O.K. This is a pretty juicy story but to truly enjoy it, you need to let it unfold in stages.
Last week during a White House press conference, reporter Jeff Gannon asked President Bush, ""Senate Democratic leaders have painted a very bleak picture of the U.S. economy. ... Yet, in the same breath, they say that Social Security is rock solid and there's no crisis there. You've said you're going to reach out to these people. How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?"
Well... that kind of questioning seems biased (to the right) to say the least, so a couple of Boston Globe reporters did some investigating and found out that this "reporter" is a Texas-based Republican delegate who the White House gave press credentials to in order to ask softball questions and to write pieces which were overwhelmingly favorable to the administration. His articles were posted on Talon News.com, a right-wing website. (Please, read all of the above linked Globe article cause it's truly illuminating).
So, after that piece of information came out, Mr. Gannon resigned from the press corp and Talon News which spurred internet bloggers to do some more researching on their own. They discovered Jeff Gannon owned several websites that reveal his true colors.
Those sites included:
Conservativeguy.com,
Conservative-guy.com,
Conservativelegal.com,
Exposejessejackson.com
Jeffgannon.com,
Theconservativeguy.com,
Theconservativelegal.com,
The-conservative-guy.com,
Hotmilitarystud.com,
Militaryescorts.com
and Militaryescortsm4m.com
Strangely enough, since this latest part of the story broke, most of the content on these sites has been eliminated...
but not before John Avarosis of Americablog got a screengrab of Jeff's escort profile picture.
Oh, and Talonnews.com is looking for a replacement 'reporter' to fill Jeff Gannon's slot, er... space, er... position.
(thanks to Alex Dorn for the tip)
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