Online Nude Photos Are Latest Chapter In Jeff Gannon Saga

Washington Post ^ | Wednesday, February 16, 2005 | Howard Kurtz

[woofie]

The Jeff Gannon story is still bouncing around the Internet, and now there are pictures.

The kind you shouldn't open up in the office.

The X-rated twist has made for a lot of clandestine clicking in a town where Deep Throat conjures images not of a porn star but of a man in a parking garage. But it has also deepened the debate over blogging and the tactics used to drive a conservative reporter from his job as White House correspondent for two Web sites owned by a Republican activist.

In most Beltway melodramas, the resignation ends the story. The problem for Gannon, whose real name is James Dale Guckert, is that he told The Washington Post and CNN's Wolf Blitzer last week that he never launched the Web sites whose provocative names he had registered, such as hotmilitarystud.com. But a Web designer in California said yesterday that he had designed a gay escort site for Gannon and had posted naked pictures of Gannon at the client's request.

[bad company]

If you really want to see them go to americablog.org

Really? that's what everybody is carping about? Did you check out this site? did you click on the links to see if they went and showed what they said was there? They show face shots and claim they are from the escort service but This escort service link is dead as were others the rest of the links were back to their own site.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/archives/2004_08_01_americablog_archive.html

Did you check out the rest of the site. They also claim Drudge is gay.

It's amazing. This nutball site wouldn't be given the time of day for any other story, but all of the sudden a FReeper is accused of being a gay prostitute and it is treated as the gospel truth.

[kcvl]

Mary Ann Akers’ Roll Call column Wednesday is rife with references to the discredited White House reporter who wrote under the pseudonym “Jeff Gannon,” RAW STORY has learned.

The column (which paid members can read in full at Roll Call) flies into Hill offices Wednesday morning, and touches on several items in the continually-unfolding Gannon saga. The first deals with the Freedom of Information Act filed by two Democratic congressman. It is also the first known news report to note that Gannon may have been an escort.

Akers confirms our report that Senate Democrats were reticent about signing on after the escort revelations. One Senate aide told her “senators wanted to wait and see how the story ’shakes out’ before acting.”

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“Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) sent a Freedom of Information Act request Tuesday to the Department of Homeland Security seeking all records pertaining to the Secret Service’s decision to clear the ‘reporter’ into White House news conferences.”

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“He is not a legitimate journalist,” Slaughter told Akers. “I think of all the legitimate journalists who would love to have access to the White House. And he gets in there with no clearance and is given access to private CIA memoranda. This is devastating.”

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“I don’t care about his personal life. I don’t care about his politics,” she said. “But I do care about who gives us the news.”

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White House Correspondents’ Association, Ron Hutcheson, Knight Ridder’s White House correspondent who serves as president of the correspondents’ association...

Hutcheson said while there were “times when I got annoyed with Gannon’s questions — they were stated to express an opinion. … I was far more concerned about non-responses from the podium” to substantive questions from real reporters about Bush’s policies.

[kcvl]

http://rollcall.com/pub/hoh/

[AnnaZ]

If it came out that Helen Thomas had nude pictures on the Internet it would not be covered by any of the MSN.

Perhaps not, but we'd be tortured with them here, thread after thread, mercilessly.

[kcvl]

'Jeff Gannon' Signs Off: Tells E&P He'll No Longer Talk to Press

By Joe Strupp

Published: February 15, 2005 10:55 AM ET

NEW YORK James D. Guckert, the former White House reporter who's been accused of everything from asking partisan questions to being a male prostitute, is no longer speaking to the press, claiming it does not help his cause, he told E&P this morning.

"I talked to attorneys, and I am no longer talking to anyone [in the press] anymore," said Guckert, who has used the alias Jeff Gannon. "It doesn’t seem to clarify anything any longer. Everything I say, people start a new conspiracy theory. I am not going to answer any more questions. It seems to distract from what is really going on."

That approach is a shift from Guckert's activities in the past week, when he has appeared on CNN and National Public Radio and allowed several other news organizations, including E&P, to interview him.

Guckert, who says he is 47, said he was not planning any specific legal action related to recent events but had contacted an attorney just in case. "It's always good to have an attorney hanging around," he told E&P. "I'm not expecting anything, I am just listening to good advice."

The controversial reporter resigned last week from his job with obscure conservative Web site Talon News, which is operated by a Texas Republican activist, after revelations that he had changed his name and allegations that he had set up sexually oriented Web sites.

Since his resignation, questions about who should gain access to White House press events have grown, prompting a special meeting for later today between the leadership of the White House Correspondents' Association and Bush Press Secretary Scott McClellan.

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http://209.11.49.220/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000800287

[ValerieUSA]

The MSM doesn't know the difference between bloggers and FReepers. They think it's fair game to go after us all, and they'll use their own bloggers to launch the attack before printing it on dead trees.

[SittinYonder]

If it came out that Helen Thomas had nude pictures on the Internet ... it would break the internet

[trumandogz]

No, not at all. However, if someone is cheating on their wife, beating their kids, abducting co-eds or even cheating on their taxes I would prefer that they not place themselves in front and center or the Conservative movement.

I imagine life is easy for a liberal. No consequences. No Shame. Live life with the moral compass of a dog. We, must work much harder but our children are solid patriotic citizens and will make the country a better place.

[Mo1]

nice catch

[ValerieUSA]

yeah, right

[AnnaZ]

The only thing I'm sure of -- though I'm not sure why -- is that none of this would have happened had Ari stayed.

 

Gosh, I miss that guy.

[BigSkyFreeper]

We, must work much harder but our children are solid patriotic citizens and will make the country a better place.

You just can't go around telling other people how they're supposed to live their lives, while at the same time legislating morality. You're not omnipetant enough to play God.

[trumandogz]

I just saw what the site showed and did not dig further. IF it is not true the WP should will be sued. That would not be a bad outcome and it would be a another pebble on the mountain of evidence that the WP is a liberal shill.

[ValerieUSA]

I'm sure you have major issues with Rush Limbaugh, too -- but I'm still a dittoheadbabe. I know the truth when I hear it. I want him on the air every day.

[ValerieUSA]

AND you have proven yourself a shill of the Washington Post here.

[Mo1]

Remember that even as the Clintonistas were accusing Ken Starr of running a sex police operation for investigating Clinton's lying in a civil rights suit, they "outed" a young gay attorney on his staff.

I think I remember something like that

They've thrown so many attacks back then, it's hard to remember them all

[trumandogz]

I am saying that we must work harder to make sure our own moral standards are high. If we got the Government involved in morality they would set Quotas for how many people in each family will be gay.

[bad company]

The MSM doesn't know the difference between bloggers and FReepers. They think it's fair game to go after us all, and they'll use their own bloggers to launch the attack before printing it on dead trees.

I'm talking about the people on this board. I've had to dig up a thousand credible links to support statements I've made around here and that's the way it should be. MSM is $hit. We want credible information here and this american blogspot isn't it.

How about this headline from american blogspot

What's with the Bush Administration and Breasts?

[kcvl]

News From The U.S. Election Reform Movement

Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Election Reform Investigation Turns Up Unexpected Gannongate Tidbit: Some White House Press Briefing Transcripts Make It Harder to Track Jeff Gannon

By ADVOCATE STAFF

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According to The Washington Post, there’s no “Geoff” in the White House press corps.

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In an effort, ironically enough, to turn up information on the Bush Administration's position on election reform, The Advocate found this January 6th, 2005 White House press briefing (note the date; this was the day of The Boxer Rebellion), in which a highly-charged partisan "question" is asked by a man inexplicably identified as "Geoff."

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[We throw this tidbit into the Gannongate maelstrom for the further consideration of others more invested and more knowledgeable about the scandal than we are. It certainly may be nothing,

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Some other references to a "Jeff" The Advocate found on the White House website do not seem to relate to Jeff Gannon; we make this presumption because the questions asked by this second "Jeff" were professional and obviously the work of someone who spent more than $50 on his education.

But hey, what do we know?

This White House is surely better at sniffing out prostitutes and incompetent people than we are, right?


http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/02/election-reform-investigation-turns-up.html


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News From The U.S. Election Reform Movement

Wednesday, February 16, 2005
A Plausible Scenario: Gay Prostitute Guckert Used Ties To/Dirt On White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan to Gain Unprecedent White House Access

An ADVOCATE EDITORIAL

Nobody knows the real story, as yet.

But here's a plausible scenario, based largely on established reportage about the fascinating but infuriatingly elusive "Gannongate" scandal.

To begin, as promised, with some facts:

A $200-a-hour gay prostitute with six days' experience as a "journalist" -- which professional appellation he purchased for $50 -- gets unprecedented access to the White House press room, and even (at a rare Bush press conference) the President himself, despite working for a "news organization" deemed fictitious by both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House credentialing services.

And despite the fact that the White House Press Secretary knows the man is using an alias, he continues to call him by his assumed name. [Article].

More...

http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/

[ValerieUSA]

Dogz dig holes.