With the Associated Press picking up on the Vanity Fair article about Abramoff and Bush is a real good thing:

Convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff says President Bush knew him well enough to joke with him about weightlifting. “What are you benching, buff guy?” Abramoff said Bush asked him. The president has said he doesn’t know Abramoff.

Abramoff said he finds it hard to believe Bush doesn’t remember the 10 or so photos he and members of his family had snapped with the president and first lady.

“He (Bush) has one of the best memories of any politician I have ever met,” Abramoff wrote in an e-mail, according to Vanity Fair’s April issue being released this week. “Perhaps he has forgotten everything. Who knows?”

Now that the story is getting out there even louder it should provoke for another heated round in the White House press room. I am sure the spin machine is pulling an all nighter to figure out how to deal with it.