Gannon Planned Gay Wedding on White House Lawn

Submitted by Bob Fertik on February 27, 2005 - 8:44pm.

Jeff Gannon

Last week, reporter Bill Berkowitz tried to get comments from anti-gay religious leaders about the Gannon Affair. Remarkably, no anti-gay leaders were willing to make a statement, thus proving their opposition to gay rights is just a cynical effort to manipulate their blind followers into voting Republican.

But I wonder if today's breaking news will finally end the silence on the religious right...

Gannon Planned Gay Wedding on White House Lawn

(Satire News) White House reporter James Guckert, who used the alias "Jeff Gannon" in his reports for Talon News, planned to marry his gay lover in a ceremony on the White House lawn, according to his just-discovered diary.

In an entry dated November 3, 2004, Guckert wrote "I was so thrilled about my role in beating Tom Daschle yesterday that I proposed to Chihuahua. I told him I wanted to marry him on the White House lawn in June. When he got over the shock, he gave me a deep kiss and told me he would be mine forever," Guckert wrote.

The identity of "Chihuahua" could not be determined at press time. Guckert used the nickname "bulldog" in his Internet ads, in which he advertised his prostitution services at $200 per hour, with a special weekend rate of $1,200.

In his diary entry, Guckert noted the difficulties he would face in holding a gay marriage ceremony on the lawn of the White House while George Bush was President, given Bush's strenuous opposition to gay marriage.

"I told Chihuahua we'd have to be discrete. I told him I could get him a day pass into the White House as a reporter for Talon News, but we couldn't kiss in front of the cameras. If [Pat] Robertson, [Jerry] Falwell, [James] Dobson, or [Sun Myung] Moon ever saw a photo, we'd end up in Guantanamo," Guckert wrote.

According to Guckert's diaries, he planned to ask GOP chair Ken Mehlman to be his best man. Although Mehlman refuses to discuss his homosexuality, he has been outed by BlogActive.com, which recently outed Rep. Ed Schrock, a conservative Virginia Congressman who retired rather than acknowledge his homosexuality.

When the existence of Guckert's diaries came to light, Rep. Louise Slaughter asked the Special Prosecutor investigating the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame to subpoena Guckert's diaries in case they shed any light on the White House source who leaked Plame's name to columnist Robert Novak.

The day after Slaughter's letter was reported, Guckert's diaries were found in the garbage outside his house by a Bassett hound that detected a strong odor. The odor turned out to be the severed head of a horse, with the initials "KR." Investigators are trying to determine the identity of "KR."

hmmm

Submitted by Atrocitiesown on February 28, 2005 - 9:59am.

can the KR be any bigger? lets get real? determine is it that freaking hard to figure out KR? you have got to be joking me. *shrugs* oh well thats the BA for yah. they will probably end up accusing some innocent by the name of Kerl Rope and the real KR will live happily ever after as the master of puppets. *sighs*

'Stinger News:' Do not put me

Submitted by stinger on February 28, 2005 - 10:33am.

'Stinger News:' Do not put me in connection with decaptivated horses.

Oh, Stinger

Submitted by Necco on February 28, 2005 - 10:42am.

You're quite something else. :D

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

Gannon wedding

Submitted by jac on February 28, 2005 - 10:34am.

This is so outrageous that it has got to be the big lie that makes lies out of all the truth that proceeded it. Sounds like the fake papers given to CBS about Bush getting into TANG

?

Submitted by stinger on February 28, 2005 - 2:13pm.

I think I suffer from misunderstandings here. So someone made this post claiming that it is a true story?

absolutely positively true

Submitted by Bob Fertik on February 28, 2005 - 7:35pm.

Reliable sources say Stinger News is staffed by the highest-paid whores in Washington DC, and is fully credentialed by the Republican National Committee!

stinger, they have some nerve abusing your lovely name like this.

I'm just asking

Submitted by golfmonkey on February 28, 2005 - 8:18pm.

Did anyone ask Stinger what he did for a living? You know, I've never seen them together. ;)

You know what I like about so

Submitted by stinger on February 28, 2005 - 10:35pm.

You know what I like about someone being ignorant? If he calls me a whore due to it. You know what I like about nazis? If they project their hate on others. I dont like machine guns.

Poodles playing poker like Se

Submitted by golfmonkey on February 28, 2005 - 11:02pm.

Poodles playing poker like Sesame Street while sipping prune juice from Dixie cups.

So there.

You know what I like about bi

Submitted by stinger on March 1, 2005 - 12:56am.

You know what I like about big brother? If some axxxxxx comes forward and tells me Im part of the show

You are definitely a "special

Submitted by Bill Harding (not verified) on March 1, 2005 - 12:59am.

You are definitely a "special" part of the show Stinger.

Stinger, Chill!

Submitted by kwahlf on March 1, 2005 - 11:53am.

We're on the same side, remember?
Save the energy for fighting the Repubs
who are trying to kill our party.
Also, be careful. Calling a
moderator an a######, will get
you nowhere,fast.

Self-faking crap abovejeff

Submitted by stinger on February 28, 2005 - 2:50pm.

Self-faking crap above
jeff gannon
By: jeffatl · Section: Diaries

Why is everyone, including the liberal media avoiding the jeff gannon, gay male whore scandal? This is a scandal of Watergate proportions and the administration is ignoring it hoping it will go away. But it is not. This was a HUGE security breach. And does no one care that a H-O-M-O-S-E-X-U-A-L was wined and dined in the White House. And there are ties to the Valerie Plame leak. Who could be the one that let gannon in?????? Was it Rove, McClellan or bush?????????
Feb 28th, 2005: 00:27:38, Rated: 1.00/4
I have two words for Democrats, yet again ...

RS RED STATE

No Stinger,

Submitted by Smdsac (not verified) on March 1, 2005 - 11:52am.

That's "homosexshul" if depending on which part of the country you're from. Are you sure one of you guys weren't standing in the grocery line too long after eating peyote buttons?

No!

Submitted by clwilk on March 1, 2005 - 5:46pm.

I do not care that a "homosexshul" was wined and dined at the White House. What does that have to do with anything? The complete lack of security is all that matters.

I think its a prob of a cyni

Submitted by stinger on February 28, 2005 - 2:55pm.

I think its a prob of a cynical man, too. Just seeing the difficulty getting to an ideal, never reaching any ideal but being gay, so spare me with the crap above

Here's a quick note to whoever is holding the deed on the Fourth Estate: it's time to foreclose on that ethical money pit before it has no value at all. While there was a time when the news media were respected, now they're prey to powers heck-bent on robbing the First Amendment of all relevance. Back when Woodward and Bernstein were kicking the corruption out of the White House, everyone wanted to be an investigative crusader. A nation of misguided youth, confused by both drugs and disco, was desperate for a champion who shared their cynical eye.

http://www.popmatters.com/features/050228-jeffgannon2.shtml

trash

Submitted by stinger on February 28, 2005 - 2:59pm.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60098-2005Feb28.html?sub=...

Dear kindergarten hoppers, there are certain people bringing themselves in and still taking things seriously

You fired Dan Rather

squeamish

Submitted by stinger on February 28, 2005 - 3:07pm.

Squeamishness about dealing with the Gannongate evidence might be leading those who don’t bother to go to primary sources to assume the least damaging in their estimates. After all, many news outlets were reportedly frightened of the sexual angles of the Gannon story. So instead, they opted last week to make a top story of the family-friend revelation that Koko the gorilla had a fetish for human breasts—nipples, specifically. Exposing part of the White House’s campaign against real journalism = Bad. Ruining any childlike innocence in my memory of Koko’s Kitten = Good. More insulting is the thought that gorilla-on-woman action was somehow less offensive to editors than man-on-man.

http://www.rawstory.com/exclusives/avery/new_media_030105.htm

See, in my eyes GWB cares a shit for human rights thus its probably no contradiction being ass-fucked as a male being. So stop making cheap jokes about this scandal. Get serious

lob ball

Submitted by stinger on February 28, 2005 - 3:09pm.

http://www.cmaq.net/fr/node.php?id=20059

No permanent press passGa

Submitted by stinger on February 28, 2005 - 3:14pm.

No permanent press pass

Gannon did not have a permanent White House press pass, the "hard pass" that requires an FBI background check. Those who carry it have clear access to the White House and frequently travel with the president. And the Standing Committee of Correspondents on Capitol Hill, which accredits more than 2,000 journalists who write for daily news organizations, refused to give Gannon a congressional press pass.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0502270492feb27,1,264...
bickahoola fxxxxxx

Remains the state where JFK was shot

Submitted by stinger on February 28, 2005 - 3:24pm.

Controversial news site temporarily shuts down

The Associated Press

A conservative online news outlet that formerly employed a writer who attracted attention by asking President Bush a loaded question at a news conference last month has temporarily shut down.

The publicist for the Texas-based site said Thursday that the outlet has shut down because the founder "can only take so much of a beating" over its political slant.

James D. Guckert, a former Talon News Washington correspondent who wrote under the name Jeff Gannon, had frequently attended White House press briefings over the last two years and asked pointedly conservative questions.

Pentagon TV to invade

Submitted by stinger on February 28, 2005 - 3:38pm.

Pentagon TV to invade
your living room
NYDAILY
How high will the ratings go for Pentagon's 'Rummy TV'?
http://www.recordnet.com/daily/news/articles/022805-mv-1.php

During the interview, Guckert

Submitted by stinger on February 28, 2005 - 3:41pm.

During the interview, Guckert said his White House access was not a conspiracy but rather the result of a simple request. "I asked to come— they allowed me to come," said Guckert, "and apparently there isn't a very high threshold as far as somebody's personal life."

That, of course, is an understatement.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5445086/
They dont marry.

http://www.thedailyaztec.com/

Submitted by stinger on February 28, 2005 - 3:43pm.

http://www.thedailyaztec.com/news/2005/02/28/Opinion/gannon.A.Lackey.In....
Gannon appeared at White House briefings as early as Feb. 28, 2003, according to the Post-Intelligencer. Talon news was not registered and online until March 29, 2003.

torture chambers

Submitted by stinger on February 28, 2005 - 3:52pm.

Sun Herald
Gannon, on the job, repeatedly got McClellan out of jams. Last spring, for example, when McClellan was being hit with questions about the torture of Iraqis at the Abu Ghraib prison, Gannon changed the subject: "Will you have any adjectives left to adequately describe the pictures from Saddam's rape room and torture chambers?"

McClellan replied, "I'm glad you brought that up, Jeff."
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-fop27.html