Gannon-Guckert Needs a Date for the White House Correspondents Dinner

Posted on February 23, 2005

First, he wasn't going to talk to the media anymore on the advice of his attorneys. Then, he decided he'd rather listen to his publicists than his attorneys and appeared on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 last Friday night for a most entertaining grilling by the unflappable Cooper.

Unable to bear the silence any longer this week, Gannon has once again been interviewed by Editor and Publisher. In a truly surreal interview, Guckert tells Joe Strupp that he wants to go to the White House Correspondents Dinner, is sure someone will invite him, that he thinks he still has a future in journalism, and that the scandal (of him being exposed as a gay, male prostitute who worked for a GOP activist organization who got access to the White House) is the price he's paid to now be taken seriously as a journalist.

Here's the quote from La Guckert himself: "I have every intention of attending this year's [dinner].... "Don't you think I could? I'm sure someone is going to ask me or offer me the opportunity to go. It is a great publicity event."

Guckert is also keeping a journal and is thinking about a book deal. "There are people who are definitely interested in some of my behind-the-scenes work in the press room," said Guckert. You got that right, buddy.