Gannon/Guckert Interviewed by 'NY Times' This Sunday: Praises Dog

[Clark2008]

NEW YORK In an interview to be published on Sunday in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, former White House correspondent/ escort Jeff Gannon (real name James Guckert) predicts, “At some point in the future, everyone is going to have a picture on the Internet that they are unhappy about.”

He also reveals that he’d “like to get back into journalism. I’m hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.”

Asked about running a gay escort service, he pulls a Mark McGwire. He does not deny it, but says, “Don’t let that confuse the issue. We have driven so many good people from public service through the politics of personal destruction.” But, cryptrically, he admits that people in the White House press ffice “probably treated me better than I deserved.”

The one-page interview, by Deborah Solomon, which carries the headline “Blogged Down,” and refers to Gannon as a “shill,” is accompanied by a warm and fuzzy black and white photo of Gannon in a sweater, a far cry from the naked torso familiar to millions in recent weeks.

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000846672

How many bets that Faux hires him?

[theorist]

1. I'm sure his book is going to suck big time.

Even if he names names, it'll be really bad. Other than that, I don't know. The news networks have done crazier things in the spirit of infotainment.

[Warpy]

4. he seems to be a rabid ideologue

so my guess is that if he names names, they'll all be Democrats. I sincerely doubt he's going to name the name that got him past the FBI and Secret Service and into the corridors of power in the White House; I also doubt he'll name the names that are keeping the evengelical loudmouths silent on his profession during his time in the White House.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Heh, heh -- Just as mercury goes Retrograde for 3 weeks

"Gannon" is going on PBS television, and into the pages of the Sunday Times. This will stir the shit pot. His arrogance will play poorly with some of the press that has already been tainted by association with Gannon as "colleague."

Stir the pot. Stir the pot. By all means stir the pot.

[ngGale]

23. Please stir the pot...

if they play it right there is gold in this story. We need that Valerie Plame connection - keep talking "Gannon."
Mercury going into Retrograde, ah ha! Keep stirring that pot!

[atommom]

3. Well, not all of us voluntarily post nekkid photos of ourselves on

the Internet (especially with a price list included), so he might be wrong about that generalization. I hope so, anyway...

And I also hope that he's not quite notorious enough to get a major print or TV network job. Regardless of what he has or hasn't done, he's just not very talented.

[ohio_liberal]

6. I'm pretty sure

I don't have any pictures of me naked and spreadeagled on the net. Definitely no price list.

[blm]

20. Or post our naked pictures next to a PRICING LIST.

Why doesn't Gannon ever address the ILLEGALITY of what he did?

[ohio_liberal]

5. Oh great

Now we have to liberate Winston.

[BuyingThyme]

7. For once, Gannon is absolutely right.

I fear the day that my urination pictures hit the 'net and spoil my life as a White House prostitute.

We've all been there.

[Clark2008]

8. He should be proud.

I'm not a guy, but from what I've been told, it's next-to-impossible to urinate while in a state of "heightened awareness."

:crazy:

[dogonarug]

15. Do it every morning!

Aim suffers terribly in that state though...

[Clark2008]

16. Ah.... but isn't the aim that's important?

;)

LMAO at your post, though!

Belated welcome to DU.

[dogonarug]

17. Important...

To the one who cleans the toilet and the walls!

Thx for the welcome, though I been lurkinglongtime

[Clark2008]

18. Lurkinglongtime

Are you any relation to LongDuckDong?

Heh.. it fits... the... um... conversation.

;)

[dogonarug]

19. Check the pic!

I'm a dog...I poop on ducks!

[butchcjg]

35. he looks weird

he looks different than in any other picture

[XemaSab]

43. It's the sweater

Yeah, all the other photos I've seen bear a striking resemblance to that one page in "America, the Book." It's an ocular reflex: catch the slightest hint of LOTS of flesh and my eyes just don't wanna go there. So I guess I've never really seen the guy.

[bettyellen]

12. Aren't we all hypocritical, dominant whores who party at the white house..

fuck the life out of closeted ex marines for money and then run off to the white house press room for our volunteer job as a pretend reporter?
i know that pretty much describes my average day.

[The_Mule]

25. In all fairness to Jeff Gannon/James Guckert/Fred Garvin...

We don't know that he fucked the life out of them. Perhaps he was just so-so.
:shrug:

[FreedomAngel82]

9. What a jackass

He's such a jackass. I can't stand it. He has such a huge ego it's disgusting. No stupid. Nobody has to put a picture on the internet. You can remain annonomoyus. Nobody made you advertise for gay sex. He's such an asswipe.

[yellowcanine]

10. How can he "get back into journalism" when he was never a journalist?

Explain that,Guckernan.

[UTUSN]

11. E&P Certainly Seems to Have a Direct Line to GUCKERT n/t

[Oilwellian]

13. I have the perfect job for Gannon

Isn't there a cable station that reports the news in the nude? As their lead anchor, Gannon could sit there with his 8 inch cut and preach it for the conservatives. :D

[iconoclastNYC]

47. The gusy they get on Naked News.....

Are much better looking and they aren't shown in thier full glory. Just slightly fluffed a little bit. ;)

[KT2000]

14. This guy really is pathetic

this is almost painful to read.
It's like he has two personalities - one the arrogant "player " for the gop and the other a little kid who doesn't have a clue.

[DulceDecorum]

21. The Naked and the Nude

It is hilarious to imagine: the young George Bush, a first-year at Yale, summoned mysteriously to a dingy, windowless room on the fourth floor of Paine-Whitney Gymnasium. After waiting in line outside, Bush enters the room, skinny and awkward; somewhat nervously, he follows orders from two middle-aged men in shirtsleeves. He undresses at their request. One of the men attaches metal spikes to his spine at regular intervals and positions him in profile to a camera on one end of the room. Three flashes later, the young Bush returns to relative obscurity in his life at Yale. Bush was not alone. In his company were Meryl Streep, Diane Sawyer, and Hillary Rodham. From the 1940s to the 1960s at Smith, Princeton, Yale, Mt. Holyoke, and Vassar; from the 1880s to the 1940s at Harvard; and from 1931 to 1961 at Radcliffe, America's future leaders were photographed naked. Quickly forgotten and never questioned, this early photographic experience will become the butt of many jokes in the 1990s. However, the uses to which these so-called "Ivy League posture photos" were put are neither innocuous nor amusing.
http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/~perspy/old/issues/1995/apr/campaff.html

[atommom]

22. The thought of GW being considered a good specimen to be

examined just makes my flesh crawl. Unless they classified him with the mental patients, which is where he truly belonged.

[butchcjg]

24. I do worry about...

I do worry about the legitimacy of SOME of those pictures "Found" on the internet.

I remember when Americablog leaked the story, I looked up the USMCPT.com site on the WhoIS and it said it was "created" during the weekend when the story broke. I looked again, and it STILL says "created on Feb 10, 2005". Are we to believe that coincedently, Gannon renewed the usmcpt.com site on teh same weekend that the "man whore" story was released? Or, is something fishy??

[Catherine Vincent]

26. All of the pictures weren't found.

Am anonymous web developer contacted John and sent pics and files of Guckert. When the developer saw Gannon's mug, he recognized him immediately and contacted John of Americablog.

[butchcjg]

27. Yes, but don't you worry...

Don't you worry about an "anonymous web developer"??? I mean, pictures are easy to manipulate...

Isn't it at ALL suspicious that usmcpt.com (the site where all the screen captures came from) was only registered 1 day before Americablog broke the story????

[Catherine Vincent]

28. If the pictures aren't of Guckert then why doesn't he say so?

Unless he enjoys that everyone thinks it's him. And actually, I don't think he was anonymous. The developer and John were in contact with each other. I sort of forget how it all started but it's something like that.

[butchcjg]

29. Yes, they were in contact....but

Yes, the developer was in contact with John...

But that doesnt mean it's legitimate.

And, it's STILL fishy that the supposed main site that Gannon used was only created the day before John broke the story. I've always just worried about that...I remember the day John posted it, I just was like "what's up with this", but no one cared/paid attention.

As for Gannon, well, he continually makes little statements about "anyone can manipulate a photo" or "there are a lot of lies". I think he THRIVES on attention and this is a very good "distraction" and something he can run with...so, why deny it. This feeds his ego and gives him notoriety...and for a nobody, that's something big.

Plus, if he fundamentally believes that you shouldnt be involved in a person's private life, then he is sticking true to that value. Remember in that movie, "The Contender", where Joan Allen was going to be Veep and all these accusations about her being involved in some sex scandal came up...she refused to deny it and went on about how she deserves privacy. People assumed her guilt b/c she refused to deny it. In the end, she never denied it, but htey found out it wasn't true...she stuck to her principles and everyone else looked bad.

Of course, Clinton denied it and it turned out to be true, LOL :-) Not the best route to go!!

[Catherine Vincent]

31. If the site was created the day before John broke the story, then

I guess that looks fishy. But are you accusing John of setting up Gannon? I don't know. I was reading John's blog from the beginning and he thorougly checked everything out before he posted the pics and websites.

[butchcjg]

32. Not accusing

No, I'm not accusing John of setting anyone up.

I'm just saying it's fishy.

My first thought was "Was John set up?"

go and do a "who is" on networksolutions.com

it lists the date of USMCPT.com creation as "Feb 10, 2005" and last updated "Feb 10, 2005". That just makes no sense???

[Catherine Vincent]

40. Okay, I will.

Did you ever try and contact John Aravosis and talk to him about this?

[Catherine Vincent]

44. Okay, here is the info:

Domain Name: USMCPT.COM
Registrar: COMPANA, LLC
Whois Server: whois.budgetnames.com
Referral URL: http://www.budgetnames.com
Name Server: NS1.RENTALQUEUE.COM
Name Server: NS2.RENTALQUEUE.COM
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 10-feb-2005
Creation Date: 10-feb-2005
Expiration Date: 10-feb-2006

[butchcjg]

45. never contacted Aravosis

But I posted several times on Americablog right after his expose asking what's up...

[EFerrari]

30. He wasn't anonymous. I don't have it in hand, but the name

may be on the Demopedia pages. Or, you might be able to get it from John, who is friendly and accessble.

And as I recall, there were several sites, not only the one.

[butchcjg]

33. yes but the other sites...

the other sites are not his own...they are sites owned by others and could easily be changed if someone wanted to "frame" someone.

I just always thought it was kinda fishy...

As a feminist (and lesbian), I hate the whole "gay whore" thing anyway. I think that though that gets MSM attention some, the story is just as legitimate without the "manwhore" angle. How did a non-reporter get access every day for 2 yrs and not have to go through the usual process. why did that process get circumvented.

[EFerrari]

36. We don't know that he's gay; we know only know he offered

his services to men.

A group of us, including graphics people have been studying this. The guy was working, not being framed, as far as we can tell anyway.

And, so far, the sex angle has caused a media clamp down, not the other way around. It looks like they're afraid the answer to your last question may embarrass the White House.

If interested, check the Demopedia pages.

peace,
B.

/typo

[butchcjg]

37. yes, i've read all that

Yes, i've been "here" since the beginning (and long before) and as well on Americablog.

I'm familiar with everything.

But, I still dont feel at east with the USMCPT.com date thing....someone should investigate THAT!

I mean, it was "created" on Feb 10, 2005...so who created it? An imposture? Gannon??

And, I know we cant confirm he's "gay"...though, that's what everyone is labeling him as. He seems to have backed away more from the "denial" type language and now just wants "privacy". But, lots of straight guys do gay sex type stuff, all while proclaiming heterosexuality...check out craigslist and you'll find TONS of that.

[butchcjg]

34. Feeling sorry for him?

Does anyone else ever have flashes of feeling sorry for Gannon?

I mean, reading this article makes it very obvious that he has a MAJOR case of internalized homophobia...right down to the point where he thinks that being gay should be kept private like the olden days and that he wants to be alone b/c his dog accepts him no matter what.

He needs to be liberated, man. It's one thing to be a conservative like Andrew Sullivan (who at least has gay pride and doesn't support anti-gay stuff), but Gannon is just self-hating.

[butchcjg]

38. just to add

other times i despise him.
especially when i read his blog.

but, he's awfully self-hating.

and arrogant.

[Catherine Vincent]

41. Yes, sometimes I do feel sorry for him.

And like when I read stuff on his blog, I don't feel sorry for him because of the things that he says. But then we don't know if that is really him writing that stuff. It probably is though, he misspells a lot.

And btw, I am glad he finally showed up on tv recently (Tucker Carlson). Some of us were concerned about his safety.

[Tsiyu]

39. My take on the abduction of our government has

remained the same for a few years. Blackmail "good, family men and women" with sex photos and you have them in your back pocket. All of those teeny little cameras have come in handy for a lot of sick folks in this world.

I strongly believe that many in Congress and the media have been lured to engage in kinky action only to be surreptitiously recorded.
Their personal shame takes precedence over their civic resonsibility.

Perhaps if we all DID pose spread-eagle, it might lessen the stigma and some of these scaredy cats would grow some ovaries.

As for Gannon/Guckert: this dude is a sick, twisted creature. I don't pity him; he should be locked away in an institution for exhibiting the most extreme case of cognitive dissonance ever witnessed on earth.

[skypilot]

42. He likes "being alone".

Good. Because if there is one ounce of justice left in the world, "alone" is how he will stay. No self-respecting gay man should have anything to do with this prick. I hope Winston lives for a long time.

[Democrats_win]

46. JG:"as Einstein said, 'Sometimes a wedding card is just a wedding card.' "

The interviewer said, "You mean like "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar''? That wasn't Einstein. That was Freud."

Guckert: "Oh, Freud. O.K. I got my old Jewish men confused.

Interviewer: "You should learn the difference between them if you want to work in journalism."