Liberals in Media attack conservative reporter, page 2

Rant thats funny it took me a sec to understand and another 5 minutes to wipe the coffee of my monitor you have a way with words

Online Nude Photos Are Latest Chapter In Jeff Gannon Saga Washington Post (no photo's thats just the tittle)
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 16, 2005; Page C01

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The X-rated twist has made for a lot of clandestine clicking in a town where Deep Throat conjures images not of a porn star but of a man in a parking garage. But it has also deepened the debate over blogging and the tactics used to drive a conservative reporter from his job as White House correspondent for two Web sites owned by a Republican activist.

Paul Leddy, the Web designer, said Gannon contacted him in an America Online chat room in 1999 and wound up paying him $200, plus $50 in monthly maintenance, into the following year to create a gay escort site. He said the checks came from Bedrock Corp., which Gannon has confirmed that he worked for at the time. Leddy, who has helped design a variety of Web sites, including porn sites, provided Microsoft Word files of several of his invoices to Bedrock, a Delaware-based company. At first, Leddy said, Gannon sent him nude pictures with the heads cropped out, or asked him not to post the faces. He said he had no doubt, after seeing Gannon in the news recently, that the explicit pictures were of the same man. Leddy said Gannon's postings later moved to another gay escort site, which Aravosis says remained active until March 2003, or shortly before Gannon began covering the White House.

In one of the Web sites found by Aravosis, a man who Leddy said is Gannon was offering his escort services for $200 an hour, or $1,200 a weekend. Another describes him as "military, muscular, masculine and discrete [sic]" and provides an America Online e-mail address that matches the initials on a logo used by Gannon on several of the sites, including the one Leddy said he designed. Bedrock, Gannon's company, is listed as the owner of JeffGannon.com, as well as three sites with such names as hotmilitarystud.com. Aravosis posted the pictures with strategically placed gray boxes, although he provided links to the unexpurgated versions

The Washington Post reported that Gannon had access to the internal CIA memo that named Valerie Plame as a cover agent did Karl Rove leak it to Gannon?
Was gay love and blackmail involved, Scott McClellan who has been reported to frequent gay bars?

And the story goes on nice spin though, reporter uh

[edit on 16/2/2005 by Sauron]