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.

[newcats]

You were here during Clinton?

Never said I was. And your point is?

[MEG33]

I thought perhaps you had first hand knowledge when you made your comment.

[ragnark]

He still had to be confirmed by the White House Security.. the Secret Service.. not exactly a bastion of Democrats there. Somebody messed up background checking this guy.

[woofie]

Day passes appear to be available to any reporter who provides his or her name, address, and social security number and the name of his or her news organization, and can pass a basic security check.

Guckert had been denied a congressional press pass last year after the Standing Committee determined that Talon News was not a legitimate news organization. But he was still able to obtain daily White House press passes by applying each day.




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[red state girl]

LOL! I was thinking the same thing.

Obviously prostitutes will do anything for money, so if the price is right of course he'd do it. Prostitutes don't care about their reputation or they wouldn't be prostitutes in the first place.

He had his porn pictures posted on the internet so any moron would know that it was inevitable that it would come out eventually. Who knows...he might even be in on it with that blogger.

This story smells very very fishy to me.

[bernie_g]

This filthy degenerate is being used to taint the Presidency. I think we should be very clear as Christians that we have no tolerance for his perverted filth and that we want to see him burning in hell for his vile practices.

[Tribune7]

If this Gannon were a reporter working for a liberal blog . . .

I don't know. Maybe if we find out about it but I doubt any of us would go looking for it unlike the WP (or Dem activists) did. Especially since Gannon is basically small time.

But this does explain why Gannon quit without a fight.

And it does kind of make me wonder why the MSM would use a cannon to kill a gnat.

[Tribune7]

I'm impressed.

[nicmarlo]

I think we should be very clear as Christians that we have no tolerance for his perverted filth and that we want to see him burning in hell for his vile practices.

As a Christian we are supposed to hate the sin, but love the sinner. I would hope that we wouldn't wish someone burn in hell. We are supposed to pray for those who are our enemy and for those who sin.

Having said that, based on what I've read and heard about this whole sordidness, supporting Gannon is unwise. I do not condone homosexuality. When someone is in the public eye, they will be more scrutinized than others. From what I've read, Guckert's "private" life wasn't really so very private. I also don't understand the need for his name change, despite what he claims about the difficulty in the pronunciation. That doesn't explain how "Jeff" is easier than James. It seems more likely that he wanted to hide his current "behind the scenes" life. I believe I also read somewhere, that he, quite adamantly, condemned homosexuality...that would be fine, except he practices more than that, apparently, himself.

[Tribune7]

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."

Yeah, and why does this guy have access to the briefings?

[Torie]

This is a total non-story unless Gannon used blackmail to get in either via rendering his personal services or via the Valerie Plame story. He got credentials using his real name.

[ValerieUSA]

Well, thanks, I rather enjoyed that one myself.