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.

Earlier: GOP’s Tom Tancredo Has an 18-Year-Old Pocket Gay

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Noted gay advice columnist Dan Savage weighs in this week on the rather strange case of 18-year-old Tyler Whitney, a self-professed up-and-coming conservative activist who currently works as a webmaster for GOP antigay presidential candidate, Tom Tancredo. Whitney also reportedly leads an antigay political group on his college campus and has carried a “Go Back in the Closet!” sign at an antigay protest.

Recently, Between the Lines, a gay newspaper in Michigan (who knew they had one?), published a story that noted Whitney has told some friends that he is gay, which was then picked up by loads of national gay bloggers, including Mike Rogers, the gay editor of BlogActive, a blog that’s outed at least two dozen high-ranking political figures since 2004.

Bay Buchanan, an adviser to Tancredo, has said that Whitney’s “sexual preference is a personal matter” and that it should have “nothing to do with the campaign.”

But Savage disagrees:

“Sorry, Bay, but gay-bashing thugs—people like you, your horrible brother Pat, your vile candidate—can’t have it both ways. If Whitney’s sexual preference is a personal matter, then so is mine. If Whitney’s sexual preference shouldn’t have anything to do with the campaign, then neither should mine—nor should the sexual preference of any other American. But so long as the GOP attacks gay Americans, Whitney’s sexuality—and his hypocrisy—has everything to do with the campaign.”

Hmmmmm. Hypocrisy among politicos. Now where have we heard about that before?

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