File under: “I’m Always the Last to Know”
Remember a couple of weeks ago at that press conference when a “reporter” asked W how he was planning to garner bipartisan support for Social Security reform when, as the reporter put it, Democrats had “divorced themselves from reality”? It made, like, national news because it was so obvious that this guy was a shill for the Bush administration? My gay-lover-on-the-DL Jon Stewart even did a piece on it? Remember?
Well, even if you don’t, several folks did, and luckily for us, they did some snooping. Turns out that until recently (May of 2003), this reporter, Jeff Gannon (née James Guckert), may have had a lucrative hobby as a male prostitute. I can only hope that his probings in the boudoir were more convincing than those of the press room.
And yes, I know that thanks to the boyfriend and his colleagues and every other media hound in the world, this is old, old news, but hey, ask anybody: I’m always late to the party.
UPDATE: Maureen Dowd has now joined the fray, as well as my hero, Frank Rich!
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