After ABC News correspondent Jeffrey Kofman reported on complaints from U.S. soldiers [3] in Iraq, the White House tried to smear him by leaking the word to cyber-gossip Matt Drudge that Kofman is gay and Canadian. (Oooh!) If they feel that this sort of personal information is important for public discourse, now is as good a time as any to mention that Dick Cheney's daughter is a lesbian [4], and there are some colorful stories about Drudge's own sexual preferences [5].