South Dakota Paper Probes Senator's (THUNE) Link to Jeff Gannon

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South Dakota Paper Probes Senator's Link to Jeff Gannon

By E&P Staff

Published: March 06, 2005 1:30 PM ET

NEW YORK When the national media bothers to cover the James Guckert case at all, it generally ocuses on the reporter/escort’s access to White House briefings for two years, operating under an alias (Jeff Gannon) and on behalf of a clearly partisan organization (GOPUSA). But there are local spinoffs as well.

Today, the Rapid City (S.D.) Journal examined the Guckert/Gannon links to the 2004 U.S. Senate contest in that state, which sent the Democratic leader, Sen. Tom Daschle, packing. The newspaper’s probe followed reports in E&P and elsewhere about Gannon’s apparent links to political operatives and bloggers in the state who are credited with helping to elect John Thune to the post.

According to the paper, Thune said last week that he barely knew Gannon. He said he appeared on Gannon's radio show once early in the campaign and later may have done another interview for a print piece. But Thune said “his campaign didn't pay Gannon for his reporting services and didn't coordinate its campaign strategy with him, as some critics have implied.”

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000827954

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1. So, who was on top? Thune or "Gannon"

[burn the bush]

4. Gannon says he's a top only.

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7. Right! and Bush says he's a rancher..if the $$$'s right, change positions

[paineinthearse]

2. And the E&P's source?

My money is on our own NASHUA ADVOCATE.

NA :yourock:

[Arkana]

3. Geez, was there a Republican Senator or WH staffer this guy

DIDN'T have in his client Rolodex??????

[roguevalley]

5. This is from the guy who posts from the White House:

TBRNews.org

The Voice of the White House

March 2, 2005: “ I must confess that I haven’t had so much entertainment in all my career working for the Republicans, both in and out of the White House and for various papers. This “Gannon” story has one half of the staff, the senior members, in a state of gibbering terror lest they be “outed:,” and the rest in a state of growing outrage. We have a lot of Nice Christian People here working in the offices and they previously have had a great devotion to Bush but now, with the revelations about “Gannon the Male Whore” growing, many of them are becoming very disillusioned. I know for a fact that wealthy contributors are calling here daily, screaming about “Gannon” and the Christian Right is knotting itself in agony over this. They, who loathe and despise all gays, are absolutely refusing to confront the obvious facts that a rampant and self-advertising gay whore and procurer was the poster boy of the Republican Right for at least three years.

No one with an IQ over ten believes that the Secret Service, in checking over “Gannon’s” press applications would have missed what an army of bloggers discovered in ten minutes on the internet. Certainly, in all fairness, the majority of the staff here at the White House had no idea that “Gannon” was a raging faggot nor that there were others of the same persuasion in control of both the President and the staff here. Rove is feared but loathed by most of the people here because of his absolute viciousness but now because of his “close association” with “Gannon” of the fake “Talon” agency, his reputation is rapidly declining and those whom he has trashed are now sharpening their knives for him. Oh yes, there were a number of us who knew the truth but we kept it to ourselves. By the way, if, as is strongly rumored, Guckert even thinks about selling certain very confidential tape recordings he made with rampant but secret gays both here and in top circles of the GOP to anyone, he will be a dead man before the sun goes down.

Still, this pathetic whore had delusions of grandeur while he was here. Very close to George Bush and Rove, he thought he owned this place and although my fifteen year old son can write a much better story, he thought he was a real power. “Gannon” was a tool, from the first to the last. He was known to be a practicing homosexual but was hired on and kept because of this and nothing else. “Gannon” was, in essence, a high-level pimp for all the Republican gays in Congress and the government. There is even a very strong rumor that he was involved with Tony Blair and other foreign visitors and was encouraged to tape these encounters so Rove could blackmail them.

All of this vicious mess is very slowly but surely coming close to the President himself and the plotters and schemers are starting to twitch and sweat. Bush was reelected by the Moral Majority people and now that they are beginning to discover that they newly-minted God has feet of rotting clay, there is great discomfiture among the electorate and, very importantly, the Congressional mid-term elections are coming up and the fury of the conned Religious Right has the very real prospect of doing bad things to Bush-supporting Republicans. Rove is, to be blunt, the evil genius here and, speaking as a Republican, something ought to be done about kicking him out of the White House and making him take most of his inverted staff with him. He is not only bringing terrible discredit onto my party but, in the end, on the nation as well.

Here is another piece of thrilling news, leaving the fudge-packers alone for now. A press release, concocted right here in the Baboon Palace claims that Porter Goss is complaining how hard he must work preparing lengthy and intellectual daily intelligence briefs for George Bush, who is an “avid reader” of such. This is puffery at its worst. Goss is an idiot and Bush won’t read anything but occasional portions of the sports pages. Next, the flacks here are working on a sickening but hilarious story about Our Beloved President’s work on a deeply introspective book on the Future of America. I have seen some of Bush’s original notes and memos and he has the brains of an earwig. But by the time Fat Karl the Eunuch gets through “enhancing” them, at least the secretaries can read them.”

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If even a pittance of this is true. It would certainly explain guckert's bravado.

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6. Interesting

I can't wait to see what happens through this. On Rove's staff would that include Bush though because doesn't Bush work for Rove in a since? :shrug: