"Old Jewish Men Confused"
[NYTimes] Scott McClellan, the press secretary to President Bush, called on you and allowed you to ask questions on a nearly daily basis. What, exactly, is your relationship with him?
[Jeff Gannon] I was just another guy in the press room. Did I try to curry favor with him? Sure. When he got married, I left a wedding card for him in the press office. People are saying this proves there is some link. But as Einstein said, "Sometimes a wedding card is just a wedding card."
[NYTimes] You mean like "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"? That wasn't Einstein. That was Freud.
[Gannon] Oh, Freud. O.K. I got my old Jewish men confused.
[From "Blogged Down: Questions for Jeff Gannon", interview by Deborah Solomon from the New York Times.]
The Gannon Affair continues to sputter along, largely through the efforts of Gannon himself. Unfortunately, an air of pathos has overtaken him, as he tries to capitalize on a situation that he mistakenly believes is all about him when in fact he's much more akin to an algebraic variable used in a much larger equation, in whose ultimate solution he has no part.
Plus,
[NYTimes] Do you find it hard to be a gay conservative in this country in light of the right-wing hostility to gay rights?
[Gannon] I prefer that to be a private issue. I am more interested in national defense, taxation and immigration than in personal issues. I would like people's personal lives to be behind the barrier once again, like they used to be.
he'd feel much, much better if he'd deal more honestly and maturely with his feelings about being gay, and put behind him this naive dreaming that things would be much better if only he could return to his closet.
Gay conservatives are so tiresome when they start apologizing by saying they feel there are more important things than "personal issues".
In: All, Common-Place Book, Raised Eyebrows Dept., Splenetics