You may have seen on the Internets this morning various excerpts from what appears to be GQ’s answer to Vanity Fair’s Levi Johnston article, in terms of the great “which major New York magazine can publish the weirdest and least fact-checkable 10-page fart of targeted-readership porn” journalism wars. “Matt Latimer,” a late-term speechwriter for George W. Bush, has written a snippy sack of anecdotes from his time in/near the White House during the 2008 presidential race, the Wall Street collapse, etc etc. It could have been an interesting read, but here’s the problem: it’s not. It is one of the shittiest pieces of writing, ever, or at least since Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Did you know that not a single person in the White House knew anything about anything except for smug mid-level stenographer “Matt Latimer,” according to Matt Latimer? MORE »

Here’s the photo du jour that “popped up” on the Facebook for a couple of hours, showing a couple of good ol’ frat boys, one of whom is getting Hillary Clinton drunk while the other pulls a Saxby. Unfortunately for him, the squeezer on the left happens to be Obama’s sexy 27-year-old speechwriter, Jon Favreau, who would like to work in the Obama Administration. He has offered Clinton an apology in what must have been a terribly uncomfortable conversation. [Washington Post]