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Online Nude Photos Are Latest Chapter In Jeff Gannon Saga
Washington Post ^ | Wednesday, February 16, 2005 | Howard Kurtz

Posted on 02/15/2005 11:19:19 PM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gannon; jeffgannon; kurtz; oops; pervert; queer
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To: trumandogz
I am saying that we must work harder to make sure our own moral standards are high

My moral standards are just fine and I don't need you to worry about them

121 posted on 02/16/2005 12:49:09 AM PST by Mo1 (Question to Liberals .. When did supporting and defending Freedom become a bad thing??)
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To: kcvl

Talon News was not fictitious.

http://www.talonnews.com/


122 posted on 02/16/2005 12:50:45 AM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: trumandogz
IF it is not true the WP should will be sued.

Sued for what? If they were sniffing the inside of his shoes in his cloest, they should be sued for trespassing on private property. The fact his images were on a website means he had no problem flaunting his private life in public. You, on the other hand, are clueless, and obviously nothing more than a dingbat.

123 posted on 02/16/2005 12:50:51 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Smoke free since January 16, 2005)
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To: SittinYonder
... it would break the internet
And thus, for all reasons listed herein, may it never happen.

124 posted on 02/16/2005 12:52:01 AM PST by AnnaZ (Kakkate koi!)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
If the story is a complete fabrication such as the Rather thing the WP should be sued.
125 posted on 02/16/2005 12:52:26 AM PST by trumandogz
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To: 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.

You just worry about you.

126 posted on 02/16/2005 12:52:27 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Smoke free since January 16, 2005)
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To: bad company

American Blogspot is a troll blog run by liberals to discredit the internet as a news source. Now we can see how the MSM uses it as their cover.


127 posted on 02/16/2005 12:52:42 AM PST by ValerieUSA
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To: kcvl
But here's a plausible scenario

????

Gee .. kind of sounds like they are making things up as they go .. don't ya think ?

128 posted on 02/16/2005 12:53:01 AM PST by Mo1 (Question to Liberals .. When did supporting and defending Freedom become a bad thing??)
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To: trumandogz

Yeah, let's sue!
Are you a lawyer?


129 posted on 02/16/2005 12:54:21 AM PST by ValerieUSA
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To: trumandogz
I am saying that we must work harder to make sure our own moral standards are high

Who is "we" and why do you get to dictate what "our" moral standards should be? Why are you so upset by allegations against someone else, and why are you allowing those allegations to affect "us"? Individuals make mistakes all the time. If this is all true about Jeff Gannon, it has no bearing on me or my moral standards. If the MSM wants to use him to smear all conservatives ... well, who pays any attention to the MSM anymore anyway?

Don't take it so personally.

130 posted on 02/16/2005 12:54:43 AM PST by SittinYonder (Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
The fact his images were on a website means he had no problem flaunting his private life in public.
We might hold off on the "fact" aspect for just a wee bit longer... after all, I'm sure I saw Special Ops Cody holding Michael Jackson's umbrella today.

131 posted on 02/16/2005 12:55:01 AM PST by AnnaZ (Kakkate koi!)
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To: ValerieUSA
No, but I have not been harmed by the story. Thus I would have no standing in the case. However, being a private citizen and if a media outlet were to print grossly inaccurate facts about me I might sue.
132 posted on 02/16/2005 12:56:20 AM PST by trumandogz
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To: SittinYonder
By We I mean each one of us in the singular.
133 posted on 02/16/2005 12:57:40 AM PST by trumandogz
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To: Mo1
I suppose HOWIE missed this PRESS RELEASE!!!

Left-Wing Activist Poses as Reporter At White House Press Briefings - Where's the Outrage from the Media?
February 11, 2005

WASHINGTON -- Accuracy in Media charged today that a liberal activist and associate of Ralph Nader has been obtaining access to White House press briefings while claiming to be a legitimate news reporter.

Russell Mokhiber, who sells a $795 a year newsletter that bashes corporations, attends the briefings to make obscure anti-Bush political points. Recently, for example, he asked spokesman Scott McClellan whether President Bush violated one of the Ten Commandments by invading Iraq. Mokhiber, who told AIM that he has never taken a journalism class in his life and was denied a permanent White House press pass, posts his ludicrous questions and answers on a far-left web site under the title "Scottie & Me."

Other Mokhiber topics have included industrial hemp, Israel's 1967 attack on the USS Liberty, possible war crimes charges against Bush, and Halliburton.

AIM editor Cliff Kincaid said Mokhiber's attendance at the briefings makes it clear that the controversy over Jeff Gannon attending the same briefings was manufactured by left-wing bloggers and liberals in the media because they don't want conservatives in the White House press corps. Gannon resigned from Talon News, a conservative on-line service, and announced that he was leaving journalism altogether because of a left-wing investigation of his personal life that followed objections to his anti-Democrat question at a presidential press conference. One of many charges made against Gannon was that he lacked proper journalistic credentials.

"The case against Gannon boiled down to being too pro-Republican," said Kincaid, "writing stories with a conservative slant, and being linked to conduct, homosexuality, that is accepted and celebrated by those who were going after Gannon in the first place. The standard of the liberal thought police is evidently that someone's private life should be protected―except when the accused is a conservative"

Accuracy In Media (AIM) is a non-profit, grassroots citizens watchdog of the news media that critiques botched and bungled news stories and sets the record straight on important issues that have received slanted coverage.

Press Here

134 posted on 02/16/2005 12:57:42 AM PST by kcvl
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To: AnnaZ

I used the word itself, loosely.


135 posted on 02/16/2005 12:57:58 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Smoke free since January 16, 2005)
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To: 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.

Just a theory, they figure decent people like you aren't going to want to click on those links, the one of them that worked that linked back to it's own site was a tad "lurid". That may or may not have been him, but because of the way the picture was taken I first thought it looked like a guy I work with.(!?!)

I'm not saying either way on this Gannon guy. What I do know is that this site is a left wing nuthouse and as a rule liberals are usually lying.

136 posted on 02/16/2005 12:58:34 AM PST by bad company (There can be no freedom without right and wrong.)
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To: trumandogz

Would you also sue the morons on the internet who readily repeat the story and enhance it and add their moral outrage to the "damage" as they attempt to stir up a lynch mob?


137 posted on 02/16/2005 12:58:54 AM PST by ValerieUSA
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To: kcvl
Now we have moved fro the National Enquirer to the Weekly World News.

What next "White House Reporter and Spokesman are Aliens"

138 posted on 02/16/2005 1:00:17 AM PST by trumandogz
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To: kcvl; Howlin; cyncooper; Miss Marple
Recently, for example, he asked spokesman Scott McClellan whether President Bush violated one of the Ten Commandments by invading Iraq

I remember that question

So this guy isn't a reporter huh???

MSM and the loony left are a bunch of Hypocrites!

139 posted on 02/16/2005 1:01:47 AM PST by Mo1 (Question to Liberals .. When did supporting and defending Freedom become a bad thing??)
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To: woofie
In most Beltway melodramas, the resignation ends the story.

Hey Howie! You guys sure are circling the wagons around Eason Jordan and trying to make sure that happens.

140 posted on 02/16/2005 1:03:09 AM PST by L.N. Smithee (NHL Owners and Players: Take the advice of Benjamin Franklin - "Unite, or die.")
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