"Gannon believes God bestowed a White House assignment on him..."

[sabra]

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100587.html

Jeff Gannon's seamy past leaked out months before he asked President Bush a loaded question during a news conference.

As a correspondent for the now-defunct Web site Talon News, says the forthcoming issue of Vanity Fair, Gannon was hammering Tom Daschle during the South Dakotan's campaign to hold onto his Senate seat. Daschle aides traced an e-mail -- ostensibly from a constituent who wanted reaction to one of Gannon's stories -- to an Internet profile of Gannon, wearing only dog tags and boxer shorts. "The Daschle campaign spread the word, but no reporters bit," the magazine says.

Gannon doesn't deny advertising online as a $200-an-hour gay escort, but describes himself as the victim of "a full-scale jihad" by liberals. Vanity Fair says he falsely told friends he had been a Marine -- Gannon says he displayed military paraphernalia and "didn't disabuse anyone of that notion" -- and owes nearly $21,000 in back taxes. Gannon believes God bestowed a White House assignment on him so that he could atone for past transgressions, Vanity Fair says.

In defending his name change, the man born as James Guckert says Jeff Gannon has a "nice ring to it -- like Wolf Blitzer, which isn't his real name either." Actually, Mr. Guckert, it is his real name.


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So now we have Guckert admitting that:

- He did advertise as a hooker
- He wasn't in the military
- Daschle's team figured him out awhile back, and the media wouldn't touch the story then
- He is truly "divorced from reality"

Again I am willing to extend his 15 minutes, as it appears slowly and hopefully surely more and more will come out.

[yella_dawg]

1. Is it just me...

or does it seem like dropping the "Jesus" card in this situation is just a little slimy?

[FreedomAngel82]

18. That's cause it is

It is. He's just doing that so he can claim "the liberals attacked me" and blah blah blah. That's how he made it out to be on Maher's show. He said he got to ask the president a question and the liberals didn't like it and they attacked him. :eyes: What bullshit. And on some interview on CNN he said he was a two-day Christian. Before he said that though he said people were following him and his family around even when he goes to church. I thought I was going to die laughing.

[FloridaPat]

2. Born-again prostitute?

[chalky]

31. What? He's Mary Magdalen, now? n/m

[dogday]

3. Assignment No------Ass Yes

[Jo March]

4. Gannon is our best ally if we want to get this story out

Obviously he has a huge ego so if we attack him, he will just come out with more and more stuff like this.

I don't see the fristians being too happy that Gannon is playing the religion card. It's okay in their eyes for * to do it but a gay prostitute? I think that their forgiveness doesn't go that far.

[sabra]

5. I agree... I say let him spill the beans.

Even though it means we have to deal with his lunacy.

[Jo March]

15. sabra, it will get interesting because the more rope we give him,

the faster he will hang himself:

*gay prostitute
*fake journalist
*fake Marine
*fake Christian who is trying to play the religion card

[Catherine Vincent]

7. Fristians?

LOL! Who came up with that?

[tridim]

10. I think it's a Randi Rhodes-ism

but I could be wrong.

[Jo March]

14. Go to www.fristianity.com ;)

Randi Rhodes used it on her show and it is very appropriate.

My favorite fristian commandment: Look Christian, be Fristian! ;)

[rppper]

16. hey jeffy boy...just ask the rev. phelps for clarification.....

and i quote..."god hates fags"

your party of choice hates gays.....

you are a liability, you have no real support, just neo cons putting you on a far back burner so people will forget about a gay prostitute going in and out of the "macho god fearing" white house.....

the radical xtian right you espouse will not touch you with a 10 foot pole......

no one would weep if you took a short walk off of a tall bridge...your 15 mins are over bulldog.....

you are just another used up piece of fish wrap to the 'pubs....get over yourself you friggin' hooker in a suit.....

this was not meant to offend, but point out the hypocracy in action here...sorry if it did

[FreedomAngel82]

19. Do you remember their rally?

LOL. They had a freeper rally to protest them dropping Gannon and to support him. LOL! I thought that was hilarious since they hate gay people. HAHAHA!

[Catherine Vincent]

6. That is the one thing that I don't get.

How the Daschle team found out about Guckert and introduced it to reporters but they didn't want to touch. That really stinks!

[flyarm]

8. did god make him a whore too??

seems his god is pretty screwed up!!

couldn't resist this one!!

fly

[dancingme]

9. Maybe God will pay his taxes

or help him find $21,000.

[grytpype]

11. Suck Republican Cock for Jesus...

... whatever, they passed the outer range of satire years ago.

[hunter]

13. Well so long as this is going to get deleted...

This is what Laura might call "Milking the Hoss."

[Double T]

12. Now Liberals Are Jihadists?? I Think It Is Time To Divide The .....

Country Into Two States, The Red And The Blue, And Separate Ourselves From This Lying Scourge

[FreedomAngel82]

17. He keeps talking?

I thought he said he wasn't going to do any interviews? What a load of shit.

[dancingme]

23. He lied when he said no more interviews

and he lied when he said he was in the military, he can't remember the first time he went to the White House press room, he has a team of laywers, he set up the hotmilitarystuds website for someone else, he never saw any classified CIA documents before they were printed in a newspaper ...

[bush_is_wacko]

20. I'm getting the impression that * NOW tells his "staffers" to call him

God. He has moved beyond JUST talking to Him on a personal level! That would explain Guckerts statement that "God" gave him a White House "press" job! Just who he is "pressing" is the question of the day!

[progressivebydesign]

21. Being a born-again must be pretty cool.

You never have to take responsibility for your actions. Wow.. and if you fuck up again, you just say that Satan got hold of you, and you brush it off.

I'm still trying to figure all this out. He was a prostitute (no-no in Christian/republican circles) that posed buck-ass naked (another no-no) on the internet, sold his services to probably married men(that's adultery, BIG no-no), he's gay or was gay (big no-no), liar (another one), used the military to promote his illegal biz (no-no), and is a tax deadbeat (god doesn't care, but the Republicans do! half a no-no). So.. he's the darling of the right wing, WHY? Because he can claim his born-again status and act as though God cured him of being a gay prostitute? WTF? Can you all imagine if this had come to light about a liberal politician or media figure?

[Al-CIAda]

22. Why aren't the Dems backing Conyers and Slaughter on this?

...or, even more importantly, Conyers on stolen elections?

G/G is playing the Jesus card now eh? It seems 'religion', much like 'patriotism', is the last refuge of scoundrels.

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[FreedomAngel82]

26. He used

a Secret Service pass? Is that legal?

[geek tragedy]

29. Your "favorite source" is a Nazi, homophobic pig liar. eom

[FreedomAngel82]

25. I wish Maher

asked him about the religion thing. How the rightwingers claim that being a prostitute is wrong and being gay is wrong and they hate fags. I thought it was a crime to claim you were a part of the military and not be? Also why aren't the government on his tail for all his tax's he hasn't paid?

[Rose Siding]

27. Guckert only gets challenged on Blitzer's name?

Mad Dog Kurtz, we call him :eyes:

[ck4829]

28. God says "NO, I don't know that guy and I didn't send him to the WH"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3587530&mesg_id=3587530

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[anarchy1999]

32. I just got really ill, as in sick to my stomach. This whole nightmare

reeks. Someone, please tell me this isn't real, see you on the other side of the bathroom.