More on George W. Bush’s “Sanctity of Marriage” gay marriage constitutional ban, from investigative reporter Wayne Madsen.

I tried to warn people about this as long ago as April 1, 2005, in an archive now referred to as Gannongate. Cover your children’s eyes when reading this. It contains explicit sexual content.

George W. Bush’s marital problems have just taken another turn for the worse. Madsen first reported June 2 that Bush had an affiar with Condi and Laura moved to the Mayflower Hotel.

Then, on June 4, he reported that Bush has not only engaged in an extra-marital affair with a member of the opposite sex who is also a senior member of his Cabinet, but also a member of the same sex.

In his Wayne Madsen Report online, he says he received the following release from Leola McConnell, a Democratic candidate for Governor of Nevada and a former professional dominatrix.

On President Bush’s speech to the nation Monday: “If he doesn’t say he’s a gay American or at the least a bisexual one then he shouldn’t be making one at all,” McConnell said. “And the notion that it would be in regards to writing bigotry into our nation’s Constitution is reprehensible.

“Too bad it isn’t me doing the rebuttal because in 1984, I watched him perform (with the enthusiasm of homosexual male who had done this many times before) a homosexual act on another man, namely Victor Ashe. Victor Ashe is the current Ambassador to the nation of Poland (former Mayor of Knoxville, Tenn.) who should also come out like former Governor McGreevey of New Jersey and admit to being a gay American.

“Other homo-erotic acts were also performed by then private citizen George Bush because I performed one of them on him personally,” she said.

“I am the woman this website bushssecretlifein84.tripod.com speaks of that has been posted on the (N)et nearly two years now. None of this would be the business of anyone but President Bush’s little ruse to save his failed presidency by using DOMA [Defense of Marriage Act] to divide Americans one from the other has to be exposed as the act of a desperate closeted homosexual man.

“The only crime in being GLBT is in the hiding. The President needs to come clean with the American people about his own past sexual behavior before he tries to besmirch the humanity of people in search of sincerely committing to the same bonds of matrimony he’s afforded. He violated his own vows of monogamy having a homosexual affair with a long time family friend of whom his wife had no knowledge. His hypocrisy seems to know no bounds.

“I had planned to run for governor of Nevada without going into any of this but his planned nationally televised address to the nation makes it necessary for me to address his attempt at division in as public a way as he picked to try this Bushification of reality regarding same sex marriages.”

Madsen adds: The editor was asked what sort of relationship George W. Bush could be having with Condoleezza Rice? My reply was that it was likely aberrant and involved something like the relationship King Edward VIII had with Wallis Simpson, who was rumored to have had androgen insensitivity syndrome.

Wayne Madsen is an investigative journalist, nationally distributed columnist, and author who has covered Washington, DC, politics, national security, and intelligence issues since 1994. He has written for The Village Voice, The Progressive, CAQ, Counterpunch, and the Intelligence Newsletter (based in Paris). Madsen is the author of Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa 1993-1999, co-author of America’s Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II, and the forthcoming Jaded Tasks: Big Oil, Black Ops and Brass Plates. Madsen is also the author of The Handbook of Personal Data Protection (London: Macmillan, 1992), an acclaimed reference book on international data protection law.

Madsen is a former U.S. Naval officer who was assigned to the National Security Agency during the Reagan administration. He also has some twenty years experience in computer security and data privacy. He has also worked for the Naval Data Automation Command, Department of State, RCA Corporation, and Computer Sciences Corporation.

Believe . . . or not!

Sitting up late blogging and watching C-SPAN, I managed to catch the speech by Bill Moyers taking on the media and the government at the conference put on by a non-profit group called Free Press, “working to involve the public in media policymaking and to craft policies for more democratic media,” according to its mission statement.

I may as well publish my own book on the press now, since the Newsweek debacle will make it even harder to do or sell any meaningful investigative journalism for some time to come.

Meanwhile, the MSM thinks it can stop the bleeding circulation numbers and the plummeting public trust in public opinion polls by covering more church. What a joke.

At least there’s one newsman on TV willing to take on a sycophant like Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman who let gay male prostitute Jeff Gannon in the press room and who is now blaming Newsweek for deaths in the Middle East and diminishing America’s reputation in the world. I think someone needs to look in the damn mirror.

Keith Olbermann is calling on McClellan to resign. It won’t happen, of course, but at least someone has the guts to say it out loud in front of a camera.

Is the American press as we know it doomed - along with 229 years of experimentation with Democracy?

Let us all now bow down and give praise to famous men, right? Shouldn’t we all just be grateful for the crumbs they throw us?

I already know one real reporter who recently had to take a job as a grocery store checkout clerk just to feed her family. We’ll all be working for Wal-Mart soon - if a lot of people don’t by dog stand up and protest the direction we are headed.

It’s just a damn good thing the Republican Party decided a long time ago that presidential terms should be limited to two in the wake of FDR’s four terms during The Depression and World War II. Otherwise, the organized religious forces in this country might just anoint George W. Bush king for life and we could kiss this great experiment in Democracy good bye.

The good news is, there will be more elections in 2006 and 2008. There is some chance that the libertarian independents might just split from the religious conservatives and help the pendulum to swing back and allow a few more Democrats back into power.

Otherwise, dear friends, Hunter S. Thompson may prove right to lament the death of the American Dream. It sure seems to be slipping away these days. It’s hard to even muster a decent “ho, ho.”

Carol Towarnicky, the chief editorial writer of the Philadelphia Daily News, goes after her own kind in the press for ignoring the Gannongate scandal. Since most of you are not likely registered for the Daily News Web site, here’s the column. It is a rare instance of the press criticizing the press.

IF A REPORTER who doubled as a gay hooker had visited the Clinton White House nearly 200 times, think it would have made the news?

If “Jeff Gannon”/James D. Guckert had been unveiled, so to speak, as a liberal imposter who lobbed softball questions at Clinton administration press briefings, he would be as infamous as Michael Schiavo.

And if 39 of those White House visits were mysteriously unrelated to his “reporting” duties, imagine what innuendoes would be issuing forth from Planet Limbaugh. Imagine the organized phone call campaign demanding newspapers and TV stations report the story.

But Gannon/Guckert isn’t being unveiled or innuendoed or even blipped on media radar screens, even among liberals . . . .

Chalk one up to the press; two to the blogosphere.
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Secret Service Records Show Gannon Spent Nights in the White House

In what is unlikely to stem the controversy surrounding disgraced White House correspondent James Guckert/Jeff Gannon, the Secret Service has furnished logs of the writer’s access to the White House after requests by two Democratic members of Congress.

Raw Story reports that on some days, the records show that the conservative male prostitute checked in but was never processed out. The records also show that he signed out on days when he didn’t sign in.

Did Gannon spend the night in the White House on a number of occassions? He’s now not answering questions about it and the Secret Service is also refusing to comment further.

We told you there was more to this story. Where is the big media on such an obvious security breach?

Update: While I was out of town on the run to the beach and Jazzfest, the AP also briefly reported this story.

Did you see it in your local newspaper or on the local TV news?

Where are the New York Times and Washington Post?