The saga of Jeff Gannon/James Guckert is just plain wierd. He reminds me of the character Joe Pesci played in JFK.
As it turns out, James Guckert is the real name of Jeff Gannon. Reporters use ficticious names all the time -"nom de plume" is commonplace. So that's not too wierd.
It gets wierd when the guy is given regular "daily passes" to the White House press briefings for 2 years. The "hard-pass" or Congressional pass is apparently hard to come by and requires a serious background check. Maureen Dowd, the New York Times Columnist who has been reporting on the White House for over 20 years, had her pass taken back pending a new background check and, well, gee, it's taking a while for her to get it back. Wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that she's criticized the Bush Administration would it? The Daily pass apparently doesn't have as strenuous a background check, but then how can one person continually get Day-passes for 2 years? After 9/11???
What's more, if the Secret Service/DOJ/FBI/DHS (or whoever is doing the background checks now) had done even the most cursory check perhaps they would have discovered -as the folks at americablog.com did, that this guy was a gay prostitute. I'll type that again: this guy was a gay prostitute. OK *that's* wierd.
The fact that there was no background check is the key here. I mean "9/11 changed everything"- right?
I want to be careful here. The issue is NOT that Gannon/Guckert is gay -that's just a little wierd given the "organization" he came from. The cons would have you believe that the fact that folks on the left are discussing the fact that Gannon/Guckert is gay is somehow discriminating against him, or hypocritical. Horsesh*t -it wouldn't matter at all -except that the folks he was shilling for are so hell-bent on persuing their ANTI-gay agenda. As such it's hypocracy of the highest order on their part.
Additionally, it would be one thing if he were merely gay (still hypocritical but Ok whatever), or even if he were the lover of someone in the White House -sexual nepotism is nothing new, but this guy was a prostitute, - and while that fact slipped by the FBI/DOJ/DHS or whoever it WAS was uncovered by *bloggers* fer chrissakes!!!! How the hell does a guy like that get to ask the president anything?
WTF is going on in that White House?
And that's not even to mention that he was attending White House briefings a mere month after the phony news organization he works for came into existence!!
Of course the "liberal media" are all over this story and are...Oh...wait...where are they?
I repeat: WTF?
That old song by The Crass ("WTF")keeps going through my mind.
Read More:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/9/191334/0754
http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/gannon.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14148-2005Feb10.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/281982p-241637c.html
http://mediamatters.org/archives/search.html?topic=Jeff%20Gannon
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