More on Gannon/Guckert

bpi said "Last post, I promise" but that doesn't stand for me... here is more on the case from Eric Boehlert in Salon... lots of goodies on his personal involvement with a gay escort service.

A word or two about the whining about double standards from the right... no, I don't really care about the man's sexuality. It's just not an issue for me, like the state of Clinton's penis wasn't much of an issue for me. And to be certain, the big thing here is how a guy who was essentially a RNC plant in the press corp there... but moreover, his sexuality does come into play, not because the left cares so much, but because the right cares so much. If you guys want to play by those rules, then you have to take the good with the bad:

Addressing the question of why Guckert's personal life matters, Aravosis wrote, "This is the Conservative Republican Bush White House we're talking about. It's looking increasingly like they made a decision to allow a hooker to ask the President of the United States questions. They made a decision to give a man with an alias and no journalistic experience access to the West Wing of the White House on a 'daily basis.'"

Revelations about Guckert's past certainly do not square with Talon's openly conservative approach. Talon has defended Bush on the issue of a gay-marriage ban and supported the notion of "ex-gays." In an article last year, Guckert, as Gannon, wrote that Democratic Sen. John Kerry "might someday be known as 'the first gay president.' The Massachusetts liberal has enjoyed a 100 percent rating from the homosexual advocacy group, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), since 1995 in recognition of his support for the pro-gay agenda."

Personally, I think it is kinda appropriate for a hooker to ask Dubya questions since he himself is such a whore for the rich...