"If, during the Clinton administration, a fake reporter
from a Democrat front organization, using a false name, had been
exposed as attending White House press conferences it would have been a
national scandal.
If he had then been shown to be a gay prostitute, the
scandal could have threatened a Democrat presidency. With 'Gannon' and
Bush there has been no such outcry. The mainstream media has approached
the story warily, while right-wing organisations such as Fox News have
largely ignored it."
For two years Jeff Gannon cut an
unobtrusive figure at White House press conferences. The shaven-headed,
craggily handsome man worked for an obscure news agency called Talon
News, known for its conservative sympathies. He was often the subject
of jokes by colleagues on weightier news organisations. No one is
laughing now, because Gannon was far from being a harmless distraction.
He was writing under a false name and working for a Republican front
organisation. Suddenly, his 'softball' questions to White House
officials looked less like eccentricities and more like plotting by an
administration which has frequently displayed a dark mastery of the
arts of press control. When it emerged that Gannon was also linked to
gay prostitution websites and might be a gay prostitute himself, the
scandal as to how he was allowed daily access to the White House grew
even murkier. The American media is now being forced to confront the
possibility that Gannon, whose real name is James Guckert, was simply a
Republican plant, used by officials, including President George W Bush,
to ask easy questions in difficult press conferences.
This is growing evidence of a White House campaign to bypass
or control the media in its everyday presentation of government policy
, which included paying one journalist hundreds of thousands of dollars
to promote its policies. [more]
Sample Guckert/Gannon/HotMilitaryStud.com Question: "Senate Democratic leaders have painted
a very bleak picture of the U.S. economy. Harry Reid [the Senate
Democratic leader] was talking about soup lines, and Hillary Clinton
was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse. Yet, in
the same breath, they say that Social Security is rock-solid and
there’s no crisis there. How are you going to work—you said you’re
going to reach out to these people—how are you going to work with
people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality? " [more]
Wonkette Offers $ Reward.Wonkette.com
is offering a "$10,000 reward to anyone that can provide hard proof
(photos, phone pictures, locks of hair, DNA on a suit) that Jeff Gannon
had ANY sexual -- or romantic -- relationship with any top-ranking
officials here in Washington." [more]
Christian right Hypocrites Have Nothing to Say about Gannon Affair [more]
