They Planted a Gay Whore in Bush's Press Conferences

[ProSense]

They Planted a Gay Whore in Bush's Press Conferences

by emptywheel

Cross-posted from http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/

I'm going to get to what it means that the AP--purportedly the most neutral source of "news" out there--is harping on the Nico Pitney question. But first, check out what this "news" entity claims in paragraph nine of their story--presumably to meet the AP's requirement for false equivalency.

Grumblings about favored reporters are not unique to the Obama White House. There were suspicions — never proved — that President George W. Bush's press operations often planted friendly questions in his news conferences.

Never proved?!?!

They not only planted friendly questions in their news conferences, they brought in their very own gay prostitute to ask those questions. Not to mention paying people like Armstrong Williams to push their policies and flying their favorite Generals around so they'd pitch the Administration line on teevee.

But in the false equivalency moral universe of the AP, allowing a reporter who has announced he's going to solicit questions from Iranians directly to pose one of those questions is the big scandal.

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Also worth reading:

My Head Almost Exploded.

The Sanford E-mails

Ah, Republican family values.



Edited to add link.

[joeybee12]

1. Now, now, jeffrey said he wasn't gay...

...he just had sex with men.

[ProSense]

2. Not quite.

You forgot to add: for money.

[joeybee12]

3. Oh yeah...although technically his ad said "erotic massages"...

...certainly not prostitution or sex apparently.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. That's old news.

We've moved beyond that.

We're looking forward, not looking back.





{If I've committed any copyright infringements here, the RNC can just go ahead and f***ing sue me!}

[RollWithIt]

5. The GOP is so dumb, our Pushback stories are much bigger than their complaints

I would hate to be one of their PR guys. What a mess.

[Divine Discontent]

6. they have so many scandals, that there's job security in the PR dept at least! eom