The wingnutty right made the rules about "appropriate" White House conduct, and by God, they should have to live by them:

Imagine the media explosion if a male escort had been discovered operating as a correspondent in the Clinton White House. Imagine that he was paid by an outfit owned by Arkansas Democrats and had been trained in journalism by James Carville. Imagine that this gentleman had been cultivated and called upon by Mike McCurry or Joe Lockhart—or by President Clinton himself. Imagine that this "journalist" had smeared a Republican Presidential candidate and had previously claimed access to classified documents in a national-security scandal.

Then imagine the constant screaming on radio, on television, on Capitol Hill, in the Washington press corps—and listen to the placid mumbling of the "liberal" media now.

If all that would have been very bad and A Threat To The Survival Of The Republic and Who Will Think Of The Children? in 1998, it's damn sure the same thing today, especially for a president who ran twice against all of that immoral gay stuff.