Weekend reading for "Gannon/PoppyGate."

[KoKo]

Here's what other DU'ers have found and I'm just posting so that all you "weekenders" have you're "Reading Assignment." :D...Thanks to the other Du'ers who posted this, but it's marching to archives and I can't find.
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http://www.jameswolcott.com/


Mystery Beefcake
Posted by James Wolcott

Wow. Rigorous Intuition has a unique angle on the White House "ringer" correspondent that retrieves from the cupboard a lurid, mostly forgotten episode from the recent past involving gay prostitutes, rumors of CIA blackmail, and a fishy suicide.

That so few major establishment papers have latched on to the unfolding Manchurian Beefcake story helps explain why major establishment newspapers are losing readers in droves, unable to spot a juicy scandal when it's doing a lapdance in front of their glazed eyes.
It was inane watching Wolf Blitzer and Howie Kurtz take out their snuff boxes yesterday to pooh-pooh tsk-tsk the prurient zeal of lefty bloggers in pursuing this case, as if "Man Nips" Gannon/Guckert were just some vocal conservative with iffy credentials whose personal life had been pried open like a bad clam. That this imposter was able to attend White House briefings under an alias and lob softballs to the president while other reporters got blanked is worthy of investigation, yes? Particularly since it fits into the Bush administration's entire M.O. of staged events, vetted audiences, and propaganda packaged as news. Perhaps so many members of the Washington media have been impersonating reporters over the years that they're not troubled to discover an imposter in their midst. But Gannon/Guckert isn't just an imposter, a DC version of Leo DiCaprio's winsome protagonist in Catch Me If You Can, he was leading a double life and until we know the purpose of his duplicitous role (how the hell did he obtain the classified memo regarding Valerie Plame?),

Wow. Rigorous Intuition has a unique angle on the White House "ringer" correspondent that retrieves from the cupboard a lurid, mostly forgotten episode from the recent past involving gay prostitutes, rumors of CIA blackmail, and a fishy suicide. This story should be kept rudely alive.
http://www.jameswolcott.com/

AND...check out Wolcott's link to this incredible Gannon/PoppyGate Story.... THIS IS A LONG...BUT REALLY GREAT READ ABOUT: POPPY/SEXGATE!

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/

[GetTheRightVote]

1. Reading it

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[Quakerfriend]

2. link not working now

[KoKo]

4. I corrected the second link but here's a snip and the link again:

The Life and Moonie Times of George HW BushTo follow up on yesterday's post, let's consider one of the enduring riddles of the Bush White House call boy scandal (that is, the other Bush White House, and the other call boy): why, of all the media empires to break the story and run with it, often page one and above the fold, was it that of the Unification Church?

The expressed purpose of The Washington Times since Reverend Sun Myung Moon launched it in 1982 has been to provide a conservative Republican voice in the US capital. Paul Weyrich has called it an "antidote" to The Washington Post, its "liberal competitor." (Yeah, me neither.) The unexpressed purpose has been to win for Moon influence over US politicians. Sometimes, the two are in conflict. In fact, to succeed, on occassion they must be.

Perpetual deference makes for a fine doormat, but I've yet to wipe my feet on one of influence. And certainly Moon hasn't shovelled more than a billion dollars down the Times' boiler to have Republican feet, even Bush feet, wiped upon his satin robes.

So I'm wondering (and it's thanks to this discussion generated by yesterday's post): did the Times initially play this story as big as it did in order to win influence over the Bush White House? In other words, Look - we got the goods - what you gonna do about it? The Times said it had the names of Spence's clients, and that they included politicians, as well as military, media and business figures. Blackmail, it's called in impolite circles. This could explain why the scandal was made to go away virtually overnight, the names undisclosed. Because, they did something about it.

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/

[Al-CIAda]

3. Last link '404''d -eom

[KoKo]

5. Fixed with Snip...see above...it's also linked from Wolcott article.

but I corrected it...hope it's working now.

[seemslikeadream]

6. Minstrel Boy has an excellent blog

He has written some really good stuff.

[KoKo]

7. I thought the two articles I linked are a good "catch up read," do you

have the link to "Mistrel Boy's Blog?" I'll check it out.. Thanks!

[seemslikeadream]

8. Sure here it is KoKo01

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/

You already have it ;)

[KoKo]

9. You are too funny...that's the blog linked from Wolcott that I gave the

link to in my post? :P....What's up? "Minstrel Boy's gone "MainStream?" :D

[seemslikeadream]

10. Jeff is Minstrel Boy

:evilgrin:

[Al-CIAda]

15. lol! Minstrel boy does great work. -eom

[Cha]

11. Bookmarked!

Thank you, KoKo!

[fooj]

12. The Shrubs share company with some real undesirables, don't they? Hmm..

I also remember the Spence guy! I'd forgotten he "committed suicide"! Just another poor sap to add to the ever growing list of The Shrubs expendable acquaintances. This may sound crazy, but does anyone remember Kitty Kelly on Matthews before the election? Didn't she say something about a scandal re: a male prostitution ring in the WH? Matthews looked at her like she was nuts! Finally, what's up with Rev. Moon and Shrub Sr.? What the hell could they possibly have in common? The guy's considered a cult leader! His moonies used to run around the airports in the Bay Area wrapped in a sheet trying to sell flowers! Wow! This is crazy!

[1democracy]

13. I was musing on *'s so called "mandate"......

could he really mean "man- date". If I ever hear the Administration say that "I have a mandate" again, I will DIE laughing!

[fooj]

14. LMAO!!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Riding this Donkey]

17. I love it when you put in those green bouncing smilies all in a row like

that!



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[KoKo]

16. Kick for the "Sunday Night Reader Crowd" who need to catch up. n/t

[Al-CIAda]

18. kick

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

19. Gentle tap...Nah..kick!!!

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[Roland99]

20. All seems quiet on the Gannon front

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