The rest—namely, the conclusion—is all speculation and innuendo:
[..] It’s looking increasingly like [the Bush White House] made a decision to allow a hooker to ask the President of the United States questions. They made a decision to give a man with an alias and no journalistic experience access to the West Wing of the White House on a “daily basis.” They reportedly made a decision to give him – one of only six – access to documents, or information in those documents, that exposed a clandestine CIA operative. Say what you will about Monika Lewinsky – a tasteless episode, “inappropriate,” whatever. Monika wasn’t a gay prostitute running around the West Wing. What kind of leadership would let prostitutes roam the halls of the West Wing? What kind of war-time leadership can’t find the same information that took bloggers only days to find?
Why, I sure don’t know the answer to that, John. But I can tell you this much: I eagerly await the investigation into the private lives of other White House reporters. Terry Moran, for instance, looks to me like he keeps a few pair of rubber undies in the closet. And Helen Thomas? My God, I bet there were nights in the late 70s when that sawed-off horny pit bull was about drowning in Lebanese flopper.
So. Get to it, CITIZEN JOURNALISTS! We want MORE GAY WITCH HUNTING! THE FUTURE OF THE REPUBLIC DEPENDS UPON IT!
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Bill INDC has more:
I haven’t come to a definitive conclusion about the innate newsworthiness of outing an allegedly former gay escort that had day credentials to White House briefings (escort services aren’t even illegal on their face), but I’m sure of one thing: these bloggers are pathetic. If I had information that Dan Rather ran a bondage cat house out of his New York Penthouse during Rathergate, I don’t think that I’d exactly make it a centerpiece of my work, and I certainly wouldn’t dig for it. Or be proud of ruining the guy’s life.
For my part, I’m interested in Paul Leddy, who released files and photos that “Gannon” allegedly sent him for use in setting up these porn websites. Anyone able to comment on the legality of releasing such material to a third party? Or is this just bad business practice and nothing more?
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update: Mike Krempasky weighs in.
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update 2: Related thoughts from Ace.
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update 3: The Raw Story speculates:
Sources have intimated [“Jeff Gannon’s”] possible relationships with members of the White House staff.
RAW STORY has been told that the White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan visited a gay bar in Austin, Texas, on March 19, 1995. The date was placed exactly as a local memorial service was held on the same day.
The source, who would only comment on condition of anonymity, reserved comment on whether McClellan was actually gay, but said he was frequently seen at gay clubs. Another source also confirmed this account.
“He was often seen in gay clubs in Austin, Texas and was comfortable being there,†the Texan said. “He’s been seen in places that normal people who are looking for heterosexual relationships are not seen alone.â€Â
According to a White House transcript, McClellan is married, and Gannon sent the press secretary a wedding card. The White House, however, declined to comment.
Actively, eagerly, and publically smearing a White House Press Secretary based on the word of a couple of unnamed sources and a dubious 1995 story: this is how thoroughly depraved a certain segment of the American left has become. To these rancid ideologues, tabloid gossip and gay baiting have become legitimate tools to use in their increasingly fevered attempt to dismantle the administration they so patently despise. And though they’ll rationalize every single contemptible thing they say or do—knowing that they are protected by a cult of ends-justify-the-means groupthink—make no mistake: they know what they’re doing is despicable.
I have nothing but the utmost contempt for these people.
I can’t wait to see what Sullivan has to say about Democratic witchhunting of gays.
No gay is safe from Democrat bloggers.
Gee, no need for any like … evidence? Of course, my word is “labor” – obviously the software is pointing out that the Dem shill bloggers are not doing any on this story. Instead, we get campfire stories about boogymen.
It’s not that he’s gay, man, it’s the
Hypocrisy (TM)…..
God I hate that lame excuse for gay bashing!
Exactly, Gail. Because, you know, gays HAVE TO ALL THINK THE SAME WAY, or else they are inauthentic and deserving of ridicule. Because of the “hypocrisy.”
Please, have mercy! All I need in my life are stories about Helen Thomas’ sex life. I am afraid, very afraid. Spammer word, “yes”
For full entertainment value, you have to read the conspiracy theories in the comments. “Is Gannon fucking Rove? How many times has Gannon cornholed Scott McClellan? KEEP DIGGING.”
so this was the BIG story?
what a let down. How pathetic is that? I expected more of these lefties.
for the sake of argument –
1. The comparision to Clinton (made more eloquently by Digby) and his sex scandals is dumb. White House Intern/President makes the whole deal sexual harrasment. Lying about that under oath makes it an impeachable offense.
Had Clinton simply hired a prostititute – gay or otherwise – to ‘relax’ him before his meeting with Arafat, there’d’ve been no impeachment.
2. Gannon was unarmed at the time he was in the White House briefing room. Neither Bush nor McClelland were with in 8” (uncut) of Jeff. So safety wasn’t an issue.
Well, as I noted in my blog – For those who are keeping score:
The Right: Eason Jordan, Dan Rather for fudging stories in order to further their partisan views and agendas, i.e. lying to the public.
The Left: Jeff Who? for…what? Being gay? I thought the left was, like, all about gayness and stuff.
I wondered about Leddy’s liability, too. It would all depend on the terms of the contract between him and Gannon (assuming Gannon really is the “Jeff” he remembers). In the absence of a written contract, state law would provide the default terms. Not sure offhand which state’s law would apply, though, since I don’t believe Leddy’s address is given anywhere in the post.
“REPORT: Gannon frots Cheney while a horny Andy Card looks on! DIG DEEPER!”
This is hilarious.
Did you read the comments? They thought he might have been SILENCED by the man because he had not posted in a a couple of hours. oooh. aaah. The rovanaunt moves and crushes it’s enemies beneath it’s feet all the while hearing the squealing of their life partners.
let the mocking begin.
Go Jeff Go !!
I might try digging around on this Paul Leddy angle. BECAUSE AS A CITIZEN JOURNALIST I SHALL LET NO GAY EX-ESCORT WITH A DAY PASS GO UNAVENGED!
I’m confused. Hasn’t it already been established that Gannon is gay? Maybe I’m just ahead of the curve.
PS : My wife thinks Gannon is (and I quote) “smoking hot”.
Okay, so an intern actually – you know – “going down” on a president (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) is the equivalent of a former gay prostitute asking a question in a crowded room full of reporters?
I seriously need to adjust my meds, because I’m just *not* seeing it.
Not sure about the legal issue, but there could be an invasion of privacy issue, depending on the state.
So I can assume that Reginald Kenneth Dwight (aka Sir Elton John) – a gay man under an assumed name – is also unwelcome by the left?
Hmmmm. Is it the gay part or the assumed name part that’s the problem? Depending on that answer, half of Hollywood is also no longer welcome by the Dems… Hmmmm.
I can’t actually read that site right now – apparently, nobody’s sat this guy down and gently explained to him just why major scoops should always be packaged in a, you know, work safe manner – so can somebody explain to me what the aforementioned scoop actually is?
Bryan, maybe I am dense but I am not sure why anyone asking questions would be an illegal act. But I guess that was your point.
So being gay is bad to the left and asking questions. The questions thing jives with the way progressives run thing once they get into power.
Capt.
Sorry. That was my point. The Gannon is a gay ex-prostitute at a press conference angle is *not* the equivalent of an intern “servicing” (wink, wink, nudge, nudge, saynomore) a sitting (or leaning?) president.
I guess my meds must have affected my humor bone, too.
Start digging into the backgrounds of any attractive female newsies who work the White House beat. I bet nude pics and sugar daddies are more common than regular church-going.
I WANT those WorkingBoyz!
HEH:
WELL! I thought it was Rather amusing ….
MisterPundit: Smoking hot is right! Tell your wife she has great taste!
If I wasn’t already partnered to a hot, gay Republican of my own, I would he all over Gannon!
”What kind of leadership would let prostitutes roam the halls of the West Wing?”
Taft?
Don’t forget Kennedy!
They want the head of his assumed boyfriend, is all.
If only my turing word were “entendre”
fwiw, Jeff Gannon/Guckert is a pitcher, not a catcher.
Further proof that conservatives, even gay ones, would rather screw than be screwed.
I dunno Jeff, but methinks we’ve encountered a coward because “conclusions” is not rising to the bait!
You guys just don’t get it, do you ? It’s not that he’s gay, it’s because he’s gay AND he asked the President a question that didn’t begin with “Lying liar”. Elvis has left the building, man ! This Gannon dude is completely off the queer Rez, so he MUST BE PUNISHED.
It’s typical of you hypocritical wingnuts to focus on the gay escort thing, when John is making impotant decisions to reveal the truth about homo prostitutes in the West Wing. He’s speaking truth to power, man. And how gay is that ?
Feel pretty stupid now, don’t you ?
Ahhh! This will do!
this just in
and unimpeachable source has documented evidence of Jeff gannon performing hot carls and reach around after hours at the WH in exchange for press passes, all for the amusement of Rove
tonight, on CBS news
Ok, ok, I’ll do it!!
This is just hilarious. These folks should be strapped into a chair and forced to watch “The Contender” for 7 consecutive days.
Luna Chiroptera, you’re such an effing MOONBAT!
Has anyone thought to ask Barney Frank
his opinion on all this?
Spam word:members.
”conclusion” is back, but he’s defaced/erased all penises ( or is that penii ???) Well, I for one, am terribly disappointed!
not me, that stuff gives me the willies. ar ar.
You’re going to hurt for that!
I think that Aravois went overboard on this one and I feel bad for Gannon… BUT… it’s hilarious seeing you wingers claiming that YOU would have taken the high road.
That’s a good one.
Hey, Liberal Avenger. I laughed at the outrage over Kid Rock, defended Ward Churchill’s right to make an academic dope out of himself, chastised Jonah Goldberg for mischaracterizing postmodernism, and argued that Andrea Yates should not have been convicted of murder.
You see, when I attack Oliver, it’s because I’ve actually read what’s on his site; do me the same courtesy. Or bugger off.
What the libs don’t seem to get (or are just outright ignoring) is that we went after both Jordan and Rather not because of what they did in their own, private lives. It was because of their acts and deeds performed in their very public, influential professional lives.
Jeff Gannon may or may not be gay. Big deal. Who cares? Apparently the liberal blogging establishment does. Gannon’s professional “violations” pretty much amount to asking the President right-leaning softball questions. If asking softball questions are an journalistic impeachable offence, then we need to lock Larry King and Barber Walters up pronto.
Oh, yeah, they have to be right-leaning softball questions.
anti-spam keyword: “services”
Under the proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage or any incidents of marriage, would it be okay to stiff a gay hooker? (I’m speaking of “not paying”, not… keep your minds out of the gutter!)
UNLEASH THE LAWYERS!!!
Gonna be a lot of people learning the term “libel per se” in the next few months.
I just hope that Gannon is able to get through this avalanche of leftwing hatred in one piece. I’m astonished at the level of persecution he has to endure at the hands of leftist homophobes. How times have changed.
Ok, this is what I have learned so far:
1) you can’t be gay and Republican
2) you can’t be gay and get a press pass
3) you can’t register domain names sexual in nature and be a Republican.
4) If you do the above, then the left will out you, spread rumours about you and make you quit your job.
5) No one outside cyberspace cares.
6) Lefties have obviously never heard of Southpark Republicans. Geeze, don’t they read our stuff?
As a CITIZEN NON-JOURALIST, I demand to know what you, Goldstein, have against smoked sausages!
Nice change of the heading btw, even for irony, that was a little harsh.
Not that good, right-thinking Americans object to making fun of the ghey-bobs.
So wait a ‘sec? McClellan goes into a gay bar once, and therefore he must be queer? How the hell does that work? Is this like some sort of “one drop” rule for homosexuals?
By that standard, I must be as queer as a three-dollar bill. I’ve been to a few gay bars in my time. I’ve got gay friends, and sometimes they prefer not to have to deal with homophobes and angry women in straight establishments.
Well that…and it’s a lot easier for beauty-deficient men like myself to meet the straight ladies in a gay bar than most others. Hasn’t really helped so far, but one day my friends…
1.) Does The Liberal Avenger dare respond to Goldstein? And will it be a properly classy concession of principle or another snarky “you do it too!” load of nonsense?
2.) Don’t you see, Jeff? This Gannon story!! It’s all about the HYPOCRISY!! And the McClellan one too!! ‘Cause he’s a Republican!! And an anonymous person suggested he might be gay!! That justifies everything. You ‘wingers are pathetic whiners!
3.) The turn this has taken sickens me. What sickens me the most is that the lefty bloggers who are carrying this stuff out are most likely excusing themselves by gesturing towards the takedowns of Dan Rather or Jordan, and drawing a preposterously false equivalence between them to assuage their consciences. That they would distort so hideously in order to equate them represents, to me, the way in which desperation can end up warping one’s own moral faculties.
I commented this at Ace’s, I think yall should think about this as well.
I think it is time for all of us rightwing bloggers to have a SEXUAL OUTING day. Let’s just get it over with before the leftie bloggers get to us.
Let’s just a pick a day. (Today would have been a good one, but too late for that) Anyway, say…..March 15th, so we can research our memory banks, and just have “This is my sexual history day”
Imagine the hits!!! Then it will be all out there and if any of us become FAMOUS, it will be old news. Who is with me??????…
*note-no pictures need accompany said history.
*I know this could mean real trouble for Jeff, but at least it would be out of the way.
I’m still smarting from last night, when a couple of lefty interlopers called my ugly and no one came to my defense. That, on top of having lost the Blogger Babe thing, has forced me to reconsider my entire self-image (of a very hip stud beast who just happens to be strapped like mule).
I didn’t come to your defense? Oh. Sorry. I was busy.
It’s okay, Jeff. I still think you’re handsome.
(Not that I’m gay.)
(Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)
Well, I didn’t see that one Jeff or I WOULD have come to your defense, no doubt about it. Just like you came to my defense…oh…well, nevermind..
I would have. Just tell me which post and I am THERE FOR YOU BUDDY!
By the way, a confidential source has just innformed me that Ari Fleischer once attended and furthermore enjoyed a Broadway show!
Fear not, Jeff. There are many support mechanisms to maintain your self image as a virile stud. First get a big handgun – at least .44 caliber, with an 8” or more barrel. Then, get a Corvette or a Harley. And finally (you don’t need this, but Webb probably does) a good wig or those way cool rows of hairplugs.
That, and a breezy Caio, bella ! is all you need to be in like Flint. The chicks will just go crazy, man.
Well, it was the Hawk’s “bris” revelation that made me hesitate!
[Keyword: “pressure” nuff said!]
Ok, I found that post with all those mean needing glasses lefties. The “Oliver Willis finalizes his purchase of a brand new cherry-red Hyundai Accent GT” one.
I told them.
You can always count on me Jeff. I’m a loyal rightwinger for hot bloggers.
Does this mean I need to get rid of my collection of Hummel figurines?
I think that Aravois went overboard on this one and I feel bad for Gannon… BUT… it’s hilarious seeing you wingers claiming that YOU would have taken the high road.
Jesus-Freakin-H-Christ-on-a-PogoStick! Are you schtooooooopid!?!
Have you even read this blog? Sometimes I want to rip Goldstien’s dick off and beat him to death with it because he can be so damn, er, liberal, if you catch my drift and I know you don’t.
Face it, if there’s one thing this blog doesn’t do, it’s claim to take the high road. And if you had ever been here before you would know that.
word: long (oh yea)
BREAKING: RUMSFELD COMMANDEERS GANNON’S CANNON FOR OVAL OFFICE BUKKAKE! SEZ BUSH: “IT’S MAN-TASTIC!”
My apologies for not coming to your defense last night, Jeff. I think I was the only female around when you were slandered, but I thought the accusation of non-hotness seemed too ludicrous to merit a response.
And,Diana, hey, Iowahawk just confirms what everybody says about Jeff. He slices like a hammer.
Oh Jesus did I just say that? Oh well, it’s Valentine’s Day and I just got roses
I mean, that whole holding Jeff’s dick in my hand is wholly a violent thing, there’s absolutely no homo-erotic undercurrents to that desire.
Honest.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
Anyway, all seriousness aside, do you think that there are a lot of Washington reporters sitting in front of their computers with beads of sweat forming as they see the hole that the lefty bloggers are digging for them? Mumbling to themselves “Don’t go there, for Christ’s sake DON’T GO THERE!”
How many of them will withstand that scrutiny?
I wonder how many hacks are working overtime to dig up any dirt possible on Condi.
Worth noting: Kos, who’s a lawyer, has no link to the AmericaBlog post on his frontpage. Is Zuniga heading for the lifeboats?
I laughed at the outrage over Kid Rock, defended Ward Churchill’s right to make an academic dope out of himself, chastised Jonah Goldberg for mischaracterizing postmodernism, and argued that Andrea Yates should not have been convicted of murder.
Well you sound like you’ve been coming down on the side of decency on all of these issues. If that is truly the case, then I have no reason to expect that you wouldn’t do the same with Gannon.
As I stated before, I think things have gone too far with Gannon. While I can’t help but find it mildly amusing, mostly I feel bad for the poor bastard. Nobody deserves what he is getting now.
Liberal Avenger – it was and is the case.
Gail … was only concerned about the pain, “blogger swordfights” and glow-in-the-dark condoms, possibly contributing to the deterioration of a pre-existing condition.
Oh,the ephemerality of it all.
If that is truly the case,
Goodness LA, you ARE a smarmy POS, aren’t you?
The Liberal Avenger: Good on you.
Turing word: “given,” as in “props given to you.”
a very hip stud beast who just happens to be strapped like mule
Jeff, while mules might have schlongs like a miner’s forearm, they’re sterile.
Just sayin’, is all.
HEH! my next keyword is “LONG” …..
Although come to think of it, you shoulda read the frickin’ blog before assuming the blogger’s stances.
Worth noting: Kos, who’s a lawyer, has no link to the AmericaBlog post on his frontpage. Is Zuniga heading for the lifeboats?
Allah, I told you about spending time over there. You’re going to catch something.
Lib Avenger, well, you’re the guys who seem to have a problem with his gayness.
You don’t like it, then stop.
That Allah knows bukkake is disturbing to me. I bet there is a fatwa being drawn up by a group of wizened iranian mullahs even now.
This story is strange: an escort/whore with little or no press experience sets up or gets some connection to a right-wing news service, becomes a White House reporter under a different name, gets access to classified knowledge of the whole Valerie Plame case, and then, when he is revealed to be a gay former escort, the issue is leftist queerbaiting?
Pardon me asking, but which party is it that made the biggest stink against gays in the military being a national security risk? Which party most strongly insists that gays shouldn’t be allowed to be translators of classified information (even at a time when a few extra translators are hard to come by)? Which party has the most members who want to do everything possible to fight against even the recognition of gay relationships?
I know that there are idiotic social-conservative Democrats, too. But the moronic Republican social conservatives are much closer to power and thus much more dangerous (in my view).
I appreciate Goldstein’s comments that display his libertarian tendencies in regard to homosexuality (and really really enjoy the muff-diving references), but I can’t be sure if most Republicans–assuming Jeff is a Republican–think as he does. I am sure that there are plenty who aren’t content to live and let live.
This is a story about a fake journalist with a sleazy past inconsistent with the values George W. Bush claims to have. It’s being sold with crank-shots more than facts, but aside from the Scott MacClelland innuendo, the facts seem to be there.
Goodness LA, you ARE a smarmy POS, aren’t you?
You kiss your mom with that mouth, jackass?
The Plame angle is pure hookum.
Tom Maguire took DailyKOS to the cleaners. The whole Gannon connection has fallen apart.
http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2005/02/know_why_did_th.html
The whole escort/prostitution angle is based on the hearsay of one guy who has some pictures and spun a sad silly story behind. Don’t pretend you have a fact yet in this matter.
As for the fake names and credentials, there has been a long sad line of LIBERAL partisans with little or no journalistic credentials who have been trotted out for the public to help democratic presidents so let’s not pretend there is anything there also.
http://tvh.rjwest.com/archives/006759.html
David Geregen relies the story of JFK having a pet journalist (and everyone knew) that he used whenever he got in trouble.
from http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0502/13/rs.01.html
“GERGEN: I am sorry, I really have a hard time getting excited about this story. I think it’s trivial compared to paying off journalists like Armstrong Williams or others and giving them money to go out and support you. In this case, the White House has had a lot of wild cards in there over the years, and you well know that. And various presidents—President Kennedy made no bones of the fact that there was a woman from Texas who was sort of—who was a liberal, and she was out there in the audience, and when he got in trouble on a question, he’d always find her. He knew where she sat. And he turned to her in press conferences because she’d get him off the took. This has been going on for a long, long time.”
You lefties wouldn’t know a fact if it raped you in prison and made you wear women’s clothing.
Face it you got bupkis.
Just read some more stuff: it seems the Plame angle is a bit less than hardly-there. So it’s not as hypocritical as it first appeared.
Still really sleazy. Just not as hypocritical as it was at first glance.
no, he kisses your mom with that mouth.
Jon, most of your assumptions are below “hardly there.”
Lib Avenger, well, you’re the guys who seem to have a problem with his gayness.
How’s that?
You guys are the masters of the straw man attack. I don’t think that anyone has a problem with the fact that he is gay. The issue at hand is the fact that he is a gay prostitute – something that I personally find amusing and ironic but have no problem with. I don’t know what more I can say to properly convey the fact that I feel bad for the poor guy. Nobody should have to go through what he is going through.
“The issue at hand is the fact that he is a gay prostitute..”
LA – that is NOT an issue. You ever think that the poor guy is trying to put that life behind him, start afresh, a new career???? Hasn’t he served his time yet??
It’s not an issue here, yet he’s still getting dragged thru the mud by idiots who won’t let the past go!
Move on, babe, and let this guy alone.
[keyword “care” Right?]
I can rest easy knowing that Liberal Avenger is here to avenge Jeff Gannon from those nasty muck-racking masters of the straw man attack.
Er, wait, nevermind.
Well, let’s see what Mrky Mark and his Kos Funk bunch say to the charge shal we?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12640-2005Feb9.html
“Asked if digging into someone’s personal and business activities was proper retaliation, Moulitsas said: “If that’s what it took to really bring attention to him, it’s one of those unfortunate facts of reality in the way we operate today. It’s sex that really draws attention to these things.””
Well I guess that put’s paid to my assertion doesn’t it.
So is ken Starr back on Kos Xmas list. Seems he’s peddling the same sort of shit.
Oh that noble left. Never would they betray their principles for something so taudry.
HEH !!!!!!!!!! Jeez, that was easy!
<SEE! STIR THE POT, SHAKE THE SHEETS AND UP POPS THE FACE OF THE TRUE LIBERAL DEM!! He disappears! WELL, I’M IMPRESSED!!>
How amusing it is that Liberal Avenger’s standard of proof is so … malleable.
What makes me most nervous about this is the chilling effect on bloggers and CITIZEN JOURNALISTS everywhere. If this is the length that people will go to destroy a person, is anyone safe? Most people have some skeletons in the closet. Do you want to continue blogging and risk having those skeletons come out?
To me, the Gannon gay-hooker story, real or fake, serves no purpose but to destoy the guy for the horrible act of asking a softball question. He’s already quit, and the Plume alligations have nothing to do with this. This is just an attempt to destroy the guy – and possibly to warn other bloggers of what can happen if you dare express the wrong opinion.
turing word – force
Well, shit.
I’d heard Gannon had registered some domain names for gay escargot services and then I said to myself, “gay snails”? Hmm, I’d heard penguins were gay but snails?
I thought they were invertebrates. Oh, wait, maybe that has nothing to do with bone(rs).
no, he kisses your mom with that mouth.
Damn you Joe, you beat me to it.
And LA, you’re at the wrong blog to be trotting that out.
I don’t know what more I can say to properly convey the fact that I feel bad for the poor guy.
Uh, stop using him to make your worthless argments?
Tom, you snooze you lose
Liberal Avenger :
“As I stated before, I think things have gone too far with Gannon. While I can’t help but find it mildly amusing, mostly I feel bad for the poor bastard. Nobody deserves what he is getting now.”
Thank you. I have seen a couple of posters on the leftie blogs that seem to feel the same way you do. This thing is out of control and way too personal.
A similar situation presents itself with the Eason Jordan thing. Apparently (according to Howard Kurtz) CNN has been looking for a reason to get rid of Jordan because of rumours he had an affair with Daniel Pearl’s wife. So far rightwing blogs have resisted the urge to exploit this angle, and if they do I’m going to be really pissed about it. Jordan’s private life is none of our business, and it has nothing to do with what happened at Davos, or the whole covering up for Saddam Hussein thing.
I’m still waiting for the Kos Krew to start their detailed probing background investigations into other reporters with White House press credentials.
In particular, I’m really interested into what freaky sort of stuff Helen Thomas is into. I bet her parties are all about chips, dips, chains n’ whips.
Any second now…
Mad Anthony :
What makes me most nervous about this is the chilling effect on bloggers and CITIZEN JOURNALISTS everywhere.
Exactly. This makes all bloggers look like a bunch of snickering dolts. No doubt future discussion of “blogs” will make no distinction between leftwing and rightwing blogs but instead on how vicious and vile we all are.
I’d heard Gannon had registered some domain names for gay escargot services and then I said to myself, “gay snails� Hmm, I’d heard penguins were gay but snails?
Pfft. Everybody knows that penguins are <a target=_top HREF=”http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4264913.stm”>”Friends Of Dorothy”</A>
Strange. “Preview” screwed up the link.
What makes me most nervous about this is the chilling effect on bloggers and CITIZEN JOURNALISTS everywhere. If this is the length that people will go to destroy a person, is anyone safe? Most people have some skeletons in the closet. Do you want to continue blogging and risk having those skeletons come out?
Mad brings up a good point, but I’d turn it around. I don’t think Mainstream reporters really want the heat that would come from rumaging through the private lives of journalists. I knew plenty of journalists back in the day who had HUGE personal problems that would cause huge stigma were they put out for public consumption.
In short, that’s a two-way street, and the MSM is going to tread very carefully there.
As to the left-wing blogosphere, those folks don’t have any shame anyway, so it doesn’t matter if anyone finds out something shameful about them, unless it’s Oliver Willis’ life-size Ronald Reagan blow-up doll he keeps in his closet.
Jeff Gannon vs My Septic System.
I sympathize with Jeff Gannon’s blowback predicament. My morning constitutional was slowly flushed back into my bathtub. After four hours with the Roto-Rooter guys sneaking their snakes through my leachfield sinkpipes with all kinds of hideous loud contraptions, I got the prognosis. “You need a new $15,000 leach field.”
Then I read what these sick fucks are doing to Jeff Gannon, and I’m thinking, “That stinks!”
And after the day I’ve had, I know whereof I speak.
This is a story about a fake journalist with a sleazy past inconsistent with the values George W. Bush claims to have.
Ya, right! Lets clear the press room of everyone who doesn’t share the President’s values.
Ya, that’s what everybody wants . . .
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