This should explain some of the references made in yesterdays link by Comedian Robin Williams...
The Bush Administration has certainly gone far beyond anything Clinton ever dreamed of. None of this is accidental, as numerous blogs, and now the mainstream media have reported. People just don't get access to the Presidential Press Corps through osmosis.
Now as the administration is suddenly looking for a subject change even more terrifying than the threat of Avian Flu, wouldn't it be amazing if suddenly the nation found itself at level Red, as a distraction for the scandal surrounding the "former" Marine Escort who once advertised in the Pink Pages?
For the whole complete story, courtesy of the brave folks who broke it, read on: Oh yeah and a warning... this link provides access to numerous X rated pictures of Mr Jeff Gannon.
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/02/man-called-jeff.html
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Well, Tim, I agree with you, but there are always two sides to a story. We can't forget the other side or we will become too hypocritical ourselves.
I present a counterpoint:
http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/k/kincaid/2005/kincaid021505.htmlThat said, I don't personally have a lot of sympathy for Mr. Gannon. Still, Mr. Kincaid does make a few good points about the dangers this affair presents, and I think it is worth reading. Specifically, I support his warning against taking traditionally messy partisan politics too close to the home place of the reporters involved. This is true whether we consider the reporters to be "real" or not. There isn’t any honor involved in something that smacks of blackmail. On the other hand, good investigative journalism was carried out in exposing Mr. Gannon’s subterfuge. I just wonder if it went too far when the nude pictures and reviews of his past performance as an escort were posted.
We liberals complain that people like Mr. Gannon aren’t real reporters, because they lack ethics and accountability, because they seem to exist only to make the President look good, but as is always the case, sinking to their level isn’t going to help much in the long run. It hurts the credibility of journalists as a whole when the valid concerns are pushed aside to make way for the sensational.
The more I think about it, the more uneasy I am with the amount of scorn that is being heaped upon Mr. Gannon for his past as a gay prostitute. A friend of mine got my attention today with this comment, “Since it seems all kinds of reporters are represented, shouldn't we have one who was also a gay escort?” All of a sudden, I felt pretty conservative myself. I felt that I was giving into the sensationalism of his “dirty” past more than I was concerned with whether he represented a security breach, or more interestingly, a connection to some higher-up official in the White House. As much as I would love to see Carl Rove exposed as a closeted friend of Dorothy, I should still feel sympathy for anyone who’s life has been so negatively affected by a scandal in which the key derogatory term involved is “gay.”
I agree whole-heartedly with you, Tim, that our government is nothing but a mess right now. Events like this one are disgraceful and embarrassing, for everyone involved. I just want to urge everyone to look at both sides, and remember that the line between liberals and conservatives needs to me based on more than expediency towards achieving our political goals.
On a lighter note, the same friend who made the comment above got me laughing with another innocently delivered pearl of wisdom. Maybe we shouldn’t call the kettle black until we conduct some investigation of our own. His comment, “So, why aren't the democrats demanding an investigation in this case? My guess is that if there is one republican gay prostitute "linked" to the white house, then there are several dozen democratic ones, because in my experience, gay prostitutes are largely democratic.”
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