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.
