Jeff Gannon, Former WH Stringer, Returns As Spokesman for Bible Event
By E&P Staff
Published: May 04, 2007 11:55 AM ET
NEW YORK James Guckert -- a.k.a. Jeff Gannon, ex-White House correspondent and former male escort -- turned up in the pages of The Washington Post again today, this time as a promoter of a Bible reading event outside the Capitol.
Dana Milbank covered it his Post column. An excerpt follows.
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Let us pray that, on next year's National Day of Prayer, there is better attendance at the "Bible Reading Marathon" on the West Front of the Capitol.
Organizers put out 600 folding chairs on the lawn -- the spot where presidents are inaugurated -- and set up a huge stage with powerful amplifiers. But at 9:30 a.m. yesterday, not one of the 600 seats was occupied. By 11 a.m., as a woman read a passage from Revelations, attendance had grown -- to four people. Finally, at 1 p.m., 37 of the 600 seats were occupied, though many of those people were tourists eating lunch.
Where was everybody?
"This isn't that kind of event," explained Jeff Gannon, spokesman for the host, the International Bible Reading Association. Gannon, actually a pseudonym for James Guckert, had earned fame in 2005 representing a conservative Web site at White House briefings until it was revealed that he posted nude pictures of himself on the Web to offer his services as a $200-an-hour gay escort.
Let us pray for the power to understand how Gannon made his way from HotMilitaryStud.com to the International Bible Reading Association.
E&P Staff
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