"Jeff Gannon's" secret life

Revelations that the bogus reporter worked as a gay escort are the latest twist in the affair that has the White House squirming -- and Democrats demanding explanations.

By Eric Boehlert

Last week, Republican activist Bobby Eberle, the man behind the now infamous conservative Web site Talon News, insisted that before hiring "Jeff Gannon" as his White House correspondent, he never looked into Gannon's background. If true, Eberle probably wishes he had. And the same could be said for the White House officials who bent the rules to make way for Gannon in the press briefing room. There's new evidence that the Talon reporter, who lobbed softball questions at Bush during press conferences on behalf of a dubious news operation, recently worked as a male escort.

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Aravosis received on-the-record confirmation, complete with five invoices paid by Delaware's Bedrock Corp., from the person Guckert hired to build the gay Web site USMCPT.com, which features X-rated photos. The Web designer also forwarded to Aravosis dozens of unused photos that Guckert sent him when the site was being built. "Each photo looks remarkably like Jeff Gannon," Aravosis writes.

AmericaBlog also details scores of other gay escort sites featuring photos and personal profiles of Guckert, such as MaleCorps.com, WorkingBoys.net, and MeetLocalMen.com. Guckert's first site remained live until May 8, 2003, one month after he began covering the White House for Talon. According to Aravosis' research, Guckert's escort profile on WorkingBoys.net was still active as of Monday. Aravosis says he contacted Guckert for comment for the story but received none. Guckert appeared on Michelangelo Signorile's talk show on Sirius satellite radio Monday afternoon, during which time he was asked specifically about his gay escort past. "I'm just not going to address it," Guckert said.

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Revelations about Guckert's past certainly do not square with Talon's openly conservative approach. Talon has defended Bush on the issue of a gay-marriage ban and supported the notion of "ex-gays." In an article last year, Guckert, as Gannon, wrote that Democratic Sen. John Kerry "might someday be known as 'the first gay president.' The Massachusetts liberal has enjoyed a 100 percent rating from the homosexual advocacy group, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), since 1995 in recognition of his support for the pro-gay agenda."

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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/02/15/guckert/index.html

and a guy like Larry (Hustler Magazine) Flynt knows how to do it.

:evilfrown:

we really mean it.

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

If I want to get a job submerging battered chicken parts in vats of hot grease they are going to do at least a minimal background check on me. If I want a job answering phones for an insurance company they very well may do a thorough criminal background check. The man-ho'ing aside, if you're going to send somebody into the white house to represent you, you're going to find out if they have cheated their taxes, beaten their spouse, pimped themselves out on the internet, or given potty training lessons online. I just wanted to go on the record with this: BULLSHIT
Can we get just a grain of truth out of these people?

We know Bush doesn't say what he means and doesn't mean what he says. For all we know, Jeff could be Dubya's boy toy.

in bush speak, of course. What I can't figure out is why these gay Republicans are so full of self loathing. You'd think they'd have the good sense to come into the light and warm embrace of the Democratic Party.

Republicans will ALWAYS HATE YOU! They may pretend to accept you, but as soon as you're no longer of any use to them, they'll cut you off and leave you flapping in the wind. They have already. How many of your former "friends" are coming to your aid NOW Jeff?

Walk away from the dark side. We may be able to forgive your transgressions as a Republican, but the Republicans will NEVER forgive your transgressions as a homosexual.

:hi:

:headbang:
rocknation

lala from RawStory on another thread, now this one, is trying to smear Kerry as a closet gay.

on edit: I don't mean to say lala made this charge at all! Just that her post intimated someone somewhere was. Ack. I don't mean to inadvertently smear her in any way.

Notice I said, a closet gay. So, being gay isn't smearable, but being closeted is.

This is where they want to take this story?

Why isn't he covering this? Silence.

according to whom?

Why isn't he covering this? He had some smarmy little squib up a few days ago, but since then... nothing.

He s in the club.

better not for Drudge to drudge this up again.

in his porno shots seems more obscene, disgusting and perverted as families of Marines all over the country are sending kids off to die.
They are dying in Iraq while the ones who sent them, Karl Rove and Scooter Libby, are doing the nasty with gay prostitutes who play fake soldiers who also play fake journalists.
Just when I believe this administration can't possibly get more sordid and ugly.....it always finds a way.

So far, I haven't seen any confirmation that he was in the Marine Corps....anyone know?

According to John A at AmericaBlog, the USMCPT website stood for USMC-Part Time. Apparently, he did a few years in the reserves, and got out as an E-4.

the pt means physical training, he was flaunting his military qualifications in his sex trade ad, and also flaunting his hot bod, and therefore it's for physical trainer. part time just sounds silly. here's a link

http://store.thedufflebaginc.com/tshirts.html

...he interviewed the creep, he should know!

My first thought was yours, as well, though, fwiw.

"They are dying in Iraq while the ones who sent them, Karl Rove and Scooter Libby, are doing the nasty with gay prostitutes who play fake soldiers who also play fake journalists."

I couldn't have said it better!

I don't watch much MSM, but really, this story is just too incredible to believe even though it is true and just shows how desperate The Reich is to have sympathetic journalists in its briefings. They'll take anyone willing to pimp for them withpout even a background check!!!!!!!!!

:think:

but the harder they try, the more they incriminate themselves.

Rather than raging at what is either the blatant disccrimination or the inexcusable incompetence of the Bush White House press office, the MSM is focusing on the "issue" of evil liberal bloggers "destroying" someone. But are they acting out of concern for the future integrity of their profession, or out of fear of incurring the Bush White House's wrath?

:headbang:
rocknation

"destroying" someone, they'd better go get Drudge first. That asshole was largely responsible for Blowjob-Gate.

Sure the gay hustler angle has it's titillation, however, I would be careful of overplaying it since I can see it being used as a ploy against the "liberal media" and bloggers to say that they're somehow anti-gay. it just feels like some kind of set up.

Visions of... poor Gannon/Guckert outed by the insensitive liberal media and those bloggers who have no regulation. "Everybody's Talkin' at Me" muzak in the background.

Approach with caution... I wouldn't be suprised if this is some kind of lead up to internet regulation. Bush has talked about internet regulation before. It is THE last frontier and his harshest critic. Squash that and we're fucked.

This story has more juice and intrigue
by just its mere connections to a White
House and larger conservative
circle of jerks than we've seen since
the days of J. Edgar Hoover.

Hard to "overplay" this hand.

It's not like he was a closeted gay leading a simple life with his husband. No, he was an escort, and had various sleazy websites.

Not like the "liberal media" is outing him.

Gannon sure didn't get that WH job on his own merits. Sooo.....who paved the way for him, and most importantly...WHY??? :evilgrin:

edit> typo

They do more background checking on you if you are trying to attend one of *'s speeches than they do if you are trying to get a white house press pass? Maybe we should use this to our advantage :evilgrin:

...if you decide to take a plane to visit grandma than they do to get into the White House, apparently.

Actually, I think that Scott McClellan has the ability to circumvent the process, and he used that ability.

If you're one of the most recognizable Senators in the country, Ted Kennedy, the Homeland Security people won't let you on a plane on your regular route, DC to Boston (I think it was half a dozen times they detained him; they detained Cong. John Lewis too.).

If you're a hustler with a fake name, you can get into a presidential press conference and get called on to ask a question.

Under the Bush administration, ya have to take your shoes off to get on a plane.

Wonder what you have to take off to get into a White House press briefing?

Nobody every really lobs much more than a knuckleball at those press meetings. Guckie's were more obvious and he forgot to put a question mark at the end of them.

now we know---from DC rejects!

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or is this an elephant in a doll house with media leprocy?

who gets his "temp" pass, scottie?

is that Gannon might not see himself as gay.

"Pitcher" not a "catcher", A Top vs. a Bottom, aggressive vs. being passive.

It's an old story as to how some guys engaging in homosexual activity have that mindset.

I find it interesting how strongly Gannon seemed to stress the issue of his being the opposite of effeminate in his ads. But I guess it could just be the nature of such advertising.

I would think he'd be in a bit of a panic now but I don't sense that from what, admittedly little, we're hearing from him.

Is the true "moment of truth" yet to come?

Or maybe he is well adjusted?

Lol, ok, that's enough armchair psychoanalysis on my part.

But it will be interesting to eventually see how he views himself.

It's not like he was a starving kid in a third world country.

... because of the way Bushco "bends over and screws" most of America?

There's a strong metaphor (or "meta-fur" if you're Zell Miller) there.

"Passing" as a republican in good standing keeps them from having to fully accept what they are and from having to accept the labels that society insists on putting on people.

To be a liberal democrat would mean they would have to accept that they were going to be a target for scorn and derision.

Being a republican gives them a feeling equivalent (as far as being emotionally gratifying and enabling a sense of self worth) to coming out to daddy and having him say "It's alright, you're OK."

Being a republican means they aren't one of "them". They're unique and so is their sexuality ....... they're not even really gay. Those sweaty episodes that happen with men every so often aren't related to being homosexual.

There was a scene in the autobiography of a famous African-American entertainer. I think he was 4 or 5 years old. He was raised with other black people. At that point, some white person called him a racial epithet. And, he realized he was black....meaning, he realized that skin color was important and some people grouped people that way and thought his was less good than theirs.

A 40-year old man knows that some people group people according to who they prefer to have sex with, and some revile them for it. What he does with that information then gets complicated.

I think he figured out he could PROFIT from the fear and hatred of homosexuality, by promising those who want it discretion and secrecy. It seems he marketed his services especially to those in the military and/or government, so he is selling to those with a special need for discretion (and blackmail is certainly a possibility).

All information must first be passed through the REPUBLICANS R THE GOOD GUYS Mega-Filter? Any discongruent breakthroughs are immediately discounted as lies to HURT one of our boys!

Really sick stuff ... perhaps the beginnings of ultra-conservative-nutsoid nationalism.

more on the 'gannon' plant/motive?

http://www.tbrnews.org