as the target of a hit because he was ready to blow the lid off the gay prostitution ring running the beltway. That's cause I could actually picture him taking Gannon and running with it that way! It is something he would do! :-)

The last paragraph of article is no slouch, though.

why I always disliked magic acts as a kid.

Nothing angered me about them, it's not the deceit thing, I wasn't even conscious of that or thinking on it. I just found them incredibly boring and hokey. It was like "tell me a real story, this is goofy." Misdirecting is changing the subject is disrupting narrative, maybe?