Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Google Is the New Deep Throat (Except Full of Lies)
Slowly getting somewhere:
Requisite "why this is important" bit: Gannon/Guckert was one of only two real, regular contributors to "Talon News," owned and operated by GOPUSA, run by wealthy Texan Republican donors in their spare time. So one of Gannon/Guckert's bosses (and he had but very few -- this is a "corporation" with a total staff of 8 and a couple "volunteers") was married to someone very close to the presidency, specifically someone who, it sounds like, is in charge of vetting potential hires -- you'd think she wouldn't have let this one slip in, what with the tax evasion and the prostitution, but there you go. Atrios is already calling this "The Gannon/White House Connection" -- it isn't quite there yet, we're still playing 6 Degrees of JD Guckert; but it's damn close. And it raises more questions -- what the hell is GOPUSA? Why did they hire Guckert?
From any angle, at this point, this should be a big fucking black eye for the White House: this guy (Guckert) was being paid by very prominent Republicans, including the husband of one of Bush's Assistants. Bush didn't know who he was? Two press secretaries didn't know what "Talon News" was? Increasingly unlikely. Is the White House connected to GOPUSA? Now, clearly, yes.
(Forgot to mention this: "Gannon" at as press briefing before the creation of "Talon News". So he's there without a "news organization," while his escort sites and ads were still active...)
UPDATE: Just kidding. It turns out this "Richard Powell" is different from a bunch of other Republican Richard Powells. The one married to the assistant to Bush is, in fact, Ricky Powell (who, long-time readers will remember, dicked your girl). The White House was connected to JD James Jeff Guckert Gannon for one all-too-brief, glorious moment of half-assed blog research, but no more, alas. Thanks to the magic of self-correction, I can absolve all responsibility for being too lazy to look into this shit myself. In a few weeks, this post too shall be in the never-visited archives, reached only by the occasional Google search for fucking big black secretaries. I apologize for getting your hopes up. |
Further researching the board of directors of GOPUSA, records within the public domain for any public or private corporation reveals the name of one Richard Powell, as a member of it's board.
See Richard Powells Bio from GOPUSA.com: (These links have since been removed from all GOPUSA sites, this is the cached Google page)
Richard Powell, is none other than the husband of Dina Powell, Assistant to the President as the White House Chief of Personnel.
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According to the official org charts of the White House, http://www.americanpresident.org, Dina Powell, only 31 years old, works directly for only three people. President Bush, Andrew Card (all paths and positions lead to Andrew Card) and none other than Karl Rove....
So, recapping, we have a fake reporter, for a fake news agency that was allowed daily access to the Whitehouse. We have a board member of the fake news agency tied to Austin, Tx whose wife is a high level staff member in the Oval Office, a staff position that carries with it the absolute final word on who gains access to the White House.
Requisite "why this is important" bit: Gannon/Guckert was one of only two real, regular contributors to "Talon News," owned and operated by GOPUSA, run by wealthy Texan Republican donors in their spare time. So one of Gannon/Guckert's bosses (and he had but very few -- this is a "corporation" with a total staff of 8 and a couple "volunteers") was married to someone very close to the presidency, specifically someone who, it sounds like, is in charge of vetting potential hires -- you'd think she wouldn't have let this one slip in, what with the tax evasion and the prostitution, but there you go. Atrios is already calling this "The Gannon/White House Connection" -- it isn't quite there yet, we're still playing 6 Degrees of JD Guckert; but it's damn close. And it raises more questions -- what the hell is GOPUSA? Why did they hire Guckert?
From any angle, at this point, this should be a big fucking black eye for the White House: this guy (Guckert) was being paid by very prominent Republicans, including the husband of one of Bush's Assistants. Bush didn't know who he was? Two press secretaries didn't know what "Talon News" was? Increasingly unlikely. Is the White House connected to GOPUSA? Now, clearly, yes.
(Forgot to mention this: "Gannon" at as press briefing before the creation of "Talon News". So he's there without a "news organization," while his escort sites and ads were still active...)
UPDATE: Just kidding. It turns out this "Richard Powell" is different from a bunch of other Republican Richard Powells. The one married to the assistant to Bush is, in fact, Ricky Powell (who, long-time readers will remember, dicked your girl). The White House was connected to JD James Jeff Guckert Gannon for one all-too-brief, glorious moment of half-assed blog research, but no more, alas. Thanks to the magic of self-correction, I can absolve all responsibility for being too lazy to look into this shit myself. In a few weeks, this post too shall be in the never-visited archives, reached only by the occasional Google search for fucking big black secretaries. I apologize for getting your hopes up. |
