Gannon bills Swift editor unknowingly for Escort Service (actual invoice)

[truthpusher]

this is from an article "Editor Questions Place on Gannon's 'Enemies List'" from the 'Swift Report' website. http://swiftreport.blogs.com/news/2005/02/editor_question.html

Editor Questions Place on Gannon's 'Enemies List'

The editor of a popular conservative weblog is questioning why his name has appeared on the list of 'enemies' that reporter Jeff Gannon is considering suing. Swift Report executive editor Todd Fox notes that his news site has consistently sided with Mr. Gannon in recent weeks and suggests that the reporter's enmity towards him may date back to a personal misunderstanding over the difference between a professional colleague and an escort.

(snip)


Drinks and hors d'oeuvres—then an invoice
According to Mr. Fox, he first met Mr. Gannon at the Leadership Institute's Broadcast Journalism School in Arlington, VA, where Fox was teaching an accelerated course in journalistic ethics. The two met up again in Washington, DC in 2000, says Mr. Fox, for drinks and 'professional chit chat.'

"I thought JG and I were getting together as professional colleagues, but at some point after we'd both consumed a great many Bluepoints on the half shell and way too much white burgundy, the evening started to feel well, romantic," says Mr. Fox. "I had to be very firm with him that we were having a journalistic meeting of the minds and that this was not a date."

But while the two parted amicably, Mr. Fox says his confusion only deepened a week later when he received an invoice from Mr. Gannon in the mail. "I opened the envelope, very thick ivory paper with JG's monogram, and inside was a bill for $200. Well, I returned it and you better believe that I didn't enclose a check for services rendered." (Click thumbnail to view invoice.)

complete article: http://swiftreport.blogs.com/news/2005/02/editor_question.html

[Jacobin]

1. LOL

Truth is stranger than fiction. You just couldn't make this stuff up.

[Worst Username Ever]

3. It is satirical.

On the same site:

http://swiftreport.blogs.com/news/2005/02/fbi_to_unveil_n.html#more

[truthpusher]

26. In case anybody is wondering, yes this is satire....

...here's your first clue: on the same site you have a poll:


Who is the most influential gay republican?

Jeff Gannon

J. Edgar Hoover

Mary Cheney

Abe Lincoln

Andrew Sullivan

Ed Schrock

Charlton Heston

So there you go...Pretty fucking hilarious stuff...my favorite part is the embossing on the Gannon invoice...something only a Republican Male Prostitute would do.

[ewagner]

2. This gets stranger and stranger

Did you notice on the invoice that it was entitled Jeff Gannon: Freelance Reporter/Escort

That's a strange, strange combination........

[theboss]

11. It's a parody

Sweet fancy Moses.

[qanda]

4. Is this a joke?

[truthpusher]

27. yes and a damn good one. n/t

[Walt Starr]

5. It's satire

Seriously, it isn't true.

[Dhalgren]

6. And this is from a "journalist" who SUPPORTS Gannon?!

Jesus, they are eating their own young...

[theboss]

13. Again, it is a parody

Again, sweet fancy Moses.

[enough]

7. I don't know, this is getting so absurd that you have to wonder

about another fake-memo scam.

It's hard to believe that anybody this nutty could keep his cover as long as he did.

[havocmom]

17. IT'S NOT REAL! IT IS A JOKE

:eyes:

Do they not cover satire in school anymore?

[BuyingThyme]

20. Are you talking about William Satire?

Was he on the list of johns?

[papau]

8. the difference between a professional colleague and an escort -FOX NO PAY?

I thought Roger Ailes had an unlimited budget for gay sex for his workers - even those workers who pretended to be editors of an independent web site

"According to Mr. Fox, he first met Mr. Gannon at the Leadership Institute's Broadcast Journalism School in Arlington, VA, where Fox was teaching an accelerated course in journalistic ethics (the whole school time to certificate is 2 days and $50 to be a journalist! LOL ! ). The two met up again in Washington, DC in 2000, says Mr. Fox, for drinks and 'professional chit chat.'

"I thought JG and I were getting together as professional colleagues, but at some point after we'd both consumed a great many Bluepoints on the half shell and way too much white burgundy, the evening started to feel well, romantic," says Mr. Fox. "I had to be very firm with him that we were having a journalistic meeting of the minds and that this was not a date."



I guess Roger is just cheap for not offereing to pay Todd Fox's expenses!

:-)

[Spazito]

9. LOL

This looks like it has to be a joke, I am starting to buy a lot of strange things re Jimmie/Jeff but not this one. The guy on that site either has a good sense of humour or is trying misdirection, imo.

If he was a 'supporter' of 'Gannon',as he states, there is no way he would make this public.

[seabeyond]

10. i say, getting out ahead of the story, to make his story. what rove

does. he must be afraid things are going to come out, and soon, if he is sharing his "version" at this point

[Spazito]

12. Good point, hadn't thought of that angle...

I will still assume this is a joke but will also keep your point in mind as well.

[truthpusher]

28. Go to the site - the joke part will become obvious after a while...

...honestly, when I found it, it took a while for me to catch on...pretty good stuff.

[Nordmadr]

14. Totally fake...

where are the folds in the document if it was mailed in a standard envelope. Not buying it, must be a joke.

Olaf

[Sushi-Lover]

15. Pretty funny site actually.

Check out the 'advertisement' for that entry .. the ad is satire, but the site it links to is real and very odd (in terms of things you didn't know were for sale to the general public).

[No Exit]

16. Oh, this is rich!

So, did someone in the big bin laden cave of the Neocon High Command suspect this "conservative editor", Todd Fox, of being.... um... gay??

OOOOOOO!

So did someone in said cave decide to set him up, in a situation where Mr. Fox was faced with overtures from an amorous gay hooker?

Or IS Mr. Fox gay, and this was just two ships passing in the night?

Todd Fox stiffed Jeff Gannon! "Conservative Editor Stiffs Gay Prostitute"! There's your headline!

[havocmom]

18. It is a satire site. Do not go off repeating this as fact, we will look

silly.

here is some more from the site, funny but NOT true... is is SATIRE, like Saturday Night Live does

http://swiftreport.blogs.com/news/2005/02/christo_in_craw.html

<snip> Christo in Crawford? Texas Town in Knots over First Lady's Plan to 'Wrap the Ranch'

<snip> First lady* Laura Bush was reportedly so taken with "The Gates," the epic project installed in New York's Central Park by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, that she has asked the pair to consider Crawford, TX, as the site of their next installation. The idea: wrap the Bush's 1600 acre ranch in eight miles of camouflage fabric. </>

[No Exit]

19. Ooops! Sheesh, is it just me, or is it getting harder to tell

satire from reality, here in Bush-world?

(What's that you say? Just me? Oh, okay...)

[seabeyond]

21. lol lol i thought totally plausible

bah hahahha

but i dont go mouthing off either. who is to know shit anymore with these people. anythinng is possible

[Hoping4Change]

22. Folks this site is pure satire. Its is the farthest thing from ringwing

as you can get. Do you not read The Onion or watch the Daily Show? The swiftreport is the same thing, just alot more subtle.

[havocmom]

25. No, not just you. Reality is getting so weird that satire is getting hard

to do now! :7

We have gone beyond surreal and now are sur-really-real!

[truthpusher]

33. 'sur-really-real!' yep! n/t

[truthpusher]

31. Don't worry, it took me a while to catch on as well. n/t

[tsuki]

23. I like this, if my machine will reproduce..

It won't, but "The Shady Bunch" is a poster I would love to have.

[truthpusher]

24. are you trying to reproduce the invoice? n/t

[tsuki]

37. No, The Shady Bunch.

[fob]

29. What exactly is a "Code 14" do you imagine?

:evilgrin:

[truthpusher]

30. I got one of those the other night in the park...

...pretty nice, actually.

[truthpusher]

32. Also, what's up with 'Form-75' how many forms can a prostitute have? n/t

[fob]

34. DAMN! I missed that. $200 for a Form-75 Code 14? No wonder

jimjeff owed so much in taxes!

[autorank]

35. truthpusher, I'm billing you $200 for reading this post. Give me 50 now!

This is simply to funny for words. I'm going to have trouble going back to work. Brilliant!!!

I wonder what they ate?

[rocktivity]

36. It's satirical? What tipped you off?

The story about Laura Bush planning to wrap the Bush ranch Christo-style, or the poll that includes Abe Lincoln and Herbert Hoover as candidates for the most influential gay republican?

:headbang:
rocknation