Gannon comes out of the (WH) closet - grilled on WH visits

[katty]

more: http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Gannon_comes_out_Former_escort_conservative_0505.html

Gannon comes out: Former escort, conservative reporter grilled on White House visits

John Byrne
Published: Friday May 5, 2006


Gannon backs outing of Virginia congressman

WASHINGTON – At a forum in Philadelphia Wednesday evening, the conservative White House correspondent who drew national attention for his past life as a gay escort declared himself gay publicly for the first time, and finally answered questions about discrepancies in the logs of his trips to the White House.

Jeff Gannon "came out" following a question from blogger-activist Michael Rogers, who publishes PageOneQ and maintains the blog, blogACTIVE, which reports on anti-gay politicians who are themselves gay.

Gannon emerged on the Washington stage after a liberal blog revealed that he had worked as a gay escort prior to his installment at the White House. AmericaBLOG, run by D.C.-based John Aravosis, discovered revealing photographs of Gannon, who billed himself as an "Ex-US Marine Corps Jock."

In a conversation with RAW STORY Thursday evening, Gannon spoke frankly about numerous questions this site has raised about his work. RAW STORY was the first to publish the Secret Service logs of his visits to the White House, revealing that Gannon checked in on numerous occasions but failed to check out.

[NanceGreggs]

1. That reminds me ...

"... revealing that Gannon checked in on numerous occasions but failed to check out."

Reminds me of those old "Roach Motel" commercials - "Roaches check in, but they don't check out" - and somehow, it seems an appropriate parallel.

:rofl:

[katty]

2. LOL! yeah...it's appropriate, especially in bushworld

[leftchick]

4. it sure does!

:rofl:

[spuddonna]

13. LMAO!!!

Now THAT is screaming for a photoshop work-up! Throw a picture of Puffy McMoonface, Gannon, * (Tom Delay possibly as 'the bugman'!) and the WH in the background... "Gannon checks in, but he won't check out!"

[stepnw1f]

3. So Was He Sleeping with Bush?

or Rove? Cheney? McMuffin Man?

[leftchick]

5. rove?

andy card?

[katty]

6. maybe he serviced all of them?hmmmmm

[0007]

8. Perhaps they played spin the bottle. I'd guess Card.

[Auntie Bush]

7. That makes the White House a Roach Motel.

Checks in but fails to check out!

[stevietheman]

11. ok, that was LOL, for real-real. Thanks! n/t

n/t

[Javaman]

9. Does this mean Gannon will now become a Democrat?????

According to what he says, that some reps who are anti-gay but are secretly gay vote against their own best interests.

Why is that???

Also...

Why is it that when a repuke comes out, they suddenly become Democrats? Why not just be a Democrat?

This is one of the many mysteries of the universe to me.

[WiseButAngrySara]

16. No mystery to me. The Republican Party is the party of hypocrisy and

"moral values." If you no longer have to hide the truth, why remain a Republican?

[Supersedeas]

10. Whoa, I thought he was married with children????

[orleans]

12. ha. kick n/t

[truthisfreedom]

14. Reporters check in, but they don't check out!

nothing about Gannon checks out.

[truthisfreedom]

15. my god, he's covering for abramoff. there must be a record of overnights.

obviously abramoff was sleeping with bush as well.

"That's a problem with Secret Service record keeping," Gannon said when asked why Secret Service logs show fourteen days he failed to check out. He referenced an article from 2003 which revealed shoddy record-keeping by the presidential bodyguard.

"I think you're going to see that in this Abramoff thing that's coming out right now," he added. "You're probably not going to get a complete historical record."

do you believe for one second that the secret service wouldn't keep impeccable records? they need to be able to do forensic examinations of the facts years later... you had better believe that their records are precise. this is a smear campaign that rove is working on 25 hours a day right now... trying to convince us to believe that SS records are incomplete. what a crock.

[SpiralHawk]

17. Typical republicon

Blames everyone else for his moral failures. Points finger at the White House Secret Service and then claims their records are faulty -- as if he didn't make 200 freaking visits to George W. Bush's White House.

In this case, I tend to trust the US Secret Service more than I trust a republicon chickenhawk who lied and claimed he served honorably in the US Military. He did not serve at all.

Gannon is as much of a chickenhawk as his pal Jeff Christie (aka Rush "Drug Addict" Limbaugh the paid republicon propagandist)

[stanwyck]

18. Only a matter of time before he goes all Tonya Harding

on us and does anything for a buck and a microphone. And, then, the stories will come out.
Forget Monica.
Even FAUX will be 24-7 JeffieG.
Can poll numbers go into the negatives?