sordid personal life?...I heard some crap, and heard "photoshopped" somewhere, but just like the "Swiftvet accusations completely refuted" angle, I haven't seen anything that supports the notion
Yeah, it must be all fake. But it could make one wonder why you've never heard "Jeff Gannon" say it is fake. Or even "I am not / was not a male prostitute."
At least one (reliable) long-time FReeper who claims to know Gannon/Guckert personally has said that the photos appear to be genuine. Unless someone can prove otherwise, I'm going to assume that he is correct.
It's all over the leftist blogs like Kos and it is pretty sordid stuff. The guy evidently had gay escort service ads and sexually explicit photos of himself. Since the typical leftist blogger is the type that would probably use one of those escort services and visits homosexual porno sites on a daily basis, it is little surprise that they unearthed what they did.
One of the reasons conservatives excelled in Rathergate was because we have several ex-military people in our ranks who could point out problems in the memos plus some typesetting experts who could identify forgery.
Well, the left has its "experts" too, only they tend to be "experts" in things like dope growing, electric car repair, tofu vegetarian recipe cooking, skimming off the welfare system, and, yes, gay porno websites. If there's dirt out there on some purportedly conservative reporter owning a gay porno websites it's only a matter of time until a leftist finds it because that is simply what they do - they spend their lives on gay porno websites.
Talon News (which most conservatives, myself included, had never seen before until this scandal) screwed up in hiring such a sleazy person as Gannon/Guckert in the first place, but the whole thing is still way overblown in the MSM.