A Big Head DC commenter, using the moniker “George Michael cruises in Public places!” wrote in earlier today with this “Gawker Stalker”-style golden nugget:

So I am on the metro on the way home from the bar on monday night (because of course i was at a bar on a monday night) and who do I see sitting across from me on the train other than the illustrious Jeff Gannon. I noticed him at first because he was cruising me like crazy…. that creepy old guy kinda cruising. I looked back long enough to make sure it was him (and it was) and then moved to the other end of the car. He continued staring at me until he got off at Eastern Market. I was shocked to see him… I never thought he would come down and ride the metro with all of us “little people.”

We had to get to the bottom of this (ha, get it, bottom!!!), so we asked Gannon if the madness is true.

“That quote is about a year old,” responded the former White House reporter. “Not true then, not true now.”

And he’s not above riding public transport, either: “As a responsible citizen, I ride the Metro frequently,” said he. “I would imagine people see me all the time.”

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