There is news coming from the US on a scandal that involves the White House press corp.
It seems that a member of the said press corp. — a man by the name of Jeff Gannon — was never actually an accredited member of the press corp.
The White House allowed this man to pose as a journalist and ask the president softball questions that allowed him to avoid the awkward questions of the real members of the press corp.
But wait! It gets better.
The White House avoided the usual accreditation procedure for Gannon by issuing him with a daily pass to the White House press corp. for two whole years. Why did they do that?
Well, Gannon, whose real name is James Guckert, has, to put it delicately, a past; and colorful one at that.
Guckert in addition to running a conservative Republican website also ran a number of pornographic websites catering to the homosexual elements in US society.
But wait! It gets even better.
Not only was Guckert a webmaster for homosexual websites, but he himself was a “male escort” which means a male prostitute.
The truly amazing thing about this messy affair is how little attention the mainstream media has given to it.
There is a palpable reluctance by a majority of the US media, print, radio or television, to treat this issue with the seriousness it deserves.
The deliberate and barefaced manipulation of the press by the current administration is nothing new, but this blatant, even fraudulent, case takes the cake.
And yet the pussycats in the US press have taken it with remarkable grace and good humor.
I am sure that this can only comfort the citizens of that great country to know that they are being kept well informed by their “independent and fearless” press.
At this point it would be useful to ask, can it get any better than this?
Well, my dears, it can and has.
Guckert has been a busy little bee.
He was involved in the early eighties with porn websites that specialized in recruiting military men especially from the US Marine Corp. to act as male escorts for members of the US Senate and Congress.
So the next time a bill passes through Congress or the Senate that erodes the civil liberties of Americans or gives preferential treatment to the rich amongst them at the expense of the rest, I would like you to conjure in your minds the image of a beefy Marine in tight leather shorts.
Thus endeth the lesson in democracy, American-style.
