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.
“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.
In other words, the WH asked upfront for the information to be forwarded and this Rogers declined.
Have any of these guys been seen with Barney Frank?
Yup … and they go there twice as fast when you are a black gay conservative … I keep hoping that some of my friends will stop drinking the Kool-Aid …
Thanks for the ping!
Have you ever considered converting to Judaism, just in case you're not persecuted enough? :-)
Name the source or you're nothing but a trog (toll posing as a blog)
Very neat graphic devolve!
Hello cake crumb, long time no see,
ROFL … I'd be Triply Crowned!
These filthy degenerates should not be allowed to interact with decent Christians. It's profoundly shaming that this pervert was allowe to trail his slime in the White House.
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