It's official: former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's the official Republican whipping boy. With the right wing aligning against him – and their "body snatcher" argument – we suspected that Bush backers would begin to question McClellan's sexuality. And, according to Down With Tyranny's reading, former prostitute turned fake reporter Jeff Gannon's doing the dirty work:
…Today the first shot in that direction from the Bush Regime's in-house male prostitute, [Jeff Gannon]: "What I hear about the book does not sound like the Scott McClellan I knew for two years. I can say without fear of contradiction, that I knew Scott better than any other White House correspondent or Washington reporter."
We're not sure if Gannon's remarks are intended to queer McClellan, but they sure as shit don't help his situation. Well, not on the Republican side.
As for us – we'd love it if McClellan were a big homo. In fact, we'd prefer it!
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Frist:Jeff Gannon is hot…EVIL hot.
Second:Scott looks like the sorta sex pig that would get into a prozzie.
Third:I'd like to see the visitor logs for the White House…I understand Gannon signed in and out at some VERY strange hours.
That whole family is on the outs with the GOP. I wouldn't be surprised by anything they do to defame them all.
'Frist,' Dubwise? Heh. I thought we got rid of him already.
PalePhoeix: er…uh….um…I didnt even notice!
I'm surprised Darth Paul didn't give me sh!t for that.
AARRGGh…I should just stop typing. PalePhoenix not PalePhoeix…
If only there was some sort of checking I could have done before I hit Submit.
I'd fuck him.
In the late 1980s I was a reporter with White House press credentials. When the Guckert scandal broke, I carefully read the details. I was incredulous, and still am, at both the official explanation and the White House press corps’ refusal to delve into the story.
Today’s credentialing procedures are the same as they were 20 years ago. First, a reporter gets credentials on Capitol Hill through a process controlled by the media itself. You have to work a certain number of hours (I believe it’s at least 20 a week) for pay with an independent media outlet. Once you have a congressional pass, you apply for a White House pass. It involves an FBI background check and further verification of your news organization’s status.
Guckert was refused congressional credentials because he didn’t work enough hours, and because his employer was not an independent outlet but was a partisan lobbying group. Without a “Hill Pass,†as they’re called by reporters, he wasn’t eligible to even apply for White House credentials. Therefore, to get into the White House, he had to use “day passes†granted through a separate process managed by the White House political office.
Day passes are generally one-shot deals, but Guckert used 200 day passes that were granted directly by the press office. I can’t possibly overemphasize how irregular this is. It screams foul play. Not only that, but Secret Service records showed Guckert having been admitted on several occasions at night, and not checking out until the next morning. Hello?
The offocial explanation for that was sloppy recordkeeping. No way! Back in the late '80s the White House was locked up tighter than a drum. We are to believe that security became looser after 9/11? I don't think so!
People do not get into the White House by mistake, and no one forgets when or at which gate they signed out. Same goes for Guckert’s first-name basis at press conferences, and his admission to special, small-group events with Bush, and for Bush’s having called on him at a nationally televised briefing. Those things never, and I repeat never, happen except by orchestration. NEVER
The Guckert story was mentioned a few times in the Washington Post and the New York Times, but always in brief and always on the inside pages. The Post’s guy, Howard Kurtz, went out of his way to minimize it. The Wall Street Journal never mentioned it, nor to my recollection did the L.A. Times, USA Today, or any network news show except for NBC, and then only once.
I might add that Guckert’s access to the White House began with Ari Fleischer, not Scott McClellan. I predict that none of this will be pursued now. Someone is being protected. Not sure who, but a bunch of people are in on it, including the White House press corps.
I've been cynical about McClellan's "tell-all." So far it's just been confirmation of what many have been saying all along. I have to wonder, why now? Is it a late atonement? A settling of scores? A rat fleeing a sinking ship? An attempt to cash-out before his story becomes, in six months, worthless?
There's been nothing new. If he spilled the beans on the mystery behind Gannon, now – that would be interesting!
Most of the folks who leave the immediatte White House family go immediately to work for war machine enterprises, making much more money, giving away their expertise. That is if they arrn't already making a fortune on war related stock.
Maybe he got jealose, seeing everyone else cashing . To bad no one will buy itynow. Everyone who can read knows about the endless fraud in the White House by now.
Hells Kitchen
I'd prefer to spit fuck him so I will let you have first go at it so you can loosen and grease up his asshole for me.
Agreed w/ Dubwise about Gannon.
He can get it.
Before y'all get all excited – Mr. Guckert no longer looks anything like those pictures. Add about 30 pounds, age the face about 15 years, add some jowls, and you're a little closer.
@Dan: I'd still hit it.
THANK YOU, Former WH Reporter for that valuable insight into how things work. This always smelled like a rat, but now all the more so. If more comes of this Guckert-McClellan exchange, I for one, would be interested in your further comments.
What WOULDN'T Gannon/Guckert do for money?
What he claims, needs to be taken with a big grain of salt.
I would suspect Gannon was more Karl Rove's type, and Karl (Miss Piggy) would have WAY more clout to have his whore make a house call to the White House.
One thing about Scotty, it's obvious he was on Bush's side of the White House, as opposed to Cheney's side of the White House. There won't be any snitches coming from Cheney's side…he'd shoot em.
Not to mention he likes the little boys…
A TRUTH NOT FROM ACTIONS…
Not much will surprise us about this Administration. There is, however, more to be learned here from McClellan's actions or lack thereof.
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The LGBT community,(as other disenfranchaised minorities) has some SERIOUS HOUSE CLEANING to do.
Putrid rancid thugs like Mehlman, Rove, McClellan, Condi Rice, Gannon/Guckert, Mark Foley, Patrick McHenry, Larry Craig, Mitch McConnel, Charlie Christ, Mary Cheney and Heather Poe have given us 8 years of HELL.
ENDLESS shunning, or spitting on these thugs EVERYWHERE they try to hide seems a fitting punishment.
Amen Mark, I agree with you totally
Putrid thugs like Mary Cheney… whaa?
Wait.. I thought that Ari Fleischer was the closeted one. Two in a row?
Judging by his size now how could you miss it?