Ann the man defends Gannon.

[King Coal]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=108&ncid=742&e=10&u=/ucac/20050223/cm_ucac/republicansbloggersandgaysohmy


The heretofore-unknown Jeff Gannon of the heretofore-unknown "Talon News" service was caught red-handed asking friendly questions at a White House press briefing. Now the media is hot on the trail of a gay escort service that Gannon may have run some years ago. Are we supposed to like gay people now, or hate them? Is there a Web site where I can go to and find out how the Democrats want me to feel about gay people on a moment-to-moment basis?


Liberals keep rolling out a scrolling series of attacks on Gannon for their Two Minutes Hate, but all their other charges against him fall apart after three seconds of scrutiny. Gannon's only offense is that he may be gay.

[bryant69]

1. Yeah I just commented on this at my blog

Of course Ann overplays her hand by claiming that Gannon never wrote about gays, when on October 12, 2004 he called Kerry America's first Gay President.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[King Coal]

2. She just makes shit up, as Bill Mayer says.

[piece sine]

4. what's Randi Rhodes real last name?

not that it matters but we sure got tied-up in knots in many. many threads here over Gannon's name change. Come to think of it, most media types and celebrities have "polished" this original names to something with a better mouth-feel.

[King Coal]

5. Huh?

[IntravenousDemilo]

8. You know, like Kent Brockman...

...and just about every radio DJ I've ever worked with who wasn't blessed with an Anglo-sounding name.

[CanOfWhoopAss]

13. so why change both names?

Randi is not in the WH pressroom. What is so difficult about saying Jim, Jimbo, Jimmy Gannon? Rolls of the tongue just as easily if not more so.

[maddiejoan]

17. Randi has also mentioned

That when she visits the Senate or the Whitehouse she has to use her real last name on her pass. So why didn't Guckert?

[flyarm]

21. randi has never gotten a white house press pass...

if you ever really listened to her you would have heard her say that..and randi has had a radio show for years here in fla with a huge audience here in fla..and now has a 4 million people listening base now on air america...
randi is legit..unlike the prostitute..who got a press pass not once but for 2 years..and before talon even existed!!!

no randi has never gotten a press pass...to the white house!!

i guess you missed how maureen dowd had her priveldges taken away when * came into office as well...and guess what doll..she is a real reporter..not a prostitute who took a 2 day $50.00 lunch included so called journalism course....

what a freaking joke...

i did take journalism in college...it sure isnt learned in a 2 day lunch included $50.00 course!!\
and i can assure you..i wouldn't get a white house press pass..

and i am not a prostitute with a $20,000.00 tax judgement against me!

just because i have a degree does not make me a journalist..and i will assure you.a prostitute with a 2 day $50.00 with lunch course in journalism..does not make him a journalist either..

and with a press briefing room pass..it makes him a security breach...once..

but for two years...it's an inside job!!

fly

[skids]

3. Sorry Anne....

...you can't have him. He's taken. Or more like already payed for.

[sam sarrha]

6. you can tell they didnt have time to let her medication wear off before

they put him/her on cameras.. if they have a week or 10 days s/he turns into a raging furball

[sazemisery]

7. It is not about hating gays, it's about hypocrisy

The administration treated GLBT Americans like slim while using slimy tactics to make the Shrub and Scotty look good @ press conferences.

[Fuzz]

9. It will be about homosexuality if we keep letting the loudmouth right

frame each and every issue.

[SpiralHawk]

10. Ha Ha - This just stirs the shit pot at the White House

Republicans also want to know if the Bush White House Press Corps shit stinks. It is, alas, a basic human tendency.

Any propaganda Coulter spouts, as in this case, just draws more attention to the reeking Republican elephant turd in the middle of the nation's living room.

Thank you for drawing attention to the "Jeff Gannon" gay/escort/"journalist" White House scandal, Ms. Coulter

[leftynyc]

11. That annie sure is a whiny assed bitch (eom)

[Old and In the Way]

12. Annie, is this hitting close to home?

Sounds like another Republican moral relativist scrambling to defend the indefensible. Take away the prostitution and income tax evasion issues, and what's left? Ann Coulter with an 8" cut.

[nonconformist]

14. It's the security breech, stupid

Typical -- avoid the real issues and attempt to flip it to paint us as the hypocrites in this situation.

[Crunchy Frog]

15. It's not about gay people.

It is about prostitution and about advertising yourself with descriptions of your genitalia, your preferences, and posting pornographic images of yourself all over the web.

The name thing is about misrepresenting your identity, even when it involves getting a pass to access the president. It's not about using a pseudonym.

Ann expects the American people to be so stupid that they will fall for her ridiculous spin, and (s)he may be right. Gee, I wonder where (s)he would be going with this story right now if it were happening under a Democratic administration.:think:

[havocmom]

16. No, his offense is that he is a fraud. He pretended to be a journalist

and got to sit in the WH and pretend to ask questions while many REAL journalists are denied that opportunity.

AKA Gannon's sexuality is NOT the issue. It does raise questions about the folks who let him in the WH and whether they might be at risk for being blackmailed if they are in a closet while stampeding their base in a fever of anti-gay hogwash.

Ann: go beat your own self with the bat you suggested for liberals.

[flyarm]

18. this is not about gay!!!!!!!!! can you get that??

this is about national security..can you clean up your mind to that fact???

its about natiuonal security!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and about a prostitute...and as far as i know, that profession is still not legal!!!

its about a prostitute sitting within feet of the potus and being in the white house for over 2 yrs with no journalism behind his pass!!!

its about a company that calls itself news but is a front for a prostitute sitting in the white house press briefing room...


what part of that can't you get??

this is not about gay!!!!!!!!!!!!!
its about a prostitute who bragged that he saw a classified memo before others which exposed a highly classifed cia secret agent! the highest classification ..a cia NOC..the most expensive agent to train and keep in service! and its about possibly exposing her contact angents of which some may now be dead!

do you get that yet????????????????????

its about a prostitute that bragged about the dan rathergate..before any other reporter had gotten the info...so how did he get that info before anyone else?? ask rove!!

its about security get it yet????????? its about a prostitute who could have been blackmailing people at the highest level of our government..do you get that yet?????????????????

this is not about gay..now get that straight!


sounds to me like you are trying to gay-bait this story to get the heat off the real facts of this story..it wont work...most here with real minds know what this story is about..

if you don't get it ............may i suggest ...

you go read some about the billions we are spending of your and my tax dollars on homeland security ..or lack there of,

and then evaluate how a prostitute got within feet of the potus and was able for 2 years sit daily inside the white house with no journalism degree or even credentials to be a journalist..and how he got into the white house almost 2 months " before " there ever was a talon news..of which was really only a web site..no news organization!

and how this prostitute got to go to white house christmmas parties for 2 years of which other real jopurnalists never got invited to!


wake up...and dont play the gay bashing game here..i sure am not going to play that game with you or anyone else..its sick..

this is not about gay!
fly

[goodboy]

19. rate that bitch DOWN...

[elehhhhna]

20. Gay Prostitute=All gay people? Hello? So...

Female Prostitute = All women?

Again with the logic, Ann?




Bet she's the only gal on his client list.

[julialnyc]

24. it's amazing how far this "personal life" thing

has gotten Gannon. If this were a straight female, they would be screaming PROSTITUTE all over the news. The fact that people are not talking about that seems like allot more homophobia. The fact that he's gay doesn't change the facts (it just changes the gender of folks he was involved with). The news makers can't just say the word gay without adding something on.


I remember after the Tsunami reading about how Oprah's designer Nate Berkus lost his boyfriend and all the articles would have to give some history like "openly gay designer loses lover in Tsunami". I mean jeez. Do people get that uncomfortable. Just say the heart breaking news that he lost his boyfriend (people can figure it out).

[elehhhhna]

28. If you have an AD IN the Yellow Pages, ferchrissakes,

Don't refer to it as your "personal life", eh?!!

[UTUSN]

22. It's All in a Hag's Work n/t

[gratuitous]

23. Whores of a feather

And all that.

[Ediacara]

25. escort service he may have ran some years ago???

You mean 2004? Gannon AFAIK was still hooking until quite recently Ann. And it's not the hooking we care about (although that's a comical sideshow of hypocrisy), it's the FAKE JOURNALIST we care about.

[Jehanatu]

26. Ann Coulter...

Needs to shove her foot in her mouth, where it belongs. If she had half a brain, she'd realize we're not criticizing him because he's gay, but because he's a prostitute (which is illegal in the states)who gets into White House Press conferences without a Press Pass and works for a phony news site.

Now, if I were thinking like Ann Coulter, she would probably say...

Hmm...

Tough one...

:think:

I know! Clinton did it!

:puke:

[woosh]

27. You know orwell is over-used

when Coulter is using it in here writing.

[No Exit]

29. Ann tried out for the WWF, but she was too skinny.

So she started her own wrestling federation, and pursues it in her so-called "commentary", which is indistinguishable from the braggadocio that a wrestler like "Da Crusher" engages in to build up the expectations for his next match.

"Hey liberals! I'm gonna crush you! See dis hamburger? Dat's your FACE! I'm the baddest! My mouth is registered as a lethal weapon!"

No wonder Ann has so many fans among the followers of the WWF.

[GoSolar]

30. LOL

Not surprised at this crap at all...

[Edgewater_Joe]

31. "He Can't Be Gay - I Hired Him!"

Y'know, now I wonder ...