White House Chief Pressbot Scott McClellan in a gay bar

White House Chief Pressbot Scott McClellan in a gay bar

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2005
D.C.: The Gayest Little Place On Earth

My mother used to have an expression: when you're at the disco, the whole world looks gay. So when anonymous people start reporting they've seen White House Chief Pressbot Scott McClellan in a gay bar -- in March of 1995, even, and in Texas -- well, in light of current events, let's just say y'all are seeing a mirage of homos everywhere. A fine mist of homosexuality is coating your lenses. Seriously, it's like ...ing 1989 out here on the internets.

Besides: it's not like a little sex with other men would make him gay anyway. —C.S.
Reporter with prostitution links and false name got access to Bush; Questions surface on relationship with White House staff [Raw Story]
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2/14/2005
Reporter with prostitution links and false name got access to Bush; Questions surface on relationship with White House staff
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Questions fly on Guckert’s relationship with White House

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The former White House reporter for the conservative website Talon News, who resigned after his links to military escort domains appeared on the Web, is said to have paid two individuals to set up a site on which he intended to prostitute himself, RAW STORY has learned.

These individuals claim to have invoices which show the name of the reporter Jim Guckert’s personal business as paying for the website’s development.

AmericaBLOG’s John Aravosis has discovered previous images of the site through an Internet service which keeps records of sites that have been taken down. The images of the site seem to definitively show Guckert in various indiscrete poses. The images also match with images of Guckert that have appeared in the press, down to personal accoutrements, such as his watch.

Aravosis’ discovery finds particular resonance in a unfolding scandal which involves a White House reporter getting press credentials under a false identity. Guckert had used the name Jeff Gannon in his reporting.

Some question whether Gannon may have leveraged a personal intimate relationship with someone at the White House to gain access to President Bush. Guckert also says he was given access to an internal memorandum which named then-covert CIA operative Valerie Plame.

Such leveraging of personal relationships have seen increased scrutiny after the resignation of former New Jersey Governor James McGreevey, who admitted to having an affair with a male staff member.

Sources have intimated possible relationships with members of the White House staff. Guckert did not respond to requests for comment.

RAW STORY has been told that the White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan visited a gay bar in Austin, Texas, on March 19, 1995. The date was placed exactly as a local memorial service was held on the same day.

The source, who would only comment on condition of anonymity, reserved comment on whether McClellan was actually gay, but said he was frequently seen at gay clubs. Another source also confirmed this account.

“He was often seen in gay clubs in Austin, Texas and was comfortable being there,” the Texan said. “He’s been seen in places that normal people who are looking for heterosexual relationships are not seen alone.”

According to a White House transcript, McClellan is married, and Gannon sent the press secretary a wedding card. The White House, however, declined to comment.

“He was the mayor’s son in town, everybody knew who he was,” the source added, referring to McClellan’s mother Carole Keeton Strayhorn.

At press time, a message for Strayhorn, controller for the state of Texas has gone unanswered. Strayhorn is considered a hot future prospect for the Texas governor’s mansion.

Guckert joined the White House press corps under former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer. McClellan was Fleischer’s deputy at the time.

Several calls placed to the White House and McClellan’s office today were not returned. The White House transferred the call to various offices and took detailed accounts of the information in this story, but refused to comment.

The White House has been aware of the allegations about McClellan’s sexuality since at least September.

BlogACTIVE.com’s Mike Rogers, who outed and forced Congressman Ed Schrock to retire from his Virginia House seat after publishing tapes in which he solicited gay sex, placed several calls to the White House press office in September. Rogers is editor of RawStoryQ.com, Raw Story Media’s queer news site.

On Sept. 3, 2004, Rogers says he spoke with a woman in the White House Press Office who asked him to fax any documentation.

“She says, would you like to fax it to us?” he said.

Rogers then asked if the press office felt it appropriate to fax such information to a White House fax

machine. The woman he spoke with then took down his information, but said nothing further about faxing documentation.

Rogers has audiotapes of his conversations with the White House, which RAW STORY has heard.

He left another message on Sept. 9 “giving him an opportunity to yank the story if he called me back,” he says. “I’m sure he received it.” A third message was left Sept. 17.

The Republican National Committee also declined comment on whether Guckert had any relationship with Chairman Ken Mehlman, who was outed on Air America last year, and who has refused to answer questions about his sexuality.
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Sick ‘em!
Nail these hypocrites to the wall.

Comment by Steve Expat — 2/14/2005 @ 2:57 pm
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With all the gays running around in the White House, its no small wonder America leads the world in STD. I hope Bush not only encourages them to practice safe sex, but has installed condom machines throughout the White House.

Comment by Sarah — 2/14/2005 @ 3:01 pm
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WOW!
Hmm - sure puts this article in a new light
Bush prefers Martin spokesman to his own

The President chuckled. Well, you got a pretty face, he told the surprised Mr. Reid. He wasn't done. You got a pretty face, he said again. You're a good-looking guy. Better looking than my Scott anyway.
http://paulmartintime.ca/mediacoverage/000149.html

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Comment by Anonymous — 2/14/2005 @ 3:57 pm
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up until now this story didn’t make any sense. but finally yields a plausible scenario. what didn’t make sense before was this:

1) allowing a gay escort access to the white house press conferences
2) the constant day passes rather then a longer term pass
3) the fake name and mclellan playing along
4) the sudden creation of talon news

the idea that this was done so that mclellan had a “go to guy” when the heat was on didn’t make much sense - gannon was a timebomb.

but if gannon either convinced a lover to do him a favour or if he was blackmailing mclellan, then the story makes a lot more sense. there might be other explanations, but the blackmail theory makes more sense then the go-to-guy theory.

1) gannon says he’s going to go public about mclellan; that he has proof. he wants out of the escort business and into journalism but he can’t get into the house/senate areas.
2) mclellan tells him to do this talon news site (or has others set that up for him) and then says he’ll call on gannon and get him into the press conferences.
3) they do the fake name to hide gannon’s past.
4) for two years it seems to work fine and then it all falls apart.

it’s just a theory. it could have worked out loads of other ways. but like i said, it makes more sense then the theory that gannon is just a go-to guy.

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“Huge amounts of charisma, swagger, cowboy boots, flight jacket, wonderful smile, just charisma - you know, wow!”
~ Karl Rove, Bush’s little “Turdblossom” lusting after George, reported widely

Jeff Gannon is obviously Karl Rove’s type.
look at Jeff:
http://blog.democrats.com/image/view/3267
Look at pudgy little Rove:
http://mindprod.com/images/karlrove.jpg

Jeff Gannon and Karl Rove seem to share a mentor – a
largely under-the-radar wingnut named Morton Blackwell.

Comment by Roedy Green — 2/14/2005 @ 4:33 pm
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Reps. Slaughter and Conyers file FOIA request re Gannon and White House
by John in DC - 2/15/2005 03:50:00 PM

Yes! Read the letter here.
http://blog.dccc.org/mt/archives/002170.html

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