Some days the news is just too weird to comprehend. CNN and others are reporting that:

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A New York congresswoman asked the White House to explain Wednesday why a man who worked for a news Web site owned by a GOP activist was able to obtain White House press credentials under an assumed name.

James Guckert, who reported from the White House for the Talon News Service under the name "Jeff Gannon," announced he was quitting the business "in consideration of the welfare of me and my family."

Liberal blogs are reporting that Guckert has a pretty interesting background. AMERICAblog reports:

The blogosphere has dug up some really really really creepy stuff about that pseudo-reporter with the pseudonym who the White House lets ask all the softball questions about their briefings. His pseudonym is Jeff Gannon, and well, the folks at DailyKos, and Eschaton, have been doing a little digging around on him.

It's a long and sordid tale, but let me give it to you in a nutshell. Mr. Gannon's home page is JeffGannon.com. Well, JeffGannon.com is owned by a person and company that owns the following Web addresses as well:

Hotmilitarystud.com

Militaryescorts.com

Militaryescortsm4m.com

And for those of you who are really straight or really clueless, "m4m" is a gay online term for men who are looking to have sex with other men, and "escort" means prostitute. And being a military escort is also against the Uniform Code of Military Justice in at least two different ways, if not more.

Now, I'm not one to judge how folks like to get their jollies (assuming no children are involved and it's consensual), but then again, I don't suck up to the family values agenda like Mr. Gannon does. I've been through Gannon's archives, and it's a horrendous accumulation of religious right suck-up pieces on gay issues.

Over the years Gannon has written numerous articles condemning gays and lesbians and touting the White House’s anti-gay policies.

Then there is this from DailyKos:

White House-credentialed fake news reporter "Jeff Gannon" from fake news agency "Talon News" was cited by the Washington Post as having the only access to an internal CIA memo that named Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as a covert CIA agent. Gannon, in a question posed to Wilson in an October 2003 interview, referred to the memo (to which no other news outlet had access, according to the Post). Gannon subsequently has been subpoenaed by the federal grand jury looking into the Plame outing.

So why did the White House allow a man with a fake name to receive press credentials? What were the security issues involved?  Did they know this man had ties to the Texas GOP (the House and Senate figured it out easily enough)? Did they know about his business dealings?  Why did this guy have access to top secret information on CIA employees?  Was this guy getting paid by the Bush White House as we now know several other reporters were to obtain better news coverage?

And why isn't the media all over this?  Can you imagine how FOX News would react if a gay porn operator had obtained access to the Clinton White House and had ties to the Democratic Party?