Jeff Gannon, Jim Guckert, and... Prostitution?

Guckert/Gannon in White House with no record of entry or exit
by ePluribus Media
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Wed Apr 27th, 2005 at 05:59:48 PDT

By Todd Johnston
ePluribus Media
To be fair, when Ronald Reagan was wounded by John Hinckley it was an unpredictable bank shot around his human shields that punctured the President's lung. And 24 years later, no doubt, somebody in the Secret Service is pulling "ricochet duty." Yet new documents, reported on Monday by Raw Story, reveal at least five days that James D. Guckert, a.k.a. Jeff Gannon, was inside the White House, apparently without the knowledge of the Secret Service.

The Gannon report

Get ready for more about Jeff Gannon.

The next issue of Vanity Fair will include the magazine's piece on the reporter sometimes known as Jim Guckert. And as Howard Kurtz reports in the Washington Post, it will reveal that Gannon's seedy past wasn't exactly a secret to some in Washington: Tom Daschle's campaign staff apparently learned about Gannon's gay sex Web sites while Gannon was pounding on Daschle during his unsuccessful re-election race in 2004. Vanity Fair says that Daschle's campaign spread the word about Gannon, but that no reporters picked up on the story then.

We haven't heard from Gannon yet on this news, but we're sure we will soon enough: Not a day goes by without Jeff Gannon taking time to offer his views about the news about Jeff Gannon at jeffgannon.com. But if you just can't wait to hear more from the man himself, you can check out the video clip of Gannon's appearance on Bill Maher's show Friday night. The highlight? When Maher asked Gannon whether it was true that he worked as a gay escort before becoming the White House reporter for Talon News, Gannon offered a classic non-denial denial. "Well, there's lot of allegations out there about things in my past," he said. "You know, none of it's relevant as far as my reporting goes." But when Maher pressed on, asking Gannon whether Republicans wouldn't have split a seam if the Clinton administration had allowed a former prostitute into the White House briefing room, Gannon came awfully close to making what sounded like an admission. "I don't know the answer to that," he said. "But usually the way it works is people prostitute themselves after they become reporters."

Remind me again what the story is.....

Ticomaya wrote:

Remind me again what the story is.....

You disappoint me Tico.....as you so often do.

Well, that joke was about homosexuality. He was comparing our president to a fag.

Did you really need an explanation of what Pdiddie was getting at?

Cycloptichorn

I am surprised Cycloptichorn hasn't jumped in explaining what it's about.