Jeff Gannon Admits Past 'Mistakes,' Berates Critics

[sabra]

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36733-2005Feb18.html

Jeff Gannon Admits Past 'Mistakes,' Berates Critics

Jeff Gannon, the former White House reporter whose naked pictures have appeared on a number of gay escort sites, says that he has "regrets" about his past but that White House officials knew nothing about his salacious activities.
"I've made mistakes in my past," he said yesterday. "Does my past mean I can't have a future? Does it disqualify me from being a journalist?"

Gannon chastised his critics, breaking a silence that began last week when liberal bloggers disclosed his real name, James Dale Guckert, and a Web page, which he paid for, featuring X-rated photos of himself. "Why would they be looking into a person's sexual history? Is that what we're going to do to reporters now? Is there some kind of litmus test for reporters? Is it right to hold someone's sexuality against them?"

....

Gannon chuckled at that, saying many reporters sensed an attack was imminent because the White House kept delaying the routine announcement that no more news would be made that day. "You could feel it in the air," he said.

....

"People criticize me for being a Christian and having some of these questionable things in my past," he said. "I believe in a God of forgiveness."

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[clydefrand]

1. Has his sexuality changed????????????

What a hypocrite!

[Erika]

7. The guy's toast

Maybe he can endorse a purse line.

[Griffy]

105. its PROPAGANDA! say it to everyone you know.. thats EXACTLY what it is..

like the election FRAUD is exactly what it was! We need to expose the whole PROPAGANDA machine, then its all downhill to exposing the truth, and reclaiming our government!

[Lizzie Borden]

114. Not so sure he's toast.

He claims he's a christian--maybe that makes everything ok. <sarcasm>

[BrendaStarr]

130. Ties to Rove tricks so clear in SD that there is an FEC challenge

According to the CBS report.

One of Gannon's first projects was an attempt to discredit the South Dakota Argus Leader, South Dakota's major paper, and its longtime political writer, David Kranz. According to the National Journal, which reported on this last November, Gannon wrote a series of articles in the summer of 2003 alleging that Kranz, who went to college with Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle, was not only sympathetic to him but was an actual part of the Daschle campaign. These articles then got a huge amount of play on the blogs of John Lauck and Jason Van Beek, and were picked up by other conservative sites and talk radio. The paper was bombarded with messages about its bias and acknowledges that these had an impact on its coverage.

Daschle opponent John Thune's campaign manager was Dick Wadham, an old political crony of Karl Rove's; the kind of pal Rove could ask to hire his first cousin, John Wood, a few years back. Wadham put the bloggers on the campaign payroll and the symbiotic relationship between the campaign, the bloggers and "reporter" Gannon continued. On September 29, Gannon broke the story that Daschle had claimed a special tax exemption for a house in Washington and the bloggers jumped all over it. According to a November 17 posting on South Dakota Politics – a site that Van Beek, who has become a staffer for now-Sen. Thune, has bequeathed to Lauck – "Jeff Gannon, whose reportage had a dramatic impact on the Daschle v. Thune race (his story about Sen. Daschle signing a legal document claiming to be a D.C. resident was published nearly the same day Thune began to run an ad showing Daschle saying, "I'm a D.C. resident) has written an analysis of the debacle."

Daschle aides told Roll Call, "This guy (Gannon) became the dumping ground for opposition research." The connections are so strong that there is an FEC challenge which could be a test case on the limits of the use of the Internet in federal campaigns.

Gannon also had Thune on his radio show "Jeff Gannon's Washington," and the White House correspondent for Talon became touted as the "resident D.C. expert on South Dakota politics" by the bloggers. Thune and Wadham (who has been hired by aspiring White House Republican Sen. George Allen) have become go-to guys on the use of blogs in campaigns. Thune was cited in The New York Times as introducing "Senators to the meaning of 'blogging,' explaining the basics of self-published online political commentary and arguing that it can affect public opinion."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/18/opinion/lynch/main675050.shtml

It will be a shame if Gannon goes down and the rest of the Bush administration gets to stay in its closet.

Too bad that the right wingers dominate most of the mixed boards.

[flamingyouth]

2. I don't even know where to start with this

Perhaps I'll just let his words speak for themselves here. :nopity:

[flamingyouth]

5. No wait, I do have something

We're not criticizing you for being a Christian. We're criticizing you for being an asshole. There's a difference.

[merh]

37. His escort service was "active" in 2003 - while he was "reporting"

11/2004 Delisted
BULLDOG - DC
11/2003 Invalid Contact information.

http://www.male4malescorts.com/reviews/bulldogdc.html

Of course we know that this one is still active.
http://www.studfiles.com/dc007.html

"While the site is no longer live on the Internet, archived copies of it show that it was live at the USMCPT.com address at least from October 31, 2001 until May 8, 2003. (This date is relevant since Gannon reportedly entered the White House the first time as a "journalist" in early April, 2003.)"
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/02/man-called-jeff...

[merh]

39. One of his reviews was on the same day as his first article!

I. The "birth" of "Jeff Gannon" and "Talon News Service."

6/02 - registration of jeffgannon.com

11/12/02 - first article by Gannon appears at "Conservative Monitor"

1/1/03 - GOPUSA begins front page news coverage

1/15/03 - first Gannon byline at GOPUSA

3/29/03 - Talon News Service copyrighted

4/1/03 - Talon news coverage begins
Gannon obtains WH "daily pass"

6/03 - Gannon registers at Free Republic and begins contributing

Nov or Dec '03 - attends WH Christmas party for reporters

early 2004 - Gannon applied for Capitol press credential

4/7/04 - application denied (unanimous decision)

2/8/05 - identified as James D. Guckert at dKos

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/12/33154/1450

[lebkuchen]

50. He's a big part of a more major concern, isn't he?

Such as being a media ringer who isn't even a journalist being planted within the media pool and used extensively by taxpayer supported WH officials to promote propaganda pushing a war agenda resulting in hundreds of thousands killed and wounded. And that's just what I know on the surface. If this "journalist" was also given classified information, and was involved in the outing of a deep cover CIA agent, this issue goes way beyond "Jeff Gannon" being an "asshole."

[Lizzie Borden]

115. Lebkuchen, excellent summary

of the ethical questions involved.

[Jawja]

102. Actually, I don't

see where we are criticizing Gannon for his religion or sexuality or personal life at all. I actually cannot believe that he would have the gall to ask question about a "litmus test" for reporters, after what reporters did to Bill Clinton and his personal life. And of course, he plays the "persecuted Christian" card.

It is The White House, the Republican Party, the "Religious" Conmen, and the Corporate Media Cartel who are being criticized,and rightfully so.

They are being called out for their overflowing cauldron of hypocricy! Despite the FACT that Guckert was involved in a criminal activity and was NOT a real journalist working for any REAL publication, he got passes on a regular basis to participate in White House press briefings and to question the President of the United States. He has bragged publically about having access to inside information.

We want to know why the Congressional Moralists have nothing to say about this. We want to know where Michael Isokoff is on this developing story. We want to know why we aren't seeing a video of Mr. Bush calling on Gannon in a press conference over and over and over and over and over again on CNN. We want to know where the virtuous William Bennett is and why is HIS outrage now dead??

Most of all, we want to know why our so-called fourth estate, who ran 24/7 with EVERY tiny leak and EVERY unverified story on Bill Clinton's White House sexual mores, is so BLATANTLY SILENT on the undercover Male Prostitute who was favored by the Bush White House.

[sasquatch]

3. YOU'RE NOT A JOURNALIST, YOU'RE A PROPAGANDIST MORON!!

Jesus I hate these people.

[mod mom]

89. really! he defintiely has dellusions of grandeur, besides a pathological

lying problem. F-him!

[FreedomSpirit]

127. LOL

nice description -- pig faced whore!

:bounce: :headbang:

[Newsjock]

4. Could Kurtz be any softer on the guy?

Sheesh.

[Eloriel]

98. Exactly my thinking -- It was as if Howie had been given the

assignment to give Gannon the chance to 'splain himself and answer ALL his critics. Sheesh indeed. Pathetic. It was positively painful to behold, reading between the lines, how deeply (and inappropriately!!) sympathetic Kurz is to the guy.

:puke:

I think I need a shower.

[Political_Junkie]

6. If this keeps up I think my head'll explode.

"Is it right to hold someone's sexuality against them?" This from the guy who bitched about Kerry being too gay friendly!?!
Jeffy, honey, you're sexuality ain't the problem, your hypocrisy is!

[Erika]

10. He was a gay porn escort

who ends up as a Bush operative in the WH. You think there might be a national security issue there?

[Lorien]

17. "Was" or "Is"?

I thought one of his sites was still active, which would indicate that he's still a prostitute.

[lebkuchen]

52. If I may borrow Tom Ridge's color alert system

I vote this security breach a RED.

[jmcgowanjm]

76. White House officials knew nothing

Then it becomes a national security issue.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000808600

That explains James Dobson's descent into madness
over Spongebob Squarepants: It was sex talk withdrawal
that made him hallucinate the gay subtext in a freaking
cartoon.

In fact, I'm so sure of this that I'd like to do a little experiment.
If there are any pinheaded wingnuts reading this, I want you
to pause, take a deep breath and not think of hot
santorum spraying ass fucking for ten seconds.

Couldn't do it, could you? Now look what you did: You made the baby Jesus cry and crap his divine nappies.

You sick monkeys.

http://www.mykeru.com/

Look people, the Bush Regime is vulnerable now. Very, very,
very vulnerable. On many
fronts.
Don't give up.
Some heavy political shit (and external events too I think)
will come down and blow these assholes out of power in a
big time way.

http://www.unknownnews.org/0502150211iraqinam.html

[grytpype]

8. Who the fuck "criticized him for being a Christian?"

I hate these self-pitying Jeebus Freaks. They own everything and control everything and they claim they are being persecuted. Bullshit.

[aquart]

12. He's a Christian male prostitute Republican stooge?

[stopbush]

13. How long before the RW nuts drag out the "Jesus was gay

and Mary Magdalene was a prostitute" defense for Gannon?

We're through the looking glass...

[stopbush]

16. And cue the Jimmy Swaggert "I have sinned against thee, my Lord"

video...

[devilgrrl]

36. He's 'Crusin' fer Jayzus'!

[The_Nick]

40. AWESOME

Best "get a brain morans" photoshop ever. I assume you're a farker, and I have to point out that place is great for getting the Rush/Hannity/Etc talking points without ever having to give them ratings.

[devilgrrl]

47. not my creation...

it's courtesy of EarlG :-)

[Enraged_Ape]

68. Thanks for my laff of the day

That's the best photoshop of the "morans" dude I've ever seen.

[Swamp Rat]

111. Great work EarlG!!! n/t

:D

[KansDem]

99. I think he became a "Christian..."

When Karl Rove told him to become a "Christian..."

Right about the time this whole tawdry story of his lurid activities broke.

[uhhuh]

9. Is this guy for real?

"I've made mistakes in my past," he said yesterday. "Does my past mean I can't have a future? Does it disqualify me from being a journalist?"

Mistakes in the past? Some of his sites are still active today!

Making mistakes doesn't disqualify one from being a journalist< unless you're Dan Rather>. Not being a journalist disqualifies you.

Nobody started looking into his past as a gay hustler until they started to try to find out why he, a non-journalist, was permitted to keep being placed in the White House press pool.

He posted and paid for sites with this information< which he lied about>. Nobody peered into his bedroom window or dug through his trash. He ADVERTISED his sexuality worldwide. Hardly any work to find it had to be done.

What an idiot!!

[Erika]

18. Yeah, he's scum

but now he's found religion and should be forgiven? Remember how Bush chuckled as he put Carla Faye to death even though she had found religion and dedicated the rest of her life to a Christian ministry and begged for forgiveness.

[stopbush]

11. Geez, Jeff, it's kinda hard to sympathize with a guy

who's so divorced from reality...

[frylock]

41. ohhh no you di'n't..

[merwin]

14. As usual, NeoCons hide behind twisted religion beliefs to rationalize

their past. Bush did the exact same thing.

No, Jeff... you shouldn't be granted a press pass because you're a former WHORE with a record (has owed 20k in state income taxes for the last 5 years, with a lawsuit against him regarding this).

You would think they'd do a background check on these people. I mean, what is the secret service around for? They can't even do a background check as well as a few BLOGGERS? Come on...

[Old and In the Way]

22. Religion is the last refuge for scoundrals and hypocrites.

I'd say Jeff-Jim qualifies under both categories. Another Republican lackey who can't take responsibility for his own actions.

[merwin]

23. If anything, the christian bible tells us to own up to your sins and take

responsibility for them. Yes, you should repent, but that doesn't mean that they never happened.

[DARE to HOPE]

109. Exactly.

You are supposed to "repent," meaning "turn around" from what you've been doing, and then make some sort of restitution, eg, Zacchaeus the tax collecter who had cheated people throughout his career, gave half of what he owned to the poor, and four-fold repayment to those he had cheated.

One more point: Gannon claims to be a "2 holiday Christian" by his own words on his (now gone) Talon website. There are a LOT of such folks these days, including from our own parish. But church attendance is like taking vitamins--who would wait until one had cancer to begin taking them? And yet so many do.

It is the PRACTICE of one's faith, whether it be chasing money and success, or faith in a loving God--just like piano lessons--the PRACTICE of talking with God (prayer) and worship and Bible study and especially the "alms, fasting and prayer" of Lent, which changes the individual's heart and life.

All the "2 holiday" folks are simply bystanders, missing what they do not know.

[stopbush]

28. How come it's never "I made mistakes in the past...

but my Muslim faith has changed me." Nope. They all play the Jeebus card on cue. Their "faith" is a con game to fool the ignorant masses. And the media plays along because they all want the Beamer and the house in The Hamptons.

[merwin]

43. I honestly think the media is afraid to call them on the christian card.

You have to realize that there are a lot of very wacky neocon Kristian groups out there, that (like it or not) have a lot of influence and a fairly big base. They would go after ANYONE who dared to question their twisted take on the christian faith.

I mean, look what they did to Keith Olbermann for the whole Spongebob thing. He got thousands of e-mails after merely poking fun at the Spongebob reference. Think what would happen if he came out and called BS on the "I've been forgiven so my past doesn't exist anymore" crap.

[stopbush]

24. Obviously they DID do a background check, and they got

exactly the guy they were looking for.

I'm watching Leslie (or is it Wolf?) Stahl on Bill Maher tonight. She was reciting the "what I can't understand is how he got cleared by the (whoever)" line. Hey, Leslie, WAKE UP! Not only was he cleared, he was probably recruited!

The media whores have the distract and deflect game down perfectly. Frame the issue as just another "intelligence" breakdown, just like Iraq. But the truth is standing in plain sight: most of the world knew that Iraq was no threat. That's what the intelligence said. Bushco ignored it and shamelessly sent Powell to the UN to LIE so they could get their war on.

Same thing with Gannon. It's not a matter of the security/vetting process failing, it's a matter of bushco moving heaven and earth and using every slimy end run in the book (day pass vs hard pass) to get their mole (gerbil?) into the WHPC.

For fuck's sake, will someone on the fucking tube call them on this, or are we going to get a rehash of every other diversionary farce we've lived through since the SCOTUS ended our democracy?

[kittenpants]

83. plus his shady past discredits him if he should ever turn on BushCo...

isn't that how CIA chooses it's operatives? Go to the lowlifes who discredit themselves the moment they open their mouths.

[KansDem]

100. "...Frame the issue as just another "intelligence" breakdown..."

Just like September 11...

I'll never get over the fact we were attacked and this administration had prior warnings of such an attack, yet we're told it was due to "intelligence breakdowns..."

Yet, we're suppose to believe him on Iran???

[Historic NY]

15. But it was okay to do it to Clinton

"Why would they be looking into a person's sexual history? Is that what we're going to do to reporters now? Is there some kind of litmus test for reporters? Is it right to hold someone's sexuality against them?"

What a putz....they did it to a President so what makes him so special.

[merwin]

20. Clinton didn't repent and become a good neocon khristian!

[Erika]

25. Republicans love to play the victim role

I guess being a porn gay escort given WH press passes really qualifies him as a victim of the left.

[Patchuli]

112. Yeah, and Bill only lied

'cause he was scared of his wife's ire. It's not like he had websites
out there for crying out loud! This 'Guckert' dude lost his privacy
when he posted his 'goods' out there for hire. sheeeeeeeesh! The
hypocrisy of neocons is sickening!

[CTyankee]

117. And what Bill did was not against the law

in D.C. (adultery not a crime in D.C. but I think prostitution is).

[Patchuli]

124. Of course it wasn't

and he should have dodged that bullet by saying "I didn't break any
laws and I didn't ask anyone else to break the law." That would have
ended the RW slime attempt as far as that was concerned.

I'd like to know why a known prostitute was allowed access to the WH too.

[athenap]

128. One thing we all seem to be forgetting is...

...Clinton never had to *pay* for it. :P

Maybe that's why they're really sore about it. Our guy didn't have to buy.

/snark

[Warpy]

19. What a load of bullshit

McClellan admitted he knew Gannon was an alias. If he knew, so did everybody else. Are they so stupid that they think an alias is normal?

I don't think so. I think they knew damned full well he had a lot of stuff to hide, and I think they expected to use it to keep him in line.

[napi21]

21. I've made mistakes in my past? Rove must have given him that one!

It's the same friggin line he gave to Shrub! It worked for him
! All the Pubs forgave him!

[understandinglife]

26. Kurtz shilling for Gannon: Howie, what's he got ON YOU, DUDE?

:puke:


TBO;24/7

[understandinglife]

38. Or, it may be that Howie is just trying to keep the guy alive.

As I've posted elsewhere, I think gagman pulled the 26 Jan 2005 $hrubber press conference stunt (and the eager communication with DU to become the #1 punkneoCON shmuck or whatever that contest is called) because he may not have been ready to be a participant in one of those 'suicides.'

I think gagman's background (when we learn what it is) may well be sufficiently experienced in the ways and means of scrubbing those who have become unwanted annoyances, that he may well have detected that it was time for him to become 'hyper public.'

And, heck, he's succeeding and maybe Howie is into the "he's not heavy, he's my brother" compassion thingie and is trying to help the dude not find himself hanging from a shower rod.

Think about it. The fact that gagman is still alive is already an amazing story, imho.

Peace.


TBO;24/7

[annabanana]

103. interesting..........n/t

[chookie]

27. Yo "JEFF"!

"Jeff", if one of your critics had secretly photographed you in delicto, that would be one thing, but the fact is what, at the same time you were a member of the WH press corps, you were soliciting clients for sex for pay.

Uh, your "past", "Jeff"? The year 2003 you consider your PAST?

IMHO -- "Jeff" has been advised by someone to -- believe it or not, but it always works -- to "play" on liberal moral relativism. Once again, we're supposed to have no fucking moral compass and be stroking our beards and saying, "You know what, we should leave this poor man alone. We don't want people to think we're HYPOCRITES!"

Uh, "Gannon" doesn't mind being a hypocrite. None of them do.

But we on the left are supposed to embrace his "diversity."

It's like Rush getting the ACLU to defend him once he was found out to be acquiring massive amounts of Oxycontin illegally.

Here we go again.

"Gannon" knows how this works, and that's why he is trying this. The Dems fold again and again -- like, We only object to Condi because we are racists; We object to Gonzales because we secretly despise Hispanics; We denounce Wolfowitz because we are anti-Semitic.

Can't you see -- they are trying to shut down the left by turning it into a "gay rights" issue? You know, the same "gay rights" "Gannon" himself ridiculed? And he is trying to appeal to libertarians and moderate Repugs by making it a privacy issue.

Sorry -- it is a SKANK/PROSTITUTE issue! It is a "No Credentials" issue. It is a "not a legitimate news organization" issue. It's a "lie lie lie" issue.

Someone is ADVISING "Gannon" to say this shit. And I think we can guess who is most likely to be advising him how to frame getting caught for being a whore selling yourself by posting obscene pictures of yourself.

I have heard people step up to his defence, but I am NOT one of them! What he did is way beyond the pale. This is not a "gay" thing -- that's bullshit. This is a SKANK thing, an internet whore thing. WHY any media organization is allowing this whore airtime is beyond me, ESPECIALLY as this dirtbag assured Wolf Blitzer he was innocent of involvement with escort sites, before, of course, he was caught, LITERALLY, with his pants down.

And to think this is the party who loves to ridicule Democrats for being "way out of touch with Mainstream America." YOU, Mr "Gannon" more than ANYONE I know are WAY out of touch with mainstream America. This dirtbag gets NO ROOM under my "tent".

Do you think Bush's fervent evangelical supporters are going to embrace this guy, after he has now acknowledged his involvement? He's trying desperately, like all Republican pigs who get caught, by saying their lord and savior Jesus has forgiven them, so SHUT UP about my sins, recent though they may be. (And this from the Party of Personal Responsibility!! Gotta love it! )SO, in order to get the heat off of himself, he is playing the "liberals are hypocritical" card, which time and again shows itself to be the most valuable weapon in their arsenal. And you know what? He'll get away with it. Because "liberals" will let him. Liberals will cave, yet again.

[Binka]

95. Yo Chookie BEST Gannon Rant EVER

I love you! You ROCK.:loveya:

[lovuian]

29. I think this guy better be worried and he is expendable

He knows way to much and if he ever spills what he knows it could be majorly embarassing!!!

[Catt03]

30. I am willing to bet that

he will be on television as a regular commentator for Hardball, Scarborough or MSNBC ....or Fox will give him his own show. Seems he has the qualifications to be a prime time Republican cable pundit...


I say in about a month.

[sabra]

31. Sadly, I think you are totally correct with that prediction...

[bunny planet]

35. Oh yes, he will be their 'I've seen the error of my ways and I renounce

that deviant lifestyle I once embraced because I've drunk jesus juice now and I'm saved' poster boy when all of this is through. And we will be painted as the intolerant, judgemental, unforgiving, hateful, left wing privacy invading assholes. That's how things work in the bizarro world that is the US under this administration.

:smoke:

[DoYouEverWonder]

65. Fortunately

Freeper Gannon is not good on TV, otherwise he would already have his own prime time show.

[mod mom]

91. His credentials are his 8" "cut"-right repukes? nt

[Kool Kitty]

32. Oh, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff-

put down the crack pipe and listen. No one cares that you are a Christian. No one cares that you are gay. What people care about is that you are a liar, a propagandist and that you are a shill for this administration. That's the problem. Not your sexuality or your religion. Got that, Jeff?

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[Hissyspit]

119. You're forgiven, Grovelbot! n/t

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

34. Waaaaaa...those mean ole' liberuls are pickin' on me. Waaaaaaa...

Cry me a river, you PIECE OF HYPOCRITICAL REPUKE SHIT!

JB

[VolcanoJen]

42. BWAAAAA ha ha ha ha!

I honestly have nothing more to say. Delicious.

"Jeff" would serve himself well to stfu and lay low for a minute.

[truthisfreedom]

44. what a complete and total weirdo.

bushco has got to be plotting his death. nothing he's saying is helping matters at all.

[merwin]

46. That's putting it mildly

[NYC]

45. He advertised his prostitution career on the internet.

That is not his "personal" life.

"Why would they be looking into a person's sexual history? Is that what we're going to do to reporters now? Is there some kind of litmus test for reporters? Is it right to hold someone's sexuality against them?"

People looked in to his career history, not his personal history.

If he believes his past is not a problem, why did he use a false name at the White House?

[Mandate My Ass]

48. Jeffy, Prostitution is a *crime,* tax evasion is also a *crime.*

Invoking a false identity to cover up one's crimes is a *cover-up.*

Smearing others for appearing gay-friendly at the very same time one is servicing gay men for money is * rank hypocrisy.*

Oh, and trolling for pity only after being caught in unethical, illegal activities is beneath contempt.

How quickly the sneering machismo creep who taunted DU only last week that all he wanted was to move up from No. 2 to become the No. 1 Conservative Idiot has morphed into the repentant, persecuted Christian.

*sniff*

[lebkuchen]

60. well said

[The_Casual_Observer]

49. Why aren't they arresting the ugly bastard psychopath for prostitution?

or at least soliciting? What the hell is going on? The MSM actually still lets the shit plead his stupid case for free on TV.

[KansDem]

101. Yeah, put him in New Orleans, then the AG will go after him...

Oh, wait: Ashcroft is no longer the AG. Well, give him some hallucinogenic tea and let Gonzalez go after him...

Yeah!...Yeah!...:grr:

[Behind the Aegis]

51. As if on some fucked up cue...

People criticize me for being a Christian.. WHAT A LOAD OF SHIT! Even us crazy 'G-d-hating libruls' here haven't even brought his RELIGION up!!! Why is this the first thing these assholes throw out when they are in deep?!! He just perpetuates the "persecuted Christian" of the (anti) religious right. What an asshole!

[lebkuchen]

53. I wonder how the Xtians are going to like being placed in the same company

as a gay porn prostitute?

What state is Guckert from ? (sorry if I might have misspelled your last name, James--don't feel compelled to shop for an alias as a result)

He says he's made "mistakes." Some states, like California, are bound by law to make public i.e. web accessible, crimes committed in the past. Maybe Guck is mentioned in some state's crime file.

[Behind the Aegis]

55. Without certainty

I have no doubt they will get some play out of this. Amazing...they hate gays, unless it benefits them somehow. I am almost glad he brought this up, it shows how much hypocrisy this group is engaged in!

[lebkuchen]

58. What disgusts me about this sorted affair

is that Bush's media ringer, Guck, was promoting Bush's war propaganda machine, which resulted in the military family suffering endlessly from its consequences, especially given the wounded, both Iraqi and US, who must suffer with brain damage, amputations and so forth, while Guck yucks it up in orgy fests off the money he's made from the Education Department, the Dept. of Health and Human Services, who knows, all in the name of fighting for "freedom" and "Christian" values.

How much more depraved can the Bushies get?

[Behind the Aegis]

59. "How much more depraved can the Bushies get?"

I think that is one of the scariest questions one can ask! I fear we are about to see just how bad can get!

[DoYouEverWonder]

72. Maybe it will shut them up for a bit

about the Sanctity of Marriage crap that they've been running on.

Now I know why they are so against gay marriage. All of their lovers are going to start demanding alimony.

[Zerex71]

54. Wait, hold everything.

First, I thought CHRISTIANS didn't do this sort of thing. Secondly, it wasn't too long ago that I recall reporters going ape over scandalous and breathtaking "revelations" about a certain sitting President. Thirdly, it also wasn't too long ago when Dan Rather tried to probe into an actual story and ended up being forced to resign. So tell me again why we should listen to this jerk? Cry me a river, Guckert.

[Erika]

57. You don't understand about him

It does not matter that he was a gay whore and a political operative of Bush allowed in the WH. That simple. He's said he's "born again" and the Bushies will embrace hin 1000% just like they did Bush. That simple.

[K8-EEE]

56. When Busted: Cry About Your Xtian Persecution, WAAAH!

Oh PLEASE! What a crock of SHIT! I haven't heard anybody "criticize him for being Christian."

They're criticizing him for being a fake, uneducated, inexperienced, Bush stooge and a PROSTITUTE, the last thing is supposed to be against the law last I hear...

[arikara]

61. But wasn't it a youthful indiscretion?

... that defense works if you're a drunken cokehead...

[tuvor]

63. We still know nothing about his PRIVATE LIFE. That being so...

...we can't let him get away with whining that his privacy's been invaded.

[lebkuchen]

67. Guck exposed his private parts all over the web

Now he's crying foul on the basis of privacy? Gimmeabreak

[jmcgowanjm]

78. "chickens coming home to roost."

#45 from Jeff Gannon on March 5, 2003 03:26 AM

This is a question I asked Ari Fleischer at a White House press briefing on Friday:

Q There have been reports out of Maine that the children of deployed
service personnel are being harassed as a result of their elementary school
teacher's expression of anti-war views in the classroom. Could you comment on
that?

http://www.windsofchange.net/archives/003115.php#c45

Maureen Dowd reported she was denied press credentials
at the start of the Bush administration in
2001.
 Yet Guckert, whose only journalistic training was derived from
a $50 weekend seminar, was repeatedly granted
access.

http://www.bartcop.com/

OK, White House guys, can you explain again what the fuck
this guy was doing there? I didn't get your explanation the
first time because it got hung up halfway out the bull's
ass.

http://www.mykeru.com/

[Why Syzygy]

64. gawed forgives?

I think not. Cash pays.

I'm not even an x-tian and I am sick and freaking tired of these folks laying everything at Jesus' feet.

If I WERE an x-tian, I would be really steamed.

Oh, but that's what they expect from their fellow followers.
One repentance after the next.

OOPS! Killed a country full of innocent civilians?

Oh, sorry, "Jesus forgives".

Balderdash.

[Kber]

94. The fact that Jesus forgives

is NOT permission to plan ahead to commit a sin. Ask Aalmost NY priest or minister and they will agree.

[DARE to HOPE]

113. The Pope and every other bishop...

...including his own United Methodists came to tell him his war was illegal, immoral and "unjust!" He would not even receive them!

Christians across this country marched and wrote and begged both the Congress and the WH to STOP the war madness! And it wasn't even on television! So nobody believed it even happened.


Damn right, we are angry!!

[FlyByNight]

66. "Why would they be looking into a person's sexual history?"

Jim/Jeff, you do realize what you've asked, correct? Does the name "Bill Clinton" ring a bell?

Hypocrite.

:puke:

[wildeyed]

74. I know, these people are really beyond belief.

They hound the crap out of Clinton, but if it is one of them, it is "personal". :puke:

[Magleetis]

69. Hey Jim

it is obvious to me that God does not want you to be a reporter. God wants you to be a prostitute. Get back to work.

[Misunderestimator]

70. God's forgiven him..... so should we...

how simple it all is... :eyes:

[LinuxInsurgent]

71. I wish I could be a male escort...

and then berate my critics for not letting me regret my past peacefully.

On second thought...no...no I wouldn't...I wouldn't want to be a male escort.

I'm sorry...being a male escort is not a legitimate "personal life" detail that should be "irrelevant" to your credibility.

We can't be having HOs doing the reporting of the nation...sorry. There's millions of Americans...we can find relatively "pure" ones to do our reporting...if you were a hooker, you messed up...work at McDonalds.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

73. yes it does mean you "can't have a future", Jeff.

if you mean a future in "journalism".

you could however have a future in whoring, prophecying, or preaching to the flock.

The fact of the matter is he has become irrelevant to this story now. It transcends him. He is trying to distract us by having us increasingly write/talk/think about him, rather than the "idea" of him, and questions like who let him in and why.

[wishlist]

75. He is borrowing from Bush playbook of being born again at age 45

Since we know all of Bush's past 'youthful' indiscretions that occurred into his mid 40's were forgiven when he claimed to have found Jesus and turned himself around, obviously Jim/Jeff is blatantly adopting the same defense.

[brentspeak]

77. Gannon/Guckert is not a "reporter"

He's a shill paid to break up difficult questions (rare as they are) directed at Bush during press conferences.

He's also a clown.

[shrike]

79. BARF

Gee, that's what I would do if I were a "Christian." Maintain pornographic websites, sell my body to the highest bidder and engage in right-wing attack campaigns. Yup, sounds just like Christ to me.

[frustrated_lefty]

80. LOLLLLLL!

"Why would they be looking into a person's sexual history? Is that what we're going to do to reporters now? Is there some kind of litmus test for reporters? Is it right to hold someone's sexuality against them?"

Clinton, Hellooooo.

[jmcgowanjm]

81. If Gannon really did serve in the military, he is still in ready reserve

He should be called up immediately and shipped to a
combat zone. He'd fit right into Abu Ghurayb.

Now the same people who hounded Bill Clinton over
a consensual blowjob and worry about the sexuality of
Tinky Winky figure that turning a few tricks ain't that
bad.

The hypocrisy laid bare for all the world to see.

[jmowreader]

82. Oh jayzus...

Jim/Jeff was a Talon News Volunteer.

Volunteer.

As in "you do this because you like doing it, and we don't pay you because we can't afford to."

And as for these "questionable things," they're not questionable at all. This man's job was to have sex with men for $200 per hour or $1200 per weekend. He was apparently good at it, so he was popular--and if he serviced one man per night and every weekend was booked, he made over $100,000 per year if he took a two-week vacation.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

84. On day one of Gannon/Gate my daughter said

Oh, he'll play the Christian card and all will be forgiven in freeperville. I wonder what took him so long? And, oh, p.s., I repent for what I did next Tuesday.

[Edgewater_Joe]

85. Maybe YOUR God Believes In Forgiveness ...

... the problem, Mr. GanGucknongert, is that the God that most of your clients believe in are hoping you catch AIDS so you can die on the street.

See, the God you are now claiming to believe in is the God WE believe in.

Whereas the God you think you and the rest of your clients worship actually lives someplace with fewer clouds and more magma, if you get my drift.

[bigmac52]

86. Puts a new spin on Bush's Mandate, don't it....

Sick, sick bunch we have here. Imagine if this was Clintons White House, or even Kerry's. Could we keep the crowds with torches and pitchforks away from the White House? I don't think so, but I've been wrong before. Never thought that a blowjob would be an impeachable offense, and never thought that Bush would get reelcted.

[jmcgowanjm]

87. Clearly, someone was paying Jeff Gannon to be in the White House. Who?

Who funded GOPUSA/Talon News?

Lots of work was done for John Thune who was, in fact,
paying bloggers

Gannon could "sense" the attack on Iraq was coming?
The person I interviewed said Gannon told them that
the president was going to speak to the nation in four hours
to announced we were attacking Iraq. Pretty damn good
"sense" he's got - he even accurately predicted the exact time
the president was going on
TV.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/

THE question:

Did George W. Bush, and or any other top WH
staffers, have Sex with That Man, James Guckert?

Google: bush knoxville gannon

[bigmac52]

90. Face it, someone in the WH was dating him...

Pillow talk sinks ships, even if your face is firmly planted in the pillow.

Makes me ashamed to be a Christian. Wait, I gave it up for Lent, 30 years ago.

[truth2power]

88. This guy is such a BSer.

People weren't looking into his "sexual history". They were looking into HIS SECOND JOB, which happened to be that of a male prostitute. Geez!!!

Also, how disingenuous of him to drop that "being a Christian" thing into the conversation. Code for, "Hey, all you Fundies...you can support me now, 'cause I'm a Christian." That immunizes him from any taint of scandal.

That whole statement stinks of Repug talking points. What's it been, a week since this all started? Took them that long to contrive this little defense. Bah!!! x(

[mod mom]

92. Maybe we need a bumpersticker w GOP.USA + his pic in undies

get the message out! (since msm is so lame)

[laylah]

123. I would put one of those

on my "everyday" car...and I don't put ANYTHING (except an upside down flag on my windshield)on my "everyday" car (I plaster my VW Westie with 'em, though :silly: )

Jenn

[arikara]

126. With the caption:

Bush's man-date

[Canuckistanian]

93. We don't care about HIS mistakes

It's the people who let him get away with what he did that is the real scandal.
If some wingnut wants to get into the WH press corps and lob ridiculous softball questions at the Chimp or his handlers, more power to them.
But ALLOWING him to do that shows obvious manipulation of public discourse in what should be an independant forum.

[Imagevision]

96. Gannon wouldn't have gotten daily passes without Rove.

[peacebird]

131. Who PAID gannon? Was his lifestyle supported by his reporting salary?

If not - did he report enough income (legally) to cover his lifestyle? What does the IRS say he earned in the past year?

Is he another paid propaganda pusher for *?

[Reverend Smoothfield]

97. no, not being a journalist disqualifies you from being a journalist n/t

[Skittles]

104. YOU ARE A BUSH WHORE

asshole

[gordianot]

106. I watched Guckert/Gannon interview.

He was obviously prepped. I would be willing to bet Guckert/Gannon was trained by an American Intelligence agency. The reason this piece of slime got caught is the same basic stupid incompetence that allowed Bush to issue false reports about Iraqi WMD. They assume the rest of the world is as stupid as they are. The Internet is continually underestimated.

This scum is basically incompetent when average citizens are able to figure them out. Someday the people who put them up are going to seek their recall.

Forget about voting I doubt we decide anything unless public consumer opinion hits them in the pocketbook. Blogging on the Internet catching them and embarrassing them, managing boycott is the only real weapon left.

[Dr Fate]

120. Which family-values Republicans did Gannon have sex with?

THAT is the question.

[soulcore]

129. that's "misunderestimated" n/t

[Walt Starr]

107. Personal life personal life personal life personal life personal life

Hammering that shit home has just put them in front on this scandal.

I told you all. This thing will DIE unless somebody gets in front of this propaganda and hammers home it was his PUBLIC LIFE.

[Kimber Scott]

108. Not having a degree in journalism is one thing that could disqualify him

from being a journalist. Although, I'm sure there are and have been great journalists who have never set foot on a campus. Another thing is he's a criminal. Prostitution is illegal. But, here's the main thing that disqualifies him from being a journalist - HE'S A SHILL AND LYING SACK OF SHIT. His sexuality has nothing to do with it.

[LibertyorDeath]

110. What a worm hiding behind religion.

"yeah sure I used to take it up the ass for $ but then I found God & Fake news reporting" Shitweasel extrodinaire Jeff Gannon

Christian my ass. what a sick fuck

[Hissyspit]

116. Kurtz spin is blatant. Here's his email. Probably need his editors', too:

[email protected]

At least we can let them know we know what they are up to...

[Hissyspit]

118. Remember: "Character Counts!" ?

[Fovea]

121. Let me take stab at answering Jeff's questions

<Does my past mean I can't have a future?

No, Jeff, you will always have a future, even if it
is as fertilizer in the WH rosegarden.



<Does it disqualify me from being a journalist?

No, but your diminished actuarial value, and the fact
that you won't get a pass for anything more important
than a county fair pig wrestling contest might.


<Why would they be looking into a person's sexual history?

I'm sorry, did you say you were a journalist?
Consider the clenis, Jeff.


<Is that what we're going to do to reporters now?

Why not?
Determining the difference between a corporate reporter, and
a over payed whore keeps the mind sharp.

<Is there some kind of litmus test for reporters?

You might consider that there has always been a litmus test
for reporters-- honest, disinterested devotion to the facts.
How does your prose react when soaked in the facts, Jeff?

<Is it right to hold someone's sexuality against them?"

Do me a favor Jeff, ask Kenny Starr that question, and get back with me.

[jimmy1252]

122. Jeff your'e in denial!!

This is so obvious it's killing me. this guy just can't come to grips with the fact that he is gay. it's quite clear he hates himself for it(his articles where he gay bashes). he needs to embrace his sexuality, set himself free, stop trying to be a right wing nut job...his jump to the neo-cons is because he is ashamed of being gay. it would be really interesting to know what kind of childhood he had. actually i kinda feel sorry for him...he must be so freakin' confused..maybe he'll see the light and honestly embrace his sexuality and come over to the side that doesn't judge people by their choice of partners.

[rudlop]

125. A shrill shill

This guy needs to be ridiculed and mocked at every opportunity. Giving him a forum to make excuses without holding him accountable is more disgusting than any of the gay websites he 'worked' for.

Someone needs to hold his balls in a vise and make him spill the beans on how he got the press corp job. Torture is just part of the game now, right?

We have to pull on every string until we find one that will unravel the Angora Sweater of Evil that George Bush wears.

[progressivebydesign]

132. There is obviously no God. If people like that can claim Christianity..NT