Though Bush is trying to distance himself, going towards that “Abramoff? Never heard of him” route, there were reports of pictures of Abramoff with Bush that existed and were being shopped around to Time and others. Well, it turns out that it was Abramoff doing the selling.

Over the weekend, Time magazine and the Washingtonian both reported on five photos of President Bush with Jack Abramoff, but neither publication revealed its source.

Yesterday, ThinkProgress laid out the case for why the source for the photos was likely Abramoff himself. Last night, our hunch was confirmed.

Appearing on MSNBC, Newsweek correspondent Michael Isikoff reported that it was indeed Abramoff who floated the photographs to Washingtonian.

All I can say to this is … AWESOME!

Now that is chutzpah. Always an upstanding fuck-you-pay-me guy to the end, that Jack. Have I mentioned how proud I am to work for the same firm of which he was a member up until 2000?

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