Eddie has suggested that writing about Bush's antics are increasingly like teaching a cat to sing. It frustrates me, and annoyes the cat. So I have not been posting - I have been a good boy.
But if you haven't been following the Jeff Gannon story you have missed the fun.
And, of course, it wasn't picked up until it turned out there was a gay-prostitute angle. So wait, let me understand this. The White House gives daily press passes to avoid a background check to a fake news reported. The news reporter asks softball questions ("How do you deal with members of the party that seem removed from reality?"). Nothing. Said "reporter" turns out to leak NATIONAL SECURITY information out. Nothing. Said reporter turns out to be (not been - be) a male prostitue. News.
Well, once it turns out that he was a male prostitute he is no longer a conservative. No, now "Anybody who publishes sexually explicit photos of himself on a website in hopes of making money as a hooker is no conservative. Not in this lifetime. Not on this planet. The person in those photos is a pig and a pervert. "
And, in my favorite set of comments, there are those conservatives suggesting that we leave Jeff (whose real name is James) private life out of it. NewsFlash. Private is getting a hummer from an intern in the Oval Office. Professional is your job. If you advertise that your job is having sex with men, and verbally abusing them - and you demand payment by the hour. Well that is not only illigeal - it is your profession. Not your "private life". "Private life" is when someone does that to you.
FYI- what main-stream media finally broke the story. ABC? NBC? Fox "News"? Ummm... no. Comedy Central's the Daily Show.
Updated by Scooter.
Here is the Presidential news conference where Jeff asked his question. The original transcript where the President says "Jeff?" is editted out, but you can find it if you search on his question: "Q Thank you. Senate Democratic leaders have painted a very bleak picture of the U.S. economy. Harry Reid was talking about soup lines, and Hillary Clinton was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse.(Note from Scott - actually this is a lie. Harry Reid never discussed soup kitchens, and Hillary Clinton never said the economy was on the verge of collapse - but let's not let a little truth ever come out.) Yet, in the same breath, they say that Social Security is rock-solid and there's no crisis there. How are you going to work -- you said you're going to reach out to these people -- how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality? "