Sex sells, but a naked Michael Smerconish — not what most have in mind.
The former aide to President George H.W. Bush, radio host, cable news pundit and punching bag to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck, has a new book coming out that features him in his boxers on a news room set. And apparently the book cover had to be one-upped to promote it — Smerconish appears in the May issue of “Philadelphia” magazine without the boxers.
Smerconish is known to take risks so posing naked is not that shocking. In what some call the “shot heard around the dial” the man who once ran for office as a GOP candidate at 24 and vocalized the value of ethnic profiling in airports and the torture of terror suspects endorsed President Barack Obama.
The Pennsylvanian will be met with a Washington greeting this Thursday at a party to celebrate the book, titled “Morning Drive.” Chris Matthews (who wrote the book’s blurb), Pat Buchanan and Kitty Kelley are all set to attend. But there are also two senators sure to take some of the spotlight away from Smerconish — Former Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, and newly minted Democrat Arlen Specter are scheduled to appear.
Now that we think of it, sounds like Smerconish and Specter share a flip-flop background.
