FWIW - The Gannon Story is Available (americablog)

[cthrumatrix]

Monday, February 14, 2005

A man called Jeff
by John in DC - 2/14/2005 01:26:00 PM

WARNING: A number of the links in this story are to x-rated photographs, and some of those might prove shocking to some people. Please exercise your own discretion when clicking. (And, as you read, please forgive the necessary typos - I'm going for rock-solid facts, rather than spelling.)

WOLF BLITZER: Because one of the things, as you know, that were said is that you had some sexually explicit Web sites that you were working on. I don't understand what that is, but maybe you could explain that.

JEFF GANNON: Well, several years ago, before I came to Washington, I had registered various domain names for a private client. I was doing Web site development. Those sites were never hosted. There's -- nothing ever went up on them. And the client went on to do something else. - CNN, 2/10/05
Site 1

http://americablog.blogspot.com/

[elehhhhna]

1. The linked pics are really gross.

[Rockerdem]

2. I am not going to the links -- but whats the deal with the watch??

And the bulldog? Anyone?

[Walt Starr]

4. Guckert is wearing the same watch in the explicit photos

and the bulldog is a graphic in the logo of the prostitution sites.

[6000eliot]

6. Bulldog is one of his whore names.

[notadmblnd]

8. The bulldog is the logo on his website

the RY was the last part of the words Photo Gallery which If I'm not mistaken are some pretty risque pics of our dear fake reporter fromerly known as Jeff Gannon.

[Lex]

3. He should put WHY IT MATTERS first, then the garbage

last. Some people won't make it through the porn crud to his analysis of why this matters.

[babylonsister]

5. And the xtian conservatives have a problem

with a breast? Well, this should make their day! //sarcasm//

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. So the real question is this

how the hell did the secret service allow this piece of "conservative" crap to stand barely meters from the President? by the way I have nothing against hookers... but the back ground check should have brought this up...

I am sure the wife loves this too

[indie_voter]

12. Yes. How did he get in to the press room?

At the very least, he might be the weak link in the Plame case, he is can't fall back on 'protecting his sources', right?

Now if only there are records showing who his clients were. ;)

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. give the blogers time

and don't rely on the press.... if the Secret Service has not destroyed those records, they will be found

[indie_voter]

32. Agreed! n/t

[UdoKier]

18. I don't think he's married...

nt

[ewagner]

9. So much for

Gannon/Guckert's cover story about developing a web site for clients....they are obviously his sites......

Ameriblog got it right at the end of the article....how did the West Wing let an obvious male escort (or is it m on m escort) have access to top secret infor?

[Ganja Ninja]

17. How does a male prostitute build up the contacts that got him ...

into the White House on a daily basis?

[6000eliot]

10. I'd like to hear more about the rawstory angle

Something about a "relationship" with the WH press office.

[SmokingJacket]

11. Okay, I KNOW it's about the hypocrisy.

But it's going to be so easy for the WH to say, Well, we didn't know about that. That's his old life. (like Bush's drinking, Lynne Cheney's lesbian novel, etc.)

Beating up the Bushies for being hypocritical is like beating a chicken because it has feathers (if I may coin a phrase).

We NEEEEED to work on the Plame angle and the connections to the White House, because if this is just a gay porn story, it's OVER.

[Skidmore]

13. Yup. You are so right about this.

Being a hypocrite is not illegal.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. actually that angle affects .... the secret service

If you think the secret service did not find this out, and consider it a threat I have a huge bridge to sell yuo... this is connected... they allowed a threat view secret documents. This man would NEVER get a security clearance of any kind because his past can be used against him, so tehy allowed a man who can be black mailed.... to view aboe TS documents? Now do you see the conections?

[SmokingJacket]

24. Yes, you're right...

This COULD be a big story -- and I personally believe that the sex angle is NO ACCIDENT, that the WH has connections to sex rings left and right -- but it's still too easy for the WH to deny involvement, imho. You know, like what happened with the WMD: well, we didn't know they weren't there! BAD CIA! Must fix that naughty CIA! And they get off scott free.

It's still too easy for the MSM to spin this as an innocent error on the part of the WH. And to say, what hypocrits the liberal bloggers are, to get so het up about gay sex!

WE know it's about the hypocrisy, and about whether this two bit whore should have been given press credentials and who gave them to him, and whether he was getting paid by Rove to lob the softballs and to print the press releases as news.

But the sex angle is going to suffocate the story, I think.

Who knows... guess we'll see how it spins out.

But the MSM never fails to disappoint me.

[UdoKier]

19. "Old life"? Like up to 2000?

That's freaking YESTERDAY to me...

[SmokingJacket]

26. I don't disagree....

just saying, even if he was a prostitute WHILE he was pretending to be a journalist, they're going to say they had no idea about his private life.

Yes, they should have known.

But man... I'm getting to be 100% cynical about the chances of a good damaging news story getting any legs at.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

30. Just for the record

The article says it was active from October 31, 2001 until May 8, 2003.

Yes, that's yesterday to me, also.

[UdoKier]

31. Oops.

My bad.

[goodboy]

14. anyone wanna go over to freeperville and see what they're saying about

this? I would, but I don't want to soil my browser...

[tx_dem41]

20. One thing I don't like about Americablog's reporting on this....

...is the use of the term "gay hooker". Its like the use of the adjective "gay" some how makes it more salacious. The fact that a "hooker", heterosexual or gay, got a WH press pass is the story (and should be followed).

[Toucano]

33. I wish you were right.

But I think that the fact that he's a gay hooker, not a "ladies man" is a big distinction.

First, because this administration and most of it's supporters have been completely hostile to gay and lesbian FAMILIES. People who are in mutually beneficial, self-sacrificing relationships have been targets of scorn.

At the same time, however, they have been associating with and benefiting from an inappropriate relationship with a two-faced, low-life, turd of a homosexual.

Secondly, the fact that it's a man who prostitutes himself to men speaks to the corruption of power. Men have the power in the White House. It's almost certainly a man who put him in the press corps. Why? What did Gannon do to earn that?

If he had been an escort for female clients, there wouldn't be nearly as much cause for alarm because females don't pull the strings in the White House.

It's beyond salacious, although it may seem that way on the surface. It's important because of who holds the keys in the White House and how they've treated gay and lesbian couples.

[Rockerdem]

21. One more question: Whats the deal with the receipts?

Is Roves signature on them?

[Toucano]

27. The invoices prove that Jimmy Jeff

paid for the websites to be created, not just register the domains as he claimed.

He's a liar AND a whore. Plus the treason. He's a fount of "family values".

[Toucano]

28. Dupe

Sorry.

[janx]

22. I'll skip the links, too, thanks...

but this is becoming more interesting for the reasons John mentions. This guy is apparently a prostitute and a fake reporter approved of by the administration--with some connection to the Plame case!

It gets weirder and weirder, I must say!

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

23. I can't stand this story, but AmericaBlog made clear its importance

The question that connects the Gay sex prostitution, Reporter, and Plame investigation is very very simple:

Who was Gannon blowing off in the White House to get the access/promotion he did? Or, to not be so sexual about it, who was Gannon Blackmailing to get put in the cushy job of lobbing softballs?

This is much bigger then we seem to think. The sex, the CIA documents, the job itself are all tightly connected. I think its clear Gannon was doing Double Duty in the White House, but the question is with WHOM. and that is the smoking gun.

[in_cog_ni_to]

25. Now we need pics of him and Bush.

That MIGHT sway the sheeple. He's connected to someone in the WH. KKKRove? Scotty McClellan? Bush? He is someone's "escort/lover/whore/prostitute/Ho"

Or we need a ironclad connection to the Plame case.

Hey!!!! I can't wait to see this on the MSM tonight! :eyes: Any bets that Olbermann will be the only one to touch this?

[Bouncy Ball]

29. The comments on John's blog entry on this are hilarious!

bush has a thing for bald men--LOL! Too true, didn't someone here post a montage of pics of bush rubbing/patting bald mens' heads?

How did "Gannon" manage to meet with the president TWICE, as he said he did, if he was a male prostitute with no journalistic credentials?

YIKES.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

34. This is a step forward.

We know Jeff was a liar and a male escort. We know his site was active in October of 2003. That would put it right about when he started working at the WH. I think it may even have been after he was working there by a few months.

One person has already stepped forward to expose him. Will there be more? Jeff is a loose lipped ego maniac. Will that be death of him? What are the odds that this man has bragged about what he's been up? I feel they're pretty good.

Sex, lies and hypocrisy with a trail that leads to the White House press corps and reeks of a security leak.

It's like John Aravosis said, "Someone had to make a decision to let all this happen. Who? Someone committed a crime in exposing Valerie Plame and now it appears a gay hooker may be right in the middle of all of it? Who?"


FWIW, I've also noticed Jeff's lack of hair and went, hmmm.

edit to add: It seems odd to me that he was using the name Jeff both for his sex industry business and his WH gig. It's as if it were just another day at the office for him.