Since Matt has always waxed philosophical about media’s one big happy inbred family– journalists too chummy with one another, sleeping with their sources (in a literal and figurative sense) — I found it kind of amusing last night when he mentioned a little secret a Senator told him on the phone. (Nothing big — he thinks Osama is hiding in Iran).

If mainstream journalists are sleeping with their sources, does this mean…No. NO! Matt, babe, you gotta get out more.

Seriously, maybe it’s inevitable that successful outsiders get sucked into the game. But if we pay our public servants’ salaries, they’d better talk dirty to us once in awhile…(But you’re excused from phone duty, Senator Frist…)