Turkey Plucker

The Baltimore City Paper profiles Les Kinsolving, the man who enlivens White House press conferences with questions like this:

Scott, when the Rev. Jesse Jackson admitted that he fathered a child out of wedlock, the president, as you remember, telephoned him after this admission. And since Karin Stanford, the mother in this case, has just stated, "I was attacked by friends, strangers in the black press, without mercy, and labeled by them a political stalker, gold digger, and opportunist," will the president now telephone Jesse's victim, as he did Jesse?

The article argues that, behind the cranky right-wing exterior, Kinsolving has sometimes played an important role, noting that he was the first reporter to expose the People's Temple in San Francisco and the first to grill Reagan's press secretary about AIDS.