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Title: Jeff Gannon and Karl Rove Attended the Same "School"; Or, "The Best Theory Yet for How Gannon Got Hired By GOPUSA and Karl Rove Got In Touch With Him"
Source: The Nashua Advocate
URL Source: http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/ ... on-and-karl-rove-attended.html
Published: Feb 19, 2005
Author: ADVOCATE STAFF
Post Date: 2005-02-20 09:33:32 by robin
Keywords: "School";, Attended, Gannon
Views: 2212
Comments: 84

By ADVOCATE STAFF

CBS has put (once again) its credibility on the line and speculated that Karl Rove is the man responsible for bringing Jeff Gannon (James Guckert) into the White House.

Now, why would they say a thing like that?

Is it because Rove controls everything in the White House down to the lifespan of houseplants in the West Wing?

Or because it's a near certainty that, beyond the two men meeting at a White House Christmas party--as Gannon has already asserted--Rove and the ex-Talon News "reporter" have likely crossed paths on other occasions, too?

Well, let's see.

Karl Rove is a graduate of Morton C. Blackwell's Leadership Institute.

So is Jeff Gannon.

Rove went to the Institute's "Youth Leadership School," graduating from that grist-mill of conservative quackery in 1979.

Gannon went to the Institute's "Broadcast Journalism School," graduating (to the extent $50 in cash enabled that "achievement") in 2003.

Both "schools" cost substantially less than a bargain-basement television set, and provide approximately the same degree of instruction in critical thinking. [See website].

The Leadership Institute Gannon (and Rove) graduated from has an Employment Placement Service/Intern Program which, according to the Institute's solicitation to prospective "students," "open[s] doors for you which would otherwise remain shut."

And how!

The "Intern Program" boasts "weekly private dinners with Washington VIPs," including (as a sampling, from the website) Fox News commentators, Reagan Administration officials, former Republican U.S. Attorneys General, and sitting U.S. Members of Congress (e.g., Representative Tom DeLay [R-TX]; former House Majority Leader, Dick Armey [R-TX]).

And perhaps -- [gasp] -- former graduates of the Institute, like Karl Rove?

Hell, if "The Texas Hammer" can make time for old friend Morton C. Blackwell, why can't "the boy genius"? After all, doesn't Blackwell serve with Rove on the Advisory Board for the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project? Didn't Blackwell, according to the conservative Washington Times, "train" Rove to become the virulent little blackguard he is today?

Says the Institute's website, "on a weekly basis our interns meet with some of the conservative movement's top 'movers and shakers.' These dinners are prepared and served to our interns and their private guest."

The Institute also crows about the fact that, each week, "[Institute] interns correspond with, meet, and have dinner with top conservative leaders. From Congressmen to Supreme Court Justices to heads of major public policy groups, interns receive personal mentoring on how to achieve success and make a difference in government, politics, and the media....[i]n addition to weekly speaker nights arranged by the Leadership Institute, interns are encouraged to attend issue briefings by other conservative organizations like the Cato Institute and the Heritage Foundation."

"Make a difference in the media" -- indeed!

And speaking of cushy internships, how about Jeff Gannon's "volunteer" position as a "reporter" for GOPUSA, which he acquired despite having no journalistic experience whatsoever?

[According to Daily Kos, the CEO of one of GOPUSA's sponsors, Campaign Secrets' Mark Montini, is also the Vice President for Programs at -- you guessed it -- The Leadership Institute. And if you check out the GOPUSA website, you can see that the only event on the GOPUSA "calendar" is a late September 2004 Silver Anniversary Gala for the Leadership Institute, featuring "special appearances by Leadership Institute graduates who have become star leaders over the past twenty-five years." Hmm, like Rove?].

And what if employers -- or, say, White House staffers, like Karl Rove -- want to find someone to "do a job" for them?

Easy!

According to the website's entreaty to prospective employers of Institute graduates (see here), "[the Institute's] free conservative job bank provides a pool of applicants from which to hire qualified candidates. Resumes arrive within 24 hours, so you can begin to fill open positions immediately. Our prospective candidates can fill every position from chief-of-staff to press secretary. We curb the frustration factor by supplying all the necessary information to make your selection process easier."

Wow!

Are you saying you can find a high-priced gay prostitute with an eerie military fetish to pose for more than two years as a credible White House "journalist" in less than twenty-four hours?

Oh Mort, you devil!

Imagine that: all it would have taken Rove was a single phone call or a click of the mouse to get hooked up with (no pun intended) journalist/prostitute (or is that "prostitute/journalist"?) Jeff Gannon/James Dale Guckert.

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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)

Rove is beyond weird. I have to ask the obvious, is he married?

Good question, but so is Gannon.

robin  posted on  2005-02-20   9:48:40 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: Jethro Tull, Zipporah, Brian S, rowdee, anyone following Gannon (#1)

Gay facts and fantasies in Propagannon research

An insightful look (by an insider) into a world probably none of us really know anything about (from DailyKos).

robin  posted on  2005-02-20   14:09:27 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: Itisa1mosttoolate, Flintlock, 1776, crack monkey, christine, aristeides, lodwick, Dakmar, CAPPSMADNESS, 2Trievers, randge, CWRWinger, anyone I left out (#22)

This particular blog at DailyKos, Gay facts and fantasies in Propagannon research is a revealing read, that may be pointing to a bigger story than just Gannon.

robin  posted on  2005-02-20   14:46:28 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#28. To: robin (#23)

From the link you provided was a link to this:

We repeat: Talon News was created by Bobby Eberle to create a journalistic "haven" for Jeff Gannon (James Guckert), who had already been allowed into the White House in violation of White House regulations, which require any "reporter" to be associated with a valid journalistic enterprise. This is the smoking gun. The blogosphere must turn its attention to Eberle to figure out why the Republican community is suddenly hanging him out to dry, through patently dishonest denials about knowing him.

Zipporah  posted on  2005-02-20 15:47:47 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#42. To: robin (#23)

Very interesting. I am heterosexual, but I have had run-ins with this velvet mafia thing before. A kid that we took in while I lived in Boston was going out to the Playboy Club with a guy in the Red Sox organization. I said, he's gay, everybody knows that. He said, it's the PLAYBOY Club, he can't be gay. He was and the kid was 16 or so and he got "recruited," although I doubt someone truly straight can be recruited.

The thing that struck me in this was the mention of CBGB's. I practically lived there during my college years (how I ever graduated with honors, I have no idea) and the public perception is that punk was really aggressively hetero. Actually, it was split between the really het bands like The Ramones and The Cramps and The Dead Boys, and pretty explicitly gay bands like Television, The Mumps and Wayne County. People like Danny Fields, who is a great guy and pretty much made punk rock with his work with the Stooges and the Ramones and a million other bands, really wielded the power, and they were almost all gay. That this guy knows this makes his theory more compelling.

Contrary to popular belief, gay people are not ipso facto flaming liberals. They are on the whole a lot wealthier than straights and because a significant number are estranged from their families and have no families of their own, father figures, who are usually profoundly closeted, play a big role in the gay community. If you're a likely young man who got booted out of the house at 18, there are ways of getting college paid for. And a job at Lehman Bros. when you get out. By then, your provider will probably have moved on to a younger man, but he will still keep an eye out for you, as long as you never cross him.

I think this guy's take is right. Gannon was a loose cannon. He slid in under the vetting process, and somehow got taken as one of those likely young men, when in fact, he was extremely out in his personal life. I crack up every time he or someone else says, oh, this is just using his homosexuality as a weapon to get at a wingnut (I will not call him a conservative, he's just plain nuts). This from a party that uses homosexuality as a campaign issue???? HAHAHAHA.

If anyone lives in Pittsburgh, and has a lot of energy, a young DJ named Jeff Christie was arrested for soliciting an undercover police officer for homosexual sex in the city in about 1972. He was fired from his job shortly thereafter. His real name was Rush Limbaugh. He evidently paid a fine and left town. I think this might explain the three (or is it four) marriages with, um, zero kids and probably zero sex.

I have friends who are very out gay, and they do fine. They know what industries will accept them (and it is a fairly wide scape, believe it or not), and they are pretty happy. I have a former friend who is vice-president of a large water utility, and he is the most bitter, closeted, hate-filled person I know. He is so desperate to hold on to his $200K that he has cut off relations with everyone who knows he is gay. I can just see him "mentoring" some young thing...

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