Jeff Gannon
Born in 1957, Jeff Gannon grew up to have a great job with the White House Press corps, which gave him a reputable image of having a great career. He secretly lived a double life as a male escort nicknamed “Bulldog”. He had a bald shaved head, stood over six feet tall, and had an athletic build. He mostly catered to male clients who were looking for a “military” man, even though he never actually served in any of the U.S. armed forces.
After a while, fellow members of the press began to think it was strange that Jeff Gannon was allowed to get into the press conferences with President George W. Bush even though he had very few legitimate credentials. He said that he worked for “Talon News” and “GOPUSA”, which were two publications that no one had heard of before. Usually, the only journalists allowed at these press conferences were from the biggest papers in the country, like The New York Times and the Washington Post. Both websites were registered to a man named Bobby Eberle, who lived in Texas. It turns out that the articles that were written by Jeff Gannon for these publications were literally just copied and pasted from the official White House press releases, without any effort to write original content. It turns out that Eberle was a family friend of the Bushes, which is the only reason why his blog was allowed to attend the press conferences.
The rest of the press staff at the White House were shocked at the fact that someone could get press credentials for blogs that no one had ever heard of before. They believed he was possibly getting special treatment from someone working on the White House staff. His cover was officially blown when he asked the president a very unprofessional question: “How are you going to work with Senate Democrats when they have so clearly divorced themselves from reality?”
One of the number one rules of journalism is to remain unbiased when asking questions during a press conference, even if you work for a publication that leans far left or right. So that turned a lot of heads. On top of showing that he was clearly biased towards the right, his question was also just plain wrong and uncalled for in the context of the press conference. They began to look deeper into his professional background. The other journalists in the press corps exposed his life as an escort in Washington DC, and even found fully nude photos of him online. One of the most ironic parts of the whole story was that Jeff Gannon often wrote for Republicans, and had homophobic undertones in his professional life, when he was actually sleeping with men as “Bulldog”.
After the truth about his double life was exposed, Gannon started getting a lot of hate and harassment, along with so many people calling him a hypocrite for siding with conservatives. He had to quit his job. He eventually published a book called The Great Media War. Today, Talon News and GOPUSA no longer exist, and it would seem that they were only invented to allow Jeff Gannon to have a front for letting himself in to these press conferences.