wrote:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022105Z.shtml

Hunter S. Thompson

in the same month the planet gets to know the 'journalist' James/Jeff
Guckert/Gannon, Hunter S. Thompson decides to make The Big Bit-Spit and
eject from the planet. This could be sacrilege, and I hope his family
will forgive me, but there is something wretchedly fitting in the
confluence.

Hunter was a drunk and a drug-sucker. He would go to cover an event
and slather himself with LSD. He went to the '72 GOP convention as a
wild-eyed liberal and elbowed his way into the activist bullpen,
grabbing a sign reading 'Garbage Men Demand Equal Pay' before charging
the floor with the Nixon-shouters to howl "Four More Years!" at
John Chancellor.

He wanted to write about motorcycle gangs, so he went out and joined
the worst of them, and got his ass stomped in. And wrote about it.

Amusing, then, that Hunter decides to cash his check in the same week
we learn about James or Jeff Gannon or Guckert or whatever. What would
Thompson have made of this feeble wretch? Of a man who reports on the
White House with a fake name? Who was so clearly the go-to guy for
McClellan or Bush when the questions got too hot? Who copied and pasted
his 'news reports' from boilerplate GOP press releases? Who somehow got
within 20 feet of the President of the United States using a false name
while peddling his wares online as a male prostitute for $200 an hour?

Hunter once wrote in 'The Great Shark Hunt' about walking in on two
Secret Service agents sharing a joint back and forth in a hotel room.
Maybe that's how Gannon/Guckert/Whoever got within pistol range of the
leader of the free world. No other explanation seems to satisfy.

It comes down to this. The Bush crew has been caught in bed with
the proverbial 'live boy.'

Someone in that White House either eased Gannon/Guckert/Whoever through
the 'hard pass' application process, which requires a thorough
background check, or else smoothed the way for him to get day pass
after day pass after day pass.

Some complain that Gannon/Guckert/Whoever is being victimized for his
political views. This misses the point. Someone let a working,
advertising whore into the White House, and then was stupid enough to
let him walk around alive and free after he blew his own cover. That's
the point.

I think the real point is that your therapy didn't 'take'.

Better head on back for another tune up.

dxAce
Michigan
USA