If you haven't seen this article (or this one) yet you must read it now. Be sure to scroll all the way down to the "why does this matter" paragraph to see, well, why it matters. It's a great story about that fake reporter for Talon News, Jeff Gannon, who lobs the easy questions at the president or the press secretary and will also include insults to Democrats in his questions. So it turns out that this guy was a gay prostitute who called himself "Bulldog", and that Jeff Gannon isn't even his real name. This guy uses an alias, worked as a prostitute, has no journalistic background and was given a press pass to the White House with no problem. As is mentioned in the Americablog article linked above, it took bloggers only a few days to find this stuff out. So, with the hard core vetting process the government has for getting that kind of access, what are the chance the White House didn't know all of this already?
So it seems in Dubya's world that committed gay couples are harmful to our children, but gay prostitutes are his favorite kind of reporter. Read the links, way better than anything I could say about this.
Didn't mean to turn this into gay week on my blog, but it's just been jumping out of the GOP closet lately.
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A word about my Valentines Day story. While the story I told on V-Day was based on true events, I told the story in a way that would hopefully be somewhat amusing and entertaining. And it appears that because of that my lovely wife maybe came off badly in my little tale. While at some point after my beat-down she did mention that she'd been trying to tell me to stop mouthing off to people or I would get hurt someday, that was not at all the only thing she said or did. She was very scared and upset during/after the whole ordeal, and even put herself in harms way to push one of the punks off of me and scream at them to leave me alone.
Just so no one gets the wrong idea about my honey.
Peace out.
La Oprika Paprika
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I was just writing something about this...have you seen this site?
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/02/17/gannon/index.html (do the day pass)
Not only was he a male escort, not only are there naked pictures of the man out there (thanks Daily Show!), but the guy was attending press corps meetings at least TWO MONTHS before actually attaining a White House press pass.
crypto-facist fuckers! industrial-military complex!
uhm...yeah.
Come on, take off the tin-foil hat already. I'm sorry, but it is much, much easier for me to attribute this to incompetence than malice. I'm guessing that they (Bush & Co.) were guilty of failing to use due diligence. I find it very difficult to believe that they knew he was a male escort and chose to use him anyway. I do think it is possible that there is a conspiracy here, but if so, logic would dictate that this is a conspiracy from the other side (pun not intended), specifically that Bush's enemies somehow planted him in this situation (in which case, Bush & Co. is still guitly of not using due diligence). More likely, however, is that this is an amusing misstep by a president who has made many far less amusing missteps already.
all I'm saying is this: if this were a democrat president's "amusing misstep", who hadn't followed due diligence, this would be much bigger news than what's been alloted for it now.
besides, since when is allowing a right-wing stoop, with no press credentials or experience, into the (what should be unbiased) press room without a pass an amusing misstep?
puh-lease, brother man.
I hear ya on the less amusing missteps, though.
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