Nope

He is a TKE.

-Rudey

I found in like 2 seconds by typing Jeff Gannon and Fraternity into Yahoo!.

Bet Reagan would be proud.

Well us Republicans are accepting of everyone. :P

-Rudey

wait, you're going to throw your own brother under the bus to make a really, really sad attempt at a political jab? dude . . . that's . . . awful

Don't have to like or agree with everything certain brothers do. Jeff Gannon may have been some bad stuff but he will always be a brother. I don't see the Reagan comment as a political jab but as humor. Cleary Reagan would have been unhappy with the situation. I think Rudey got that. I think from past post about Reagan people can tell I liked him. I like Reagan despite we didn't agree politically, he was a good president though and a life long loyal TKE.

Jeff Gannon is his made up for TV name. His real name ( the one hes being sued under and the name his sites are registered too) is Jim Guckert.

He might be implicated with the Valerie Plame affair. This story is getting juicier and jucier.

I'm 2, 3 days ahead of you:

Here is a good column from the Miami Herald that basically restates the facts in this whole fiasco (for those who haven't been keeping up) and why Americans should be outraged.



LEONARD PITTS JR./COMMENTARY
Posted on Fri, Feb. 18, 2005
Ignorance may be bliss, but it's also dangerous
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald...ntstory.jsp&1c

Three weeks later, I'm still waiting for a good explanation of what Jeff Gannon was doing in the White House. And for you to be upset about it.

Gannon is the fellow who made himself memorable during last month's presidential news conference by asking about Democratic pessimism regarding the nation's economy.

Specifically, he asked if President Bush could work with ``people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality.''

The unusually partisan phrasing prompted reporters and liberal groups to ask the same question: Who is this guy?

Well, it turns out that Gannon is not really Gannon. James Guckert says he prefers that pseudonym for ''commercial'' reasons.

It also turns out that a company he owns is the registered owner of several sexually suggestive Web addresses. Hotmilitarystud.com, to name just one.

Most curious of all, though, is that it turns out he is not really a reporter, at least not if that term still denotes a disinterested observer of events. Rather, Guckert writes for a website, talonnews.com, which is linked to another site, GOPUSA.com. That site serves, as you might gather, to promote the Republican Party.

A RESIGNATION

Guckert resigned last week, saying he and his family have been threatened and harassed. If true, that is deplorable.

But it's also deplorable that he was ever seated in the White House briefing room. As to how that happened, Bush spokesman Scott McClellan has pleaded ignorance, saying that, ``In this day and age, when you have a changing media, it's not an easy issue to decide, to try to pick and choose who is a journalist.''

Which is patently ridiculous. Contrary to the press secretary's Hamlet-like agonizing, it's not all that hard to know who is and is not a reporter.

If an individual reports for a recognized media outlet that observes customary standards of journalistic integrity -- even if it tends to view the world through a conservative or liberal editorial prism -- that person is a reporter.

But if the person works for an outlet that simply promotes, or advocates for, one political party or another, then the line between reporter and shill has been well and truly crossed.

It's not brain surgery. So you'll have to forgive me for not extending the benefit of the doubt to McClellan.

My problem is that he speaks for an administration with a long record of manipulating truth and propagandizing the public.

These are the folks who pay pundits to say nice things about them.

The ones who pressure scientists to change science that conflicts with political goals.

The ones who ignore their own experts when confronted with information they'd rather not believe.

And this is a president whose press conferences occur with only slightly more frequency than ice storms do in Key West, who ducks hard questions posed by actual reporters, preferring to bat slow pitches tossed by citizens prescreened for their support.

NOT OUT OF CHARACTER

So planting a party stooge among the real reporters hardly seems out of character.

The thing is, a government that is not scrutinized by an energetic and adversarial press is a government that is not accountable for its actions. A government that is allowed to create its own reality is a government that can get away with anything.

So where is our outrage?

Frankly, the only thing more galling than the brazenness with which the White House abrogates the public's right to know is the sheep-like docility with which we accept it, with which we become complicitous in our own hoodwinking.

When the history of this era is written, people will wonder why we didn't challenge its excesses, why we didn't know the things we should have.

If you're still around, remember the uproar you do not hear right this moment and tell them the truth.

Ignorance was easier.

Ari Fleischer Tells 'E&P' He Spoke to Gannon/Guckert's Boss
By Joe Strupp
Editor and Publisher

NEW YORK Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer was so concerned about Talon News reporter James Guckert's potential ties to the Republican Party that he stopped calling on him at press briefings for about a week in 2003, Fleischer told E&P today.

"I found out that he worked for a GOP site, and I didn't think it was my place to call on him because he worked for something that was related to the party," Fleischer said in a phone interview. "He had the editor call me and made the case that they were not related to the Republican Party. He said they used the GOP name for marketing purposes only."

He said he resumed calling on Guckert, who used the alias Jeff Gannon, after Bobby Eberle, owner of both GOPUSA and Talon News, "assured me that they were not part of the Republican Party." Eberle is a Texas Republican activist and served as a delegate to the 2000 Republican National Convention.

Fleischer has not previously commented on the Gannon/Guckert affair.

"I don't think that party organizations should have people in that room acting as reporters," Fleischer said, explaining his initial concerns. "They are advocates, not reporters, and a line should be drawn." But, after speaking with Eberle and looking at Talon News, he was convinced that GOPUSA.com and Talon News were not official party sites.

"It looked like a conservative news organization," Fleischer said. "If I thought that they were part of the party, I would not have [resumed] calling on them..."

...Fleischer said he knew that he would get a conservative question from Guckert whenever he called on him. "He was one of the few identifiable conservatives in the room," Fleischer said. "[With] some reporters, you know you will get a question from right field, and [with] some you know you will get a question from left field. I made a deliberate practice to call on everyone in the room...

...Fleischer stressed that he did not go to Guckert more often than others or in the hopes of getting a "softball" or partisan question...

...Even Guckert's ties to several sex Web sites and allegations that he worked as a male prostitute should not necessarily keep him or any other reporter out, Fleischer said. "The last thing our nation needs is for anyone in the White House to concern themselves with the private lives of reporters," he said. "What right does the White House have to decide who gets to be a reporter based on private lives?"

If allegations that Guckert ran Web ads offering his services as a male escort prove true, however, this would represent more than a "private life" issue. Asked what he thought about the recent revelations about Guckert's past, Fleischer said only, "It is all a bit odd."

Bold type added by me.

I find this pretty freaking funny and think this would have never happen if it wasn't for the RED STATES.


I THANK YOU. ALTHOUGH I'll BE BROKE FOR THE NEXT 4 YEARS A SMILE SHALL BE ON MY FACE.

Wonder if Bill O'Reilly check dude's site.


*snicker*


Needless to say, I'm sure the upholders of morality are up in arms of a Mr. "Gannon's" love for men and see it as a clear sin against god. :rolleyes:


CHRISTIAN RIGHT SEND HELP!!!


HA!HA!HA!HA!

Somewhere Bill Clinton is rolling a blunt laughing his ass off.


*SNICKER*