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Articles & Commentary

2003

• Bobby Eberle, "Washington Post Says CIA Angry Over Talon News 'Leak' Story; Ashcroft Steps Down from Investigation," Talon News, December 31, 2003.

2004

• Petition to President George W. Bush: "Presidential Pardon of G. Gordon Liddy," The Petition Site, 2004. Scroll down to #504, February 20, 2004. re G. Gordon Liddy
• Jim Hauser, "Federal Grand Jury Could Subpoena Talon News Correspondent (and RighTalk host)," Talon News, March 9, 2004.

2005

• J.C., "Talon News "reporter" lifts from GOP documents verbatim for 'news reports'," Media Matters for America, January 27, 2005.
• Jamison Foser, "What is Talon News, and why does it have press credentials?," Media Matters, January 28, 2005.
• Charlie Savage and Alan Wirzbicki, "White House-friendly reporter under scrutiny," Boston Globe, February 2, 2005.
• BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week: Jeff Gannon, BuzzFlash, February 5, 2005.
• "Washington Post reporter rebukes blogs for investigating reporter who registered gay military escort sites," The Raw Story, February 9, 2005.
• Helen Kennedy, "Bush press pal quits over gay prostie link," New York Daily News, February 9, 2005.
• "A question about the 'Jeff Gannon' situation," Hoffmania!, February 9, 2005: "Shouldn't the 'legit' news organizations be just a little pissed off at how they've been made fools of in this whole affair?"
• Brian Montopoli, "Out Come the Talons," CampaignDesk.org, February 10, 2005.
• Scott Shepard, "White House asked to explain role of Web site reporter at briefings," Cox News Service, February 10, 2005.
• Joe Strupp and Greg Mitchell, "Loose 'Gannon': White House Reporter Is Really James D. Guckert," Editor & Publisher, February 10, 2005.
• Joe Strupp, "'Gannon' Fodder: Real White House Reporters Weigh In," Editor & Publisher, February 10, 2005.
• Howard Kurtz, "Online Reporter Quits After Liberals' Expose," Washington Post, February 10, 2005.
• Jennifer Brooks, "White House reporter quits under scrutiny. Ex-Wilmington resident with alleged pro-Bush leanings resigns as bureau chief for Net news outlet," The News Journal (delawareonline.com), February 10, 2005.
• Joe Strupp, "'Gannon' Interview: No Plame Subpoena, No Tie to White House, He Says," Editor & Publisher, February 11, 2005. [broken link]
• Scott Ross, "Gay Adult Domain Names Help to Out Alleged Republican Propagandist," AVN Online.com, February 11, 2005.
• Dave Lindorff, "The Perfect Press Plant: He Fit Right In!", CounterPunch, February 11, 2005.
• Ken Herman, "How to Get Straight to the People: Control the Message, Stage the Event", CommonDreams, February 14, 2005.
• "A man called Jeff," AMERICAblog Blogspot, February 14, 2005. Includes graphic photos and links to Guckert/Gannon's web sites.
• "It Bears Repeating," Hoffmania!, February 14, 2005.
• Howard Kurtz, "Online Nude Photos Are Latest Chapter In Jeff Gannon Saga," Washington Post, February 16, 2005: "The Jeff Gannon story is still bouncing around the Internet, and now there are pictures. ... The kind you shouldn't open up in the office."
• Billmon, "Pieces of the Puzzle," Whiskey Bar Blogspot, February 15, 2005. Good summation, including similarities to June 30, 1989, Craig J. Spence/"Rent-boy ring linked to the White House." "The Franklin Coverup Scandal. The Child sex ring that reached Bush/Reagan Whitehouse" in Washington Times, June 29, 1989.
• John Aravosis, "Gannon's greatest hits," AMERICAblog Blogspot, February 15, 2005: From Dan Froomkin, "Scandal in the Press Corps," Washington Post, February 10, 2005.
• John Byrne, "Democrats make moves behind scenes as reporter-prostitute story hits Washington Post," The Raw Story, February 16, 2005.
• John Byrne, "Senator hailed as leader on push for Gannon inquiry still examining options," The Raw Story, February 16, 2005.
• Maureen Dowd, "Bush's Barberini Faun," New York Times, February 17, 2005: "How often does an enterprising young man, heralded in press reports as both a reporter and a contributor to such sites as Hotmilitarystud.com [registration required], Workingboys.net, Militaryescorts .com [registration required], MilitaryescortsM4M.com and Meetlocalmen.com, get to question the president of the United States?"
• Joe Conason, "‘Liberal’ Media Silent About Guckert Saga," New York Observer, February 17, 2005.
• "Guckert's a Figurative and Literal Whore," Nero Fiddled Blogspot, February 17, 2005.
• "Washington reporters skeptical of photograph purporting to show hard pass; 'Inconclusive'," The Raw Story, February 17, 2005.
• Sidney Blumenthal, "A hireling, a fraud and a prostitute. Bush's agent in the press corps has given spin a new level of meaning," Guardian UK, February 17, 2005.
• Sarah Posner, "Media Research Center Dismisses Guckert/Gannon Scandal," The Gadflyer, February 17, 2005.
• John Aravosis, "NBC Nightly News, Hardball and Anderson Cooper all covered the Gannon/WH story tonight," AMERICAblog Blogspot, February 17, 2005: "This is now a real hard-news story. If all goes well, tomorrow should be nuts."
• John Byrne, "The elephant in the living room: Why Dems, reporters say they won't touch the sex," The Raw Story, February 17, 2005.
• "American Enterprise Institute published 'Jeff Gannon'," Media Matters for America, February 17, 2005: "The American Enterprise, the monthly magazine of the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute (AEI), published a 'Short News and Commentary' article by former Talon News White House correspondent Jeff Gannon (aka James Guckert) in its March 2004 issue."
• Greg Mitchell "Milbank, Dowd, and Others Weigh In on Gannon/Guckert," Editor & Publisher, February 17, 2005.
• Terry Pinder, "The Manchurian Beefcake," The Snapper, February 17, 2005.
• Joe Strupp, "Ari Fleischer Tells E&P He Spoke to Gannon/Guckert's Boss," Editor & Publisher, February 17, 2005.
• "Hard Proof of JD Guckert's Hard Pass," Max Blumenthal Blogspot, February 18, 2005: "But Milbank affirmed, in an interview posted today at the popular blog Daily Kos, 'A hard pass has your photo and news org and name on it. A daily pass is just a brown and white striped pass that says, Press, on it and comes on a dog-tag style chain.' Note that [the posting includes a photo] the one Gannon wears in the footage on TV is a blue lanyard - not the sort of thing a day pass comes on."
• John Aravosis, "BREAKING NEWS: Gannon reportedly knew about Iraq attack four hours before it happened," AMERICAblog Blogspot, February 18, 2005: "UPDATE: RawStory.com has posted an article detailing more instances of Gannon claiming to have had exclusives on various big stories. At this point he's either incredibly well connected, or a good liar, or both. I also have had feedback from several reporters who say that many people know the attack was coming in advance, so it is possible that again Gannon was trying to sound 'in the know' when he wasn't any more in the know than anyone else. Just wanted to report back on all of this, to help folks decide for themselves what to believe."
• Anne E. Kornblut, "Doubts About White House Reporter Recalled," New York Times, February 18, 2005.
• "D.C. Chapter to Hold Demonstration in Support of Jeff Gannon and the First Amendment, 2/18/05," Free Republic, February 18, 2005.
• Joe Conason, "Gannon: The early years," Salon, February 18, 2005: "Before he was buttering up Bush at White House press conferences, 'Jeff Gannon' was doing the GOP's dirty work in attacking Tom Daschle."
• John Aravosis, "Gannon reportedly knew about Iraq attack four hours before it happened," AMERICAblog Blogspot, February 18, 2005.
• Joe Strupp, "5 Days Later, Guckert Tells E&P He'll Talk Again, and He Does, on CNN," Editor & Publisher, February 18, 2005.
• John Byrne, "Gannon's own statements suggest he fed exclusive stories damaging Bush opponents to networks; Bragged of feeding Rather story," The Raw Story, February 18, 2005.
• Anderson Cooper, Interview With Jeff Gannon, CNN, Aired February 18, 2005 (19:00 ET).
• Joe Crea, "Reporter exposed as GOP operative. Guckert linked to male escort sites, Va. orgy party: sources," Washington Blade, February 18, 2005.
• "Transcript of CNN Interview with the Reporter Formerly Known as Gannon," Editor & Publisher, February 19, 2005.
• Howard Kurtz, "Jeff Gannon Admits Past 'Mistakes,' Berates Critics," Washington Post, February 19, 2005.
• Nora Tocus, "Mouthpiece of the Administration?," Letter to the Editor, Washington Post, February 19, 2005.
• Justin Raimondo, "Sex, Lies, and Jeff Gannon: The unmaking of a media whore", AntiWar, February 18, 2005.
• John Byrne, "The missing link? Partner of GOPUSA founder has checkered past as Republican moneyman," The Raw Story, February 19, 2005: "Did Bruce Eberle get Gannon top White House access?"
• "Karl Rove 101: The Advocate "Interviews" a 2003 Article from The New Yorker to Reconstruct Karl Rove's Possible Role in the Gannongate Affair," The Nashua Advocate, February 19, 2005: "There's a little known profile of Karl Rove floating around the mediasphere. ... It was published by The New Yorker in 2003, and it seems to be the sort of lengthy, comprehensive investigation into the psyche of a man which could be dredged up at any point in that man's life to explain--or predict--his behavior."
• Donald P. Russo, "The strange story of White House reporter 'Jeff Gannon'," McCall.com, February 19, 2005.
• Don Waller, "The Danger of Mainstream Media Breaking Gannon story...," Blah3.com, February 20, 2005.
• Keith Olbermann, writing February 20, 2005, for MSNBC.MSN.com in "Separating the Gannons from the Guckerts" MSNBC.MSN.com, February 20, 2005: "Gannon told Newsweek that he is contemplating 'suing liberal interest groups, bloggers, and others,' for what he termed 'political assassination.'"
• "Credible Evidence Emerges That Jeff Gannon Coordinated With the G.O.P. to Bring Down Former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) in 2004 Election," The Nashua Advocate, February 20, 2005.
• Frank Rich, "The White House Stages Its 'Daily Show'," New York Times, February 20, 2005.
• Paul Harris, "The mole, the US media and a White House coup. The reporter who wasn't is part of a wider press scandal," Observer UK, February 20, 2005.
• Ralph Blumenthal, "Web Site Owner Says He Knew of Reporter's 2 Identities," New York Times, February 20, 2005.
• Howard Kurtz, "Was Gannon Targeted by Liberal Blogs?; Interview With Matt Cooper," CNN Reliable Resources, February 20, 2005.
• Howard Kurtz, "Outed ex-White House scribe blasts critics. X-rated Web posts undid conservative," Washington Post, February 20, 2005.
• "Five days after saying he was through talking to the press, "Jeff Gannon" gave three -- 1,2,3 -- interviews in one day" (February 18, 2005, Cursor.org, February 21, 2005. See articles above: Joe Strupp, Anderson Cooper, and Howard Kurtz.
• Scott Ross, "Reporter Selling Gay Adult Domain Names Tied to White House Scandal," AVN Online, February 21, 2005.
• John Aravosis, "Guckert's military escort domain names up for sale, for thousands of dollars," AMERICAblog Blogspot, February 22, 2005.
• Mike Hudson, "Gannongate Scandal Eludes Local Dailies," Niagara Falls Reporter, February 22, 2005.
• Joe Strupp, "'Gannon' and S. Dakota Editor at Odds Over Daschle Race," Editor & Publisher, February 22, 2005.
• Joe Strupp, "Gannon/Guckert Met Kerry at WH Reporters' Bash, Hopes to Go Again," Editor & Publisher, February 22, 2005.
• Terry Krepel, "Riders on the Clueless Train," ConWebWatch, February 22, 2005: "The Media Research Center and CNSNews.com obscure and distort the real issue in the Jeff Gannon controversy. Plus: WorldNetDaily's editor changes course, decides it's OK for a sex scandal to detract from the main issue."
• Elizabeth Aleman, "You got some splainin' to do," Daily Illini, February 22, 2005.
• John Byrne, "Democrats in House leading push for Gannon inquiry not surprised by Talon plagiarism," The Raw Story, February 22, 2005: "In an email Tuesday evening, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) called Jeff Gannon a 'stenographer for White House presss releases,' and another reporter's apparent plagiarism 'cutting and pasting' reporting."
• Charlie Madigan, "A White House plant?," Chicago Tribune, February 22, 2005.
• "So Where Did Jeff Gannon Get His Questions From?," WhyAreWeBackInIraq, February 22, 2005: "... the answer is simple. Jeff Gannon stole his questions from the same places he stole his stories. From real news organizations and from Bush Administration and GOP press releases."
• "Jeff Gannon's 'Internal Government Memo' Lie," WhyAreWeBackInIraq, February 22, 2005.
• "More On Gannon's 'Internal Government Memo' Lie," WhyAreWeBackInIraq, February 23, 2005.
• "Jeff Gannon Vs. Helen Thomas," WhyAreWeBackInIraq, February 23, 2005.
• "Local newspapers across U.S. devoted editorials to Gannongate," Media Matters, February 23, 2005.
• Editorial: "Red State Alert: Rove-Orchestrated GOP Says Gay Prostitution is Fine With Them," BuzzFlash, February 23, 2005.
• Eric Boehlert, "Gannongate: It's worse than you think," Salon, February 23, 2005: "Bush's press office gave Jim Guckert access, even knowing his only credentials were from the blatantly partisan group GOPUSA."
• Interview: "Mark Crispin Miller Examines Mainstream Media's Blind Eye Towards the Gannongate Sex Scandal," BuzzFlash, February 23, 2005.
• Gene Lyons, "'Outing' ignored by Liberal media," Arkansas Democrat Gazette, February 23, 2005: "Citizens, it’s finally happened. An alleged former male prostitute has been unmasked among the White House press corps. If this comes as a surprise, don’t blame liberal media bias. For once, there’s a Washington sex scandal our fastidious 'mainstream' press mostly wishes to avoid. Why? Good question."
• John Tully, "The James Guckert/Jeff Gannon, Fake Reporter in the White House Question is Moot!," Los Angeles Sun, February 23, 2005: "To understand how something like this could Not be a story, that this could happen to begin with, is to understand how The District of Columbia really runs. ... Try as they might and for whatever reason, The Mainstream Media (as good of a description as any) just can't keep this monster down."
• Mike Dixon, "Bypass Media on Gannongate," BuzzFlash Reader Contribution, February 23, 2005.
• Kelly Ann Collins, "Reward: Jeff Gannon information," Washington Socialites, February 23, 2005: "A wealthy Washington socialite is offering a $10,000 reward for proof that Jeff Gannon, an allegedly gay kinky-sex prostitute / escort / white house reporter / GOP operative, has had sexual relations with top-ranking government officials."
• "Outing A White House `Reporter'," Tampa Tribune, February 23, 2005.
• "Jeff Gannon Googled," Hoffmania!, February 23, 2005.
• Tom Teepen, "Smoke, mirrors and outright deceit," Daily Breeze, February 23, 2005: "Bought news broadcasts and planted 'reporters' show that the Bush White House is at once deeply secretive and aggressively deceptive."
• Dan Froomkin, "The Scandal That Keeps on Giving," Washington Post, February 23, 2005.
• "'I asked to come. They allowed me to come'," Today Show/MSNBC, February 24, 2005: "Access to the White House press room was easy, former reporter Jeff Gannon tells NBC’s Campbell Brown in an exclusive interview."
• David Corn, "Problems with Gannongate?," The Nation, February 24, 2005.
• Bill Berkowitz, "Christian right mum on Gannon Affair. Why have the 'traditional family values' folks erected a wall of silence around the Gannon scandal?," Working for Change, February 24, 2005: "As of February 24, there wasn't any news about the Gannon Affair available on the Web sites of Focus on the Family, the Family Research Council, the American Family Association, or the Traditional Values Coalition. As best as I could determine, no special alerts about the Gannon Affair have been issued; and no campaigns have been launched to get to the bottom of the matter."
• "Bush Administration and Texas Republican Party Appear to Have Lied About Ties to Jeff Gannon's Boss, Bobby Eberle." The Nashua Advocate, February 24, 2005.
• Greg Mitchell, "Gannon's to the Right of Me," Editor & Publisher, February 24, 2005: "The infamous ex-White House reporter James Guckert (a.k.a. Jeff Gannon) fights fire with fire, reactivating his Web site and starting a blog. Among other things, he claims that those 'sexy pictures' on the Web, 'said to be of me,' are leaving many of his critics 'tingling'."
• Editorial: "Who is Jeff Gannon?," SF Gate, February 24, 2005.
• Eric Boehlert, "See no Gannon, hear no Gannon, speak no Gannon. Why has the mainstream media ignored the White House media access scandal?," Salon, February 25, 2005.
• "How To "Write" Like Jeff Gannon: Example #1," WhyAreWeBackInIraq, February 25, 2005.
• Bill Press, "Gannon-gate: Where's the outrage?," Tribune Media Services, February 26, 2005.
• Susan G., "Plame & Propagannon: Embedded in US History," Daily Kos, February 26, 2005.
• John Byrne, "Democratic National Committee, Pelosi weigh in on Gannon scandal, credentialing," The Raw Story, February 27, 2005.
• "Gannon's Enemies List," Newsweek, February 28, 2005 (Issue).
• Dick Polman, "Flap over White House press corps is far from over," Knight Ridder Newspapers, February 28, 2005.
• Harley Sorenson, "Wead Whacking And Gannon Fodder," SF Gate, February 28, 2005: "How weird do a series of events have to get before they're truly investigated?"
• John Aravosis, "National Press Club is the MSM's latest whore (this is a GannonGuckert story)," AMERICAblog, March 28, 2005.
• Joe Strupp, "The National Press Club Welcomes ... Jeff Gannon?," Editor & Publisher, March 28, 2005.
• "Blog: Guckert/Gannon non-profit/GOP link," Washington Times, March 31, 2005: As reported by the Daily Kos, "Former Talon News White House correspondent J.D. Guckert reportedly is implicated in falsely registering a political organization as a non-profit."
• Michael Dietz, "Becoming Jeff Gannon, AlterNet, April 22, 2005. Dietz traces the known facts about Guckert's biography and explores the process by which a nondescript and seemingly apolitical manager of liquor distributorships transformed himself, first into a gay male escort called "Bulldog," and then into "Jeff Gannon."
• Steve Clemons, "Off Bolton Momentarily: Jeff Gannon Sketch in Vanity Fair Can't Help But to Raise Questions about White House Judgment," The Washington Note, May 2, 2005: "The June issue of Vanity Fair hits New York newsstands on Wednesday, May 4th -- and goes national on May 10th. ... The Jeff Gannon expose in it will make this VF a 'below the Beltway' blockbuster...."
• "More Gannon Fodder," New York Daily News, May 3, 2005: "Gannon says that some of his harshest critics - 'radical gay activists' - have actually come on to him. ... His detractors shed their convictions 'like a sweater on a hot day,' Gannon says in the new issue of Vanity Fair. ... The born-again Gannon refused to talk about his sexuality with reporters David Margolick and Richard Gooding but says, 'Did I know sin before I knew salvation? You bet! But my life was heading in the right direction. What's interesting about this is now I'm being punished for things I left behind.' ... Gannon also hints at doing secret work for which he needed White House security clearance, although he refuses to elaborate: 'My history isn't exactly linear.'"
• David Margolick and Richard Gooding, "Wrong Man, Wrong Place," Vanity Fair, June 2005 (pdf advance web copy).
• Robert Parry, "Novak Recycles Gannon on 'Plame-gate'," Consortium News, August 2, 2005.
• Tim Grieve, War Room: "With a nod to Jeff Gannon, Novak smears Wilson," Salon, August 2, 2005.
• Tim Grieve, "Jeff Gannon: Saying it must make it so," Salon, August 5, 2005 (requires preview or subscription).
• John Aravosis, "Gay Washington, DC newspaper publishing Jeff Gannon as columnist," AMERICAblog, August 19, 2005.

2007

• Dana Milbank, "Dozens of Heads Were Bowed," Washington Post, May 4, 2007.
• Mark Fitzgerald, "Jeff Gannon Returns To Fray With Book Blasting Media's 'Liberal Bias'," Editor & Publisher, September 5, 2007.