An evening of oysters and white burgundy ends with an invoice (Guckert)

[stevedeshazer]

It just keeps on ticking, like a time bomb...
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The editor of a popular conservative weblog is questioning why his name has appeared on the list of 'enemies' that reporter Jeff Gannon is considering suing. Swift Report executive editor Todd Fox notes that his news site has consistently sided with Mr. Gannon in recent weeks and suggests that the reporter's enmity towards him may date back to a personal misunderstanding over the difference between a professional colleague and an escort.

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According to Mr. Fox, he first met Mr. Gannon at the Leadership Institute's Broadcast Journalism School in Arlington, VA, where Fox was teaching an accelerated course in journalistic ethics. The two met up again in Washington, DC in 2000, says Mr. Fox, for drinks and 'professional chit chat.'

"I thought JG and I were getting together as professional colleagues, but at some point after we'd both consumed a great many Bluepoints on the half shell and way too much white burgundy, the evening started to feel well, romantic," says Mr. Fox. "I had to be very firm with him that we were having a journalistic meeting of the minds and that this was not a date."

But while the two parted amicably, Mr. Fox says his confusion only deepened a week later when he received an invoice from Mr. Gannon in the mail. "I opened the envelope, very thick ivory paper with JG's monogram, and inside was a bill for $200. Well, I returned it and you better believe that I didn't enclose a check for services rendered."


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What do you suppose "code 14" means?

Notice how the invoice reads, "freelance journalist/escort"??

more: http://swiftreport.blogs.com/news/2005/02/editor_question.html

[tx_dem41]

1. In case you didn't know...this was from a satirical site....

kinda like The Onion.

[Goldmund]

2. Satire.

[stevedeshazer]

3. Just havin' fun

:) Sometimes it's hard to tell!