Odd happenings at Talon News (Gannon and Rove?)

[Neecy]

First, this article appeared (and hasn't been removed from their site):

August 13, 2007
WASHINGTON: Karl Rove, long-time advisor to President Bush, announced his resignation today amidst rumors that a new book by a male homosexual prostitute would finger Rove as secretly gay.
Jim Gannon, former reporter for Talon News and rent boy, is publishing a "tell all" book in September tentatively titled "Behind Enemy Lines". Karl Rove apparently fears being exposed as a former customer of Gannon's or his military pron websites like www.hotmilitarystud.com

It has long been rumored that Jim Gannon gained White House briefing room credentials and day passes by offering his services to Karl Rove, including several overnight stays in the White House Buchanan bedroom.

http://www.talonnews.com/news/2007/august/0813_rove_resigns.shtml

It was then followed by a "denial":

August 24, 2007
WASHINGTOON: Jim Gannon, former reporter for Talon News, denied widespread rumors that his forthcoming tell-all book tells all about his "relationship" with Karl Rove.
Besides denying these true internet rumors in an interview with the New York Daily News, Gannon seems to be trashing his former "career" as a journalist, saying that Talon News was only "satire" and used for deliberate "defamation" by Texas Republicants.

Talon News published an exclusive interview between Gannon and former ambassador Joe Wilson in October of 2003

http://www.talonnews.com/news/2007/august/0824_gannon_denies.shtml

Michelangelo Signorile discusses this in his blog - he thinks the site was hijacked, but if it was an inside job, was it someone inside Talon News who knows the real story?

http://www.signorile2003.blogspot.com/

[CatWoman]

1. *sigh*

get ready for the assholes to invade this thread, Neecy.

[Neecy]

2. uh-oh...why?

I miss a lot of stuff around here...thankfully....:)

[CatWoman]

10. about a week or so ago

when Rove announced his retirement, there was much speculation relating to this.

several DUers invaded the threads, accusing people of being homophobic, etc.

[Neecy]

14. thanks for the info

I'm gay, although that doesn't make me immune from the homophobia police. It just allows me to ignore them.

[a kennedy]

3. ???

:shrug:

[Hepburn]

4. When the buzz about Gannon and all the stories started long ago...

...I always thought that Jeffy was passed through the WH gate to see KKKarl. I could not care less if anyone is gay, bi, straight, or whatever. It is the lying about being gay while supporting anti-gay issues and legislation that ticks me off totally. I just wish that those who do things like this would realize that by hiding who they are and damaging others like them that this is just a totally evil thing to do.

[annabanana]

5. (a hamhanded attempt at "viral marketing"). . that's all.. . . eom

[Vinnie From Indy]

8. bingo!

trying to create the "buzz" for his book

[Richard Steele]

11. Yup, that's the vibe I get. And "hamhanded" is the word for it alright! nm

[flyarm]

6. first of all his name is "jeff " Gannon..not "jim" Gannon..eom

[Jackpine Radical]

9. Hasn't his name at various times been James Guckert?

"Jim Gannon" seems to be a conflation of the two names.

[Richard Steele]

12. James Guckert is his given name; "Jeff Gannon" was his nom de manwhore. nm

[shain from kane]

15. Deuce Bigbelow. n/t

[lonestarnot]

7. Red Rover Red Rover send Gannon right over!

[madrchsod]

13. the site was hi-jacked

it was badly done at that...

[11cents]

16. "The White House Buchanan bedroom"

Heh.