Web designer claims Gannon wanted his nude pics posted online

[Zuni]

Howard Kurtz reported in The Washington Post yesterday that although Mr. Guckert had denied launching the provocative Web sites - one described him as " 'military, muscular, masculine and discrete' (sic)" - a Web designer in California said "that he had designed a gay escort site for Gannon and had posted naked pictures of Gannon at the client's request."

And The Wilmington News-Journal in Delaware reported that Mr. Guckert was delinquent in $20,700 in personal income tax from 1991 to 1994.

I'm still mystified by this story. I was rejected for a White House press pass at the start of the Bush administration, but someone with an alias, a tax evasion problem and Internet pictures where he posed like the "Barberini Faun" is credentialed to cover a White House that won a second term by mining homophobia and preaching family values?

[Swede]

1. Makes you go hmmmmmmmm.

nt

[Anarcho-Socialist]

2. This Gannon situation gets worser by the day

:)

[Zuni]

4. This could be the funniest White House scandal ever

I mean hiring a male prostitute to lob softball questions to Scott McClellan...

[11 Bravo]

3. When quoting a columnist (in this case Maureen Dowd)

I think you need to properly attribute it to keep DU out of any potential copyright difficulties.

[Zuni]

5. I'm sorry

it was from maureen Dowd in the NYT