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Oh, children! All this gay boy drama around the White House. Didn't Nancy have some queens causing some mischief up in there back in the day....or was that Queen Elizabeth?
Anyway....the story is that some twisted right-wing-self-loathing homo lobbed soft "balls" (ahem) at the Prez and his Press Secretary (codeword bottom) while pushing the President's agenda in bogus news stories and articles. Bogus news stories channeled from the Oval Office?!? Pish Posh!
NPR : Conservative Reporter Resigns Amid Controversy
Liberal bloggers have disclosed that Gannon, who has little previous journalism experience, was easily granted a coveted White House press pass -- even though he did not work for a traditional or established news organization. He also routinely asked "softball" questions at press conferences. There are also allegations that Gannon is linked to Web sites with homoerotic themes.
Folks are hollering for a Prosecution: We Demand a Special Prosecutor for "Jeff Gannon"
It is obvious that there was a conspiracy between "Gannon," McClellan, and other top White House officials to run "smear" campaigns against White House "enemies" and to interfere with tough questions by real White House reporters. This is unacceptable in a Democracy.
This fella is all over it: AMERICAblog
It's a long and sordid tale, but let me give it to you in a nutshell. Mr. Gannon's home page is JeffGannon.com. Well, JeffGannon.com is owned by a person and company that owns the following Web addresses as well:
Hotmilitarystud.com
Militaryescorts.com
Militaryescortsm4m.com
And for those of you who are really straight or really clueless, "m4m" is a gay online term for men who are looking to have sex with other men, and "escort" means prostitute. And being a military escort is also against the Uniform Code of Military Justice in at least two different ways, if not more.
And this site points out a bigger issue than Dubya's soft balls: Daily Kos
"Jeff Gannon" from fake news agency "Talon News" was cited by the Washington Post as having the only access to an internal CIA memo that named Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as a covert CIA agent. Gannon, in a question posed to Wilson in an October 2003 interview, referred to the memo (to which no other news outlet had access, according to the Post). Gannon subsequently has been subpoenaed by the federal grand jury looking into the Plame outing.
Shit....we all know that queens can't keep secrets.
Posted February 9, 2005 10:10 PM