Thursday, February 17, 2005
this should dominate late-night talk show monologues for the next decade or so
We don’t get into politics much here, but not because we don’t care. We just want to keep it light and breezy. We used to have all the typical political links over to the right, but we took ‘em down a few months ago. That shit’s better left for more serious-minded and astute observers, like our friends at Oceanchum, or this guy. But occasionally we feel the need to broach the subject, and please consider it to now be duly broached.
So let’s get this straight. A male prostitute, with no journalism experience, working for an obscure website run by Texas GOP operatives, gets credentialed, under an assumed name, for almost two years, to White House press conferences and briefings, wherein he asks biased questions that misstate and mischaracterize Democrat positions and speeches, and somehow gains access to classified CIA documents. But now pretty much no-one in the professional press will touch this story. Meanwhile, Howard Dean tells an unfunny, but fundamentally accurate, joke about the Republican Party, and I get to hear about Ken Mehlman accusing him of racism on my morning newscast and in my free daily commuter tabloid.
Do the White House and the RNC have incriminating photographs of every single member of the legitimate press? Or have they been dishing that cash out to more than just a few unethical shills?
(I started writing this on the train this morning, and now I see that the central point may no longer be valid. Apparently The Today Show and the New York Times both covered the Gannon / Guckert deal today. I'm going to post this anyhow, because the idea of a gay escort hustling his way into the White House is actually almost kind of awesome. I mean, kind of scary, in terms of security and stuff, but this guy should have one hell of a memoir, eventually. For more information, including stuff you probably shouldn't be looking at in the office, go to americablog.org, the folks who blew this wide open.)
We don’t get into politics much here, but not because we don’t care. We just want to keep it light and breezy. We used to have all the typical political links over to the right, but we took ‘em down a few months ago. That shit’s better left for more serious-minded and astute observers, like our friends at Oceanchum, or this guy. But occasionally we feel the need to broach the subject, and please consider it to now be duly broached.
So let’s get this straight. A male prostitute, with no journalism experience, working for an obscure website run by Texas GOP operatives, gets credentialed, under an assumed name, for almost two years, to White House press conferences and briefings, wherein he asks biased questions that misstate and mischaracterize Democrat positions and speeches, and somehow gains access to classified CIA documents. But now pretty much no-one in the professional press will touch this story. Meanwhile, Howard Dean tells an unfunny, but fundamentally accurate, joke about the Republican Party, and I get to hear about Ken Mehlman accusing him of racism on my morning newscast and in my free daily commuter tabloid.
Do the White House and the RNC have incriminating photographs of every single member of the legitimate press? Or have they been dishing that cash out to more than just a few unethical shills?
(I started writing this on the train this morning, and now I see that the central point may no longer be valid. Apparently The Today Show and the New York Times both covered the Gannon / Guckert deal today. I'm going to post this anyhow, because the idea of a gay escort hustling his way into the White House is actually almost kind of awesome. I mean, kind of scary, in terms of security and stuff, but this guy should have one hell of a memoir, eventually. For more information, including stuff you probably shouldn't be looking at in the office, go to americablog.org, the folks who blew this wide open.)
