The Manchurian Beefcake (College Journalist gets what Kurtz doesn't)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.thesnapper.com/news/2005/02/17/Commentary/The-Manchurian.Beefcake-871879.shtml

Poor Jeff Gannon. Oh, sorry, poor James Guckert. Or whatever his name really is.

If you hadn't heard, a partisan operative with no background in journalism who plagerized RNC press releases as his own stories for his not-so-legitimate news service was allowed access to the White House Press Briefings, providing a lifeline for Press Secretary Scott McClellan and making it difficult for other reporters to get answers to serious questions. He also had access to information regarding the Valerie Plame case, a CIA agent who had her identity exposed to discredit her husband Ambassador Joe Wilson (who, if you remember, discredited the 16 words that got us into our current war in Iraq). There's more though.

Gannon, I mean Guckert or whatever his name is, a conservative who wrote quite a few anti-gay articles for his news organization Talon News, owns the domains to several sites promoting gay military prostitution. One site hosted at has a "come-hither" shot of Gannon, err...Guckert in his underwear. Later investigations showed that Gannon/Guckert truely was an "escort," with ads on several sites showing a whole lot more than just "come-hither." An escort is bascially a legal term to get around the very illegal occupation of prostitution. He also owes the state of Delaware over $20,000. Internet bloggers dug this one up by accident as they were just trying to figure out why someone with a psedonym had access to the White House when other members of the media had to use their real names.

Perhaps he is an opportunist looking to "get some homos" in the military fired from the defense of this great nation. If that's the case, he's one evil little operative. However, and I think this is much more likely, Guckert/Gannon/whatever his name is, is probably gay and he just got outed. I don't feel the least bit sorry for him. He wrote anti-gay stories for his news service (all his stories, incidentally, have been scrubbed from the Talon News website) when he was probably gay all along. I don't care that he might be gay and is a conservative. There are many gay conservative Americans who vote Republican and for the president and there are many of that same subset who are serving this great nation in the military. I'm also not that bothered that he sold sex for cash. However, Gannon is a hypocrite because of who he shilled for and what hateful things he wrote. That bothers me therefore I have very little pity for the man.

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Something else is up here and I believe the American people are owed some answers.

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