You keep going. Convince the dems that they should make this a major campaign issue. “We will keep the White House Press Corps free from Prostitute journalists” We will put you in charge of vetting the sex lives of the journalists. And when you see the Dems have another crushing defeat you might ask yourself if focusing on trivia and trying to create fantasy conspiracy theories is doing you any good. If Clinton could win while acting like a prostitute do you think that the sex lives of the White House journalists is a matter that anyone other then the DU and Kos people care about. Keep hitting your typepad and keep this joke of a story alive and see how far it gets you.

Nice job revealing how naive you are about basic principles of security. Tax-cheating and prostitution are not just matters of morality, they’re matters of law. Someone with connections to multiple illegal and/or criminal activities is correctly seen as presenting an elevated security risk. Especially when this is someone who is operating under a phony name, who happens to have no prior paid experience as a journalist, whose application for regular press credentials had been formally rejected, and whose nominal “news” organization didn’t even exist at the time he first appeared inside the White House.

“I doubt that the secret servive is trolling porn sites to see if the journalists in the White House are into kinky sex.”

In most states, most forms of kinky sex are not illegal. Prostitution is. Nice job pretending this story is about the former, not the latter. Also, nice job pretending that his phony name wouldn’t be a big red flag, along with the other red flags I mentioned.

Also, nice job not bothering to explain why this guy had to jump through hoops and wait weeks, to get a pass for one day, while Gannon breezed in repeatedly with apparently no background check at all.

Also, nice job pretending that it would have taken the Secret Service more than about ten minutes to find publicly posted information that a few guys in PJs were able to find.

Notice that in our country you can be threatened with arrest and denied a chance to hear the president speak if you happen to be a schoolteacher wearing a t-shirt the government doesn’t like. But if you’re a pseudononymous tax-cheating prostitute (or at best an ex-prostitute), you can hang around the White House for a couple of years, and even get a chance to directly question the president on live national TV, even though you have no prior experience as a paid journalist and even though you’ve been formally denied regular press credentials.

Great country, huh? Thank God freedom is on the march.

“These people are not working for the White House”

Right. Just like Armstrong Williams isn’t working for the White House.

“Except in your case, you don’t even know what you’re alleging has been done”

What I do know is that a pseudononymous tax-cheating prostitute managed to masquerade as a White House journalist for a couple of years. If you don’t think that raises some questions, that’s your problem.

“”what goal was served in by all these fanciful conspiracies?”

Good question. I’m glad you share my curiosity. I think that one way or another we’ll find out.” ó And now we’ve moved into complete Yosemite Sam country: “I don’t know how ya done it, but ya done it!” Except in your case, you don’t even know what you’re alleging has been done that ya don’t know how it was done.

Run along now.

“”what goal was served in by all these fanciful conspiracies?”

Good question. I’m glad you share my curiosity. I think that one way or another we’ll find out.” ó And now we’ve moved into complete Yosemite Sam country: “I don’t know how ya done it, but ya done it!” Except in your case, you don’t even know what you’re alleging has been done that ya don’t know how it was done.

Run along now.

You now belong to the Clinton Death list crowd.The anti-Bush crowd is so desperate for a scandal that they leap on any morsel and inflate it into a conspiracy. The backround checks are done to identify security risks, not morallity risks. I doubt that the secret servive is trolling porn sites to see if the journalists in the White House are into kinky sex. They leave that to you and your friends.These people are not working for the White House, they are being let into the white house press room. The A is true, B is true, therefore x is true style of paranoid UFO conspiracy cults may play well on after midnight radio shows but to us in the real world there are larger concerns to focus on. Keep your digging going and someday you can join the Clinton is a drug lord murderer crowd on the folding tables hawking their Kinko produced books.

Nice job ignoring what I said about the difference between fact and speculation. It’s a fact that a pseudononymous tax-cheating prostitute (or at best an ex-prostitute) with no prior experience as a paid journalist spent two years inside the White House press room, and was called on frequently, even though he had been formally denied regular press credentials and even though his so-called “news” organization didn’t even exist at the time he first started appearing inside the White House.

The idea that there was blackmail is speculation. Did I make that simple enough for you?

Who was being blackmailed?, how was it done?, how long was it going on?. My guess is that you do not have a single bit of hard proof, just mindless fantasy speculation. As far as the Clinton administration the problem some people had with Clinton is that if there was a prostitute running around in the press room he would be getting blow jobs from them, probably without paying. When you have specific info, not amatuer guessing, write it up. Names, dates, amounts. Otherwise you can join the UFO, black helicopter crowd.

Nice job quoting me out of context. I realize for some people it’s a way of life. My point was that this (the fact that he asked softball questions) is one of the least salient aspects of the story. Although I realize you’d like to create the impression that it’s the whole story.

“On even-numbered days, we damn the White House for being sexually blackmailed”

Nice job pretending that you wouldn’t be screaming bloody murder if you found out a prostitute with a phony name had spent two years mysteriously wandering around the White House press room during the Clinton adminstration.

“It’s ALL about using gays to bait the White House and absurd to pretend otherwise.”

It’s true that the gay hypocrisy angle seems to give the story some extra oomph, for some people. But good luck pretending that’s all there is to it. You’ll need it.

“what goal was served in by all these fanciful conspiracies?”

Good question. I’m glad you share my curiosity. I think that one way or another we’ll find out.

“I see this thread has become the open speculation without a shred of evidence thread.”

Unlike some folks around these parts, I think I’m pretty clear about when I’m speculating and when I’m stating something that appears to be proven. The blackmail idea falls into the former category. His work as a prostitute falls into the latter category (despite ignorant denials in various places, including this thread).

“Your misrepresentations of what kind of background check the White House should have been making”

Nice job throwing rocks without being specific and without offering a shred of proof.

“Guckert’s ’shady’ employment history is of marginal relevance to whether or not he posed a physical security threat to the White House.”

The point of the background check is not just in connection with physical security. The fact that he received daily passes for a couple of years tends to indicate that either a background check wasn’t done, or that it was done and someone powerful said he should be there anyway, even though he was a hooker and a tax cheat and had virtually no journalism experience.

Lots of people find this pretty mysterious. If you don’t, that’s your problem.

“That was Talon News’ problem, not the White House – the WH wasn’t hiring him.”

Too bad Talon News didn’t even exist at the time he first showed up in the White House.

Your misrepresentations of what kind of background check the White House should have been making is quite indicative of the value of the rest of your nonsense. Guckert’s “shady” employment history is of marginal relevance to whether or not he posed a physical security threat to the White House. That was Talon News’ problem, not the White House – the WH wasn’t hiring him.

Its long past time for those who keep flogging this meaningless issue to grow up.