Jeff Gannon and George Bush sitting in a tree…?
Steve Gilliard about the revelations about “Jeff Gannon”‘s other line of work, rent boy:
Man-whore Jim Guckert, on behalf of Bush friend and supporter Bobby Eberle, without so much as Reporting I in his background, was allowed to enter the White House daily for nearly two years. The question of his being a man-whore, or rent boy, if you like, is beyond doubt. And it would have been figured out if he had undergone the FBI background check required for the hard pass used by the other reporters.
The question is why a man-whore would be allowed to act as a reporter. Was it to provide a lifeline for Scotty McClellan? Was it because someone owed Eberle a favor? Was it because this was someone’s favorite man-whore and they wanted to hook him up? It’s not because bloggers are begging for accreditation for the White House. His presence there was a favor to someone.
It was never hard to see that there were a whole lot of repressed homosexuals running around in Bush and neocon circles. The obsession with military hardware,
the glorification of the US soldier ([1]), the tough talk (and lack of action), (the uniforms!) of these people points to a certain desire to take a strapping young marine back home and let him have his way.
Nothing wrong with that of course if you’re a depraved godless socialist or even a nice middle class guilt ridden liberal, but in the world of these “he-men”, with its Old Testamental Christian morality, it’s not so easy and the Iraq war may just be the world’s worst attempt at sublimating forbidden desires ([2])…
All of which leaves the question: after sucking Scott McClellan’s (virtual) dick all day long with his softball questions, did old’ “Jeff” go for some midnight action with the Codpiece in Chief? Rumour has it that “the prettiest mouth in Yale” liked to be on the giving rather than the receiving end, so might have been an easy night for “Jeff”…
[1]: and the corresponding neglect of anything about being a soldier that isn’t so glorious, such as coming home missing some body parts.
[2]: as The Republic of Palau insists it is.