Gay Male Escort By Night, White House Reporter By Day

Like a geyser of frothy, hot, white (CENSORED), the Gannon/Guckert story has exploded all over the internet, thanks to the wonderful John Aravosis. The details of the story are this. A few weeks ago, a reported named Jeff Gannon lobbed this now-infamous softball question during a White House press conference at the President of the United States:

Thank you. Senate Democratic leaders have painted a
very bleak picture of the U.S. economy. Harry Reid [D-NV]
was talking about soup lines. And [Senator] Hillary Clinton
[D-NY] was talking about the economy being on the verge of
collapse. Yet in the same breath they say that Social Security
is rock solid and there's no crisis there. How are you going to
work -- you've said you are going to reach out to these people
-- how are you going to work with people who seem to have
divorced themselves from reality?

This got the folks at Media Matters and other lefty websites wondering, "Who the **** is Jeff Gannon and what is Talon News that he works for?" Well, now we know. Jeff Gannon was the alias (and not in the fabulous Jennifer Garner way!) of James Guckert, who besides being a member of the White House Press Corps, was also a male prostitute who advertised that he would have sex with men for money in the metro Washington, D.C. area. Why should YOU care about this? But, wait, there's more! It appears as if Gannon/Guckert may have had access to Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA operative and was actually investigated by the FBI in that ongoing scandal. Stay tuned, folks...