Posted on 02/14/2005 12:34:36 PM PST by dead
Well, I know it’s goofy leftist rumor-monging, but it will be a story over the next day or two. It’s funny how being gay is peachy keen unless they think they can destroy your life by insinuating that you’re gay.
If you care to “bone up” on the latest round of idiocy, enjoy:
Reporter with prostitution links and false name got access to Bush; Questions surface on relationship with White House staff
Questions fly on Guckert’s relationship with White House
RAW STORY
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.
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.”
“He was the mayor’s son in town, everybody knew who he was,” the source added, referring to McClellan’s mother Carole Keeton Strayhorn.
At press time, a message for Strayhorn, controller for the state of Texas has gone unanswered. Strayhorn is considered a hot future prospect for the Texas governor’s mansion.
Guckert joined the White House press corps under former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer. McClellan was Fleischer’s deputy at the time.
Several calls placed to the White House and McClellan’s office today were not returned. The White House transferred the call to various offices and took detailed accounts of the information in this story, but refused to comment.
The White House has been aware of the allegations about McClellan’s sexuality since at least September.
BlogACTIVE.com’s Mike Rogers, who outed and forced Congressman Ed Schrock to retire from his Virginia House seat after publishing tapes in which he solicited gay sex, placed several calls to the White House press office in September. Rogers is editor of RawStoryQ.com, Raw Story Media’s queer news site.
On Sept. 3, 2004, Rogers says he spoke with a woman in the White House Press Office who asked him to fax any documentation.
“She says, would you like to fax it to us?” he said.
Rogers then asked if the press office felt it appropriate to fax such information to a White House fax
machine. The woman he spoke with then took down his information, but said nothing further about faxing documentation.
Rogers has audiotapes of his conversations with the White House, which RAW STORY has heard.
He left another message on Sept. 9 “giving him an opportunity to yank the story if he called me back,” he says. “I’m sure he received it.” A third message was left Sept. 17.
The Republican National Committee also declined comment on whether Guckert had any relationship with Chairman Ken Mehlman, who was outed on Air America last year, and who has refused to answer questions about his sexuality.
Yeah it's amazing how fast they go to this when trying to destroy a Republican... almost as amazing as how fast they go to racist caricature when confronting a black conservative.
Hmmm. you said "bone up"....
Well, I've seen three threads on this pulled today. I wonder if yours will last.
Seriously, though, this is pretty much rumor-mongering, don't you think? I don't really care what some blog is offering up on this subject. It sounds to me like a leftist attack on the administration.
Sheesh.
Who cares what the DUmmies have to say about anything. They're all nuts.
This quote has been brought to you by the Democrat Party-- the party of tolerance and diversity.....
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> Gannon a gay prostitute, Scott McClellan visits gay bars
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in their [wet] dreams
amazing how some of these guys turn into 14 year old teens soon as they want to throw dirt at people...
Gosh'ol'fishooks, I thought bein' gay was the most beautiful thing on the planet! Unless ya want to SHAME someone!
I thought the Libs loved gays. So why are they supposedly outing all of them? What a bunch of hypocrits the Dems are.
By the way, I personally loved Gannon's question that started all this hoopla. Don't you love it when the Liberal OLD MEDIA gets on a story? It wasn't until TODAY that a story about UN workers raping people in Africa came out when FreeRepublic had it posted months ago. So much for the stories that the OLD MEDIA decide to work on.
Reporter with prostitution links and false name got access to Bush; Questions surface on relationship with White House staff
Access to Bush?
"The story 'bout the way I lost my bloomers...rumors,
A lot of tempest in a pot of tea".
Rogers & Hammerstein
Is all this "outting" special for Valentine's Day or something? Yuck!
As I mentioned on a different thread, until last week I had never heard of Jeff Gannon. I had never visited Talon News, nor gopusa.com, nor did I know anyone else who had. I never even ran across a blogger link to a story from either of those sites. If the Left considers toppling Gannon to be a huge victory, it reveals how rare victories have been for their side.
Some, huh?
Guckert also says he was given access to an internal memorandum which named then-covert CIA operative Valerie Plame.
That is an out and out lie; in fact, he said just the opposite.
BUT it is okay for Bawney Fwank, Ellen DeGenerate, that erstwhile governor of NJ, et al., ad nauseum -- SHEESH -- more from the party of diversity and acceptance of all species!
Hmmmm....
The charge, "...seem[s] to definitely show...", seems definitely WEAK.
So, what next?
Will they "produce" a picture of Gannon in bed with Lincoln?
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