Karl Rove or someone working for Karl Rove is the White House contact that put Gannon/Guckert where he is today.

Although very few want to analyze it, it's the sex angle that suggests a "tip of the iceberg" feeling about this story.

How did G/G hook up with a high-level White House operator?

It seems no one really wants to go there...but the magnetic pull in that direction will be too powerful to overcome.

The most amazing thing to me is that we are supposed to trust these people with national security? People who were giving a WH press pass to someone who couldn't get a congressional press pass. Freakin' crazy.

Remember when being gay was an automatic bar against any kind of security clearance?

Thank you, Marie.

looks like they built a new wing:

the Jeff Gannon Blog

Kickass attempt at tying it all together, Marie. We're rooting for you.

Bloggers interested in keeping this scandal front and center are encouraged to download a sidebar graphic - Gay Prostitute Fake Journalist Alliance featuring Wolf Blitzer, Howard Kurtz and Guckert - and upload it to your blog. It serves as a protest against the corporate media's attempt to brush Propagandagate under the rug. Link it to whatever you like. It's a nice visual and can be found here.

Keep up the great work!

Jeebus. I'm dizzy.

Small correction - SusanG's diary was 1/28/05. not 03
the media hasn't been THAT slow to pick up on the story :-)

I've read that Bobby Eberle bought Bruce Eberle's group MillionsofAmericans.org and merged it with GOPUSA. But Bobby couldn't afford to pay Guckert/Gannon enough so that he could give up moonlighting as a prostitute. So where did Bobby get the cash to buy MillionsofAmericans.org? How much did he pay? I haven't been able to find any details about this alleged sale?

....hmmmm, still waiting for a pic of Jeff and Karl..wrapped up in LUV...baby"

Muons -- Doubt we'll ever know how much Bruce Eberle got for millionsofamericans. Not sure it was all that valuable since it sure didn't do much for GOPUSA's website traffic. Let's not forget that the purchase was 3/04 shortly after Talon found some money to pay Gannon something. More interesting to me is how Bobby got the money for the GOPUSA DC conferences. However, the rightwing has so many funding sources and so many ways of moving money around (the learned something from Creep and Watergate) that today it would be impossible to "follow the money."

"Read my lips. I did not have sexual relations with that man!"

When you check out the history of the College Republicans, you learn quite a lot:

Morton Blackwell, mentor for the College Republican organization, was trained by Richard Viguerie, who earned his living as a young man in his twenties, working for Young Americans for Freedom (YAF)—founded in 1960 by William F. Buckley, Jr. (Yale, Skull and Bones, 1950), who had previously served as a Central Intelligence Agency operative in Tokyo and Mexico City. Though Buckley’s National Review claimed to be the voice of proponents for free enterprise, it was “a dud. In its brief history, it has spent some $860,000 more than it has taken in.” He started the magazine with $125,000 from his family and $300,000 “raised elsewhere.” Who was paying Buckley to run this right-wing rag so soon after his book God and Man at Yale had attacked the so-called leftist administration and faculty at Yale. In 1951 fellow Bonesman McGeorge Bundy “gleefully accepted an assignment from The Atlantic Monthly to attack William F. Buckley’s God and Man at Yale. Buckley, Bundy charged, was a ‘twisted and ignorant young man.’ Buckley, in turn, ridiculed Bundy as a ‘haughty totalitarian’ and a ‘Court Hatchet-Man.’”
Equally as intriguing as Buckley’s ability to continue such a money-losing operation for so long is the list of names he attracted to serve on the board of YAF. Ronald Reagan was on the YAF’s national advisory board in 1962 and retired Major General Charles A. Willoughby by 1963. Willoughby, whose German birth and parentage are shrouded in ambiguity, enlisted in the Army as Adolf Charles Weidenbach, then changed his surname to Willoughby in 1910. He served as General MacArthur's Chief of Intelligence in the General Headquarters, Southwest Pacific Area for the decade beginning 1941 and later joined the International Committee for the Defense of Christian Culture (ICDCC), a major funder of which was Nelson Bunker Hunt, son of Texan H.L. Hunt, who had been Willoughby’s friend since the 1950’s.
Viguerie was therefore working for these right-wing idealogues while he handled YAF’s mail order operations designed to convince Americans of the need to pursue the cold war militarism against Communism in the Soviet Union and China. In 1964 Viguerie began his own direct-mail company, using the YAF and Goldwater’s mailing lists. He taught Morton Blackwell how to do the same thing and to train others under the auspices of the College Republican National Committee. Once Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, Morton Blackwell had a White House office as “liaison with conservative groups.”
Such conservative groups included the National Conservative Political Action Committee, whose director—one of Blackwell’s College Republican trainees, John T. "Terry" Dolan—poured more than $7 million into Republican campaign coffers in 1980. That was a lot of money in those days. Where did it really come from? Could “direct mail” have been a cover for laundering illicit funds through the intricate layers of political action committees set up to flaunt the spirit of campaign finance legislation?
The career of Richard Viguerie—described in Time magazine as a “direct-mail conglomerateur” in Falls Church, Virginia (who, like Buckley at National Review, could afford to operate his monthly Conservative Digest at more than a million dollar per year loss) had suspicious connections early on to the World Anti-Communist League. One time editor at Conservative Digest was Lee Edwards, who “had a practice of starting up organizations like the ‘Underground Bible Fund’ or ‘Friends of the FBI,’ which were very good at soliciting donations but not so good at actually fulfilling their promises to distribute Bibles behind the Iron Curtain or defend the good name of J. Edgar Hoover.” In 1970 Edwards had also set up the first United States affiliate of the World Anti-Communist League called the “American Council for World Freedom.”

As a protege of Joe Abate, then national chairman of the College Republicans, Rove soon met others of his caliber, including Lee Atwater, Roger Stone and Terry Dolan—all of whom would become political consultants trained in the College Republican organization. They would be succeeded a decade later by equally adept and unprincipled trainees—Jack Abramoff, Ralph Reed and Grover Norquist. Rove would pave the path blazed by Richard Viguerie in using direct mail to establish ideological coalitions spanning the nation. Another Viguerie disciple, Bruce Eberle, worked for Viguerie along with Morton Blackwell, a long-time instructor for College Republicans.
Rove received his political baptism in the last campaign of Senator Bennett, who had entered the U.S. Senate only one year prior to Prescott Bush. Bennett’s wife of 71 years was a daughter of once Mormon Church President Heber J. Grant. The current Utah Senator Robert F. Bennett, who had headed his father’s campaign the year Rove worked for it, was elected in 1992. He preceded Rove at the University of Utah by some fifteen years, graduating in 1957, before running the family’s manufacturing business. In 1962 he took a leave of absence to run his father’s campaign and soon moved to Washington permanently, working as press secretary for a Republican Congressman, then as a lobbyist, before he ran his father’s last senatorial campaign in 1968, the year Richard Nixon was elected to his firm term. After taking office, President Nixon appointed him to be congressional liaison for the Department of Transportation.
It was in 1968 that Bennett first met Charles Colson—once a lobbyist, an aide to former Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall, and then corporation lawyer—who was tapped to be Nixon’s special counsel. By the summer of 1970, Bennett was receiving phone calls from Colson, as well as from fellow Mormon Bill Gay, who had come to dominate the Hughes Tool Corporation. Both men informed him that Robert R. Mullen was selling his public relations company, Mullen & Company, which already had the Washington account as lobbyist for the Mormon Church. When Hughes Tool fired Lawrence O’Brien as its lobbyist, late in 1970, Bennett was hired to replace him. Thus armed with this important client, Bennett left his job at Transportation to become president of Mullen & Company, the final purchase of the firm closing in September 1971.
Between 1968 and 1970, Chuck Colson and E. Howard Hunt, both alumni of Brown University—Hunt in the class of 1940 and Colson a 1953 grad—were seeing each other on a regular basis. Hunt had become a naval officer and an agent of the Office of Strategic Services from 1943 until its demise. A Guggenheim fellowship then paid him to travel in Mexico while writing his first novel (later a best-seller), before landing a job on the staff of Ambassador Averell Harriman, then a partner of Prescott Bush at Brown Brothers, Harriman.
In 1948 Hunt left Harriman’s employ, recruited into the Central Intelligence Agency by Frank Wisner. In the meantime, he had married one of Harriman’s secretaries, who had spent the war years in Bern, Switzerland in the Treasury Department’s Hidden Assets Division, looking for hidden Nazi assets. Coincidentally, or not, it was Bern where later C.I.A. chairman Allen Dulles spent the war years. Hunt thus had very powerful references on his resume!
By the end of April 1970 all details fell in place for Hunt’s “retirement” from the C.I.A., and his employment one day later at Mullen & Company. According to Hunt in his autobiography, Undercover, he got the job through the “CIA’s placement service,” and was told by the placement officer that “the Mullen firm had ‘cooperated’ with CIA in the past.
After Hunt was installed at his new office, Mullen sold his firm to Robert F. Bennett. Though miffed by the change in management, Hunt was stroked by Colson, who only a few months later telephoned him with the opportunity of a lifetime, to work at the White House. In July 1971 Hunt was hired to work on Colson’s staff as a consultant on a part-time basis until the end of the 1972 election, while still maintaining his position with Mullen & Company.
That was an election Hunt would never forget. Neither would George Bush or Karl Rove.