I just had an email from some folks who have been away and don't know how this all got started. For those who are playing catch-up on the news, I am providing a link to my column about "The Question", Touching American Journalism's Third Rail.
Tom Bevan has an [sic] great piece at Real Clear Politics, PLAYING HARDBALL WITH MAUREEN DOWD, in which he makes some good points about this gal who probably needs a bit of the old Jeff Gannon to relieve some of that pent up whatever.(1) He also describes the media bubble that protected John Kerry from pesky questions like those about releasing his entire military record until after the election.(2) This is the same bubble that keeps Sen. Hillary Clinton from having to reconcile her statements about the economy and Social Security that I so elegantly framed in "The Question."(3)
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(1) The old Jeff Gannon was known to have relieved some of that "pent up whatever" except he didn't do it on behalf of female clients, or is Jeff confessing here to something we didn't know about before? That there was a little AC in DC too?
(2) Jeff Gannon is perhaps the last person on earth with credibility to talk about media bubbles, having been outed as a (barely) functioning part of the worst one yet.
(3) Jeff Gannon, whose maiden name was James Guckert, and whose piss was digitally shared with thousands of potential clients, is unqualified to refer to anything he ever did as "elegant."
Sorry, Jeff. You're looking increasingly desperate. Turn the tables on them and tell us all the details of how you managed to get into the White House briefing room to shill for a party that will let you do its dirtiest work — in public and in private — but never accept you as a human being.
