Jeff Gannon, spokesman for the host, the International Bible Reading Association.

[DearAbby]

Dozens of Heads Were Bowed

By Dana Milbank
Friday, May 4, 2007; A02



Let us pray.

Let us pray that, on next year's National Day of Prayer, there is better attendance at the "Bible Reading Marathon" on the West Front of the Capitol.

Organizers put out 600 folding chairs on the lawn -- the spot where presidents are inaugurated -- and set up a huge stage with powerful amplifiers. But at 9:30 a.m. yesterday, not one of the 600 seats was occupied. By 11 a.m., as a woman read a passage from Revelations, attendance had grown -- to four people. Finally, at 1 p.m., 37 of the 600 seats were occupied, though many of those people were tourists eating lunch.

Where was everybody?

"This isn't that kind of event," explained Jeff Gannon, spokesman for the host, the International Bible Reading Association. Gannon, actually a pseudonym for James Guckert, had earned fame in 2005 representing a conservative Web site at White House briefings until it was revealed that he posted nude pictures of himself on the Web to offer his services as a $200-an-hour gay escort.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/03/AR2007050302170_pf.html

Color me shocked :rofl:

[Donnachaidh]

1. Wonder if he's met up with Ted Haggerd yet?

Made for each other, those two. :rofl:

[DearAbby]

2. I wonder how many porta potties

did they have?

[Fridays Child]

3. Talk about reinventing yourself. Gannon is incredible.

Whew!

[Monk06]

5. Seems Gannon can't break the prostitution habit. Is he incapable of embarrassment?

[Lars39]

7. He's found a new venue to advertize his services.

:D

[Monk06]

9. Just to add to the hilarity. National Bible reading marathon. This years theme, Man hos for Christ

[Monk06]

4. Begin a Bible reading marathon by reading the last chapter. What, let's skip the boring bits....

and go straight to Armageddon and the Rapture
after party?

[brucefan]

6. "This isn't that kind of event."

Then why the 600 folding chairs?:shrug:

[intheflow]

11. It isn't "that kind of event..."

now. Now that no one has come.

It was meant to be that kind of event when they planned it, but now they see it isn't that kind of event at all. :crazy:

[DearAbby]

8. When I think of a Model Christian to be a Spokesperson for....

I see Jeff Gannon.....::koolaid dazed look:::


^^^^^^^^^^
Hypocrisy at it's best.

[TomInTib]

10. I particularly liked this sentence...

"Let us pray for the power to understand how Gannon made his way from HotMilitaryStud.com to the International Bible Reading Association."

and this:

"Let us pray, as well, for the beleaguered practitioners of Christian street theater, for they deserve greater press coverage.

The Rev. Patrick Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition scheduled a "National Day of Prayer observance" and news conference for 3 p.m. yesterday in front of the Supreme Court. Gannon, wearing a Marines baseball cap, arrived to help with the press outreach.

But the event attracted only one photographer (from the Washington Times), one reporter (author of the Washington Sketch) and not a single television camera. The participants themselves were late, and only eight showed up."

[CrazyOrangeCat]

12. He may find it a tougher gig . . .

than blowing the preznit.

[DearAbby]

13. Maybe his "services"

was his unique way of bringing sinners to Christ? It's pretty tough to believe Gannon being pious...maybe its just me.

:shrug:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

14. And why, Dana, should we pray for such

a thing?

I pray they cancel the thing. How's that?