Turns Out Jeff Gannon Wasn't a Monster

He was just ahead of the curve.

You may remember Jeff Gannon from such years as "2004" and "2005".  However even if you were alive and aware at the time, you may not have heard about HotMilitaryStudGate because during those ancient times, talking about Bush Administration fiascoes (and there were many of them)  which brought so much simultaneous shame to so many of Washington D.C.'s  most sacred institutions (in this case, the executive branch, the press corps and male prostitutes) was a clear violation of the most sacred Law of the Beltway.  And I quote:

IT shalt beest consid'r'd a most grievous offense 'gainst the good and valorous order of the Beltway Media to rep'rt on the true and actual scandals, war crimes and acts of treason committ'd by the Bush White House for 9/11 hath changed ev'rything

So unless you were reading such cultural outlaws as the Liberal blogs (yay!). MSNBC (pre-Comcast, pre-Phil Griffin) or Comedy Central this amazing story may well have zipped right by you.  So it is my pleasure to direct you to a little of the vintage 2006 from my own cellar:

...for those of you who have gotten your media lobotomies freshly detailed and have no recollection whatever of Gannon, or Scott McClellan, or what you had for dinner eleven minute ago, this summary of L’Affaire Gannon by Susie Bright was one of the more exquisitely written on the Web.

"Aggressive Verbal Dominant Top" Seeks Submissive Male Who Can Reinstate White House Press Pass”

Today I read a new interview with James Guckert, the gay S/M hooker who changed his name to the more butch “Jeff Gannon,” and posed as a journalist in the White House Press Corps, “reporting” for a fake news site. That rascal!

Gannon got hand-fed by the Bushies like he was their very own pet peacock. One day, some of Jeff's colleagues in the press box finally crawled out of their slumber and said, “Whoa, he's weird— Who is this dude?”

If I sound disdainful of how the mainstream media is handling Jeff’s expose, perhaps I’m just fed up with being bewildered.

It’s been a good month since anyone with a browser and a minute to spare has been able to see pictures of Gannon’s shaved erection on his live out-call web ad.

But on Sunday the New York Times, continuing the curious timidity of every other paper of record, played down this man’s true identity once again! In the NYT magazine interview, Deborah Solomon wrote that Gannon “apparently earned [his] living running a gay escort service.”

Apparently? Used to? This is the man’s entire past, present, and future!

As for “running a service,” where’s the reception desk? Are we supposed to infer that Gannon fills out employee time cards like the Mayflower Madam? No sirree— Jeff Gannon has been a one-man hot military beat-your-ass stud, and the only thing he runs is a carefully honed sales pitch. He is one discrete, butch, jarhead whore— and the only thing that is “apparent” is that he is one of the best, according to his customer reviews.

When I talk to my friends, I find that many don't know who Guckert is. Sometimes they've heard that some weirdo infiltrated the White House Press Corps by mistake. Maybe they heard he was right wing, or that he entertained Scott McClellan with sycophant questions that bordered on, "Why is George Bush the greatest president who ever lived?”

But so what? — Isn’t it just more of the same? Are we expected to get outraged over every Red State cheerleader?

If you’ve also heard that Gannon is gay, you probably know that he has written anti-gay marriage material, and smeared John Kerry for trying to be a “gay president.” Hmm... so he’s a self-hating pathological mutant. We’ve become so accustomed to it— yawn. Or maybe we’re just numb since Janet waved her nipple at us. Gosh, the press devoted so much attention to that sex scandal, they’d surely go apeshit if Gay Nazis took over the White House, wouldn't they?

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Which is...one more example of why I read Ms. Susie Bright.

That was the story of Jeff Gannon/James Guckert, intrepid Bush Bottom.

This is a guy named Kieth Something-or-other who used to work at MSNBC before they became the Squint and the Meat Puppet and Friends network explaining what Mr. Gannon's role was in the Bush White House press corp (hint: it's the sort of service for which James "HotDilatoryStud" Guckert would have charged you extra):

And this is a guy named Bill Maher who used to be on Comedy Central wondering out loud why no one was covering this fucking amazing story:

So why revisit this 12 years later?

Because back in 2005, the idea that a sleazy, conspiracy-drunk wingnut fake-reporter had wormed his way into the White House press corps and, for two years, had been acting as a verbal cum dumpster for a disastrously fucked-up Republican administration was so deeply transgressive and disgraceful in the eyes of Washington D.C.'s aforementioned sacred institutions (Preznit, the Beltway steno pool and male hookers) that everyone just...sorta...looked the other way.

And 12 years later, a practice that was so shocking in 2005 that it literally killed the team of matched Percherons that Andrea Mitchell used to use to get haul the mortal remains of Alan Greenspan to various cocktail parties around the nation's capitol...

...is about to become just another day at the office for White House press corps under administration of The Bastard President.

From Media Matters:

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Letting Infowars into the White House would provide the Trump administration an ally -- if a volatile one -- in the press room, one it could count on not to push stories damaging to the president. Jones himself has indicatedthat this is part of the plan, saying yesterday that “just by being there” in the White House they would be able to move news organizations that publish mainstream news stories “out of the way."

If Jones and Corsi are right and Infowars is on the verge of receiving White House credentials, we will have seen the next step in press secretary Sean Spicer’s effort to flood the press briefings with sycophants and pro-Trump propagandists. Laura Ingraham’s LifeZette, Breitbart.com, One America News Network, and Newsmax have all had opportunities to ask questions last week.

In the video in which he first suggested a White House press credential was imminent, Jones stood with other Trump media allies like Newt Gingrich and Sean Hannity in calling for delegitimizing and diminishing the access of critical news outlets in order to make room for journalists who support the Trump line. “What’s CNN doing in the front row, when Spicer keeps going to them?” Jones asked. “You should see Breitbart and Drudge, and also just reporters that are known to tell the truth from mainstream, whatever, promoted and put up to the front of those briefings, to bring up real questions, not just a battle where they're just attacking with fricking lies.”

Trump wants an army of Jeff Gannons in the White House press room. That team is starting to assemble.

If they want to survive, our Fourth Estate better figure out hurry-up-quick who is actually on the side of a free and fair press, and who want's to make them a side-dish.