PoMo White House Ho's

And they damned Clinton for liking fresh young girls with big hair.

Maureen Dowd breeches the unbreechable today in The New York Pravda:

I am very impressed with James Guckert, a k a Jeff Gannon.

How often does an enterprising young man, heralded in press reports as both a reporter and a contributor to such sites as Hotmilitarystud.com, Workingboys.net, Militaryescorts .com, MilitaryescortsM4M.com and Meetlocalmen.com, get to question the president of the United States?

Who knew that a hotmilitarystud wanting to meetlocalmen could so easily get to be face2face with the commander in chief?"

Bu$hCo has given justification to the term Media Ho's.

Ms. Dowd- or MoDo to those of us that like to laugh at her the same way she laughs at everyone else- goes into the details you won't hear on FOX:

"Jeff Gannon" was waved into the press room nearly every day for two years as the conservative correspondent for two political Web sites operated by a wealthy Texas Republican. Scott McClellan often called on the pseudoreporter for softball questions.

Howard Kurtz reported in The Washington Post yesterday that although Mr. Guckert had denied launching the provocative Web sites - one described him as " 'military, muscular, masculine and discrete' (sic)" - a Web designer in California said "that he had designed a gay escort site for Gannon and had posted naked pictures of Gannon at the client's request."

And The Wilmington News-Journal in Delaware reported that Mr. Guckert was delinquent in $20,700 in personal income tax from 1991 to 1994."

More details on the Gannon story than MoDo covers here.

The real cause of MoDo's righteous indignation is revealed below:

" At first when I tried to complain about not getting my pass renewed, even though I'd been covering presidents and first ladies since 1986, no one called me back. Finally, when Mr. McClellan replaced Ari Fleischer, he said he'd renew the pass - after a new Secret Service background check that would last several months.

In an era when security concerns are paramount, what kind of Secret Service background check did James Guckert get so he could saunter into the West Wing every day under an assumed name while he was doing full-frontal advertising for stud services for $1,200 a weekend? He used a driver's license that said James Guckert to get into the White House, then, once inside, switched to his alter ego, asking questions as Jeff Gannon. "

Hell hath no fury like a MoDo scorned. But she does get to the meat in the end:

" They flipped TV's in the West Wing and Air Force One to Fox News. They paid conservative columnists handsomely to promote administration programs. Federal agencies distributed packaged "news" video releases with faux anchors so local news outlets would run them. As CNN reported, the Pentagon produces Web sites with "news" articles intended to influence opinion abroad and at home, but you have to look hard for the disclaimer: "Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense." The agencies spent a whopping $88 million spinning reality in 2004, splurging on P.R. contracts.

Even the Nixon White House didn't do anything this creepy. It's worse than hating the press. It's an attempt to reinvent it. "

MoDo is a liberal feminist progressive at heart, and I love her for that.

But like a lot of us, she turned on both Clintons when she realized their hypocrisy, mocked Al Gore, and gave only half-hearted support to Kerry's run.

MoDo may understand the real nature of the game being played in Washington, and the Big Reasons behind it.

So it's hard for me to damn her for damning the relatively good guys, too.

Even though her post modern relativism has given rise to the running joke:
MoDo is a PoMo Mofo fo sho.

I suspect if she'd made up that joke she'd be cattily smirking about it, too.

But damn it all, sometimes the difference between flawed and worse is bigger than the difference between good and better.

If only it were easy to judge, we wouldn't be heading into Endless World War for oil.