Well, yes and no. Greg Beato at Wonkette kinda beat me to it this morning by reporting that Jim/Jeff will be appearing tonight on PaxTv's Lie Detector show, but don't think it'll be worth watching. If you go to their web site, you'll see the following:
Was “Jeff Ganon” [sic] fed questions by the Bush administration to use as talking points at White House briefings or just a man trying to overcome his past and pursue a career as a journalist?So here's how to read between those lines: Jeff, presumably, will take the lie detector test to answer the question "Were you hired by the White House to ask easy questions?" Um, who cares? Only the most hardened conspiracy theorists really believed that to start with. Don't expect Lie Detector to ask Jim/Jeff if he used to be a hooker, because they won't, and even if they did, Gannon/Guckert would simply not answer the question.
And there's Jeffy's problem: The only questions anybody cares about are the ones he won't/can't answer. Take a look at this odd "whatever happened to" article in the... um... Montgomery County Sentinal (remember when, in the heady early days of the scandal, any interview with him was major news?). Notice that Jeff/Jim says, "There is a very good chance I will write a book and it will contain the type of subject matter many are speculating about." Let me re-interpret that sentence for you: Jeff doesn't have a book deal yet. And is it any wonder? What publisher would be interested in a Gannon book which won't discuss his hustler past? What reader would? What would the book be about, if not that?
Let's repeat an obvious fact that everybody seems to forget when interviewing Jeff: He has to wait until the statute of limitations expires before he can talk about being a hooker. That means we've got, what, five-to-seven years for him to really tell all?
Let's face it, in 5-7 years, nobody is going to give a damn about Jeff Gannon.
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