Cunningham prostitutes may have been male, reports are circulating

[caligirl]

To be clear: these are nothing more than comments that caught my eye, because of the Gannon M4M and his known photographs and advertising for his male escort prosti services. In that way these comments are relavent. They lend to the long discussion which occurred here at DU on Gannon's porn past. We all wondered what he was doing in the WH press room, then outed him for being a repug hack and stoog. Then his web sites were found. All discussed at length on the DU.


"reports are circulating that the hookers were male not female as everyone susupects. i wonder if jeff gannon was there.
cunningham has said before he had gay sex during vietnam and was outed by a speaker at a conference already"


AND from page 2 at of comments to Cunningham article at Huffpo


"Although MinneapolisMike's diatribe was entertaining and worthy of Norma Rae, he failed to notice that the report didn't mention, and actually went to great pains not to mention, the gender of the prostitute. Though I know banging the feminist drum is really popular and effective in rallying the troops, it is not always applicable.

Considering the fact that Elizabeth Birch, former director of the HRC, inadvertently outed Cunningham a few years back, it's very likely that the prostitutes were more of the Jeff Gannon persuasion.

This is all the more interesting since Mr. Cunningham was one of the most virulently anti-gay and homophobic Representatives in Congress.

So, rather than playing the sexism card, it may be more appropriate to discuss the hypocrisy and shamefulness of homophobic GOP politicians who support DADT, the "Defense of Marriage" Amendment and every other anti-gay legislation, while voting against Hate Crimes legislation, anti-discrimination policies and anything gay positive. Let's discuss the scourge of politicians who beat us over the head with their impeccable "family values" (including anti-gay, anti-abortion, pro-war, pro-corporate greed values) and present their Christian fundamentalist public face all the while living the very "abominable" and "perverse" lifestyle that they rail against on the floor of congress.

I feel that, though MinneapolisMike's post was entertaining and generally correct, it may not be applicable, in the case of Cunningham."

Posting time 11:41am p.2 and 4:27pm p.3
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/04/27/convicted-gop-rep-and-oth_n_19896.html?p=2#comments

[Catherine Vincent]

1. Link?

[caligirl]

9. Now posted in OP

[Carni]

2. My mind immediately flashed to Gannon

I think there is a whole closet movement happening with this WH and with these particular republicans. JMO

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Of course they were men - he's a republican.

Republicans don't get their jollies from female hookers, they get it from other men and children.

[AlCzervik]

4. Maveric, Iceman and Goose--i knew it!

[hwmnbn]

13. Who was the REAL .....

Top Gun? bwahahaha

[AlCzervik]

14. ***snicker***

[xchrom]

5. is there a link?

[caligirl]

10. link in the OP now.

[brentspeak]

6. "Reports"? Or rumors? This kind of rumor-mongering shouldn't

be circulated on DU. If it's substantiated, then yeah, post it. But if not, it cheapens the site.

[caligirl]

11. I figured one comment without a name I ignored, but seeing

the other comment mentioning more specific info and a name of an official who outed him I began to wonder. And I am asking if anyone knows anything about this as general discussion.

[caligirl]

16. I amended the OP to reflect the history discussed on DU re Gannon

and male escort advertising he did,you must remember Gannon?

[LiviaOlivia]

7. MinneapolisMike is a parody troll

over on HuffPo and a damn good one. He's like a Stephen Colbert and the original, and one and only, Jesus' General.

Who loves ya patriotboy??!!

[populistdriven]

8. Please B Gannon, Please B Gannon, Please B Gannon, Please B Gannon, Please

[Botany]

12. Top Gun!

[caligirl]

17. U saved IT?!!

[Botany]

21. no google Jeff Gannon and click on images.

this is a tame one.

I really think that their is a whole s.m. gay culture in the D.C. repugs.

[kentuck]

25. Please refrain from using sexually explicit language in your posts.

Pictures are OK... :)

[badgerpup]

15. Le plus ca meme....

the more they stay the same.
Reminds me of what I've read about Victorian England, when all the upperclass guys were so proper and virtuous and huffily stickuptheass moral...and they were keeping a mistress or maybe a different flavor on the side.
All veddy veddy discreet, you know...:eyes:

[DeadManInc]

18. repugs so repulsive they have to pay for sex

[AlCzervik]

19. i read a biography about King James, he brought back the buggery

law and he was the biggest buggerer of them all!

[Old and In the Way]

20. Here's another post on it at Cannonfire

http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/04/wilkes-wade-cunningham-hookers-and.html


I wonder if, between the hookers and bribes, there wasn't also some blackmail, too? Mitchell Wade had contracts direct with the WH. I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't filming stuff and delivering to Rove. No evidence, just a gut feeling.

[HamdenRice]

22. Interesting that Wonkette was hinting at the gay hooker thing a while back

Wonkette was hinting about this alot back in December. It's very gossipy innuendo and kind of homophobic, but clearly the blog was channeling some gay gossip about the Duke:

http://www.wonkette.com/politics/duke-cunningham/index.php

Duke Cunningham: An Ironic Misunderstanding?
Yes, there were the bogus real-estate transactions and fancy toilets. But what really brought down Randy “Duke” Cunningham? Gay prostitutes. At least that’s what Marcus Stern says. And he ought to know. Seven months ago, the D.C.-based journalist’s story in the San Diego Union-Tribune inspired the federal probe that led to Cunningham’s downfall. Stern started looking into Cunningham because of a pair of $10,000 Saudia Arabia junkets the California congressman went on to allegedly “promote discourse and better relations.” Having seen Cunningham in heated bipartisan action, however, Stern had never thought of the antique-loving flyboy as particularly diplomatic:

Stern remembers an incident he witnessed in 1996 between Duke and Congressman Barney Frank, the gay congressman from Massachusetts, embroiled at the time in his own scandal involving a former male companion who had been caught running a prostitution ring from the congressman’s basement. The exchange happened at a meeting on immigration during which Republicans were maneuvering to prevent Democrats from commenting on a related bill. Frank objected to being steamrolled.

“When Barney started to make his plea, Cunningham cut him off and said, ‘Well, would you like to talk about prostitutes and basements,’” Stern remembered. “The room just fell silent.”

Cunningham’s comment, one among a litany of others just like it over the years, left Stern with an indelible impression that he says never squared with the congressman’s stated motive for visiting Saudi Arabia.

<end quote>

And Wonkette here:


Possible D.C. Sex Scandal Better Imagined than Proved
Yes, yes, yes, thank you for the numerous emails directing us to Hotline’s uncovering of a POSSIBLE D.C. SEX SCANDAL involving Duke Cunningham’s “co-conspirator No. 1,” Brent Wilkes. See, he maintained a hospitality room. At a hotel. That had bedrooms. Yes, we’re quivering with delight ourselves. We’d say “imagine what could he have been up to,” but the commentators over at Hotline have imagineered a tin-foil hat fantasia that we don’t dare compete with. Liaisons with Jeff Gannon? Check. “Teenage callboys at the White House under George Sr?” Check. Rove “Delaid,” and “Scotter” having a three-way love affair? The Washington press corps covering it up? “Eyes Wide Shut” orgies? Check, check, and check.

If Washington were actually this fun, we wouldn’t need to make shit up.



And Wonkette again here:

Duke-stir Cries, Clutches Pearls
LAT runs down Duke Cunningham’s lavish lifestyle. Lavish, alternative lifestyle. The Air Force Navy veteran apparently underwent a kind of, uhm, change at some point: “Personally, his taste ran to country music and cowboy novels — which made the French antiques and Oriental rugs he took from contractors seem anomalous.” Anomalous? We think the Washington Post was more on target: Duke had “surprisingly delicate taste.” Gay taste. And, well, perhaps there’s was an element of protesting-too-much when he derided the Dems for being the ones who let “homos into the military,” let alone entertaining ladies on the Duke-stir boat all Ron Burgundy-style. The Washington Blade contends that if it walks and talks like a Duke, it’s a Duke. The paper reports that Cunningham outed himself to HRC prez Elizabeth Birch, telling her once that he’d “loved men” — on and off the battlefield. Well, he does cry like a girl.

[peacetalksforall]

23. Does anyone know if there are any studies or books about war and

proliferation of same sex acts? In previous decades, soldiers were gone for years and women, depending on their wealth, had to team up to get the work done and protect each other or share for economic survival.

This is what I'm getting at =

Could enthusiastic war drum bangers who are also anti-homosexual be convinced that war is bad because of the circumstances that it creates?

Anyone know of any writings?

[Old and In the Way]

24. Good or bad?

"Could enthusiastic war drum bangers who are also anti-homosexual be convinced that war is bad because of the circumstances that it creates?"

From your predicate, I think you meant good?