A man admitted to the White House press corps was not only
a. not really part of the press
b. not using his real name
c. possibly an actual prostitute,
but
d. it's not all over the news.
I thought the Plame affair was the ultimate If Clinton Had Pulled Anything LIKE This . . . sort of scandal. What with, you know, it meeting general if possibly not legal standards for treason. But there's nothing quite like the whiff of gaiety to make a story really rev on cable news, and if that gaiety is actually illegal, well, so much the better. I think the prostitute thing is a lot more important than the gay thing, but mostly, I just can't believe how much this is being let alone. One would think that good journalists would be offended on a professional level by something like this, and bad ones would at least work the scandal angle. The NY Post would have sacrificed a thousand puppies for this kind of headline fodder in the Clinton years. I mean, MANWHORE PRESS CORPS kinda has a ring to it, no?
But anything goes if you're on Team Bush.
The next person who uses the phrase "liberal media" and means it should be kneecapped.