Was Gannon a 'boy toy' for visiting world leaders?

[DoYouEverWonder]

The Bush WH is usually a 9 - 5 operation, so I thought it might be significant to look at the times that Gannon exited after 5:00 PM.

Gannon stayed late at least 13 times. A few things that stand out for these dates are:

1. Bush was in the WH on those days.

2. On many of these days, Jeff went to a mid day briefing and then spent most of the afternoon and early evening at the WH before checking out.

3. On a majority of these days, Bush was hosting foreign dignitaries in the afternoon after the breifing, including Tony Blair.

So did Bush hire Gannon for his 'entertainment' skills?

Considering the fact that Gannon is a self-admitted gay prostitute, I would speculate that Gannon was hired by the WH for more than his writing abilities. The whole jounalist bit, might have just been a ploy to sneak a male prostitute into the WH when the Bush's were 'entertaining'.

I wonder how many world leaders got to enjoy his proverbial 8" cut? Naughty boys.

[sniffa]

1. huh

you may be onto something.

[Quakerfriend]

3. Yes, you may in fact be onto something big.

We will get to the bottom of this sooner or later!

[sniffa]

12. i'm on top of it

[DoYouEverWonder]

14. Some of these events would have been very high security

how did Gannon get the level of clearance that would have been required to get invited?

[LynneSin]

19. How did he get into the WH Press Conferences over 200+ times

with a fake name & news organization.

Trust me he had clearance all around

[Catherine Vincent]

47. You're a top too?

Woof!

[President Jesus]

2. DU = 'Jeff Gannon Cult' (nt)

[thebigidea]

6. about as witty as a urinal cake

[President Jesus]

31. that was witty...sure put me in my place.

take a look at the tumber of posts to this thread, and the daily Gannon threads on DU. It's an embarrassment.

Nobody gives a shit about this total nobody.

[Name removed]

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[President Jesus]

44. You need to get out more often.

The ONLY people obsessed with this nonsense are at DU. Hell, dKos community doesn't even harp on it anymore, and they were the biggest chest-beaters while the story was 'hot.'

It's over.

[DoYouEverWonder]

37. It's more interesting

then Michael, Terri or Laci and certainly a lot more important.

[Orangepeel]

42. Nobody cared about Monica either, until the right wing pseudo-press pushed

and pushed and pushed.

Personally, I don't think that the Gannon "story" is anything. But it is fine with me to have the left wing equivalent of Drudge and such harp on it.

Turn over enough rocks and you might find something.

[President Jesus]

43. yeah, and Monica was such an important issue for the good of the nation

I absolutely loathe Democrats who feel the need to be as disugting as extreme Republicans.

[DoYouEverWonder]

45. What is extreme about what I have posted here?

Gannon is an admitted and documented male prostitute. He had frequent access to the Bush White House way beyond the access that comes with a press day pass. HE was allowed into the White House for events other the press conferences and briefings. Who inside the WH gave his this access?

I've opened a can of worms that goes all the way to the top. That's what's important. Gannon is just another jerk caught in the middle.

[HamdenRice]

34. If you want to understand why this is so important ...

maybe the very best analysis of the scandal was written, surpisingly, by sex writer Susie Bright. With her inside knowledge of the sex trade, her blog entry about Bulldog is nothing less than brilliant:

http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2005/03/aggressive_verb.html

Well, this is certainly the case with high class sexual services... and that is why anyone who’s ever done sex work understands that Jeff is not some wacky fluke... that the only way his access happened was because Gannon was dialed in, connected via his cock, to all the right people. The reason he got his little laminated press card was because someone was plying his favors.

...

Bulldog, if he is anything like other gay hookers, has been at this for years, and has grown into his present persona. He moved up into a position a younger man wouldn’t have, where he learned a lot of dirt about people because he was fucking them and getting high with them. He advertised that he likes “to party,” which in sex ad jargon means that he was up for doing speed/ecstasy/cocaine. He would do a little bump with you, or more. This infers he got to know his client’s drug preferences as well as their erotic ones.

...

I am convinced Bulldog got into the press corps because someone was deeply in love with him, i.e, with the fantasy he provides. Others in the game saw what he could be used for. Jeff's client wanted more of Jeff, he wanted preferential status, he wanted promises. Gannon, like any pro with a big fish on the line, was growing weary of diamonds and furs.

A mature hooker wants something that will lead to independence; like property, inheritance rights, or a new career. The ultimate way to win your hooker’s favors is by offering something that gives them the same kind of independence that you, the civilian, possess.

[DoYouEverWonder]

35. Could it be that Bush used guys like Gannon on purpose?

Is this why most world leaders put up with him and are not willing to say anything bad about Bush?

Bush knew how to put them in compromising positions and before they knew it, they were beholden to Bush to keep quiet because Bush now knew enough about them to ruin their political careers forever.

Very likely this is one of the ways Bush gets what he wants from people. Get them by the balls, literally and figuratively, and they can't say no when you want to invade another country or make Wolfowitz head of the World Bank or...

[SmokingJacket]

46. Very smart essay.

Rings true.

I think she nailed it. So to speak.

[mopaul]

4. all you liberals can do is attack a good man's reputation

the republicans invented that, so cut it out!

[MADem]

5. Actually, I do think he was giving fringe benefits

...but my money is on Scott McClellan, son of the former Austin mayor, and frequenter of Austin gay bars, and new husband to a woman with whom he conducted a "long distance relationship"....not that there's anything wrong with that.

Did anyone find out if that Guckert woman in Texas is any relation to JimmyJeff? Say, a beloved aunt, an older sister, a close cousin?

It would put him in the state, and give him opportunity to meet up with Scottie...I just think where there is smoke there is quite likely (Gannon the) cannonfire....

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. Prostitutes usually have more

than one customer but I'm sure Scottie was one Gannon's favorites.

[MADem]

11. I think he was the whore with a heart of gold

...and I think it was LUV. And he'd do ANYTHING for his Scottie, and they were off to the races from there.

The look that Scottie gives "Jeff" in the questioning is not to be missed. Find that bit of tape on the web, and have a new, fresh look at it. It has been said of me and born out over the course of many, many decades that I have very good instincts when it comes to reading people, and I read more there than a press secretary-fake reporter relationship.

[DoYouEverWonder]

16. If Jeff is doing Scottie

it wouldn't be at the WH. Scottie and Jeff both have comfortable apartments far away from the high security of the WH.

[MADem]

20. Scottie has a WIFE, and people KNOW HIM

You do NOT want people seeing anyone go in and out of your place, especially if you have a recognizable face. Christ, when George Stephanopolous goes out for a donut and coffee, someone emails it to [e-mail] or the I Hate DC blog. And you don't think someone would tip off the Enquirer if they knew that Scott McClellan was visiting that odd bald guy down the hall, and staying ALL NIGHT? Or if some bald guy was at his place, and staying all night?? Hell, that tidbit alone, without even a bland photo, would be worth a couple months rent, at least! If you let the Enquirer reporters stage their nefarious work out of your apartment, your rent could be paid for a year or more!

The best time to get busy is after the daystaff leaves. And the Bush WH doesn't work overtime, unlike the Clinton years where people were there until ten, ten thirty as a matter of routine.

You have an office with a door that locks, and the place is like a tomb. Access is limited, even if you were discovered, you're all on the same team, who is gonna tell???

[Frederik]

7. His college mates

Wrote something about him having "serviced" Tony Blair, didn't they?

[sabra]

18. I believe it was "entertaining"

[enid602]

29. Gannon

According to current frat memebers at his West Chester, PA alma mater, Gannon boasted (a few years ago)that he had to cut short his attendance of a frat recruitment event to return to Washington to meet with Blair. This return coincided with Blair's visiting Washington.

[hlthe2b]

9. Cross check against Pickle's schedule!

:evilgrin: Was she away from the WH?

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. Probaby not

The common thread seems to be that Bush was hosting some important delgation at the WH later in the day or evening.

[DoYouEverWonder]

13. Here are a couple of examples

05/08/03
Entry 01:09:01 PM
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Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:45 P.M. EDT

Later today the President will make remarks at a briefing for Asian-Pacific Americans and he will sign an executive order dealing with insular affairs. And then this afternoon, in a celebration at the White House, the President will welcome the foreign ministers of seven new NATO nations.



05/14/03
Entry 05:15:30 PM
Exit 06:56:06 PM

Press Briefing with Ari Fleischer 12:35 P.M. EDT

Then the President proceeded to have his normal morning briefings. And then this evening, the President will welcome the new President of South Korea to the White House for their first face-to-face visit. During the meetings and then the dinner that's following, I anticipate that they will talk about strengthening the United States-Korean alliance



07/17/03
Entry 04:43:47 PM
Exit 06:13:35 PM

Press Briefing by Scott McClellan 12:36 P.M. EDT

Finally, the President very much looks forward to welcoming Prime Minister Blair to the White House this afternoon. The Prime Minister is a strong leader who is a great friend of the American people.

[PATRICK]

15. Other possibilities in a rational

cloak and daggers world include: liaisons with staffers of said dignitaries and exchange of information, compromising pictures so that when Gannon's cover is ever blown, voila instant embarrassing photos, innocent or not, including politicians who also flock to these welcome wagon meetings. It helps to confuse the actual targets in fact being foreign or domestic.

Which brings up another research question. Are there any other low level Bushco sleaze constituting a team that manage to all show up at these functions or other locations- together?

Male prostitutes are probably more in use for old cloak and dagger ops than Mata Haris because they repel suspicion and notice. Considering he moved into the journalism biz after a lot of these contacts may have been to let previous customers see him in a public, televised job with an active typewriter. Getting caught was not necessarily a bad thing under that scenario so long as he remains free of criminal charges.

Of course that is trying to think logical when a more arrogant sordid interpretation is that team Bush at particular times just liked having him around. To get clearance means a higher up got him in past security. Rove would have had to know and his current position would have made such things many times easier officially if there were some legitimate pretext such as being a top journalist. It sounds tailor made for convergent job promotions of both men.

[DoYouEverWonder]

17. The key is how did Gannon get clearance for these events

this isn't just getting a day pass for briefings with Bush's flunkies. This is clearance to the inner sanctum for important, high security events.

[PATRICK]

21. Right

There hasn't been a hint that the security passes are in general handed out to to other stooges. It has to be critically important and the security system has to be stifled from even researching the breach.

I think it is blackmail and influence to advance our scurrilous foreign policy which in reality is against the interests of most WH visitors. The UN spying and other such things is just the tip of the iceberg for which the open diplomacy(by comparison) of Powell is mere show and not what they depend on.

Until you noted the coincidence of visits I would have guessed Gannon was mainly there to compromise journalists and politicians. That would be Rove. The foreign visit times indicate the Cheney circle. He must take a lot of vitamins.

They operate firmly as a crime syndicate hiding behind a circular justification of Intel ops who in turn relied on criminals and criminal lessons for methodology.

[MADem]

24. Oh, sure they are

Laura's galpals from TX, Jenna and Babsie's college pals, they all get that sort of treatment. The press stays away from asking about that stuff because it goes into the realm of PERSONAL.

But Scottie did not live at the WH, and therein lies the rub. It is NOT personal with him, it's abuse of position, because he shouldn't be conducting his personal beeswax on the nation's dime.

[MADem]

22. I think the next FOIA, if answered, will tell us

...that JimmyJeff was NOT just a "day pass" guy, as claimed, he was a 30 day access guy. The 30 day access guys are guys that come in to do an odd job, like say, painting, or fixing something, or doing a specific task that once done, is done. I think he may have gotten in on day passes, but I also think he had 30 day clearance on occasion, as well. The next response will tell the tale, if they deign to answer it at all...

Edit to get names straight!

[Cuban_Liberal]

23. He's NOT that attractive, frankly.

Speaking as a gay man, it's unlikely that he would be to the, errrrm.... 'liking' of multiple gay men. Trust me, our tastes are just as varied as any straight guys' are.

[MADem]

25. So, what do you think of my "It's LOVE" theory?

I wouldn't find him appealing, but I am not a gay man. But look at Charles and Camilla--there's obviously a strong attraction there, neither one is a pin up, and Charles, simply because of his position, could probably get a real hot mama if he so desired. But the love of his life looks like Don Imus in a dress.

That song "What is Love?" that they used to play on SNL is running through my head right now!!!!!!!!!!

[Cuban_Liberal]

26. The very thought makes me nauseous...

LOL!

:evilgrin:

[MADem]

27. I know, but put aside your nausea and give me your insight!

I'm dead serious. Everyone seems to have this impression that the preponderance of gay men just fuck around alot, but I have a gay cousin who has been with his partner for 35 years, and they have a great relationship. They are wedded, for all intents and purposes, and one is not complete without the other. It is TRUE LOVE, and it lasts. If my cousin came to a family event without his partner, we'd be worried--is he sick, are they fighting, that sort of thing...

I think that JimmyJeff and Scottie have been bitten by the love bug. Do you see this as even a possibility?

[Cuban_Liberal]

28. Sure, it's possible.

I've been in a committed relationship for 3 years myself, and it's certainly possible that those two are a couple.

[DoYouEverWonder]

30. Most gay men

are not admitted prostitutes with websites advertising their services. Gannon is a different sort of animal.

[MADem]

32. I agree with that

.....but can't a hooker fall in love?

[DoYouEverWonder]

33. If that's your theory

fine. But that was not the focus of my research. I think what I am finding has even bigger implications, then what Scottie might or might not have going on in his private life.

We are talking a major breech of US National Security and possibly the national security of our Allies.

We are talking about Gannon getting clearance at the highest levels to attend high security events.

We are talking about Gannon working for the Bush WH is a capacity that is not only immoral but illegal.

[PATRICK]

38. Romance would

actually be a redeeming feature or a distracting one. It does seem to fly against the nature of a cold cash operative with so much black bag potential. Gayness has little to do with the latter except in blackmail advantages.

They could cut their losses- it it WAS a problem- with a single "romance" distraction. It wouldn't be pleasant.

[DoYouEverWonder]

39. I think

that's why someone keeps harping on that.

[Beam Me Up]

41. No. A hooker--especialy if he is being used for espionage purposes--

can NOT fall in love.

[NYCGirl]

40. There has to be lots of younger and better looking hustlers available. NT