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Hmm, if JimJeff wasn't making his living from being the Washington Bureau Chief for Talon News, what WAS his main source of income? ...Did he get his money from the same source that gave him the allegedly classified document regarding Valerie Plame? Could it have been a consortium of rich Texas Republicans who were doing favors for the President in the hopes of getting some favors in return? Isn't this the kind of thing the reason that background checks are required for members of the White House press corps? Shouldn't the FBI or the Secret Service or somebody be checking into this breech of procedure?And here's a second money quote for those of you too lazy or too partisan to click here
Anyway, it's obvious that SOMEBODY at the White House bent the rules for JimJeff to give him a daily pass for years at a time. Somebody broke the rules by giving him his pass not under his real name. Somebody got him into the President's press conference, and got him a great assigned seat. Was it Scott McClellan? Probably not. But he damn well should know who it was (and does, IMHO).
This story isn't about liberals picking on Jim because he's a conservative in a world of leftists, it's about something that's gone wrong at the White House, something inimical to that nice, independent relationship between the White House and the press that the President talked about. ..this is a big deal, despite what some people might say.
