Filed under: Scandals, Jeff Gannon, Gay, Tom Tancredo, Tyler Whitney
Jeff Gannon, the former White House reporter who was outed nationally after bloggers raised questions about the authenticity of his reporting, is lending his support to Tyler Whitney, the 18-year-old Tom Tancredo presidential campaign staffer who’s been embroiled in a gay scandal of his own.
Whitney, you’ll recall, is a self-professed up-and-coming conservative activist who works as a webmaster for Tancredo. Whitney leads an antigay political group on his college campus and has carried a “Go Back in the Closet!” sign at an antigay protest.
Whitney has also reportedly told some friends that he is gay, which has prompted gay columnists and others to decry his apparent hypocrisy.
But Gannon is now defending the embattled staffer.
“The angry gay left continues to practice the politics of personal destruction,” Gannon tell Big Head DC. “These hatemongers are so threatened by an 18-year-old guy who doesn’t want to live his life on the pink plantation that they have to try to destroy him. Kudos to Tancredo and his staff for standing up for him. Maybe Tancredo isn’t as ‘anti-gay’ as the angry gay left wants its sheeple to believe.”
Tancredo supporters, including Bay Buchanan, an adviser to the campaign, have said that Whitney’s sexual orientation should be a personal matter.
The biggest barrier to Jeff Gannon’s credibility is his prostitution. Regardless of whether or not it is true that he used to get paid to do the ‘wild thing’, a gay man who sells his shill to the Republican right wing is nothing short of a full-fledged prostitute. Having heard his brand of self-loathing diatribe before, I’m starting to get it: Gay Repbublicans have a real hard time with reality. But worse yet, they have a harder time with themselves. Thankfully, they all usually end up with they’re dirty laundry over their heads in public when reality trumps make-believe, and exposes these sad people, not for what they are, but for the wrongs they’ve done to others for money.
Jeff Gannon is so right on target. I’m sick of the liberal gays lieing contantly about Republicans. If you simply look at the legislative record, you will see who the truly diverse Party is. It was Clinton who spearheaded DADT and signed DOMA to protect marriage. It was Clinton who fired many conservative gay staffers in the White House and replaced them with liberal straights. It was the DNC which used anti-gay advertising campaigns to demonize both Blacks and conservatives (eg the Mark Foley ’scandal’
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The GOP has always pioneered individual freedoms and equality for everyone. We welcome people of all lifestyles who come together around wholesome values for our country. The gay community needs to see through the lies of the liberal elite homosexual leaders who want nothing more than to divide. If we truly want civil rights, our only chance is to increase funding and support of tried and true civil rights advocates like Tom Tancredo and Sam Brownback. Tyler Whitney should be commended for not blindly devoting all his time to his sexual preference. That is something to be proud of.
“tried and true civil rights advocates like Tom Tancredo and Sam Brownback”
Scooby Doo says, “Huh?”
I hope for the sake of Republicans this posting was some sort of pastiche. If not, the Repub’s reality problem is worse than I thought.
Wasn’t Jeff Gannon abducted, sexually abused, brainwashed as a child? Hasn’t this been well documented?? Is it any surprise that he sympathizes with this 18 year old kid??? He’s probably trying to brainwash him just like they did to him. Johnny Gosch mother wants Gannon to come home!
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=2&contentid=1995
“Tyler Whitney should be commended for not blindly devoting all his time to his sexual preference. That is something to be proud of.”
Are you out of your freaking mind or what? Or did you not fully read the article? This isn’t about devoting his time to his sexuality. The guy leads an ANTI-GAY COLLEGE GROUP and PROTESTS with hateful signs against gay people, and yet he is gay and all of a sudden, his sexuality is nobody’s business. WHAT? The only thing even more outrageous than this stunning hypocrisy is the collection of fools who defend him. Yes it’s tough, but he needs to learn something from this. He’s 18 years old, not 12.
And people like Bay Buchanan don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. They say nothing when the GOP uses gay hating to score points in election time, but all of a sudden when one of their own anti-gay staffers turns out to be gay, it’s none of our business. Give me a damn break. And Ganon’s a moron.
Every word from the mouth of Jeff Gannon (or whatever name he’s going by these days) is like a turd falling into my drink. Why do people continue to publish his remarks when they are so obviously worthless?
Since when is honesty tantamount to destruction? Perhaps in the world Gannon, Whitney, and the other self-loathing right-wing closet-cases inhabit, the truth really is something to be afraid of.
I suspect that Whitney feels a deep sense of shame regarding his sexual orientation. And indeed, he should be ashamed - but not for that reason.
At any rate, let’s see how easy it is for him to “Go back in the Closet!” now.
I have no sympathy for this young man. None.
Grrrrr.
In Lakewood Ohio, we have a GOP’er that needs to come out of the closet. Maybe Jeff Gannon could come and help dispite his age.
Gay republican is an oxymoron. It is tantamount to Jews voting for Hitler. Why would any intelligent Gay man or woman vote for a republican when they don’t want you to have any equality, don’t want you serving openly in the military and basically don’t want you to have the same rights as heterosexuals and would rather have you shut up and go away. Many of them vote for antigay legislation while leading double lives because they can’t accept who they are. Gay republicans are about selfishness, high paid jobs, the second home, tax breaks and to hell with the rest of us. They’d rather have that than full equality, at any price. Nothing but parasites.
Robert, NYC.
Well I think it’s just a tragedy (And I don’t care what anybody says -right or left) that either Whitney or Gannon are homosexual. But more so for Whitney because he is so young and he doesn’t yet understand why he is or what it means for his life. That’s all it is, a tragedy - no prospect of children or happy family life in their future… no grandchildren.
Someone made them that way and it wasn’t God. So sad, there is nothing “gay” about being gay, and that is an a-political fact.
Not to stereotype anyone but, um, if he is gay shouldn’t he have learned to dress better by now?
Beth,
Even though you claim so, there are no “facts” a-political or otherwise in your post. There is nothing stopping Jeff Gannon or Whitney from having children or happy families. Either of them can have children either through adoption or even their own biological children through a surrogate. The only thing that makes having a “happy family life” more difficult for them is people with attitudes like yours….
“I suspect that Whitney feels a deep sense of shame regarding his sexual orientation.”
I disagree completely. Through his writings and speeches at protests, he comes across as very self-righteous and superior. I think he honestly believes he is better than those he views as “dirty fags”. He thinks he is the exception, just like Mary Cheney. He comes from a monied family so can easily purchase any rights he needs.
Cpl Matt Sanchez is following a similar trajectory. He is starting to totally lash out with the most hateful stuff towards gays while at the same time cruising boy soldiers for sweaty meat: http://forum.cplsanchez.info/user/discussions.aspx
Beth, hon?
The only reason homosexuality is “a tragedy” is because of silly people like you who harbor the notion that your willful ignorance supercedes the plain as day fact that some people are born homosexual and some are born heterosexual and some are born bisexual. It’s always been that way and It’s not going to change anytime soon unless the religious right can figure out a way to discern in vitro a fetus’ likely orientation. That will also be the day abortion becomes a “Christian” sacrament, rather than an abomination.
As far as Gannon’s argument goes, it all goes to privilege. Oppression for being gay has never been an issue for the Upper Class. There is always someone interested enough by money and social power to marry, there is always money for prostitutes and sex tourism and kept mates on the side, and for buying off or putting an end to whistleblowers. Whitney has no problem with his sexuality, he’s just disgusted with other gay people who express their sexuality differently or who don’t enjoy the same status or privilege that he does. The issue here isn’t Whitney’s sexuality, it’s his Class. Gannon, of course, would be the first one to defend Whitney, since Gannon imagines that his dick has gained him access into Whitney’s world. He’s not the first and he won’t be the last hooker who did well. But what Gannon doesn’t understand is that he’s in Whitney’s world on a Pass, not a pedigree. And the day will come when the pass expires.
anon-no-more: that’s not the way it was meant to be. Your attitude is that of “Brave New World.” Maybe you should read (or re-read it).
mcquaidla: I don’t think you can know the mind of Jeff Gannon or Tyler Whitney regardless of their class or lack thereof, but one thing is certain and that is that there is nothing “silly” about this discussion.
Gannon (forgiving his past) and Whitney are tragic in their decisions to embrace a lifestyle they both know and protest as wrong in their professed faith (assuming Whitney is a Christian, as Gannon is). It is in their faith, not their politics, where we find the undeniable hypocrisy. And that is tragic.
It was a “put” and he knows it.
There is no homosexual gene and there never will be, there will only be scientists paid to produce a political agenda which has and will continue to usher in anon’s brave new world.
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
(I don’t mind being ridiculed for my convictions. I had a supreme role model).
I think that bears repeating….
There is no homosexuality IN YOUR DNA.
Beth the crusader!
Don’t give up girl.
If you check Tyler Whitney’s Facebook friends list right now, guess who is right up there near the top? Yep - Kyle Bristow. He’s they guy who called for gays to be imprisoned and executed. Guess he made a special exception for his little buddy.
Beth,
Read my comment again. It very little to do with the tiny minds of Gannon and Whitney, and much more to do with the social structure in which we all find ourselves. If you wish to go on believing that our Justice system and our social structure works the same for the working class as it does for the upper class, go right ahead and believe, that you may (mis)understand.
And on the subject of your role model? Unlike you, Beth, your role model, was never mocked for his position on homosexuality. That is because he didn’t have one. He had plenty to say about hypocrisy and mistreating the poor however. Guess he thought that was more important. I’d have to say I agree with him.
mcquaidla,
I don’t know about Whiteny, but I think you are naive to think that Jeff Gannon has tiny mind. He is shrewd, despite the fact that he is divorced from reality.
And I don’t for a minute believe our justice system is fair - I am currently a walking talking poster child for said fact. But I fight for children, not for rights related to sexual practices.
My role model, who was mocked FAR worse than any homosexual has ever been or will ever be, had plenty to say about homosexuality. It fell under this category:
“Four Sins that Cry to Heaven for Vengeance”:
The voluntary murder (Genesis 4:10)
The sin of impurity against nature - sodomy (Genesis 18:20)
Taking advantage of the poor (Exodus 2:23)
Defrauding the workingman of his wages (James 5:4)
It is in my nature to be compassionate to every human, but that doesn’t mean that I feel “one nation under God” should embrace as a protected class a body politic which promotes the sin of impurity against nature. That is a spiritual absolute that transcends any secular dispensations that our civil court system may eventually grant to the GLBT cohesion.
Gannon and Whitney ARE part of that cohesion by their actions, not by their rhetoric.
Beth,you are a blithering idiot.God bless you.
He has.
And you are wrong…I’m not a blithering idiot. I’m just “crazy and delusional.”
God bless you too sweetie (are you paying attention?)
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Beth got cowbell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5×557YR9K2w
beth got cowbell times two!
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What the…
Demise,
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
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