Too Rich

I've been avoiding politics and national security and foreign policy for months now on this 'blog, but the Jeff Gannon stuff is simply too much fun to ignore. Some guy who specializes in macho gay porn/escort businesses ends up hired to lob softball questions at Bush as a member of the White House Press Corps, and gets credentialed because he works for a news agency owned and funded by Texas Republicans?

Oh, Christ--this Administration's shenanigans actually are worse than Watergate. I don't care about the gay porn or prostitution (in fact those are the coolest aspects of this entire sordid tale); what's at issue here is the blatant hypocrisy of these right-wing religious conservatives, who, while claiming that a pre-election furor over potential gay civil rights got them their 'mandate,' are simultaneously working under the table with Mr. "Gannon" of all people. Curiouser and curiouser.