Excuse me for laughing, y'all, but I just love this story.... Let's keep it going for awhile...

Ethics Committee Continues Review of Convicted Gay Congressman Larry Craig

Craig Reconsiders Decision to Resign

For the record, we just got confirmation of a certain meeting to take place in Washington, D.C., Sept. 14 at about 12:30 p.m. in the Rayburn House Office Building. Jill Simpson goes to Washington. Stay tuned...

If it's Wednesday afternoon, it's Yuengling Time in LocustForkland, where the river runs cold and true, the Great Blue Herons dance like Elvis and the people like to shoot the breeze (and they are usually right).

Throw in a little Dixie Chicks (The Long Way Home) on the drums, a certain bit of Neil Young (Alabama), some Derek Trucks ... the first solo album.

Summer is almost over. A trip is in the offing. Long live fall...

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There are interesting and potentially explosive new developments breaking today concerning gay Republican hypocrites in Washington and elsewhere.

We were right in the middle of investigating claims that the real reason Bush's chief political aide Karl Rove resigned from the White House was that he is the real bisexual lover of the gay male prostitute who was run off from the White House press room back in the spring of 2005, namely James Guckert, a.k.a. Jeff Gannon of Gannongate and JeffGannon.com.

But then Idaho Sen. Larry Craig held a press conference covered live on CNN today in which he denied being gay, in spite of pleading guilty to lewd conduct in a men's room at the Minneapolis airport.

U.S. Senator Gets Flushed

Senate Republican leaders in Washington called for an ethics committee review into his involvement in a police sting operation this summer in the airport men's room, after the private group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics filed a complaint with the ethics committee seeking an investigation into whether Craig violated Senate rules by engaging in disorderly conduct.

Sen. Craig: 'I Am Not Gay'

The controversy errupted earlier today on the media Website at the Poynter Institute.

From Hearsay to Headline: Tracking the Larry Craig Coverage

And the D.C. blogger Wonkette has been covering this story and others, related to a triple murder suicide of more gay Republicans in Florida, including one who worked in the attorney general campaign of Troy King of Alabama.

Even the Alabama Associated Press had a story on this today, although they do not mention all the gay Republican connections.

Slain Florida Political Consultant Worked on Alabama Campaigns

To read the most about it, CrimeBlog.US is covering it in great depth.

The original story on Jeff Gannon was broken on Feb. 2, 2005 on America blog in a post called A man called Jeff.

Since the mainstream, corporate press and the broadcast media would not cover this story, and since the Bush royal family has a long history of being able to keep this stuff quiet either by killing people or paying them off, there was no real way to get to the bottom of the story - until now, perhaps.

Now that Craig has gone on national TV and breached the door to this sort of controversy, maybe there are other similar controversies that now may be investigated.

In the Locust Fork Journal archives on Gannongate, some of the links are broken. But a thorough check of back computer files turned up the orginal Secret Service logs that clearly show Gannon spent several nights in the White House. Knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that gay sex was going on in the White House, the only real questions left that remained unanswered were: Who was he having sex with? And in which bedroom?

For anyone interested in making a contribution to this story, including sources who want to talk anonymously, check out the logs below.

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More on George W. Bush's "Sanctity of Marriage" gay marriage constitutional ban, from investigative reporter Wayne Madsen.

I tried to warn people about this as long ago as April 1, 2005, in an archive now referred to as Gannongate. Cover your children's eyes when reading this. It contains explicit sexual content.

George W. Bush's marital problems have just taken another turn for the worse. Madsen first reported June 2 that Bush had an affiar with Condi and Laura moved to the Mayflower Hotel.

Then, on June 4, he reported that Bush has not only engaged in an extra-marital affair with a member of the opposite sex who is also a senior member of his Cabinet, but also a member of the same sex.

In his Wayne Madsen Report online, he says he received the following release from Leola McConnell, a Democratic candidate for Governor of Nevada and a former professional dominatrix.

On President Bush's speech to the nation Monday: "If he doesn't say he's a gay American or at the least a bisexual one then he shouldn't be making one at all," McConnell said. "And the notion that it would be in regards to writing bigotry into our nation's Constitution is reprehensible.

"Too bad it isn't me doing the rebuttal because in 1984, I watched him perform (with the enthusiasm of homosexual male who had done this many times before) a homosexual act on another man, namely Victor Ashe. Victor Ashe is the current Ambassador to the nation of Poland (former Mayor of Knoxville, Tenn.) who should also come out like former Governor McGreevey of New Jersey and admit to being a gay American.

"Other homo-erotic acts were also performed by then private citizen George Bush because I performed one of them on him personally," she said.

"I am the woman this website bushssecretlifein84.tripod.com speaks of that has been posted on the (N)et nearly two years now. None of this would be the business of anyone but President Bush's little ruse to save his failed presidency by using DOMA [Defense of Marriage Act] to divide Americans one from the other has to be exposed as the act of a desperate closeted homosexual man.

"The only crime in being GLBT is in the hiding. The President needs to come clean with the American people about his own past sexual behavior before he tries to besmirch the humanity of people in search of sincerely committing to the same bonds of matrimony he's afforded. He violated his own vows of monogamy having a homosexual affair with a long time family friend of whom his wife had no knowledge. His hypocrisy seems to know no bounds.

"I had planned to run for governor of Nevada without going into any of this but his planned nationally televised address to the nation makes it necessary for me to address his attempt at division in as public a way as he picked to try this Bushification of reality regarding same sex marriages."

Madsen adds: The editor was asked what sort of relationship George W. Bush could be having with Condoleezza Rice? My reply was that it was likely aberrant and involved something like the relationship King Edward VIII had with Wallis Simpson, who was rumored to have had androgen insensitivity syndrome.

Wayne Madsen is an investigative journalist, nationally distributed columnist, and author who has covered Washington, DC, politics, national security, and intelligence issues since 1994. He has written for The Village Voice, The Progressive, CAQ, Counterpunch, and the Intelligence Newsletter (based in Paris). Madsen is the author of Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa 1993-1999, co-author of America's Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II, and the forthcoming Jaded Tasks: Big Oil, Black Ops and Brass Plates. Madsen is also the author of The Handbook of Personal Data Protection (London: Macmillan, 1992), an acclaimed reference book on international data protection law.

Madsen is a former U.S. Naval officer who was assigned to the National Security Agency during the Reagan administration. He also has some twenty years experience in computer security and data privacy. He has also worked for the Naval Data Automation Command, Department of State, RCA Corporation, and Computer Sciences Corporation.

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Sitting up late blogging and watching C-SPAN, I managed to catch the speech by Bill Moyers taking on the media and the government at the conference put on by a non-profit group called Free Press, "working to involve the public in media policymaking and to craft policies for more democratic media," according to its mission statement.

I may as well publish my own book on the press now, since the Newsweek debacle will make it even harder to do or sell any meaningful investigative journalism for some time to come.

Meanwhile, the MSM thinks it can stop the bleeding circulation numbers and the plummeting public trust in public opinion polls by covering more church. What a joke.

At least there's one newsman on TV willing to take on a sycophant like Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman who let gay male prostitute Jeff Gannon in the press room and who is now blaming Newsweek for deaths in the Middle East and diminishing America's reputation in the world. I think someone needs to look in the damn mirror.

Keith Olbermann is calling on McClellan to resign. It won't happen, of course, but at least someone has the guts to say it out loud in front of a camera.

Is the American press as we know it doomed - along with 229 years of experimentation with Democracy?

Let us all now bow down and give praise to famous men, right? Shouldn't we all just be grateful for the crumbs they throw us?

I already know one real reporter who recently had to take a job as a grocery store checkout clerk just to feed her family. We'll all be working for Wal-Mart soon - if a lot of people don't by dog stand up and protest the direction we are headed.

It's just a damn good thing the Republican Party decided a long time ago that presidential terms should be limited to two in the wake of FDR's four terms during The Depression and World War II. Otherwise, the organized religious forces in this country might just anoint George W. Bush king for life and we could kiss this great experiment in Democracy good bye.

The good news is, there will be more elections in 2006 and 2008. There is some chance that the libertarian independents might just split from the religious conservatives and help the pendulum to swing back and allow a few more Democrats back into power.

Otherwise, dear friends, Hunter S. Thompson may prove right to lament the death of the American Dream. It sure seems to be slipping away these days. It's hard to even muster a decent "ho, ho."

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Carol Towarnicky, the chief editorial writer of the Philadelphia Daily News, goes after her own kind in the press for ignoring the Gannongate scandal. Since most of you are not likely registered for the Daily News Web site, here's the column. It is a rare instance of the press criticizing the press.

IF A REPORTER who doubled as a gay hooker had visited the Clinton White House nearly 200 times, think it would have made the news?

If "Jeff Gannon"/James D. Guckert had been unveiled, so to speak, as a liberal imposter who lobbed softball questions at Clinton administration press briefings, he would be as infamous as Michael Schiavo.

And if 39 of those White House visits were mysteriously unrelated to his "reporting" duties, imagine what innuendoes would be issuing forth from Planet Limbaugh. Imagine the organized phone call campaign demanding newspapers and TV stations report the story.

But Gannon/Guckert isn't being unveiled or innuendoed or even blipped on media radar screens, even among liberals . . . .

Continue reading "Press Takes A Pass On 'Jeff Gannon'" »

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Secret Service Records Show Gannon Spent Nights in the White House

In what is unlikely to stem the controversy surrounding disgraced White House correspondent James Guckert/Jeff Gannon, the Secret Service has furnished logs of the writer's access to the White House after requests by two Democratic members of Congress.

Raw Story reports that on some days, the records show that the conservative male prostitute checked in but was never processed out. The records also show that he signed out on days when he didn't sign in.

Did Gannon spend the night in the White House on a number of occassions? He's now not answering questions about it and the Secret Service is also refusing to comment further.

We told you there was more to this story. Where is the big media on such an obvious security breach?

Update: While I was out of town on the run to the beach and Jazzfest, the AP also briefly reported this story.

Did you see it in your local newspaper or on the local TV news?

Where are the New York Times and Washington Post?

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James Dale Guckert, a.k.a. Jeff Gannon, never served in the United States Marine Corps as he claimed, according to the Personnel Management Support Branch located at Marine Corps Base Quantico.

The story was reported here on the Daily Kos blog and credited to ePluribus Media.

His nose continues to grow.

Over at the Pirate News out of Knoxville, Tennessee, run by John Lee, there's more on the story than has been reported on any other blog. The stories are linked under a category called George Bush's Gay Gate.

I'm still going through it all trying to independently verify some of the most important stuff, including the claim that Gannon is part of a "powerful ring of homosexuals . . . now . . . controlling the Bush White House."

There's also the claim that Hunter S. Thompson was in the middle of investigating the Gannon affair when he allegedly killed himself. Who knew?

GW

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Mike Rogers of BlogActive and Raw Story made a scene at the Bloggers versus Journalists panel discussion at the National Press Club this morning in downtown Washington, D.C. - shouting questions at James Guckert/Jeff Gannon. Gannon, or whatever his real name is, just ignored the questions and left.

My favorite was: "Hey Jeff, did you sleep with Scott McClellan or anyone else in the White House?"

I'm not sure that's exactly the right question, since I don't think a lot of sleeping was involved.

The panel was mostly made up of what I would consider fairly light weights as journalists or bloggers go, but they were about on Gannon's level as far as speaking ability is concerned, if more qualified to be there. Gannon's only claim to fame at this juncture is that he was a gay bashing Republican male prostitute who got daily White House press passes for two years to ask softball questions of McClellan, the White House spokesman who allegedly liked to hang out in gay bars himself in his Austin days before moving to Washington to shill for President George W. Bush, a.k.a. the Texas Souffle.

I was standing in line to ask a couple of questions myself, but got cut off by the C-SPAN timeline.

Some old geezer who claimed to be a broadcast journalist waisted most of the question and answer time by making an incomprehensible speech, even though moderator Rick Dunham, president of the press club and Business Week White House correspondent, instructed questioners not to make speeches.

The same old geezer told Rogers his question was "a cheap shot." Rogers attacked back, saying something like, "You are part of the problem. You are being used. Gannon is a pathetic plant."

I think he meant a Bush administration plant, not a potted plant. But hey, I could be wrong.

The only member of the panel to really challenge Gannon was Ana Marie Cox, the editor of Wonkette who may soon replace Richard Leiby as the Washington Post gossip columnist. But she hardly nailed Gannon to the wall, and he just would not discuss in detail how he REALLY got access to the White House so often and for so long.

Here's the language in the Press Club announcement about the event:

"Now that anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can set up shop on the Web, the days when you could tell who was a reporter by looking for a press card stuck in a fedora are long gone. A writer for a conservative Web site got credentials from the White House, even after a committee of journalists turned him down. For several years, bloggers have been blurring the lines daily between journalists and activists. And now professional media blogs blur even those lines.

"So how do you know who's a journalist these days? A panel of journalists, bloggers and others will discuss the rules for who is what on Friday, April 8."

Panelists included:

Julie Hirschfeld Davis of the Baltimore Sun, chairwoman of the Standing Committee on Correspondents for the House and Senate press galleries.

Garrett Graff, editor, Fishbowl DC, the first blogger to receive White House press credentials.

Jeff Gannon, formerly with conservative Web site Talon News, whose question at a presidential news conference focused attention on how he got into the White House press corps.

Ana Marie Cox, editor of Wonkette.com.

John Stanton with Congress Daily, who has written for National Journal about blogs and conservative news organizations.

Matthew Yglesias, staff writer at The American Prospect and editor of yglesias.typepad.com.

Mike Madden with Gannett News Service and co-chair of the NPC Professional Affairs Committee will moderate the program.

Editor and Publisher published an advance story about it:

The National Press Club Welcomes . . . Jeff Gannon?

America Blog the Web site that broke the story about Gannon's days as a male escort, posted a short notice today about it.

And Wonkette had a story today too.

I'm still digesting my notes and will have more to report over the weekend. But if I had made it to the microphone, I might have asked if I was the only journalist and blogger and scholar on journalism as a profession in the room.

I will soon be posting a paper I researched, wrote and presented at a journalism educators conference a few years back.

But for now this site is experiencing some technical difficulty, and besides, I need a beer break.

Site Note: The Locust Fork server has been undergoing a bit of mantenance lately, so sorry for any problems accessing the site. The gurus down in East Tennessee say all should be well by Saturday morning. Thanks for your patience. Check back soon and often.

GW

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As Gene Autry the singing cowboy or Mister Ed the talking horse might say, "Whoa Nelly."

Someone over at my favorite fledgling wire service published a story in one of the gayest newspapers in Christiandom accusing Gannon, aka James Guckert, of falsely registering a political organization as a non-profit.

Blog: Guckert/Gannon non-profit/GOP link

Since he refuses to go away, he deserves what he gets.

Meanwhile a few days back, the New York Times Sunday magazine sent over a correspondent to ask Mr. Gannon a few questions. Too bad they didn't ask me for suggestions.

Blogged Down

Gannon continues to attack bloggers as liberals on his blog.

He says he is available to answer questions, although he never replied to mine via e-mail.

So, Jeff, who did you service over at the White House to gain your access? And what really goes on in the Lincoln bedroom? Inquiring minds want to know.

GW

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This promises to be better than any April Fool's Day joke.

Someone is sponsoring a panel discussion April 8 at the National Press Club in D.C. on the difference, or whether there is a difference, between bloggers and journalists.

There is a notice on the National Press Club Web site about it under the headline: Blogger? Journalist?

Now get this. On the panel, there will be James Guckert (aka Jeff Gannon), along with Ana Marie Cox of Wonkette and, the only real journalist and not exactly a big name, Congress Daily's John Stanton.

They didn't ask me, so I've reserved a ticket, since I actually qualified for a daily press pass to cover Congress at the U.S. Capitol through the Senate Press Gallery.

In case you missed the story, Gannon got daily press passes to the White House even though he couldn't get a Congressional pass. Here's the story I did about it for the Locust Fork Journal March 6 under the headline:

Cleaning the Objective Microscope Lens

And here's a headline links page dedicated to stories about Gannongate.

John Aravosis of America blog says the event is not actually being sponsored by the National Press Club.

I've been doing a bit of research on this story myself and will have a few juicy tidbits to reveal by the date of the panel, if it comes off, including more of Gannon's past - and his REAL name.

GW

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