[richlevy]

How this happened is a mystery that has yet to be solved. "Jeff" has now quit Talon News not because he and it have been exposed as fakes but because of other embarrassing blogosphere revelations linking him to sites like hotmilitarystud.com and to an apparently promising career as an X-rated $200-per-hour "escort." If Mr. Guckert, the author of Talon News exclusives like "Kerry Could Become First Gay President," is yet another link in the boundless network of homophobic Republican closet cases, that's not without interest. But it shouldn't distract from the real question - that is, the real news - of how this fake newsman might be connected to a White House propaganda machine that grows curiouser by the day. Though Mr. McClellan told Editor & Publisher magazine that he didn't know until recently that Mr. Guckert was using an alias, Bruce Bartlett, a White House veteran of the Reagan-Bush I era, wrote on the nonpartisan journalism Web site Romenesko, that "if Gannon was using an alias, the White House staff had to be involved in maintaining his cover." (Otherwise, it would be a rather amazing post-9/11 security breach.)

Well, the good news is that at least Bush believes in "Don't ask, don't tell". :p

So far, the conservative talking-heads consist of a homophobic gay male escort, an Asian-American apologist for Japanese internments, various 'family-focused' multiple divorcees.

It's nice to know that all Osama Bin Laden has to do to get access to the White House is shave his beard and get press credentials from GOP-TV. Has the White House become so starved for ass-kissing press willing to suspend disbelief that they are trolling West Hollywood for recruits?