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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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1 posted on 02/15/2005 11:19:20 PM PST by woofie
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To: woofie

Either Mr. Gannon can now sue the WP or he is a really strange guy.


2 posted on 02/15/2005 11:22:45 PM PST by trumandogz
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To: woofie
Eason Jordon from CNN makes wild accusations against our Military and loses his job over it

And Howie Kurtz is fixated on this story

I'm starting to think Ole Howie might have a thang for Jeff
3 posted on 02/15/2005 11:23:24 PM PST by Mo1 (Question to Liberals .. When did supporting and defending Freedom become a bad thing??)
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To: woofie
Gannon is a big deal to the WP but Eason Jordan was no story at all.

Incredible

4 posted on 02/15/2005 11:23:52 PM PST by GeronL (The Old Media is at war with the New Media...... We are all Matt Drudges now.)
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To: woofie

They have the pictures. Thats him. Yuk!


5 posted on 02/15/2005 11:25:46 PM PST by trumandogz
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To: woofie

I am certainly glad that Kurtz is covering this well..unlike his Eason Jordan coverage..I guess he has his priorities straight./s

Isn't strange that left wing blogs are gay baiters?


6 posted on 02/15/2005 11:26:42 PM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: woofie

Okay, so if he's gay, are we supposed to think he's sick?

Either liberals want people to accept gays or to shun and chastise them. It can't be both.

So, nitwit Democrats, which is it???


7 posted on 02/15/2005 11:26:49 PM PST by ConservativeMind
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To: woofie

OK Howie, I think we get the, umm,.... Picture. Appears to m the WaPo isn't out to destroy Gannon, they're out to destroy him and "a half".


8 posted on 02/15/2005 11:26:56 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Smoke free since January 16, 2005)
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To: MEG33

They're reaching the point of hypocritical gay-bashing.


9 posted on 02/15/2005 11:28:00 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Smoke free since January 16, 2005)
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To: woofie

This is a story because...?


10 posted on 02/15/2005 11:28:34 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
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To: BigSkyFreeper

I just learned more about Jeff Gannon than I every really cared to know.


11 posted on 02/15/2005 11:28:35 PM PST by trumandogz
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To: woofie

Gannon/Guckert knew he was in the crosshairs of the left for sometime.....surely he must have seen this coming. However,I cannot believe it is now ok to call this a legit story....dirt on anyone is fair game?


12 posted on 02/15/2005 11:31:03 PM PST by woofie
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To: West Coast Conservative

see #12


13 posted on 02/15/2005 11:31:55 PM PST by woofie
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To: trumandogz

I can't help but notice the amount of time the WaPo has spent on a non-story, and very little time spent on the Eason Jordan story.


14 posted on 02/15/2005 11:33:07 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Smoke free since January 16, 2005)
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To: woofie

He lied about is affiliation with the militarystud website. Furthermore, he created a website for Gay Marines to hook up and do whatever gay marines do when they hook up.


15 posted on 02/15/2005 11:33:58 PM PST by trumandogz
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To: woofie

The Washington Post wouldn't give the Swift Vets the time of day. But Jeff Gannon they will try to destroy. He's already gotten more coverage.


16 posted on 02/15/2005 11:35:07 PM PST by dennisw (Seeing as how this is a 44 magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world .........)
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I am not is disagreement with you there but this story is rather strange and involves:

Gays
The Military
The White House
Porn
Prostitution
Valerie Plame
17 posted on 02/15/2005 11:36:35 PM PST by trumandogz
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Kurtz and company don't even realize what they've done.

For how man years now have we been hearing that the Clinton scandal was all about Republicans's obsession with sex to the exclusion of The Issues? In such partisan cases, all it takes is one event like this to end, for good, any chance of either side saying anyone's sex life is off limits. Before it was just sex lives--Clinton's, Bush's--either party's politicians are game. Now it's at the level of reporters.

Kurtz and his peeps can whine all they want the Gannon "isn't a real reporter" and "he perpetuated the story by claiming" whatever, but all he's doing is giving ammo to anyone who wants to smear Helen Thomas, Maureen Dowd, Eson Jordan or Hey! Howard Kurtz. And it doesn't matter if it has anything to do with their work, because the only reason we know about Gannon's sex life is because, well, lefty bloggers brought it up. His being gay or straight had nothing to do with his question at the White House press briefing.

Enjoy this while you can, Howard and company. You took out a very low-level right-wing journalist; we already tanked Rather and Jordon. Now we've got a whole new angle if we want to, because you said it was legitimate. Nice going!

18 posted on 02/15/2005 11:36:59 PM PST by Darkwolf377 ("Drowning someone...I wouldn't have a part in that."--Teddy K)
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To: woofie

The liberal press is nuking Gannon as a warning to anyone else who is thinking of filling his shoes. Any other conservative who wants to become a White House reporter with accreditation


19 posted on 02/15/2005 11:38:45 PM PST by dennisw (Seeing as how this is a 44 magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world .........)
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To: Darkwolf377

I agree with you ...the culture war just went up a notch (maybe 2)


20 posted on 02/15/2005 11:39:11 PM PST by woofie
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