Blogging and selling sex for money are not, in fact, the same thing

Because if they were, I'd be a lot richer and happier, thank you very much.

Seriously, if you haven't heard, Guckert/Gannon/Bulldog has been invited to the National Press Club to talk about being a "journalist" and a prostitute. Actually, no, he's been invited to talk about being a blogger, which is funny, because the last time I checked, he only started "blogging" two months ago. If that's the case, then a lot of us are expert bloggers to the extreme, if two months is all you need to become someone that get's invited to the big dance.

It's actually insulting, to tell you the truth. Not so much for me, because I am basically a parrot and a bitcher when it comes to the news. I do a lot of reading and talk about the stuff that really gets me. It's the other people, over on my list of must-reads that work their asses off getting facts and putting together some seriously excellent pieces on the state of the world today. The idea that some partisian hack/hooker would be included in that category is just beyond my comprehension.

Other people have said it better, but you get the point.

In response to this mockery of good blogging everywhere, The Agonist has put together a letter from the blogging community to the Press Club, letting them know how we feel about the situation and request that they add, you know, a real blogger, AMERICAblog's John Aravosis, to their panel. Someone needs to represent the people that actually broke the story that made that prostitute famous.

Unless, of course, all they care about is attention and anal sex for money, and then they've already accomplished their goal for the event.