Jeff Gannon watch

Will the latest administration scandal have a little more velcro than the previous 40 or so? Crank up the volume.

Via Light Up the Darkness I see that

Rep. Louise M. Slaughter (NY-28), long time champion of media reform and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Rules, sent a letter to President George W. Bush today asking him to explain how discredited "reporter" Jeff Gannon was credentialed as a member of the legitimate media by the White House.

As Eric Boehlert writes so succinctly in today's Salon column

Fake news, fake reporter, Why was a partisan hack, using an alias and with no journalism background, given repeated access to daily White House press briefings?

Light Up the Darkness has also cleverly turned up a Google cache of a Talon News article linking "Mr. Gannon" to the Valerie Plame leak investigation.

And as if that were not enough, let's tie this whole mindblowing mess up with a great big bow, let's check in with The New York Daily News:

Bush press pal quits over gay prostie link

BY HELEN KENNEDY
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON - A conservative ringer who was given a press pass to the White House and lobbed softball questions at President Bush quit yesterday after left-leaning Internet bloggers discovered possible ties to gay prostitution.

What is it with the wingers' gay obsession?

And can anyone say "third-rate burglary"?