Jeff Gannon sits one seat over from Cheney @ National Press Club event

[sabra]

http://www.examiner.com/blogs/Yeas_and_Nays/2007/10/19/Cheney-a-surprise-guest-for-Lynnes-book-chat

Cheney a surprise guest for Lynne’s book chat

There aren’t many rooms where Vice President Dick Cheney gets a standing ovation these days. Who knew that one of them would be at the media-laden National Press Club?

...

Not that the whole room was press. There were more than a few Republicans and friends and relatives of the Second Couple, including their daughters, Liz and Mary. It made club President Jerry Zremski’s usual warning to the TV audience that applause may be coming from guests “and not necessarily from members of the working press” that much more appropriate.

But even many of the press members on stage were relatively friendly: NBC’s Pete Williams, a former Pentagon reporter and native of Casper, Wyo., Chris Berry, general manager of conservative talk station WMAL, and conservative journalist Jeff Gannon.

[begin_within]

1. Crisco party tonight!

[Kikosexy2]

67. Not...

Wesson Oil Light?....

[debbierlus]

73. The left should point out Cheney is hanging out with a ex-male prostitute

Can you imagine, if Clinton hung out with a male prostitute who was also GAY...

[Esra Star]

78. What do you mean "EX".........? nt

[intheflow]

2. That man just won't go away!

:argh:

[hisownpetard]

9. Wasn't it proven that the news organization he belonged to was a fake?

Why is he still there??

[helderheid]

28. Yep "talon news"

[hisownpetard]

40. Yes; so why is he still there? nt

[Botany]

60. Fake news .... well I am shocked ... shocked I tell you.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200502100001

HANNITY: Now, Jeff Gannon, who is a terrific Washington bureau chief and White House correspondent
for Talon News, actually shot me an e-mail today, and he's about to break a story in an exclusive about
these CBS documents.

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Veto SCHIP, phony new conference w/ FEM, and Gannon on stage w/ Dick Cheney "they"
really don't care how anything looks ..... these guys are just fucking crooks & bullies.

[dickbearton]

64. Hell, the entire National Press Club is full of corporate stooges and fakes.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Potential catfight? nt

[MagickMuffin]

4. How or Who invited Jeffie to the Table?

Conservative journalist that's stretching it a bit to far, don't ya think NPC???

[tabasco]

12. "Conservative journalist" = "mouthpiece."

Ooops, did I say that?!

[StClone]

84. He is a suitable conduit

To dispense the gist of Conservative sputum. Or, he could now be a Cub reporter in training after being deprogrammed at Bob Jones U. in Journalism 101.

[rusty quoin]

5. conservative journalist Jeff Gannon, the cut and paste journalist.

[NMDemDist2]

6. 'ol Jeffie still has friends in high places to score him a seat on the dias eh?

wonder who he's blowing now?

[SoCalDem]

8. Gannon must have some pictures of some high-up people

:)

[ooglymoogly]

61. "They say" Jeff and the principles are all going over to the WH for some water sports

after the gig.

[Snarkoleptic]

7. Hand check!

He's probably giving Larry Craig a 'handie' under the table.

[rusty quoin]

10. But, that's not gay. That's what regular heterosexual right wing guys do

occasionally. They're straight, mind you, and they love their wives, but it's just the occasional meeting to blow off a little steam. Craig is not gay.

[justgamma]

11. conservative journalist ?

Shouldn't that be the resident male hooker? Wonder what the hot military stud got paid for being someone's date? Larry Craig? Cheney?

[file83]

16. So NOW we know WHO Gannon was spending the night with at the White House....

...all those Secret Service records of him checking "in" but not checking "out".

[crikkett]

65. funny but,

cheney sleeps in the naval observatory, not the white house.

[orleans]

13. i'm sure dick has input as to who sits near him and jeff must just rub him the right way. n/t

[southerncrone]

34. Define "input".

:evilgrin:

[ooglymoogly]

62. going to have some fun mit der shmeckle tonight.

[tabasco]

14. The adults are in charge and restoring dignity to government.

[libodem]

15. They's gonna be

Santorum spots everywhere!:rofl:

[uppityperson]

17. JimmyJeff! I just checked his websites... Beware.

Second hit is his photobucket account. More than you want to see of him, beware. Seriously.


You've been warned.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v731/jeffgannon/


Told you so.


I can hardly wait for his book. http://www.jeffgannon.com/archives/general/index.html#000991 is link to his press release.

October 16, 2007
PRESS RELEASE: Jeff Gannon Book Selected for National Press Club Book Fair

'The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report' Featured At 30th Annual Event

WASHINGTON, October 16 /Standard Newswire/ -- A book by former White House correspondent Jeff Gannon, "The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report" will be among those featured at the 2007 National Press Club Book Fair. The National Press Club is the world's most prestigious association of professional journalists. The November 1st event is the 30th annual book fair and benefits the Eric Friedheim Journalism Library at the National Press Club.

Jeff Gannon, the first exclusively online reporter to cover the White House on a regular basis is considered a New Media pioneer. He notes that his daily readership of more than half a million topped the circulation of most newspapers, despite reporting for a small news outlet. Gannon points out that since his tenure at the White House nearly every news entity has launched an online presence.

Gannon chronicles his two years as a member of the White House Press Corps and reveals his role in the Valerie Plame affair and the scandal that toppled Dan Rather from the CBS News anchor chair as well as the historic defeat of Sen. Tom Daschle in 2004. He also offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the White House Press Corps, led by the legendary Helen Thomas.

Gannon weighs in on the left versus right, liberal versus conservative debate that he dubs "The Great Media War". He contends that the struggles between those opposing ideologies play themselves out on radio, television and in the newspapers every day and determine how news is reported. Gannon also sees the Internet as the next front in The Great Media War and discusses its effect on the future of journalism and news reporting.

Gannon writes about his experiences after asking one of the most famous questions ever posed by a reporter to a president. He explains "The Question" and speculates as to the reasons the reaction to it caused a nationwide sensation.

Gannon has something to say about nearly every member of the Beltway media establishment as well as many Washington politicians. His book is replete with evidence of pervasive liberal media bias well beyond the point of questioning whether or not it exists. Gannon proves the point with words directly taken from the lips of his colleagues.

[Lochloosa]

20. Ok...I could have gone all day without seeing that...

[Frank Cannon]

24. Jesus Christ!! Someone get me some eye bleach!!

I don't think your warning is strong enough. Holy shit.

[NNN0LHI]

25. The warning was strong enough for me

I didn't look.

Don

[acmavm]

39. You're sure as hell smarter than I am. I didn't think they would be that

bad because he's running around making out like he's such a respectable 'public' figure. No one with shit like that posted on the internet would do that, right? Espcecially one visiting OUR White House over 200 times? And sitting in on highly public affairs like this one under discussion?

Learn something new every minute.

[Frank Cannon]

42. Pictures of "golden shower" stuff?!! Posted by HIM?!!

How in the hell could even the dumbest freeptard take this jackass the slightest bit seriously? And how could the MSM, lame though it is, avoid speculating about his many escapades at the White House, which seem like rich fodder for lurid tabloid journalism?

And still he gets invited to stuff and parades around on our TV screens. I swear that JimmyJeff GuckertGannon must have sucked about half of all the wrinkly Republican cocks in Washington.

[acmavm]

47. Yeah, I think I saw something like that. Right about then was when my

nerve failed me and my stomach took over. I had to quit.

[diane in sf]

77. After your glowing review I just had to go look! The fellow is rather well-endowed.

Pity it didn't leave much growth energy for brains...

[acmavm]

83. Please forgive me for leading you down that path to gross-outedness.

I'm sorry.

[SpiralHawk]

57. Which is icky-er?

Republcion golden showers Vs. republicon diaper sex?

For me, the ickiest THANG of all is republicon hypocricy about their prevelant sexual kinkieness.

[Frank Cannon]

71. You forgot Republicon restroom peeping

When it comes to morality and "family values", these guys make Caligula look like Mister Rogers.

[SpiralHawk]

75. Ah yes, memory has drawn a merciful curtain

A normal American could flip out if he or she remembered all the hypocritical republicon sexual perversions that -- ahem -- pop out.

[StClone]

85. That's a link fit for FR!

[southerncrone]

82. Yikes! Pass the bleach! Hurry!

[Stephanie]

29. I can't BELIEVE he still has those photos up!

WTF is going on?

[uppityperson]

38. Me either, I thought he deleted them all.

Maybe he got it up and going again? Why does everything I write here sound dirty, have had to rewrite this several times.

[blogslut]

43. I doubt that's Guckert's Photobucket account

Somebody probably made that account as a joke and uploaded images from Jimmy's old porn sites. I'm surprised Photobucket lets it fly.

[Catherine Vincent]

51. Yep. That's what happened.

I came across that account a while ago. Someone out there really hates Gannon.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

76. Former lover, perhaps? Maybe, jealously about the new book has a role.

Seriously, though, there seems to be so many whores and very sick people tied to this administration. We are talking a very OBVIOUS association.

How come the pressers don't make those associations as assertively as they were willing to a democratic administration?

I know, I know. The conservative RW media is REALLY, I swear and honest to gawd, a "liberal" media.

YaDa,...YaDa, YaDa, YOIKS!!!!

[Oilwellian]

58. Wow, he hangs to the left...

go figure.

[troubleinwinter]

79. The book came out about 6 weeks ago and sells for $6.

The self-published book is available here...

http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-90536-6

Yippee.

[OzarkDem]

87. So Gannon hangs out with Carville and Mary Matalin?

Assuming they were in attendance also. As closely as Matalin works with Cheney she must certainly know ol' Jeff.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

18. kick nt

[progressoid]

19. They don't even bother to hide it anymore do they?

[HughMoran]

21. Vermin!

Where are my traps?

[malaise]

22. Wow

Two Dicks for the price of one!

[donsu]

23. who is the man on the left, in the picture?

he kinda looks like Brian Lamb of c-span

[Stephanie]

30. That would be Big Dick Cheney.

.

[donsu]

31. thanks

nt

[stubtoe]

52. aka "Biggus Dickus" nt

[motocicleta]

80. and his wife

Intercontinentalus Buttocks.

I'm having a widdow chuckow right now, in fact.

[Octafish]

26. Smirko's jealous.

If it weren't for Jeff's occupation, the crazy monkey could have him all to himself.

[Algorem]

27. Cheney must have a cabin in the woods somewhere?

He doesn't even want to know how to quit him.







"Knock-knock."

"Who's there?"

"Corporal Cock,reporting for duty,Real-President Cheney"

[Deja Q]

70. A log cabin, perhaps?

:hide:

[BringEmOn]

32. Gannon was hired as Cheney's staff handler.

[Kahuna]

53. You mean, staff MEMBER don't you?

:silly:

[Kahuna]

54. That picture in your sig is hilarious.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[tom_paine]

33. Who did Jeff have to sleep with to get that seat? Cheney himself?

[Esra Star]

81. I think the smart money's on Rove. nt

[tom_paine]

89. Call me swayed by outer appearences, but my money is on Gonzales

But probably, if I know my decadent tyrannical monsters, there are several closeted homsexuals among the Bushie heirarchy and Bushler himself is probably a very mean and cruel pedophile.

How would we know if he was? CNN? FOX? :rofl:

[tabasco]

35. KICK!

:kick:

[southerncrone]

36. Isn't Gannon in a seat of "honor" at such a gathering?

Seating arrangement allows for easier "playing footsie".

So, he's a journalist now! LOL! :rofl:

Who's the scary looking trancewoman in the middle? Cheney's introduction robot? :shrug:

[Baby Snooks]

37. Journalist?

He is not a journalist. He is a sleazy gay hooker. No offense to gay hookers. The emphasis is on sleazy.

It is amazing that the homophobes in the Republican Party don't seem to mind the homosexuals in their own ranks. Probably gives new meaning to "quid pro quo." You rub my ____, I'll rub yours.

No doubt the homophobia is merely a means to divert attention. Paul Craig's crime may not have been his possibly being gay. His crime was getting caught with his pants almost down.

[southerncrone]

41. I believe you meant

Larry Craig, but with so many pervs in their ranks, one could easily mix up names!

The Republican Party is about hypocrisy, secret deal-making and secretive lifestyles.
That's why they all vote together as a block & get what they want. It's about blackmail.

They must be doing some REALLY nasty things to our freedoms for them to let these scandals remain in the press. I agree, it must be for diversion.

[rodeodance]

44. ha ha. birds of the same feather!

[rodeodance]

45. conservative journalist Jeff Gannon.!!! THEY ACTUALLY labeled HIM a JOURNALIST!

[Octafish]

48. C-SPAN ever mention he's also a MALE PROSTITUTE?

It's something that Corporate McPravda also should mention whenever
he's seated next to the sneering turd who'd be a heartbeat away from the presidency,
if he had one. And we had one.

[goclark]

88. Is that a head embrace?

Georgie what are you doing?!

[WinkyDink]

94. Yes, it is. Note the splayed fingers, so as to touch as much as possible.

Note the affectionate lightness of the touch, the intimacy of hand-to-neck-and-ear, the ROMANTIC nature of the embrace.

I don't think it's difficult to "interpret". Jeff WAS a frequent, and hoped-to-be secret, visitor to the WH.

[WinkyDink]

93. OMG, it's Bush's "flirting gaze", IS IT NOT?! What straight man looks at another that way??

[underpants]

66. They have about the same thin organizational structure and immediate

upward mobility as.....hate to say it.... as al Qaeda. Seriously this guy is STILL touted by then as both relevant and NOT a complete embarassment and basically every foot soldier in al Qaeda is, at worst, the #3 guy in any given geographic unit.

[rodeodance]

46. Send an email to the authors of this article HERE:

I asked them why they referred to Jeff as a journalist!



Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin cover people, power and politics in the beltway. Want to comment? Got a juicy tip? Send an email to dish the dirt, chew the fat and wag the tongue.

[e-mail]

[rodeodance]

49. they called this a 'family paper'----but who their Viewpoints push:

No lefties listed: (front page)

Viewpoints

* Rush Limbaugh | The Rush Limbaugh Show
* Matt Drudge | The Drudge Report
* Cal Thomas | CalThomas.com
* Bill O'Reilly | The O'Reilly Factor
* Robert Novak | Chicago Sun-Times
* Sean Hannity, Alan Colmes | Hannity & Colmes

Examiner National Editorial

[dancingme]

50. Has Guckert paid the back taxes he owes Delaware?

Pay your taxes JimmyJeff.

[SpiralHawk]

55. Ahh, Jeff Gannon is a republicon homelander, therefore...

...he thinks of himself as special and "above the law" like most of the other republicon homelanders. So I doubt he paid his taxes, because that's the kind of thing Americans do -- and republicon homelanders are forever displaying their distain for America and Americans.

[WinkyDink]

56. They DO call him "Dick".

[OneGrassRoot]

59. Oy vey, how does this continue to be unknown by the masses?

With all the crimes of this administration, we've always known a sex scandal is the only hope for unleashing the dam of truth. I'm not overly well-versed about Gannon and his history at the WH, nor do I really want to be....ughhhh....but given the appetite the public and media have always had, sadly, for sex scandals, why doesn't this ever come to light in a big way?

Damn, if nothing else, can't Larry Flynt use his money to catapult this story and how it involves the WH to get some air play?

[mojowork_n]

63. The Gannon/Guckert story did make the papers, sort of...

I read about the story online, somewhere, when it first came out. I remember waiting for some sort of account of it to appear in my local paper, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

The editors chose not to run a single, straight "news report." Not one. But someone on the editorial staff (the good ones are out-numbered, I'm afraid) did elect to include a column on it, from one of their op-ed page semi-regular's, Maureen Dowd.

And that column was really one of the best she's ever done:

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0217-28.htm

Excerpt:

"...I am very impressed with James Guckert, aka Jeff Gannon.

How often does an enterprising young man, heralded in press reports as both a reporter and a contributor to such sites as Hotmilitarystud.com, Workingboys.net, Militaryescorts .com, MilitaryescortsM4M.com and Meetlocalmen.com, get to question the president of the United States?

Who knew that a hotmilitarystud wanting to meetlocalmen could so easily get to be face2face with the commander in chief?

It's hard to believe the White House could hit rock bottom on credibility again, but it has, in a bizarre maelstrom that plays like a dark comedy. How does it credential a man with a double life and a secret past?

"Jeff Gannon" was waved into the press room nearly every day for two years as the conservative correspondent for two political Web sites operated by a wealthy Texas Republican. Scott McClellan often called on the pseudoreporter for softball questions.

Howard Kurtz reported in The Washington Post yesterday that although Mr. Guckert had denied launching the provocative Web sites - one described him as " 'military, muscular, masculine and discrete' (sic)" - a Web designer in California said "that he had designed a gay escort site for Gannon and had posted naked pictures of Gannon at the client's request."

And The Wilmington News-Journal in Delaware reported that Mr. Guckert was delinquent in $20,700 in personal income tax from 1991 to 1994.

I'm still mystified by this story. I was rejected for a White House press pass at the start of the Bush administration, but someone with an alias, a tax evasion problem and Internet pictures where he posed like the "Barberini Faun" is credentialed to cover a White House that won a second term by mining homophobia and preaching family values?

At first when I tried to complain about not getting my pass renewed, even though I'd been covering presidents and first ladies since 1986, no one called me back. Finally, when Mr. McClellan replaced Ari Fleischer, he said he'd renew the pass - after a new Secret Service background check that would last several months.

In an era when security concerns are paramount, what kind of Secret Service background check did James Guckert get so he could saunter into the West Wing every day under an assumed name while he was doing full-frontal advertising for stud services for $1,200 a weekend? He used a driver's license that said James Guckert to get into the White House, then, once inside, switched to his alter ego, asking questions as Jeff Gannon..."

...So, Maureen Dowd's column revealed all the right facts, and also asked most of the right follow-up questions, but since it was just an "opinion piece", no one ever had to address it. Problem solved. (It also didn't hurt to have a small but vocal element of the Right Wing Noise Machine raise a Greek chorus of protest, about how Gannon/Guckert was being unfairly singled out for 'being gay'.)

I wish I had a dime for every thousand dollars (0.01 %) the Republicans spend on P.R./News Management & Control. This story was even more sordid, and it's never come within sighting/hailing/spitting distance of the public's awareness:

http://www.bartcop.com/bushblewaguy.htm

But Jeff Gannon/Guckert will soon (November 1st) have his masterfull new tome on the Media Crisis in America released, at The National Press Club.

Makes you proud to be an American.

[OneGrassRoot]

69. Wow...thank you for sharing that

"I'm still mystified by this story. I was rejected for a White House press pass at the start of the Bush administration, but someone with an alias, a tax evasion problem and Internet pictures where he posed like the "Barberini Faun" is credentialed to cover a White House that won a second term by mining homophobia and preaching family values?"

Says a lot, eh?

It sounds like this is cut and dry, no one disputing Jeff Guckert and Gannon are one and the same? Unbelievable. I can just hear that small but vocal element of which you speak whining about him being "unfairly singled out for 'being gay'". Again, unbelievable.

I think we liberal, progressive types must have some bad karma or something.
:shrug:

[everydayis911]

68. Wasn't Jeff Gannon

Part of the child sex ring going on in the WH during Reagan and Bush? I had read somewhere that a boy who was described as possibly Jeff was kidnapped in the 80's and was brought to the WH for child sex. Now if this is true then you know why he is invited to all these events and to be in press conferences. And I do recall that Dick was in the R/B admin so who knows if they have had a long relationship with each other. And we all know how much Bush Jr likes bald men. YUCK!

[sorrywrongemail]

74. Johnny Gosch

I think is the name. There's some threads about that on this site.

NO one's conclusively sure if he's James Guckert/Jeff Gannon though, AFAIK

[debbierlus]

72. EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[K8-EEE]

86. Seriously....WHO IS HIS BOYFRIEND???

If this was a female prostitute with this kind of access to the WH and basing their "career" on asking smooshy questions to the powers that be, everyone would be asking who's she doin'? How did this story go away? Can you imagine if he was an intimate visitor of the Clinton WH? OMG they would NEVER shut up about it on Faux, not for one second!

[WinkyDink]

92. LOOK at the PHOTO. Cheney and Gannon/Guckert are turned TOWARDS each other.

So that Cheney's "natural" lifting of his head allows him to LOOK AT JEFF.
They think they're subtle.

I think "Bulldog" was hailed to the WH for both top dogs.

[deminks]

90. 200 visits to WH in 2 years, 155 on days with pressers.

14 found with check ins but no check outs, some found with different exit locations than the entry locations. All in Secret Service records.

http://rawstory.com/exclusives/byrne/secret_service_gannon_424.htm

[Stephanie]

91. Remember Cheney fought like a dog to keep SS records to his house private.

Maybe now we know why?