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A Gay Porn Star is Honored at CPAC

Wed Mar 7, 5:28 AM ET

The Nation -- A former gay porn star and male escort was awarded the Jeanne
Kirkpatrick Freedom award at last weekend's CPAC. He is Cpl. Matt Sanchez, a
Marine, campus culture warrior and Fox News favorite who David Horowitz
introduced me to at CPAC.

Tom Bacchus has a full run-down of the Sanchez saga, along with photos which
you should absolutely NOT view if you are in the presence of minors or in a
crowded workplace. On my blog, I describe my meeting with Sanchez, discuss
his psychological similarities to Ann Coulter, and explain how personally
conflicted figures like him are drawn to the right.

Once again George Bush went before the Corporate Media and repeated answers fed into his earpiece by Karl Rove. And once again the Corporate Media pretended the answers were coming out of Bush's alcoholism-impaired brain. When will the Corporate Media acknowledge what everyone in the world can see with their own eyes - that Bush is always wired?

And here's another question: is Fox News' White House correspondent Bret Baier spending his nights at the White House - like former White House correspondent "Jeff Gannon"?

The reason I ask is because Bush repeatedly smiled and winked at Baier - which was especially weird and disturbing because the topics being discussed were the death and destruction across the Middle East resulting from Bush's utterly failed policies.

Some weeks ago, there were stories asking if Jeff Gannon is really kidnapped paper boy Johnny Gosch. At the time, I really didn't take these seriously, especially since these articles were at sites which I considered less than credible. But believe it or not, this is actually being reported by Iowa's KWWL News:

New Leads In The Johnny Gosch Case

A cold case is heating up. Iowa paperboy Johnny Gosch vanished without a trace in 1982. But, now, after KWWL's story last month on Johnny's disappearance, there is new information on the case.

From AmericaBlog:

It's the National Press Club itself that is hosting Jeff Gannon and Wonkette as either mainstream journalists or serious political bloggers (as we had reported earlier today).

Gannon, of course, is neither, and the same goes for Wonkette. He's a male prostitute who parroted GOP press releases, and she writes a humor blog about sex in politics that focuses mainly on [anal sex] jokes. Neither of them is a serious political journalist (and I don't believe Wonkette, whose site I love, even claims to be), and most certainly neither of them is your first choice for a panel about how serious MSM journalism differs from serious BLOG journalism.

Oh, but it gets better.

http://americablog.org/

DailyKos: NO Military Service for Gannon/Guckert by Joe in DC - 3/24/2005 12:39:00 PM

A lot of comments remind us not to forget about the Jeff/James Gannon/Guckert scandal. Believe me, we haven't...even though the MSM seems to have. DailyKos has another new development involving Jeff/James. Looks like our boy may have made up the whole military record thing too: Fake name. Fake reporter. Fake news agency.

And now this ... Fake Marine. First, we went to the Military Personnel Records of the National Personnel Records Center at St. Louis, Missouri, the supposed repository of all military records. No record showed, but the official letter hemmed and hawed and scraped its military-booted feet so much, kinda sorta explaining that they're often ... well ... ummm ... screwed up ... and that we should check directly with the United States Marine Corps at Quantico. You know, just to ... ummm ... make sure. Love the Kossacks. We still need to know a lot more about the Gannon/Guckert story. A lot.

Here's a cool campaign from Agitprops.org - let's join in the fun!

On March 16, 2005, a group of 21 Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee moved to block a Congressional investigation into how male escort Jeff "Bulldog" Gannon gained daily access to the White House for two years under a false name.

Why did they suppress evidence that would show who helped a gay prostitute evade Secret Service background checks and gain compromising access to the President of the United States? Why are these 21 Republicans so desperate to keep "Bulldog's" secrets? Shouldn't they be answering some questions about why they don't want any questions asked?

Click on a mugshot for a page-sized poster on each of Gannon's VIP clients that people can download and print. Forward the jpegs widely -- post links to listgroups and blogs. Print them out at the color printer at work and stick them on cars in the parking lot.

It seems to me that just about everyone has forgotten about Jeff Gannon. This is a case where someone was given a white house press pass so he could ask soft ball questions, and no one seems to think this is important. This is a chance to show the Bush administration for what it really is: a highly corrupt regime that lies and cheats when ever it wants to. We need to do some thing to remind people of this. We can't let this slip through our fingers.

Any thoughts?

Gonzo Gone, Rather Going, Watergate Still Here.  new york times -->-->-->-->

TWO weeks ago Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide. Next week Dan Rather commits ritual suicide, leaving the anchor chair at CBS prematurely as penance for his toxic National Guard story. The two journalists shared little but an abiding distaste - make that hatred in Thompson's case - for the Great Satan of 20th-century American politics, Richard Nixon. The best work of both was long behind them. Yet memories of that best work - not to mention the coincidental timing of their departures - only accentuate the vacuum in that cultural category we stubbornly insist on calling News.

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.

It's the hottest story in the Blogosphere: blogger John Aravosis of AmericaBlog.org is exposing the truth about former White House "reporter" Jim Guckert, a.k.a. "John Gannon."

The basic question underlying this scandal is simple: How on earth did a $200/hour gay male prostitute get past post-9/11 White House security nearly every day for two years to get within spitball distance of George W. Bush?

Is the Secret Service completely incompetent - or does Guckert have "friends" in the highest places? Who specifically waved Guckert into the White House each day, starting when Guckert worked for the rightwing propaganda site GOPUSA.com?