Frankly, I really have a sneaking admiration for Gannon. The man is persistent -- and I think he's a lot more honest, and a lot less evil, than any of his -- my attorney insists that I insert the word "alleged" here -- bottoms in the West Wing.

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This is how the fundies rationalize the gambling (Bennett), adulterating (Swaggart), gaying (Haggard), drinking (Fucktard), stealing (Claude Allen), and whoring (Randall Tobias).

What's with all the double consonants?

"The next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please, pay attention." - Molly Ivins

And now the both of them have regained their secondary virginity?

Is that what you're saying, THB?

You've got to admire it, if so...

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Did you mean to write "O.M.F.G."?

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laughing. so. hard.

BTW I googled a bit on "the International Bible Reading Association" and come to find out that (at least the US version; many hits came up with .uk endings but I'm not sure if they're the same or separate groups with the same name) it's run by some godbotherer barely 100 miles east of me, in Murfreesboro TN.:

Thursday, May 3, the National Day of Prayer. The event, in its 18th year, is a program of the International Bible Reading Association founded by Dr. John Hash [of] Murfreesboro, Tennessee and headed by long-time Washington, DC pastor, the Reverend Michael Hall and his wife Terry.

Not sure Rev. Michael has told Dr. John about who he's been hiring recently; the coverage in the Murfreesboro Daily News Journal about their local version of the Bibleathon quote some other spokesbeing than GannonGuckert altogether.

Heh heh. They take comments at the DNJ, I'm sorta tempted....but that is clearly Satan trying to take possession of my fingers, so I will go wrap them around some icy cold beverage so as to fend off the influence of the Evil One.

you know, made the lawn 8" cut.

Thank you. Thank you. I'll be here through the weekend.

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"Jeff Gannon" reads at the 2004 DC Bible Marathon

Here is an interesting excerpt from an article that ran in Vanity Fair in 2005. Unfortunately, the link to the article is now 404.

Sometime near the beginning of 2001, Gannon gave notice at the auto-body shop. He told McFarland, among others, that he was taking a job with a subcontractor for the Department of Defense, something for which he would need security clearance. For someone of conspicuous patriotism, with a fascination for things military, it seemed a good fit. "He said that whenever the Pentagon came out with a new missile or bomb or tank this subcontractor would do research to decide whether to go ahead with it," McFarland recalls. "He made it sound like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." McFarland, for one, believed him; after one of the hijacked jetliners crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, he even called Gannon to make sure he was all right. In fact, Gannon was still in Delaware, though he drove to the Capitol on September 12 just to express his solidarity with his embattled country. The attacks, he said, only heightened his resolve to straighten out his life and contribute to the commonwealth. "I said, 'Let's see: your career sucks, your personal life sucks, your financial life sucks.' … It's like 'What do you believe in?'" He had already been reading the Bible. Now he intensified his writing, and, to clean his slate completely, moved to Washington, D.C., becoming perhaps the first person ever to go there actually to expiate his sins." -Vanity Fair (Jeff Gannon's Public Blogging), 05-10-05 http://www.vanityfair.com/commentary/con...

Curiouser and curiouser...

Sounds like "Gannon" had a mentor, or sponsor. I wonder who?

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San Antonio radio producer Susan Farris could always count on James Guckert, a.k.a. former White House correspondent Jeff Gannon, to pitch an appearance on the shows she produces at conservative talk station KTSA. He was not only anxious about pushing his story of the day, but seemed to always have some kind of inside knowledge about the White House, as well. "I said, 'How do you have such great sources?' and he just laughed it off," she told E&P Friday. "Now we all know how." -Joe Strupp, Radio Producer Could Always Count on 'Gannon' for Tips, 02-18-05

When Rove was at the buffet table, I wonder if he went for the tossed salad.

"The next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please, pay attention." - Molly Ivins

If you know what I mean, and I think you do...

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