[Peach]

#1. Freepers have reviewed the web sites in question and said it is impossible to determine if the person in the pictures is Gannon or not. It could easily be a set up. I've love to know when those web pages were established.

#2. I thought McClellan made plain yesterday that Gannon applied for his daily WH pass under his real name.

[Pikamax]

Yes and it was Editor and Publisher who quoted him.

"Since his resignation, questions about who should gain access to White House press events have grown, prompting a special meeting for later today between the leadership of the White House Correspondents' Association and Bush Press Secretary Scott McClellan."

Who should gain access? How elitist of them.

[KidGlock]

Freepers have reviewed the web sites in question ...

I will have to take their word for it. A made the mistake of going to American Blog (or something like that) and almost puked when the first picture showed up.

I quickly exited, remove the page from my history (so my wife won't start wondering about me) and showered in industrial strength metal cleaner.

[indcons]

I just went to Americablog and the pics of Gannon on that blog look very similar to his other photos (though I cannot be certain). Appears to be the same man.

[Nick Danger]

Freepers have reviewed the web sites in question and said it is impossible to determine if the person in the pictures is Gannon or not.

I have reviewed the web site in question and I am persuaded that the pictures are indeed Jeff Gannon. I should state here that I know Jeff Gannon, and have talked with him on numerous occasions. Suffice to say, I am stunned to find that this is how he spends his spare time.

On one hand, it's none of my business. But it's also true that Gannon was playing a pretty dumb and dangerous game. The more notoriety he got as a reporter, the more likely it was that somebody was going to "out" him, particularly since the vast majority of gays are flaming Democrats. He had to have known that "male prostitute" was not going to map happily onto "White House correspondent."

I'm sorry to see him go, because I thought he made some positive contributions. But this is a mess of his own making, and he needs to figure out how to deal with it. It sounds like that's what he's doing. I wish him luck.

[finnman69]

Just peeked at the pics, if the pics from the porn sites are for real and the pics of the legimate jeff are for real, it's a match, it's the same guy.

[Sir_Ed]

"#1. Freepers have reviewed the web sites in question and said it is impossible to determine if the person in the pictures is Gannon or not."

I thought they were definitely he, including that heavy watch he always wore.

Ed

[LibertarianInExile]

As to #1, I don't think it's any more impossible than the comparing CBS docs to Word. Anyone can look and see they're darn similar.

As to #2, this whole denial thing is silly. In getting into the White House, the guy's going to be investigated for criminal history, not prostitution. If they're doing background checks on all the reporters for every stupid thing they ever did (pause to enjoy that thought) there would be more police in the White House pressroom than reporters. Who cares whether he was a reporter for Talon News? The guy was a dimbulb for not thinking about the impact this would have.

I don't understand what the big deal is here. If we just laugh at the silly nekkid gigolo and the liberal press here, and ask "should we vet all reporters for more than criminal history before admitting them to the White House?" it will go away. If we act like there's something to cover up, it'll stay in the news twice as long. That's the way the press works. McClellan should be LAUGHING about this. Bush should be LAUGHING about this. The liberals caught one of their own closet boys. If they want the government to continue what is essentially a fag hunt, more power to `em.