Left Turn on Bird Street

Is this professional jealousy or are Right winger realizing the Gannon-Guckert affair could be far-reaching

By Dan Gougherty

Every time the Gannon-Guckert affair seems to be wobbling, the story regains its legs.

First it was the matter of the press credential. Then it was all the Gay porn sites. Then came Ganno-Guckert’s Gay escort service. That was followed by Gannon-Gockert's ties to Whitehouse Press Secretary Scott McClellan. That morphed into accusations about McClellan’s own fondness for cruising the Austin, Texas gay bar scene.

Now one of the most conservative news venues on the internet, The World Net Daily, has jumped on the Gannon-Guckert condemnation bandwagon.

In an editorial posted today, WND founder Joseph Farah condemned Gannon-Guckert saying that “political activists pretending to be journalists never understood – and still do not understand to this day – is that you can't fool everyone.” (Except the mainstream media that is!)

While Farah goes on to be very self congratulatory about WND’s success, this piece is significant in that it is an indicator of how this story is growing and how serious this scandal might become for the Bush administration.

Perhaps WND is simply providing itself some cover should this thing blowup and become a major neo-con scandal. Perhaps it could be a case of professional jealously as Gannon-Guckert easily got press credentials while it took WND two years to get past the bouncer. Hopefully WND’s motivation is that according to Farah, there “mission is to telling the truth – no matter whose ox is gored.”

Whatever their motivation, the conservative voice they have added to this unfolding scandal is signifcant.