It appears that one of my favorite White House scandals may be resurfacing. Apparently the Secret Service has anounced that there are questions about the presence of Gannon/Guckert in the White House on numerous occasions. There are times when he signed in but didn't sign out, times when he signed out but hadn't signed in, times when he was present even though there was no press conference, and other times when no one seems to know why he was there. Why this is coming up now I have no idea. I find it strange that these questions were raised over a year ago and then seemingly disappeared until now (see morialekafa 2/19/05, 2/24/05, 3/08/05, 4/24/05). Is it not a fascinating mystery? Here is a guy with no real Press credentials who attended routine Press Conferences for months, asked softball questions at awkward moments, apparently had the run of the White House at times, and was at the same time a known male prostitute. Was there no connection between his prostitution and his strange employment? Was the Secret Service simply unaware of his background? Did they even bother to check? Who sponsored him? Who enabled him to get passes into the White House. What was he doing there when there was no Press Conference? How in the hell did something like this happen? I had assumed that like all scandals involving this Administration this one would just disappear like the rest but perhaps not. I have to agree that compared to other scandals of this Administration this one is basically small potatoes. Perhaps I am just too voyeuristic but I really would like to know what this is all about.
Aren't you relieved to know that President Bush leaked classified information because it was in the public interest to know that something that was not true was true? This is surely the most dishonest, corrupt, incompetent, disgusting Administration in American History. But they certainly have chutzpa (in fact, I think they only pretend to have it as nothing about them is genuine or honest in any way).
I have always found advertising of any kind to be unutterably stupid, and those who make their living at it the scum of the business world. But they have now found an ad that pushes their contempt for consumers about as far as even theoretically possible. This is an ad for mortgage loans. A young woman says she has taken out a mortgage on her house to pay off her credit cards - and now she is pleased that she is "out of debt."
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Even though I work as a marketing director (and therefore do a little "scum of the business world" advertising-related work), I still like your blog. I went back and read your first few posts. Seems little has changed with the issues you brought up back then. In fact, much of what you mentioned back in 2004 has only gotten worse. Who'd have imagined that?!
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