GANNONGATE! Talon "News" "reporter" Jeff Gannon ties to gay hookers!

[johnfunk]

Jim Guckert, who writes under the pseudonym Jeff Gannon, announced late last night that he's quitting the journo biz.

He's the guy that Little Scottie McLellan could always count on to ask a softball, Dem-bashing question at White House press briefings.

Here's how the scandal came down:

Media Matters started asking questions about why a political hack with no journo experience - who would repeat White House press releases verbatim as news - got White House press credentials (more here).

About a week ago, the bio for "Gannon" was disappeared from the Talon News web site.

"Gannon" responded with an obnoxious, arrogant taunt of "libruls"; but a day later, bloggers determined that "Gannon" is one Jim T. Guckert - and tied Gannon/Guckert to one "Bedrock Corporation."

A little more digging uncovered some amazing domain names tied to Gannon/Guckert/Bedrock - and an embarrassing AOL home page of the pseudostudly Guckert. Note that some of the domain names contain the phrases "escorts" and "m4m".

Well, well, well - a reporter for a "news" service that regularly bashes "homosexuals" and their so-called "agenda" is tied to gay hookers.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

1. anything but...

fillintheblank-gate...please, please let's find another name for this kind of thing...

my previous statement notwithstanding, seems like he might need to start looking for a shack in Montana in which to hide himself and his family...

theProdigal

[johnfunk]

2. I think he needs that shack...

... as an "undisclosed location" to get it on with his GOP boyfriends...

[BR_Parkway]

3. Provided that his family will stick with him n/t

While I can see a wife being supportive of a guy she married who was so far in the closet - stretching that to her supporting him being involved with gay prostitution would require her to be an incredible woman. Not that I'd blame her for dumping his ass.

[tuvor]

4. "Gannon" has quit!

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/02/breaking-news-gop-pseudo-journalist.html

http://www.jeffgannon.com/

[johnfunk]

33. Guck... er, GANNON tied to PLAMEGATE!!

... and Joseph Wilson has a lot to say about Gannon having been shown a document by somsone at the White House that outed Valerie Plame here!

[rocktivity]

5. Are you SURE you want to be a more public figure, Karl Rove?

:evilgrin:
rocknation

[bunkerbuster1]

6. And the Corporate F*ckdoll Media is covering this story, where?

Didn't think so.

Oh, look--the Jacko Trial!

[Rockholm]

7. Keep Moving, Pay No Attention to the HYPOCRISY.

[notadmblnd]

34. supposed to be a peice on Olberman tonight

I'm looking forward dto watching.

[bunkerbuster1]

36. Thanks for the tip, I'm going to tune in as well.

Did he discuss this with Franken on Air America, do you know? I didn't get to hear much of his appearance, they spent most of what I heard blasting O'Loofah.

[notadmblnd]

38. I didn't get to listen

but I do believe it was mentioned by Franken.

[snippy]

8. It seems to me that he is qualified to work at the RNC.

Look for him to turn up there.

[KoKo]

9. So.....will Howie (Two Hat) Kurtz report on this? Will any MSM put this

out and tie it to Bush and WHY did this guy get access to Scotty? Why did the White House Reporters not expose this guy on their own?

This should be a MAJOR scandal. On the front page of all the blogs with the photo of Gannon in his undies posing.

If the "Intenets" can't get this story blasted out there, then there's no hope for any change...

[oasis]

10. This "Loose Gannon" will come back to haunt Karl Rove.

[hootinholler]

17. Good one!

Mama-san Gannon.

New meaning to media whore.

-Hot

[SmokingJacket]

11. Here's where he went to Journalism School:

http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/02TRAINING/001BJS/001BJS.cfm

A $50 two-day seminar for conservatives who want to be journalists (includes meals).

Hahhahahahhaha.

Well, it would be funny if the guy didn't actually get a press pass from the WH.

:grr:

[Hugin]

12. Have the people in 2004Election Results & Discussion been alerted to this?

I mean... It leaped off the page at me.

"He was matched with two addresses in Newark, five in Wilmington, and one in Cincinnati, OH."

Hmm... Interesting.

[LynneSin]

16. I found an Address for a J. Guckert in my 2002 Wilmington Phone Book

but it disappeared in 2004

LynneSin
Wilmington Residence who is embarassed this bozo lived in my town

[Radio-Active]

27. there's a Jason Guckert in my current Cincinnati phone book

[Patiod]

13. Drudge has more important things to cover

Hot news about the Clintons, for instance

FALLOUT FROM 2000 GALA STILL LINGERS FOR CLINTONS...

Drudge has an "anonymous tips line" - I emailed him the first post from this thread. A standard message can back "Message received - I will consider and investigate" Yeah, I bet you will....

[KharmaTrain]

14. Stick On His Lack Of Credentials

I hate when some sideshow gets in the way of what could be an important story.

So what if Gluckert or Gannon or whatever is gay or martian or whatever. It's his actions as a plant in the media and how compromised the national media is not to out him on that merit that deserves full and continuing scrutiny...not his private life.

A typical wingnut defense tactic...when your guy is being attacked, find a diversion. When it's Bunnypant's military record, let's divert by going after Dan Rather.

Instead of taking the bait and going after the guy's personal life, this should be focusing on how Gannon got his credentials, who else in the "media pool" of "respectable journalists" knew he was a fraud and went along with this scam and to uncover the money that funds him and other "journalists" who had created the state/corporate media.

[Hugin]

30. Excellent point KharmaTrain!

Focus! Focus! Focus!

:)

[Hugin]

31. Dupe...

Sorry.

:)

[Hugin]

32. dupe...

Ack! Three in a row. I'm getting good at this.

:)

[LynneSin]

15. Maybe he cured himself of homosexuality through prayer

:eyes:

[question everything]

18. And it was Rush who planted the false info

According to one of the links you provided http://mediamatters.org/items/200501270005

Limbaugh bragged that his show inspired Talon News "reporter's" erroneous question to Bush

Nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh proclaimed that he fabricated a point surfacing in a question that Talon News White House correspondent Jeff Gannon subsequently asked of President Bush at a January 26 White House press conference. Gannon asked Bush: "ow are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?" prefacing the question with the assertion that Senate Minority Leader "Harry Reid was talking about soup lines." But Reid made no reference to soup lines. As Limbaugh noted, "Uh, Harry Reid never said 'soup lines.' That's my term for the simple way to characterize the Democrats' view of America." Limbaugh said he was "flattered and honored and proud to have a point made by this program represented in the press conference and asked by a reporter."

[MsTryska]

19. oh my god....what a drama queen....

check out his blospot entry for today:

http://jeffgannon.blogspot.com/

[Oilwellian]

20. He titled it: "Not Jeff Gannon is Not Going Anywhere"

Do you think he was drinking a little last night?

[johnfunk]

22. Probably -- that and a Ford F-150 full of amyls...

BTW, the Jeff Gannon Blog is a parody.

[MsTryska]

23. it is?

like someone else's parody? i thought it was his own parody of his pseudonym.


oh well.

he's still a drama queen. his front page says it all.

[johnfunk]

21. You, AmericaBlog, and I are on the same page: "Drama Queen Gannon"

Check out http://jeffgannon.com/

" A Voice of the New Media
The voice goes silent."

In really sexy, sexy script! Talk about a high drama queen!

And John A at AmericaBlog beat me to the punch when he pointed out this lovely sentence from Gannon's home (o' erotic) page:

"In consideration of the welfare of me and my family I have decided to return to private life."

That's "myself," not "me," Guckert... er, Gannon! A real journalist would know how to correctly construct an English sentence without a 5th grade grammar gaffe, Guck... er, Jeffy.

[MsTryska]

24. exactly....

woe is him and Pennsylvania State University system learnin'. ;-)

[progressoid]

25. "In consideration of the welfare of me and my family... "

I saw that too. Pathetic.

I can't believe people actually took this guy seriously? Oh, wait, I forgot, I live in a country that re-elected the dumbest president in history.

[qanda]

26. Free Republic has a thread on this

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1339334/posts?q=1&&page=1

[Penndems]

35. Here's the posting that just SLAYS me . . .

To: mental
Cool campaign button! I was listening to Paul Harvey this morning and thinking the same thing! Harvey was talking about Dr. Rice speaking fluent French (did not mention her fluent Russian) and waxing eloquently about her skills as a concert pianist and her elegant, stylish clothes. Praising her diplomatic skills as Secretary of State, he ended his report saying, "Just the right person at the right time."

97 posted on 02/09/2005 6:26:29 AM PST by ex-Texan (Mathew 7:1 through 6)
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Yeah, you know, having elegant, stylish clothes, skills as a pianist, and speaking fluent French were prerequisites for Thomas Jefferson, Cordell Hull, Dean Acheson, John Foster Dulles, Dean Rusk, Henry Kissinger, et. al., becoming Secretaries of State, too - NOT!

As far as diplomatic skills - well, isn't that just a little premature, considering she's only occupied that job for about, oh, A WEEK?

Here's a little story with a moral for you, Paul Harvey and FR Poster:

A colleague of mine was the Regional Security Officer at the embassy in Beirut back in the early 1980s. Shortly after the Marine barracks was blown up (during the Reagan Administration - you remember him, right?) we received information that the insurgents were planning a second bombing on the embassy, and to relocate the embassy staff IMMEDIATELY. We sent three (count 'em: THREE) alerts to the Ambassador (whom you may also remember: He was the fat, blond-haired man sitting behind Colin Powell at the U.N. the day The Secretary gave the Iraq WMD presentation), ignored every one of them (in his return message, he categorically stated he "wasn't taking orders from subordinates"). Sure enough, the embassy was bombed. The killer drove a sedan loaded with explosives through the concrete barriers and over the "dragon's teeth", right straight up to the front door.

When the bomb detonated, it blew the glass-paned walls and ceiling in the lobby (which was designed like an atrium) downward and inward. My colleague just happened to be walking through the lobby when the bomb exploded. Shards of glass rained down on him. He was medivaced to the Army hospital in Frankfurt, Germany, and then flown back to D.C. for surgery (or SURGERIES: He had FIFTY of them altogether, including several to reconstruct his face, and TEN to reattach his left ear, which was severed.) He even had glass in both eyes, which almost blinded him (and required surgeries to correct his sight).

Too bad you didn't see my colleague by the time he came back to work, because he looked like Frankenstein's brother. His face, arms, legs -you name it - were stitched up. Ten weeks after his last surgery, he was back at work in my office. He'd come by my desk to touch base and, after he'd leave I'd notice these little slivers of glass that were around my desk area and on the floor. I mentioned to Al one day that I thought I'd broken something. His response, in characteristic good humor, was: "No, it's me. I've got glass embedded in my skin. You should see my shower in the morning."

Before Paul Harvey and some clueless, ignorant FR poster start gushing over their token's "elegant, stylish wardrobe", "fluent French and Russian" and "concert piano skills", just remember something: It's the rank and file in the Foreign Service who are doing the grunt work and putting their lives on the line for this country (like my colleague Al, whose family wasn't the least bit concerned with his "stylish" clothing when he returned. They were just happy he was ALIVE).

When Condolezza Rice is hunkered down with embassy personnel that's surrounded by semi-automatic gunfire, Abrams tanks and exploding ordnance (the way Joe Wilson was at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad during the Gulf War), and wondering whether the next incoming Patriot or Scud missile is going to blow your ass to kingdom come, THEN she'll have my respect. Jet-setting through Europe and the Middle East pushing an ideology ain't gonna do it.

In the meantime, don't post clueless messages tinged with pre-pubescent adoration on subject matter neither you nor Paul Harvey know ANYTHING about.

[bunkerbuster1]

37. Great story, Penndems.

A perspective on diplomacy few will ever consider.

[Petrushka]

28. AOL homepage for "jdj17" no longer there . . . but . . .

. . . I remember it contained a link for "MY GUYS", a link to a webpage for the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Mu Alpha Chapter) at West Chester University in West Chester PA.

[TOOLZ]

29. Someone posted his picture yesterday

Can anyone review the old Gannon threads and find it? He's a hunk.

I toured that freeper thread. I always have to take a shower after I peer into that abyss.

[Petrushka]

42. Is this the thread you're looking for? ---

Jeff Gannon connected to male military escort service?"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3076904

[merh]

39. Have you tried his sites?

They require a password and log on! Don't seem to be for folks just a lurking and hunting for friends - membership required?
Hotmilitarystud.com
Militaryescortsm4m.com
Militaryescorts.com

https://secure.divide0.net/my/

[12345]

40. checked google news

saw these http://www.theconservativevoice.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2770
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2786

of course nothing in the msm

[Generator]

41. Didn't see this one before-good info

fake name fake reporter fake lives fake presidency

It has a ring.

[LibertyorDeath]

43. *

:kick::kick::kick:

[deacon]

44. more: Plame & Propagannon: The Tangled Web: Part XII

really worth checking out

http://wolverinetom.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/5/15630/44308

[derby378]

45. I love you guys

Whichever one of you DUers first used the term "Gannongate," I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

I think the term should become our new national meme.