When you interview him, be sure to ask if he thinks all this attention is as friggin' goofy & unwarranted as some of the rest of us do.

The bitch of it is, brouhaha is made purely fictional, notwithstanding any of the interesting crap in Jeff's/James' past.

As Rich Galen commented earlier today:
"Every member of the press corps on every bus, plane and in every filing center knows the provenance of every other reporter. "

Pretending, as the left has, that this was news, aside from pretending that it was important and crucial, goes beyond their usual levels shrieking ninnyism.

But you already knew all that.

I caught a bit of Bill Maher's execrable HBO show and heard Sen. Joe "Not Facetious" Biden say that this was such a security breach that the Senate and House Judiciary Committees should be investigating it. However, Biden complained, since the Republicans control everything, a Democrat such as he has no ability to call a hearing. He also said that he was sure that if this had happened when there were a Democrat Pres. and a Republican Senate, there would be hearings.

Can we get a similar investigation into everyone else who's had a Day Pass for the last 12 years or so? Who knows how much gay porn we could uncover?

Come on guys. This is a very important story. Seriously.

I can't tell you why, but it is. Really.

Having one pro-Bush reporter in a room filled with a hundred anti-Bush reporters threatens the very foundations of democracy itself.

Or something.

Why don't you guys get it?

And the fact that he was a gay prostitute is very important to the story, but the story is not really about whether or not he was a gay prostitute.

I think to be fair, the Bush administration should allow a straight porn guy to have a day pass for a while, at least then, the scandal might turn up some web sites I want to visit....errrrrrrr...investigate.

Jason LOL

You don't understand, man. The important question isn't "Who the frigging frig is Jeff Gannon?"

It's "Who is the press corp mole's sponsor?"
And "What are his hobbies?"

Steve L.

I obviously agree. I think we need to recruit Ron Jeremy to write for Hedgehog News Services.

The aging 70's pornstar perspective in woefully under represented in White House press briefings, and I, for one, am appalled.

What right does this administration have to decide who can and cannot be reporters?

Will the fascism of this administration ever cease?

I have a modest suggestion.

Perhaps someone (or more than one) could take a wander back through history and re-publish and feature a different Chappaquidick story from a different MSM source on a daily basis for about a month, maybe two.

Maybe it might catch on.

I could get into that.

Ace, you really should do a post comparing Gannon's questions and credentials with those of Sarah McClendon. She was a regular at the White House for decades as the lead correspondent for...ahem, McClendon News Service, which was composed of two part-time staffers and an intern, and had about as much prestige as Talon News Service. Besides calling for Congress to hold hearings on UFOs, she was famed for asking nutty, soft-ball questions to Democratic presidents (I'm not picking on the Dems here, but just showing that allowing people with questionable credentials into press conferences has been a long-standing problem). For example, in the aftermath of the Clinton impeachment scandal, she asked Clinton "Sir, will you tell us why you think the people have been so mean to you? Is it a conspiracy? Is it a plan to treat you worse than they treated Abe Lincoln?" Were the people who were shocked and appalled by the Gannon "scandal" even aware of the existence of Ms. McClendon?

ACE - I agree. But this still needs to be handled just right or it could turn into a circus. Geez I wish they'd let Rumsfield argue with the press over this, he'd make 'em look as foolish as all this really is.

Ari Fliesher where are you when we need you?

Jeff Gannon and the 10 other people who ever heard of him will care about this issue.

When you've lost majority control, and you have no power, no authority, no direction, no sense, no decency, and no leadership all you have left to do hold an investigation of Jeff Gannon. Maybe they can even have Eason Jordan give expert testimony of what it takes to be qualified as a journalist.

"Jeff Gannon"? What's all this talk I hear about "Jeff Gannon"? And what possible relevance does a professional football player have to a Defcom 5 breach of national security such as what recently occurred in the White House press briefing room? Oh, you didn't hear? Some gay dandy got a day pass and asked the President some softball questions. But back to the point: what does a former University of Iowa scholar-athlete have to do with the school of fish known as the Washington Press Corps?

What? No, I don't think he's wealthy or rich or rolling in dough...What? Oh, Rich -- not rich. So Rich is not Jeff and Jeff is not Rich.

Oh.

Well, never mind!

/Emily Latelle mode

What a bunch of flipping hypocrites. Sure, they'll whine and whine in order to launch an investigation of "gay prostitute Jeff Gannon," but they turn a blind eye when one of their own is accused of similar and worse things:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/tours/scandal/gobie2.htm

Gobie's dream has come true. His accusation that Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) knew that Gobie had operated a prostitution service out of Frank's Capitol Hill apartment became national news after it was first reported Friday by the Washington Times.

Frank, one of two openly gay members of Congress, confirmed Friday that he paid Gobie for sex, hired him with personal funds as an aide and wrote letters on congressional stationery on his behalf to Virginia probation officials

That last paragraph should have been italicized, too. I guess the tags don't work through two paragraphs at one time. Oh, well.

Now if Frank had been Gannonized he'd be on our side!

Karl Rove is truly brillant for embedding a gay escort into the Washington Presscorp. Probably just the witness protection program from the ex-New Jersey Govorner case..