Reply #21: Your original post is spot on, chookie

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And you make another VERY salient point here;

>>I however suspect that there his dual roles as "journalist" and "whore" can't be separated, and that the two not only overlapped in time, but fueled each other.<<

The fact is, he was NOT a journalist, so what does that leave us with?

You are more right than you might know about those 'with the power to buy those who can control them'.
Straight out of a BDSM instruction manual, if you ask me. The submissive always has the real power (the power to say NO) and chooses to abdicate that power for sexual gratification. Its the very act of submission, and not necessarily the sexual act, that brings gratification.

Far too many Republican office holders have proven themselves to be sexually deviant (by family values standards) for me to overlook the glaring similarities between the Gannon scandal what we know about garden variety 'powersex' afficionados.

Like you, I believe this is the real reason for the access that Gannon enjoyed.

-chef-