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Nearly two years ago, I brought you a snippet of juicy gossip from a book release party where an inebriated Christopher Hitchens was chatted up for nearly ten minutes by an inebriated yours truly:

Frankly, I was just pleased with myself for holding my own with him for that long, and he seemed pleased that I had actually read "Why Orwell Matters." And I concluded by mentioning a bit of shared knowledge about a "senior administration official" with a nearly obscene penchant for [REDACTED]. Oh, all right. For a certain condiment. Sorry, but I first heard this from [REDACTED]. Hitch concurred -- this was very weird.

As Geraldo was given to saying during his post-"Geraldo"/pre-"Rivera Live" wilderness years... Now it can be told.

Yes, flash forward to this morning, where I find out that somebody leaked this vital information to former New York Times reporter Todd Purdum, who is set to rip the lid off this Beltway non-scandal for Vanity Fair. Via Drudge, who thinks he's a reporter because people e-mail him articles hoping he'll drive up interest in their forthcoming stories:

At a roundtable lunch with reporters a couple of years ago, two who were present tell Purdum that Cheney cut his buffalo steak in bite-size pieces the moment it arrived, then proceeded to salt each side of each piece.

So there you have it. Maybe more salty than juicy.

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posted by WWB at 10:15 PM |