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.

[ValerieUSA]

YOU are outed.
Now get out.

Who let the dogz out?
I did!

Scram.

[MEG33]

His questions are outrageous.

[ValerieUSA]

MSM and the loony left are a bunch of Hypocrites!
Toss trumandogz in with that bunch.

[BigSkyFreeper]

MSM and the loony left are a bunch of Hypocrites!

It is the natural order of the looney left. Accuse the other side of all the same things they themselves hold in such high regard.

[trumandogz]

What have I said that was hypocritical?

[kcvl]

The Left's Jeff Gannon...

aka Russell Mokhiber

Scottie & Me
(formerly known as Ari & I)

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Inside the White House Briefing Room

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, February 15, 2005; 9:45 AM

As the case of Jim Guckert, AKA Jeff Gannon has amply demonstrated, the bar for getting into the White House Briefing Room is pretty low.

But the fact of the matter is that the White House press office and the press corps have a long tradition of tolerance when it comes to eccentrics in their midst.

The current crop includes Lester Kinsolving, Raghubir Goyal, Connie Lawn and Russel Mokhiber -- each wondrously special in their own way.

Dana Milbank wrote in The Washington Post in 2002 how they can sometimes be useful foils for a wily press secretary: "Want to change the subject to foreign affairs? Call on Raghubir Goyal of the India Globe (he'll ask about the perfidies of Pakistan) . . . or Connie Lawn (a freelancer with particular interest in the Middle East). . . .

"Want to end the briefing by turning the whole thing into a circus? You might choose Russell Mokhiber of the Corporate Crime Reporter (he'll launch into a tirade about greed), or Baltimore radio personality Lester Kinsolving (he'll ask about how 'the Reverend Mr. Jackson impregnated his mistress and used tax-exempt contributions to get her out of Chicago'). Within seconds, the wire service reporters in the front row will beg for an end to the briefing."

But they're also part of the atmosphere.

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[BigSkyFreeper]

His website is "Common Dreams".

[kcvl]

Check out Russell Mokhiber...

[BigSkyFreeper]

From his own website

Mokhiber: Scott, last night, in an amicus brief filed before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Justice Department came down in favor of displaying the Ten Commandments at courthouses and statehouses around the country. My question is - does the President believe in Commandment Number Six - thou shalt not kill - as it applies to the U.S. invasion of Iraq?

Scott McLellan: Next question

[kcvl]

Attack of the Blogs
by L. Brent Bozell III
Feb 16, 2005

The media buzz over the rising power of Internet weblogs (the "blogs") reached a new crescendo when CNN's chief of newsgathering, Eason Jordan, resigned over sloppy charges he made at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

When Congressman Barney Frank suggested at the conference that journalists dying in Iraq have been "collateral damage," Jordan objected. On the forum's own weblog, journalist Rony Abovitz reported that Jordan "asserted that he knew of 12 journalists who had not only been killed by U.S. troops in Iraq, but they had in fact been targeted. He repeated the assertion a few times, which seemed to win favor in parts of the audience (the anti-U.S. crowd) and cause great strain on others."

If these charges were true, they would make Abu Ghraib's naked pyramids pale by comparison. But they were wild and reckless accusations, which explains Jordan's subsequent, furious backpedaling and denials. Still, it begs the question: Why would a man whose profession and expertise was "newsgathering" make such wild charges without evidence? Jordan quickly drew angry objections from fellow panelist Frank, as well as a condemnation from Sen. Chris Dodd. When you're outraging Frank and Dodd, you're really putting yourself out on an extreme limb.

But then Jordan and CNN added to the outrage by refusing any attempts to release a transcript or videotape of the off-the-record panel discussion. What a spectacle: a news outlet always championing the public's "right to know" and crusading for "full disclosure" clamping down like the stereotypical arrogant multinational corporation they like to expose. Richard Nixon, meet Eason Jordan. Does anyone believe that if President Bush (or Vice President Cheney or Secretary Rumsfeld or fill in the blank) claimed in an off-the-record forum overseas that Ted Kennedy was a murderer, that CNN wouldn't be in the front of the line demanding that the administration release the videotape?

The controversy was deepened by the fact that Jordan already carried heavy baggage on this issue. He admitted to the world in 2003 that CNN kept a lid on news exposing the horror of Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime to maintain its access to Iraq and preserve the lives of its staffers there. CNN plays the same shut-up-for-access-to-dictators game with its Havana bureau to this day.

Controversy was also deepened when bloggers like Ed Morrissey (at his blog "Captain's Quarters") reported that this was not a one-time gaffe for Jordan. Morrissey said Jordan had also "accused the U.S. military of torturing journalists (November 2004) and the Israeli military of deliberate assassinations (October 2002) at journalistic forums, all overseas and outside the reach of most American media."

These accusations are stop-the-presses huge. So why didn't CNN ever produce some evidence for these charges and put them on the air? And if they weren't true, why wasn't this man fired long ago?

Amazingly, most of the major "news" media avoided this news -- especially CNN. So when Jordan resigned, it made the blogs seem so powerful that liberals started attacking them for recklessly destroying Jordan's career, even using goofy terms like "cyber-McCarthyism" to denounce it. But what the bloggers did here was deliver information and accountability, the same things the major media purport to be providing -- unless it's one of their own in the hot seat.

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[ValerieUSA]

Your fluctuating syntax is a giveaway. Troll.

[trumandogz]

Your fluctuating syntax????

[bad company]

with six days' experience as a "journalist"

Someone missed the memo. The left is convinced that he is the journalist that outed Valerie Plame. Unless those six days were spread out over a few years, this has got to be the new math.

http://mediamatters.org/

[kcvl]

Russell Mokhiber, editor of the Corporate Crime Reporter, was until recently a member of the Citizen Works board. A source familiar with the situation who "declined to be identified for fear of retaliation," told the Post that the questionable arrangement with the Nader campaign had been a factor in Mokhiber's recent decision to resign his board position. (Mokhiber's newsletter promotes corporate transparency and accountability.)

[ValerieUSA]

If this Gannon were a reporter working for a liberal blog and was outed using a pseudonym...

You know "pseudonym" but "syntax" baffles you?

[BigSkyFreeper]

was until recently a member of the Citizen Works board

Just as I thought. He's a member of a Communist "front group".

[kcvl]

Nader Had Campaign Office at Charity
Situation Raises Ethical Questions

By James V. Grimaldi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, June 13, 2004; Page A01

snip

The issue has also stirred controversy among Nader-aligned groups, where the arrangement has been common knowledge for months. Citizen Works board member Russell Mokhiber unexpectedly resigned a few months ago, and one person familiar with the situation who works for a consumer group and who declined to be identified for fear of retaliation said the campaign's arrangement was a factor. Mokhiber, whose Corporate Crime Reporter newsletter advocates increased corporate transparency and accountability, declined to comment last week. District records indicate Mokhiber withdrew from the group in December.

[trumandogz]

No the concept of syntax does not perplex me I just have never had my syntax questioned before. And was most concerned if you spotted any syntax errors with my use of verbs.

I still have nightmares about English teachers wielding a red pen while grading my papers.

[ElephantinTexas]

"What next "White House Reporter and Spokesman are Aliens"

I'm getting real tired of lil' trumanzpup. Another reason drunk twelve year olds should not be allowed on the internet.

Gannon was a nobody a few weeks ago until Rush gave him a few minutes of time and this is a complete non story inside of the bigger picture.

There are bigger fish to fry so I say UP WITH THE PERISCOPE!!

[Miss Marple]

This smells of a manufactured scandal, with Congresspeople all ready to pounce as soon as "the trigger was pulled."

There is NO reason to keep hounding someone who resigned, unless the left has their story all planned out and are determined to finish it.

Apparently they didn't expect Gannon to resign so quickly. Also, they apparently thought that the merest whiff of gay allegations would cause an uproar within the conservative realm. Since it didn't, the charges keep escalating. Notice how it went from running a gay site, to pimping, to prostitution. Notice how the pictures went from one, to many, and from suggestive poses to suppoed pictures of actual sex acts.

To all of this I say "ho-hum." It has nothing to do with me, or the President, or even Scott McClellan.

And Howie Kurtz should be ashamed of himself.