'Just noticed this, posted two days ago by Wonkette:
"We have it on semi-reliable authority that the Bush administration's next attempt to discount Richard Clarke's credibility will consist of alleging that he's a big gay. We have a little trouble figuring out how being gay makes you unable to assess threats to a country's national security -- after all, we trust them to tell us what to wear.
Clever and coy, yes, as an Inside-the-Beltway Gossip Maven should be, BUT:
1. At least in the olden days, being a closeted homosexual made a person vulnerable to blackmail, dontchaknow.
2. We don't buy the CW that the citizenry is made up of passive vessels waiting to be filled with the goods on Clarke via Bush administration attempts to discount his credibility. In fact, we and all those OTHER smart people blogging their hearts out for Bush picked up on Clarke's anti-Bush agenda from the start, without any help from our friends in the Bush administration. Concession: CW may apply to the great unwashed "swing voter."
3. We agree with InstaPundit's prediction that "Now that it's obvious that this story isn't moving the polls against Bush, it will fade from the radar screen."
4. If the rumor IS true, you saw it here first: We blogged last Thursday about a possible closet skeleton the Clinton Machine might be holding over Clarke's head: "You remember the hundreds of sensitive FBI background files on previous White House employees that 'accidently' turned up in the Clinton White House and may or may not have been inadvertently downloaded into Hillary's computer?"
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