:23 | User Profile
"OUTED": White House Reporter "Jeff Gannon" was Homosexual Escort
Well, the good sleuths of the Web finally nailed it. White House "reporter" "Jeff Gannon"--(aka James D. Guckert), who worked for the esteemed Talon News (a Web site affiliated with GOPUSA.com, which is heavily connected to the Texas Republican Party)--is queer as a 3-dollar bill; and he rents his services out to God knows who.
How high will his noxious wind float? Could it lead directly to the White House (Press secretary Scott McClellan is squirming in recent days; Bush is mum; Rove is mum). Gonna get interesting.
Click here for the radioactive, comprehensive article, published today.
[url]http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/02/man-called-jeff.html[/url]
How Does Karl Rove Know "Jeff Gannon"?
Has anyone noticed that when any of the loyal "brown-nosers" in the Bush administration get into trouble (or have done something naughty)...they get promoted? It's almost like the Preznit promotes them to buy their silence as another administration-breaking scandal is exposed or is about to be exposed.
So which of the Preznits butt-kissing lieutenants got a promotion at the same time the Jeff Gannon story was breaking in the past week or so?
Let's see......Karl "Just call me Hanz or Franz" Rove just got a promotion recently. His tentacles as "White House deputy chief of staff" (as of Feb. 8th) now reach into "coordinating domestic policy, economic policy, national security and homeland security," (Washington Post, Feb. 9th).
In other words, Karl Rove, who had an unofficial status in the Preznits administration, now has an "official status."
The Wall has gone up. Karl "Bullpuppy" Rove is now untouchable. Any attempts to link him to either the Jeff Gannon affair or to the treasonous act of outing Valerie Plame can now be kissed goodbye. The Preznit has given him "official status" in the White House. Executive privilege, anyone?
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[url]http://www.sianews.com/[/url]
RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman and White House Press Secretary McClellan: Gay International Politics 2/14/2005
Questions fly on Guckert's relationship with White House
The former White House reporter for the conservative website Talon News, who resigned after his links to military escort domains appeared on the Web, is said to have paid two individuals to set up a site on which he intended to prostitute himself, RAW STORY has learned.
These individuals claim to have invoices which show the name of the reporter Jim Guckert's personal business as paying for the website's development.
AmericaBLOG's John Aravosis has discovered previous images of the site through an Internet service which keeps records of sites that have been taken down. The images of the site seem to definitively show Guckert in various indiscrete poses. The images also match with images of Guckert that have appeared in the press, down to personal accoutrements, such as his watch.
Aravosis' discovery finds particular resonance in a unfolding scandal which involves a White House reporter getting press credentials under a false identity. Guckert had used the name Jeff Gannon in his reporting.
Some question whether Gannon may have leveraged a personal intimate relationship with someone at the White House to gain access to President Bush. Guckert also says he was given access to an internal memorandum which named then-covert CIA operative Valerie Plame.
Such leveraging of personal relationships have seen increased scrutiny after the resignation of former New Jersey Governor James McGreevey, who admitted to having an affair with a male staff member.
Sources have intimated possible relationships with members of the White House staff. Guckert did not respond to requests for comment.
RAW STORY has been told that the White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan visited a gay bar in Austin, Texas, on March 19, 1995. The date was placed exactly as a local memorial service was held on the same day.
The source, who would only comment on condition of anonymity, reserved comment on whether McClellan was actually gay, but said he was frequently seen at gay clubs. Another source also confirmed this account.
"He was often seen in gay clubs in Austin, Texas and was comfortable being there," the Texan said. "He's been seen in places that normal people who are looking for heterosexual relationships are not seen alone."...
[url]http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2247[/url]
2005-02-16 14:07 | User Profile
[QUOTE=weisbrot]ââ¬ÅTalon Newsââ¬Â turns out to be a front for something called GOPUSA.
Talon News was also the website that reported on the America First Party purging "extremists" like Bo Gritz.
2005-02-16 14:13 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust]a Web site affiliated with GOPUSA.com, which is heavily connected to the Texas Republican Party
It's also been a major source of unsolicited spam in my email inbox lately, as I'm sure it has for many others on the Net.