We should lay off Guckert because being a prostitute isn't a bad thing

[Walt Starr]

So, should we forget the Mangate scandal because Guckert was a prostitute or not?

[SeattleRob]

1. A whore in the press corps? ? ?

Say it ain't so!

[applegrove]

2. We should forget about the other stuff and concentrate of Jeff's

connections & bosses at Talon, and the Valerie Plame affair. Since that is in the news today too. That is the angle that needs more info.

[Warpy]

4. yes, that's all important

but the most important question is who ran interference with the FBI and Secret Service to get him in there.

There's no way this guy would have passed even a cursory background check with either of them.

Find that out, and you find out who his sugar daddy is, and probably who leaked the Plame name to the press.

[applegrove]

7. That is administrative. They just say: "Oh we tightened things up".

Now if they could charge him with breaking the 'propaganda' law. That would be excellent.

[Q3JR4]

3. Prostitution isn't a bad thing,

I draw the line where person A tells person B that they'll go to hell for it and then runs a prostitution ring him/erself.

[Vinca]

5. I really don't have a problem with prostitution, but

give me a break. Access to the White House should (that's SHOULD) be rather closely monitored. One would think a person using a pseudonym and having questionable web sites might be investigated more thoroughly than say, Helen Thomas. Someone greased the path (poor analogy) for this guy and I'd like to know who.

[Generator]

6. Repeat after me, it's the propaganda, stupid

Not the sex, the gay sex, or the paid gay sex.

That's just a bonus. HAH.

[UTUSN]

8. But Being a Wingnut A-Hole---IS (a bad thing) n/t