Still waiting

I am still waiting for Gannongate to make it big in the pages or screens of the major media. This is a truly big story, too big to allow the media to ignore or bury it like they have so many other scandals. This puts Monica and Watergate into small time scandals. We still have no explanation from the White House as to how and why Gannon/Guckert wss given repeated press passes. Did he even apply or was he just shoehorned in by someone in authority? Who vouched for him? Why? These are especially pertinent questions in that he had previously been denied such passes elewhere. If someone like Gannon/Guckart can get in so easily why couldn't someone else, someone with even more evil motives? Are reporters routinely searched for weapons? Was Gannon/Guckert sleeping with someone with the authority to get him a pass? Was there blackmail involved? We already know that the White House has lied about not knowing Eberle and also lied about Gannon. What else are they lying about now? What I have heard from Gannon so far it does not appear to me that he smart enough to have pulled this off by himself. Someone helped him. Who? Who was paying him? Why? How long? What other sneaky jobs did he engage in besides attacking Daschle? Come on, we have to find out what gives here. Keep it going until the media simply cannot ignore it any longer.

I have just finished Imperial Hubris and found it both fascinating and informative. I believe the author really knows what he is talking about and makes perfect sense of what might be done about it - even though I think there is no hope that his suggestions will be followed. This is not a book to be taken lightly. Of courwe anonymous is a conservative Republican, and his suggestion that we simply murder all the Muslims we can find to defend ourselves is a bit hard to take. I confess to being taken aback by his comment that Reagan was "a good a great man." This strikes me as about as far from the truth as one can get. But you should read it, it is most enlightening.