Bush Press Pal Quits Over Gay Prostitute Link

February 15th, 2005 by Andy in Deconstructing The Media

Bush Press Pal Quits Over Gay Prostitute Link
By Helen Kennedy
New York Daily News

A conservative ringer who was given a press pass to the White House and lobbed softball questions at President Bush quit yesterday after left-leaning Internet bloggers discovered possible ties to gay prostitution. “The voice goes silent,” Jeff Gannon wrote on his Web site. “In consideration of the welfare of me and my family, I have decided to return to private life.”
Gannon began covering the White House two years ago for an obscure Republican Web site (Talon-News.com). He was known for his friendly questions, including asking Bush at last month’s news conference how he could work with Democrats “who seem to have divorced themselves from reality.”

Gannon was also given a classified CIA memo that named agent Valerie Plame, leading to his grilling by the grand jury investigating her outing.

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