Um, yeah . . .
So it appears that I've done a great job of keeping up this blog! It's only been a month since I last updated, and that's not so bad. Things with work and school are keeping me busy, and the personal life is mentally and emotionally exhausting as of late. On the bright side, work has been very fulfilling in the last couple of weeks, I'll have a break from school in two weeks (!), and hopefully the personal drama is taken care of for the time being.
Of course, I'm writing this now even though I have a paper due tomorrow that's not even close to being finished. I guess that's typical for me. I just wanted to get some thoughts down about this scandal that's brewing in the White House. It is beyond me that the mainstream media has not given more attention to the Jeff Gannon/James Guckert story. A major breach in White House security, a possible White House plant in its Press Corps, a real life whore being the Bush Administration's whore. How could you possibly ask for a juicier story? But, the powers that control the media don't want Bush getting bad press, so they just say the word and nobody knows about it. If Clinton were in office and the media discovered a fake reporter planted in the White House Press Corps to lob softball questions at the Press Secretary, heads would fly. Impeachment proceedings would begin. But W has never been held accountable for anything before; I suppose it's unreasonable for me to hope now the "free press" would do its job and get some answers to the questions that every person in this nation should be asking.
I know that Gannon/Guckert's former job as a prostitute should not be the focus of this story. Now, who knows what the situation is with his sexuality. He was selling his body to men, but probably not living his life as an openly gay man. Regardless, his employer (GOPUSA and Talon News) spewed hatred about the "gay agenda" in the US. It blows my mind when I see a Jeff Gannon or a Mary Cheney sit back and watch as their family/employer spew hatred at the gay population. Not only do they allow those closest to them to do so, but they join in as well. Now obviously Mary Cheney and Jeff Gannon are two completely different cases - but their complacency with being second-class citizens and hurting those in the same position as them - that I do not understand.
Those who rush to Gannon's defense claim that liberal bloggers just wanted to "out" him to the world. I'm sorry, but when you put naked pictures of yourself on hotgaymilitarystud.com, you've pretty much outed yourself. Anyone could have accessed this information before; however, his ability to skirt around normal security procedures kept Secret Service and the FBI from doing a complete background check. This would have blown up in his face sooner or later, whether or not the liberal bloggers got on the case.
Well, in closing, please learn all you can about this case and pass it along to friends. The only way to get this covered by the Media is to tell more people about it, and to contact your local papers/TV stations. Something has to come of this.
Of course, I'm writing this now even though I have a paper due tomorrow that's not even close to being finished. I guess that's typical for me. I just wanted to get some thoughts down about this scandal that's brewing in the White House. It is beyond me that the mainstream media has not given more attention to the Jeff Gannon/James Guckert story. A major breach in White House security, a possible White House plant in its Press Corps, a real life whore being the Bush Administration's whore. How could you possibly ask for a juicier story? But, the powers that control the media don't want Bush getting bad press, so they just say the word and nobody knows about it. If Clinton were in office and the media discovered a fake reporter planted in the White House Press Corps to lob softball questions at the Press Secretary, heads would fly. Impeachment proceedings would begin. But W has never been held accountable for anything before; I suppose it's unreasonable for me to hope now the "free press" would do its job and get some answers to the questions that every person in this nation should be asking.
I know that Gannon/Guckert's former job as a prostitute should not be the focus of this story. Now, who knows what the situation is with his sexuality. He was selling his body to men, but probably not living his life as an openly gay man. Regardless, his employer (GOPUSA and Talon News) spewed hatred about the "gay agenda" in the US. It blows my mind when I see a Jeff Gannon or a Mary Cheney sit back and watch as their family/employer spew hatred at the gay population. Not only do they allow those closest to them to do so, but they join in as well. Now obviously Mary Cheney and Jeff Gannon are two completely different cases - but their complacency with being second-class citizens and hurting those in the same position as them - that I do not understand.
Those who rush to Gannon's defense claim that liberal bloggers just wanted to "out" him to the world. I'm sorry, but when you put naked pictures of yourself on hotgaymilitarystud.com, you've pretty much outed yourself. Anyone could have accessed this information before; however, his ability to skirt around normal security procedures kept Secret Service and the FBI from doing a complete background check. This would have blown up in his face sooner or later, whether or not the liberal bloggers got on the case.
Well, in closing, please learn all you can about this case and pass it along to friends. The only way to get this covered by the Media is to tell more people about it, and to contact your local papers/TV stations. Something has to come of this.
posted by ash at 8:24 PM
