Gannon SUNDAY visits to White House???

[Terre]

I didn't want to search through all the threads that I'm sure have popped up, but has anyone noticed that on 3 occasions he visited on a Sunday? I just mentioned this on a thread at dKos.

I may be naive, but what business gets conducted on Sundays? - No wise cracks, ok? ROFL

Sunday 06/22/03 3:32 - 4:49 (no briefing)
Sunday 07/27/03 3:08 - 5:24 (no briefing)
Sunday 12/07/03 3:25 No Exit (entry via A4 HC Entry Lane) (no briefing)

edited to add: And why would he be there on Election Day?

Tuesday 11/02/04 1:31 - 2:20 (no briefing)

[Catherine Vincent]

1. I guess whomever he was with didn't keep the Sabbath holy.

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[Starlight]

5. Do hookers usually take Sundays off?

:shrug:

[autorank]

13. cat_girl25, I totally agree with your 'read between the lines.'

Well, maybe Holy to Anton LeVay!

[SpiralHawk]

2. NO WISE CRACKS ?

WHAT KIND OF A THING IS THAT TO SAY?

(FORGIVE LOCKED CAPS KEY)

[Terre]

7. I'm sorry

did I offend? It wasn't meant to.

Considering his real profession, I just wanted to make the point that Sunday is not the day you'd carry out "normal business".

My apologies.

[FreedomAngel82]

3. Interesting indeed

So why would he be there? If he was just a journalist? It doesn't make any sense.

[lala_rawraw]

6. Yes, I cannot even get a statement on a Sunday...

from a Congressman, let alone rub elbows with the elite of the White building.

[seemslikeadream]

8. lala_rawraw did you see Editor and Publisher

had it reported and mention Raw Story?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1419845

It's not there now!

[lala_rawraw]

36. yeah, they are usually really good

About sourcing us, but they keep calling us a blog. I think everyone who is an indie journo or writer is a blog, person or publication, alike:)

very cool, and thanks for sharing... how do you find this stuff? i googled myself once and the list freaked me out... there was far too much freeper stuff against me... never googled again and now don't look to see if raw is listed. would be fun though to see just where we end up, or me anyway, but as I have said, not worth reading the ugly blogs.

[seemslikeadream]

39. BELLACIAO has it up now

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=5886

[lala_rawraw]

48. lol, okay let's keep a list:)

No really... now I want to see who has it up.:toast:

[seemslikeadream]

53. Wonkette's got it - Now who is it?

Jeff Georgie Karl mysteryman Scottie Ken Dickie Hannity

[lala_rawraw]

66. she has that but not the props i gave her in my op-ed? n/t

[KansDem]

56. Well, "rubbing elbows" may not be what this is all about...

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But I've got a open mind and am willing to see how this development plays out (I'd get bag of popcorn if only I ate popcorn!)

[spanone]

51. We know he wasn't a journalist. That's one thing we DO know.

[lala_rawraw]

67. you know, the press club thing is almost a footnote into

how he got "in" and "out" me thinks

[monobrau]

4. It's hard work

I wonder if FOIA would give access to docs that show if Scotty boy was there. Parking logs, perhaps?

[FreedomAngel82]

10. How would he get in?

If there's no press there how would he be able to get through with no reason? :shrug: Unless he's meeting someone there for some reason.

[libertypirate]

64. Back door?

[GreenPoet64]

9. Good catch n/t

[autorank]

11. Question, WHO ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO *LIVE* AT THE WHITE HOUSE

O.V.E.R.N.I.G.H.T. ?

:shrug:

[funflower]

15. Lots of people at my office work Sunday evenings

Could have been one of any number of people he was meeting. What he was doing with them is another question.:tinfoilhat:

[FreedomAngel82]

55. That is true

Every once in a while my dad will go back to work Sunday's after church (evening services) if he has a big project he's working on (he's a civil engineer for TVA). It's a rare thing though.

[KansDem]

59. Well, I work Sunday evenings too...

However, I've never had need for a "national correspondent" to be there with me...


edited to add quotes...

[NVMojo]

33. yucky!!!

[alittlelark]

12. Perhaps business w/ the Rod of God?

[jazzjunkysue]

14. You didn't just say that, did you?

ROTFL!!!!!!!!:bounce:

[alittlelark]

28. I did..... sorry!

[jazzjunkysue]

43. Ewwwww! Lol!

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[TahitiNut]

16. Are those AM or PM??

:eyes:

[Terre]

17. I'm assuming they're all PM

because nothing specific was stated on the RawStory site.

[stevedeshazer]

18. Monday, January 14, 2002 - Pretzelgate - Where was Jimmy Jeff?

US President George W Bush said he felt "great" on Monday, despite having fainted and fallen from a couch after choking on a pretzel over the weekend.

Sporting an angry red bruise on his cheek, the president joked with reporters about the incident as he left the White House on a two-day tour of the Mid-West.

"My mother always said when you're eating pretzels, chew before you swallow," he said before boarding a helicopter to Illinois.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1758848.stm

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I'm just sayin'....

[NVMojo]

34. That's a helluva lot of damage for putting one pretzel in the mouth ...

[understandinglife]

19. Theocratic neoconster prayer meetings, I'm sure. (nt)

www.missionnotaccomplished.us (The.Day.WE.BEGIN...............)

[BringEmOn]

20. Did he enter through the back door?

Sunday "staff" meeting?

[autorank]

22. hahahaha...

:rofl: Made me think of the old Jim Morrison song..."I'm Your Back Door Man."

[Catherine Vincent]

30. "back door"

Now why didn't I think of that! ROTFL!

[sam sarrha]

25. seems to be his preferance

[autorank]

37. Great linkk to CounterPunch article!

:hi:

[Liberty Belle]

21. Monkey business, in this case.

[sam sarrha]

23. a homosexual pimp and whore.. in the white house..?? not one cares???

nto even the Christians???

[FreedomAngel82]

24. Amazing isn't it?

If this was a democratic president it would've been all over the networks. And I ask: what liberal media?

[grasswire]

26. need to run these dates...

...against news stories about Bush and see if they happen to coincide with W's bruises and scrapes.

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[sundancekid]

29. found the "news" stories of these 3 sundays particularly interesting

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2003_06_22.php
(INVESTIGATION INTO MONEY & RESOURCES SPENT LOOKING FOR THE TEXAS HOUSE DEMOCRATS WHO HAD LEFT THE STATE TO BLOCK REDISTRICTING)
(June 23, 2003 -- 02:41 PM EDT // link // print)
Keeping conservatives from falling head-first into a pit of denial, disingenuousness and deceit is a full-time, sisyphean task. But, hey, I'm back from vacation, tanned and rested. So here goes.

When I popped open my in box this morning I found a slew of emails from various and sundry right-wing yahoos alerting me to this article in the National Review Online, which ostensibly puts to rest the whole matter of the Texas DPS manhunt Homeland Security story.
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http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2003_07_27.php
(July 27, 2003 -- 03:16 AM EDT // link // print)
I just re-read the Rice piece in the Post again and it's really pretty devastating. You read it and it's hard not to come to the conclusion that Rice is either really incompetent or really ... well, less than honest in a few of the answers she's given on the Niger debacle. Or maybe it's fifty-fifty? In any case, it ain't good.
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http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2003_12_07.php
(December 07, 2003 -- 02:26 PM EDT // link // print)

James Risen's got an interesting piece in the Times on rogue -- or not-so-rogue -- operations run out of Doug Feith's office at the Pentagon -- particularly, meetings last year with Iran-Contra luminary Manucher Ghorbanifar. When reading that piece, read it along with this piece from the New York Sun from a few days ago by Eli Lake, which covers another angle on the story.

And another thing: make a note for future reference about where that first meeting took place.
-- Josh Marshall

(December 07, 2003 -- 01:51 PM EDT // link // print)

We'll be reporting much more on this in the coming days. But I just wanted to start off this afternoon by saying that I think James Baker's appointment as

President Bush's envoy for settling Iraq's foreign debt issues is a much bigger deal than it seems. Much bigger.

My point isn't that there's anything hidden or conspiratorial about it per se. It's just that cutting the deals surrounding the debt issue is central to much of what happens in Iraq next year. And much of what happens in Iraq period.

[Sparkly]

31. He got down on his knees and

"prayed." Yeah that's it.

[sam sarrha]

32. that is why Bu$h walks funny... the 'DickTatter' waddle..sore ass shuffle!

:hurts: :wow: :rofl:

[NVMojo]

35. bleeeeeeeeh!!!!

:rant: But what is weird to me is how would they even dare to pull shenanigans like this after how they exposed Clinton and Monica??? Or is this what arrogance, capricious and arbitrary looks like??

[enough]

38. kick

[Enraged_Ape]

40. Skyrockets in flight, Afternoon Delight!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAfternoon Delight!

[EFerrari]

41. kick

[qanda]

42. Excellent timeline over at DailyKos that you can compare dates

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/2/5/212837/3714

Interesting to note that one day after Gannon/Guckert's first Sunday visit to the White House, he registered as "Jeff Gannon" over at Free Republic.

June 23, 2003 - Jeff Gannon registers as a user with FreeRepublic.com (originally registered on January 19, 2003 as "The Conservative Guy", but only posted twice)

[rodeodance]

44. bet the mainstream media does not care if he was there at times.

[FreedomAngel82]

57. Oh wow

What a find. So he was there on election night too I just read. My question is why was he there and what was he doing?

[Lars39]

45. Do the boo boos on bush's face coincide with Guckert's visits?

It would also be interesting to find out if guckert has ever been to the pig farm.

[diamond14]

69. hahahaha hahahahahaha.... hahahaha hahaha.... hahaha

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[spooky3]

46. Where are the early Woodward & Bernstein when you need them?

Good journalists need to get answers to the questions raised about what he was doing there.

Only then will the story have "legs"--if it gets them at all.

Until then anything that's said about the "why" of the visits will be criticized as tinfoil hattism.

[stanwyck]

68. This may be how the next

Woodward or Bernstein makes his/her name. If an aspiring journalist can find out exactly what Jeff Guckert/Gannon was up to during his hundreds of visits...well, that's a starmaking story.

[spooky3]

74. absolutely

[susu369]

47. 2003 and 2004 White House Press Christmas Parties

Can anyone look the dates up and compare to logs?

Remember JJGG attended the invitation-only White House press Christmas parties in 2003 and 2004 (bragged about it).

Gee, there sure was a timeline established for Monica at a Christmas party:

Dec. 5: Jones's attorneys name Lewinsky as potential witness. Lewinsky exchanges words with Clinton at White House Christmas party and drafts a letter to him, saying she had more gifts for him.

[FreedomAngel82]

58. That would be good to find out

I still think Lewinsky was a plant to bring Clinton down by the right wingers. Of course could just be: :tinfoilhat:

[susu369]

63. My best friend told me that from day one

she believed that same thing (Lewinsky was a plant). At the time, I wasn't sure I agreed with her but now.....

you can't make this stuff up.

:toast:

[Kansas Wyatt]

49. Election Day?

Maybe he was in on the conspiracy, with Karl Rove, to steal the election from Karl Rove's computer bank that was set up in the White House, by using special backdoor hacking to flip the vote counts?

[FreedomAngel82]

60. Maybe it's him

who's supposed to go down instead of them. They can always blame him and their hands be clean. It shows in the logs he was there at the time. Weren't the exit polls on website's changed at 1:41am est?

[progressoid]

50. No Exit on Dec 7th? Did he stay over night in the Lincoln Bedroom?

[brettdale]

71. Rawstory and DU

It seems Rawstory and DU are still the only places that have the Gannon story after 24 hours, its a dead story.

[Henny Penny]

75. To get legs....

it needs to be connected to W or one of the other main players... Monica was connected to Bill and of course, there was some woman with a tape recorder on hand....

Clearly, a male DUer has to hire Jimi/Jeff and bring a long a recording device... (didn't want to say Dictaphone there....) ;-)

[Nothing Without Hope]

52. Was he there when Bush was not? And I think the covert agent angle

is more important than the sex angle - entrapment for blackmail and media manipulation.

[FreedomAngel82]

62. Exactly

That's what's important. Finding out what he did there. Who cares about the sex. If that is true (:shrug:) then it's just a juicy (no pund intended) part of the story.

[Nothing Without Hope]

65. Yes, and the sex angle can also serve as a useful distraction

from the REAL role he has played. It may even have been set up that way. We need to trace what he did, and with whom, and NOT be blinded by looking for only sexual titillation. This man was clearly an agent of some kind - he knew about the Iran invasion before it happened, he was in on the Plame outing, and he had amazing and prolonged access to the highest levels despite his faux background and reputation as a gay hooker.

WAS he even a gay hooker? He had those sites, but without confirmation that he actually did sex for money, that may have been a blind. Or he may be intimate with someone in the WH - but if so, it's only PART of the issue and perhaps not the most important part.

I also am disturbed by some of the posts about the sex angle, the ones with what looks to me like homophobia in there along with the JimmyJeff speculations.

[EFerrari]

70. Sometimes I think people just don't know how to talk about

these issues. They were calling him a "gay prostitute" before they even knew if he was gay. What they knew at that point was that he offered serviced to men, period.

To me it looks in general more like clumsiness than homophobia. Some coaching is certainly in order.

[Nothing Without Hope]

72. I agree about the coaching, there seems to a lot of well-meaning

clumsiness. I would like to see some kind of "Idiot's Guide To Interacting Comfortably With Gays." There's bound to have been something like that written, lots of times. I wonder if there an archived thread in the GLBT Forum on this.

I do wonder if "Gannon" is actually gay. There was that emphatic statement on his escort ads that he is ONLY a top. It would be ironic if not only is he a fake journalist and a fake marine, he's a fake gay.

ed:typo

[EFerrari]

73. Exactly. And an "Idiot's Guide" is a great idea. n/t