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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"
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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: 2569
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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#45. To: rowdee (#44)
That pretty much sums it up.. if Gannon/Guckert is "hung" for this.. legally .. then he has a lot of people very nervous.. could take a lot of people with him..
Since Jeffy is a top, now we know how they met.
yep.. the only way this will go anywhere IMO is if the gay community has had enough of the hypocrisy.. and the constant attacking from the WH and stirring up the 'troops'.. they know the secrets.. so.. we'll see where this goes..
I've heard this rumor before, but never I've seen concrete evidence. If it exists, it would make good blackmail material. Contrary to popular belief, gay people are not ipso facto flaming liberals
Exactly. And that's what gives this story momentum. What does Barney Frank have to fear? Nothin'.
Yep, that's what's at stake if this blogger's analysis is correct.
Hope you're wrong Dak. But, they will try and spin this any which way they can.
This is new to me, also. I'd love to see concrete evidence.
I pinged you to this JT.. thought you might have insight into this...
I have too. I can vouch for this. Another thing I've seen is that the rabid hate of homosexuals comes from males who are a bit confused about their sexual identity. Bisexuals who wish they were straight, but sometimes follow their urges. I've had several gays confirm this for me. They tell me these types can be really dangerous. They have told me that pure gays and pure heterosexuals simply have no interest in each other and rarely give the matter any thought. The guys with gender confusion are the one's that are married with kids and an odd hand in the gay community. Usually a lot of anger and contradictory opinions. They spend a great deal of time talking about anti-gay moralitiy - for this is a big issue for them. The purely straight guys find this sort of talk odd, sort of like preaching against eating dog shit, a warning against something they weren't going to do anyway. I think my grandfather was right. He lived before the PC era so his words are a little rough, but what he said was true: Anyone who spends a lot of time obsessed with queers in some weird sort of way always turns out to be queer in some weird sort of way.
This is weird. Limbaugh's "mentor" bought a mansion near Rush... *** ******** LIMBAUGH'S MENTOR BUYS ISLAND MANSION The Palm Beach Post; 5/31/2004 The Palm Beach Post 05-31-2004 LIMBAUGH'S MENTOR BUYS ISLAND MANSION EDITION: FINAL SECTION: INSIDE LOCAL BUSINESS TYPE: BRIEF MEMO: LOCAL BEAT: REAL ESTATE PALM BEACH -- The man who plucked an obscure disc jockey from California and turned him into conservative talk radio's loudest practitioner has bought a home within shouting distance of his prodigy. Edward F. McLaughlin, former president of ABC Radio Networks and a member of the Radio Hall of Fame, has paid $9.5 million for a 7,759-square-foot home in the 1000 block of North Ocean Boulevard. It has five bedrooms and eight bathrooms. Rush Limbaugh, whose radio show now airs on more than 200 stations, lives nearby in a compound he spent millions of dollars putting together to ensure his privacy. Back in 1988, McLaughlin's nationwide search for conservative talent led him to Sacramento, where Limbaugh was getting attention for his spirited defense of Oliver North during the Iran-Contra hearings. McLaughlin took Limbaugh to New York for a one-month tryout at WABC, the flagship station for Capital Cities/ABC, then went on to produce The Rush Limbaugh Show.
So what do we really know about this 'talent scout' Edward F. McLaughlin?
Maybe this is what prompted Rush's most recent divorce. I have a feeling that the ex is going to be very well provided for, more than she could ever make on a sensational book.
The Bushies never take responsibility for their actions, it's always someone or another plotting against them that causes things to go wrong in their minds. Soldiers dying in Iraq? Hey, that's the fault of anti-war protesters. Torture at Abu Graib, that's a bunch of low-level enlisted people doing that. Weapons of mass destruction? The UN told us they were there...
I'm looking now. Check out this thread from tFR I chimed in more than once, beginning with #62 (g)
Isn't that the hallmark of long-term felons? - it's their mothers' fault.
Wow! Still reading, that is an interesting year 2000 thread on TOS. Anyone interested, search the above link for "Jethro Tull" to posts starting at 72. Although, the entire thread looks interesting.
I have a feeling that the ex is going to be very well provided for, more than she could ever make on a sensational book. No doubt! Everything I read about her at the time strongly indicated she was a gold-digger from the gitgo. So, maybe it is a marriage of convenience, pure business.
I bet most of us from that thread are long gone from FReeperville.
Some fresh dirt on Rush Limbaugh from Usenet
Funny, both Gannon and Rush chose "Jeff".
I don't even wanna know the context in which you're using that, do I?
***** Arkush was not entirely complimentary. He criticizes Rush for not crediting Norm Woodruff for pulling the strings that got him into KFBK, which was where he was working when he met Ed McLaughlin. Norm gave Rush that last chance (he had been fired a number of times and fallen into obscurity while working in baseball). Norm taught Rush how to dress for success and presented him to KFBK at a key moment -- upon the firing of Morton Downey. Arkush says Rush fails to give Woodruff his just credit for his involvement in Rush's success, which if it ever does come will have to come posthomolously. Woodruff died in the mid 1980's of AIDS. He was gay. ***** So, one of Rush's or should I say Jeff's mentors was a homosexual. We still don't know about Edward F. McLaughlin.
Looks like I forgot to ping you in regards to this blog on Gannon: After you read this, see Mekons4's post, then follow Jethro's posts to Zip's post with links about Rush. What we may be seeing here is a pattern of how wealthy older homosexual men fulfill their fantasies, by "mentoring" younger homosexual men. Giving them entree into certain powerful circles, paying for their education, a few bills, etc. Robin Williams, in joking with Bill Maher has implied that KKKarl Rove could be Gannon's "contact" in the WH. Don't forget Bush's pretty-faced Scott McClellan either. Gannon gave "golden" info to a radio producer who never understood how he got his great inside tips.
Thanks, I'll try to get up to speed on this, but if it gets too illustrative of that line I just quoted, I'll have to stop. ;)
In the immortal lines of "Grease", ..."tell me more, tell me more, was he really a gay pill popper? Tell me more, tell me moooore!"
The above was shamelessly stolen from a web blog....
Here's the latest from DK: So it would seem, and I don't recall seeing this mentioned anywhere else. Read on ... USsearch.com, with which I am entirely unaffiliated in any manner, purports to be able to deliver background information on, it would appear, just about anybody in the United States ... current and past addresses and telephone numbers, "possible aliases," "relatives, roommates and neighbors," "bankruptcies, Tax liens, Small Claims Civil Judgments,", "marriages and divorces," "real property ownership and value," etc., etc. Without paying so much as a dime, you can get a listing of the names of the cities/towns in which a person has resided in the last decade or so; this is the bait they dangle in front of you in an effort to persuade you to dig out your plastic and order the full report. So, just out of curiosity, I entered the name "James D. Guckert" and the approximate age of "47." Their database lists a James D. Guckert with an approximate age of 47, whose address history includes "2 addresses in Newark, DE," "5 addresses in Wilmington, DE," and "1 address in Cincinnatti, OH." Here's the link ... I haven't yet ponied up the hundred bucks or so for "the works," which includes all of the above in addition to a "nationwide criminal search," but I'm beginning to be tempted. I do have to say that I'd be at least somewhat surprised if none of those who are investigating Mr. Guckert has run this or a similar background check on him ... Has anybody seen any mention of an Ohio connection?
"Look at me, I'm Jeff Christie, lousy with virginity..." With apologizes and a "RIP" to the late Sandra Dee.
Wow! And the web grows more tangled.
Is Jeff Christie related to Lou Christie?
Stay tuned, someone on DailyKos or AmericaBlog will gladly pay $100 for more info on Gannon. I'm sure not one Corporate Media journalist has bothered.
I think this one is more apripos :P
"Lightning's Strikes" by Lou Christie ;)
Bahhhhhhhh.....Yes!!! That's our El Rushbo!
And the winner is:
Either Lou is aging well, or his promo pic is 20 years old...
LOL!! I thought it's pretty fitting.. here is the entire song:
Hollywood pickles 'em purty good these days; no telling. But, I'm guessing the latter.
wow..robin linked this post on another thread, Mekons. i missed it the first time around. you sure are a good source for information on these GOP freakers. :P i'd say this is pretty damning.
#46. To: Zipporah (#29)
Also, this is Bobby Eberle from the GOPUSA site:
#47. To: Mekons4 (#46)
#48. To: Mekons4 (#42)
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.
That's true, and as you point out, it is a community with $$.
#49. To: rowdee (#26)
Hypocritical bastids.
#50. To: Zipporah (#36)
Again, it's NOT GANNON'S PERSONAL LIFE - IT"S THEIR OWN.
#51. To: Dakmar (#33)
No, in the end this will wind up a story about how the horrible sodomites perpertrated fraud to damage the President.
#52. To: Mekons4 (#42)
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
#53. To: Jethro Tull (#52)
#54. To: Mekons4 (#42)
Very interesting. I am heterosexual, but I have had run-ins with this velvet mafia thing before.
#55. To: Zipporah (#53)
#56. To: Jethro Tull (#55)
within shouting distance
#57. To: robin (#56)
#58. To: robin (#51)
Hope you're wrong Dak. But, they will try and spin this any which way they can.
#59. To: robin (#56)
#60. To: Dakmar (#58)
#61. To: Jethro Tull, Zipporah, crack monkey, All who wonder about Limbaugh (#59)
#62. To: crack monkey (#57)
Maybe this is what prompted Rush's most recent divorce.
If Mekons4's info is correct, quite possibly.
#63. To: robin (#61)
#64. To: Jethro Tull, Robin (#55)
#65. To: Zipporah (#64)
#66. To: robin (#65)
chose
#67. To: Zipporah, Jethro Tull, Samuel Gray (#64)
#68. To: Samuel Gray (#66)
Gay facts and fantasies in Propagannon research
#69. To: robin (#68)
his great inside tips.
#70. To: robin (#67)
#71. To: All (#70)
#72. To: robin, Jethro Tull (#68)
Diaries :: gwhayduke's diary ::
#73. To: Jethro Tull (#70)
#74. To: Zipporah (#72)
#75. To: Samuel Gray, Lodwick, Oldies but goodies (#73)
#76. To: Zipporah, Jethro Tull (#72)
#77. To: Jethro Tull (#75)
#78. To: Jethro Tull (#75)
#79. To: Zipporah (#77)
#80. To: Jethro Tull, Zipporah (#79)
"Two Faces Have I" by Lou Christie
#81. To: Zipporah, robin (#77)
#82. To: robin, Jethro Tull (#80)
#83. To: Jethro Tull (#81)
Either Lou is aging well, or his promo pic is 20 years old...
#84. To: Mekons4, robin (#42)
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